By marco on November 25, 2007
eBay’s growth slowed down in the last year(s). One of the major reactions to slowing down growth rates is to shift from a seller-centric approach to a buyer-centric approach. A sea change! For now the main focus is to advance search results (as eBay has a ever changing inventory).
In a recent article from FastCompany titled “eBay’s Chaos Theory” we learn:
“We haven’t [...]
Posted in Marketing, News, Web | Tagged eBay
By marco on November 14, 2007
Marc Andreessen has written a very interesting post about the current writer’s strike in Hollywood.
The writers’ strike, and the studios’ response to the strike, may radically accelerate a structural shift in the media industry — a shift of power from studios and conglomerates towards creators and talent.
We all stay tuned what the outcome will [...]
Posted in iTV, Media, Music, News, Web | Tagged business, hollywood, Media, silicon valley
By marco on August 31, 2006
ComScore has launched a monthly ranking of the top European Websites:
Google Holds Top Spot in European Site Rankings, According to comScore World Metrix.
Most interesting is that “Google sites were visited by a greater proportion of the online population in Europe (75 percent) than in the U.S. (60 percent)”.
Find the full press release here at ComScores [...]
Posted in Marketing, News, Web
By marco on August 16, 2006
There is a very long article today in the WallStreetJournal called Coming Soon to Cellphone Screens — More Ads Than Ever.
Several US Mobile phone operators seem to test how they will be deploying ads on your mobile phone. Yahoo! seems to have a deal already that is placing it on the go2 directory where you [...]
Posted in Marketing, Mobile, News
By marco on July 10, 2006
More and more companies are using corporate blogs as part of their (marketing) communication.
But a blog should be a way to open up to your customers. Another example is the new corporate blog of Dell like Micropersuation writes:
Dell Starts Corporate Blog, But Fails to Address Critical Issues
More importantly, Dell really failed to get the blog [...]
Posted in Blogging, Marketing, News, Web, Web Tools
By marco on July 6, 2006
The Wall Street Journal via Reuters is citing sources that AOL plans to make their services free for all Internet users to gain higher marketing revenues. They are losing subscribers on a fast pace and hope to get users back on their platform with this offering.
Posted in Marketing, News, Web
By marco on July 6, 2006
an Un-Conference is coming to Berlin / Germany on 30 Sept 2006! If you are living in Germany or can make it to Berlin: GO REGISTER! Bring you own presentation and discuss what you feel is worth getting mentioned.
Know of other events taking place in Germany? Send me your input.
Posted in Networking, News, Web
By marco on July 5, 2006
… by Christmas 2006 reports Reuters:
Microsoft will start selling a wireless digital music and video player to compete with Apple’s iPod by Christmas, sources close to the matter said on Wednesday.
The big difference is that it will be wireless enabled. Let’s see what Apple is coming up with to respond to this effort from Microsoft
Posted in Mobile, Music, News, Web
By marco on June 29, 2006
Forrester finds (via DM News) in their Report ,”Interactive Marketing Channels to Watch in 2006,” that the spending for advertising on the Internet is mostly e-mail, search, contextual targeting, and rich media. The advertisers are curious about social media things (like blogs) but do not plan to get “into the game” yet…
Let’s find out [...]
Posted in Blogging, Marketing, News, Web
By marco on June 28, 2006
There is a really good article on Wired today: podcasting after iTunes. If you want to learn the (still short and young) history of podcasting give it a read!
You also gets a little into video podcasting or video blogging. The ratio audio-video is about 10-to-1. And if we take the whole picture we maybe have [...]
Posted in Blogging, News, podcasting, Web
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