After giving eMarketer a bit of a backhanded complement yesterday on the online marketing opportunity today they are getting all out kudos. Location based marketing has been of great interest to me for a while as evidenced by "The Mother of All Internet Wars" and "The Local Nut" articles. Well today eMarketer came out with an […]
Continue reading →eMarketer has a nice article out today about how advertising dollars are still not following online and mobile useage. It's nice but does not really do a good job of quantifying the online marketing opportunity. This chart, from a presentation by Mary Meeker last November does. That's $50 billion dollars with a "B" as defined […]
Continue reading →"We cracked that local ecommerce nut, and it’s a serious nut. There wasn’t even a good form of customer acuiqsition (sic) before the Internet, for local businesses. I mean, advertising on radio and in local newspapers was about spending money upfront, to buy exposure, and then cross your fingers." That'a Andrew Mason the CEO of GroupON […]
Continue reading →There have been quite a few wars in the history of the commercial Internet. But I think that we are gearing up for the start of the biggest one yet in 2011. Before I get to that a brief review of some of the past battles is needed. The 1st Browser WarPerhaps the most infamous […]
Continue reading →Not like I really need it after a three day snowcation but I am heading out to Utah for a real vacation. As I mentioned in my time off the grid post, I am leaving the laptop at home. The first trip I have taken in over eight years without one. I am taking my […]
Continue reading →Pretty much shows why a consumer end user Internet play requires a very large user base. Courtesy of Chart Of The Day.
Continue reading →It just seems to never end. Emails, IMs, DMs, status updates, checking in. Even voice mail my god. The stream of stuff coming at you just never seems to end. And the attention that we give to all this electronic stuff seems to be increasing at an ever increasing rate. I am willing to bet […]
Continue reading →Today is a pretty important day for the Internet. FCC Chairman Julius Geneachoski has asked for his organization to adopt rules to protect the open Internet. Net neutrality rules. The draft rules that Geneachoski is proposing have not been seen in public but I do believe something needs to be done. The reason why I […]
Continue reading →Rapleaf is one of the companies involved with the latest Facebook privacy snafu. The company, an online data gathering firm of sorts, was linking specific Facebook user information that it obtained from Farmville, Texas HoldEm Poker, and the like to its own database of Internet users. Rapleaf also transmitted the Facebook IDs to about a […]
Continue reading →It's Atlanta Web Week. Altanta Web Week is a series of events, parties, and studio hops built around Web Directions USA with the intent to celebrate Atlanta's vibrant web community. Web Directions was founded down under back in 2004 by Johnn Allsopp and Maxine Sherrin. They put on conferences in Australia, Japan, and England. They decided […]
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