SocialSpark.com Preview - PayPerPost Goes Googlie?

I have been listening to PostieCon via Ustream and chatting in the Meebo chatroom, ... for their niche Highest Standards in Word of Mouth Marketing - PayPerPost have up until ... . (this would also be a cool aleternative to popups & interstitials for any kind of marketing message [more...]

Date: 2007-11-11 00:22:27
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Carnegie: The political economy of reform in Egypt

From a recent report by the Carnegie Endowment: As a result of reform efforts, and over the past three years, ... the state, market, and society. Yet little if any progress has been made in the fight against corruption ... decent jobs for the unemployed, the underemployed, and new entrants into the labor market [more...]

Date: 2007-11-11 10:15:12
Blog: The Arabist...

Mint Launches Bangalore Edition

Mint Launches Bangalore Edition Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Monday, November 12, 2007 -- (Business Wire India) Mint, India’s fastest growing business newspaper, launched its Bangalore edition today. Published by HT Media Ltd., the publishers of Hindustan Times and Hindustan, [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 12:20:43
Blog: Sights, sounds and smel...

November Linkfest: Week in Review

Triple threat: Stocks suffered their worst three-day decline in five years, as market participants simultaneously recognized 3 of our favorite themes: Inflation is far worse than previously recognized; Fed Chair Ben Bernanke acknowledged that the Economy was appreciably slowing; The Financials exposure to sub-prime, [more...]

Date: 2007-11-11 01:01:29
Blog: The Big Picture...

This Week on America's Business

With America observing Veterans Day this weekend, ... feet center gives small and medium U.S. manufacturers a place to sell products in China's go-go market ... when he talks about the need for a comprehensive national energy strategy. For more about “America’ [more...]

Date: 2007-11-09 16:23:00
Blog: ShopFloor.org: Manufact...

Diesels Better for Society Than Hybrids, Study Finds

Driving a hybrid might make you feel better for helping the environment, but a study of the most common alternative fuels claims diesel provides the greatest benefit to consumers and to society. It may surprise those who associate diesels with smoke-belching 18-wheelers, but a cost-benefit analysis by the RAND Corp [more...]

Date: 2007-11-09 23:41:50
Blog: Autopia - Wired Blogs...

Dig It

Citi-Habitats broker Noah Rosenblatt relaunches his real estate blog UrbanDigs ... . Additions include a daily market inventory update and the catchy slogan, "MACRO ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS & INVESTMENT STRATEGY FOR MANHATTAN REAL ESTATE." UrbanDigs.com [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 16:15:48
Blog: Curbed : The New York C...

Survey: Crackphone Gaining On Crackberry in Enterprise Space

Though Apple hasn’t yet unveiled, or perhaps even developed, its strategy for integrating the iPhone with business software systems in a way that won’t give IT executives aneurysms, its plans to bring the device to the enterprise market appear to be going [more...]

Date: 2007-11-09 20:56:50
Blog: Digital Daily | John Pa...

I’m not sure whether or not I really want these voters back.

My first reaction upon reading this story in the LA Times about middle to upper class white suburbanites switching party identification to ... in the housing market has arrived in Loudoun County, a once-largely rural area on the western fringes [more...]

Date: 2007-11-11 07:11:01
Blog: Eteraz.Org » Plural Pol...

Sunday Snapshot

Lots of '08ers on the Sunday public affairs shows this weekend: Barack Obama was on "Meet the Press": Asked why Dems are skeptical about his knowledge and experience to be POTUS: "I have not been on the national scene as long as some of the other candidates in this race, [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 13:45:43
Blog: Hotline On Call...

Nokia Counts On N95 To Boost U.S. Standing

Nokia reigns as the world's top cell phone maker, boasting a global market share of nearly 40% -- more than twice that of No. 2 Motorola. (NYSE:MEU) ( ... No. 4, according to figures from research firm Gartner. Nokia aims to boost its U.S. presence with a two ... in the U.S. market. The $700 phone -- part of a line of Nokia (NYSE:NOK) cell phones known [more...]

Date: 2007-11-10 20:06:54
Blog: Just Another Mobile Pho...

Symbian dismisses Google Android

Google's dominance of the web will not translate to the mobile phone market, a senior executive at Symbian has said. John Forsyth, vice president of strategy at Symbian, the platform that powers many ... that into the mobile phone market at large ever more aggressively." Symbian's recent financial results show it sold [more...]

Date: 2007-11-09 16:05:28
Blog: Just Another Mobile Pho...

New Mobile Video Advertising Platform from MoPhap and Vantrix

MoPhap, a mobile ad serving company, and Vantrix, a company which works with mobile video, ... insertion and optimization platform. This partnership allows content providers to insert highly targeted ... partners.” Daniel Torras, VP Marketing & Product Strategy of Vantrix, estimates that the global mobile [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 15:20:15
Blog: MobileCrunch...

Bricks and slaughter

Mortgage lenders Nov 8th 2007 From The Economist print edition Lenders in America and Britain retrench, ... Greene, chief executive of Fair Isaac, a research firm which compiles America's most widely used [more...]

Date: 2007-11-09 17:31:42
Blog: CRIMES AND CORRUPTION O...

Hopping As a Survival Strategy (And I Don't Just Mean Frogs)

For the past five years or so, headhunters have been calling me quite regularly ... , 'No, I do not' and hang up, or you can try to be helpful. I always opt to be helpful. If I know of people whom [more...]

Date: 2007-11-11 09:41:48
Blog: Mr Wang Says So...

Iranian fallout

From Iran Focus: The Washington Times Embasssy Row James Morrison President Bush’s decision to impose sanctions on the Iranian Revolutionary ... a tougher line on Iran than many of his European counterparts, to craft a trans-Atlantic strategy [more...]

Date: 2007-11-09 21:33:10
Blog: NoisyRoom.net: Courage...

Democracy Now! reported the FBI's attempt to discover more terrorists, and boy are they clever. By tracking consumers of Middle Eastern food in San Fransisco, the FBI hopes it will be able to track Iranian spies. So what happens to the white dude who just happens to crave 7ummus, or as white people like to mispronounce it, Hamas? [more...]

Date: 2007-11-09 22:39:12
Blog: Palestine Blogs - The G...

Sun: Promise of Red-Shift, Risk of Virtualization

I last looked at Sun Microsystem (JAVA) back in April of this year, focusing on Sun’s approach to start targeting “red-shift” markets, and taking advantage of new opportunities being created by disruptive technologies like SaaS and Web 2.0/3.0 to open up new growth markets [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 14:52:24
Blog: Sramana Mitra on Strate...

‘Affordable Luxury’

‘Affordable Luxury’ November 9th, 2007 by Susie Yeah, all those upscale accessories don’t seem like “investment dressing” now, do they? ... , the strategy involved going slightly more down-market, tempting mid-income consumers with relatively ... , boosted by a rising stock market and strong fashion trends that spurred purchases. The boom led [more...]

Date: 2007-11-09 13:43:54
Blog: Suburban Guerrilla ...

Are Broken and Disrupted the Same Thing?

That's a rhetorical question. But, in a sense, the answer is yes. At least for me. A few weeks ago I managed to break my foot by doing nothing more extraordinary than walking on it. I wish the story was more exciting, but I can't imagine a more dull and uninteresting way to break a foot [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 16:03:18
Blog: The Anti-Marketer...

MIcrosoft Building Photo Sharing Service to Compete With Flickr, Smugmug and Other Photo Web Sites

... and Hotmail to construct a winning strategy for Microsoft in photo and video sharing. This role involves leading the team to design the strategy then build and implement a winning solution that will be loved [more...]

Date: 2007-11-11 18:36:07
Blog: Thomas Hawk's Digital C...

U.S. venture capital goes to eastern Europe, Russia

Cisco, the giant networking company, has expanded its venture capital investments to central and eastern Europe, taking a majority stake in a 30 million Euro ($40 million) fund there. It comes at a time of a flurry of investment activity in the eastern European and Russia region, [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 12:52:37
Blog: VentureBeat ...

... Nintendo’s mass market strategy is very profitable for Nintendo, and very profitable for all third-party publishers. Because the strategy is working, we create more product for Nintendo platforms [more...]

Date: 2007-11-09 17:01:00
Blog: WiiNintendo - Everythin...

Friday's Business News

Friday's Business News Posted by Jayson Javitz Published: Nov 9, 07 01:23 PM A Disaster of a Disaster Bill Pelosi & Co. on Thursday passed a nanny state bill regarding disaster insurance. The bill drastically would expand the federal government's role in underwriting natural disaster risks and in funding the payment of claims [more...]

Date: 2007-11-09 18:23:42
Blog: Wizbang...

Making strategy work for you

I’m reading David Maister’s forthcoming book, Strategy and the Fat Smoker. Like much of David’s written material it’s accessible and easy to digest ... (relative to the general perception of market value) if they know what you stand [more...]

Date: 2007-11-11 11:47:22
Blog: AccMan...

I'll Show You a Lease! - A Hostile Hochuli Editorial

From: http://afraidofedhochuli.blogspot.com Collusion. The word brings on a lot of connotations. To me, it delivers the image of two “shady” characters plotting together in whispers to bring some sort of demise to someone/thing else. It is a word that is tossed around a lot in professional sports [more...]

Date: 2007-11-09 21:38:59
Blog: Main Page - ArmchairGM ...

Jakob Nielson sees parallels between ethical SEO and usability

Jakob Nielson believes there are many similarities between ethical search engine optimisation techniques and usability best practice ... Usability, Information Architecture and Managing User Experience Strategy. Jakob Nielsen's keynote ... of the user's need. Jakob also expects further advances into personalisation based on market research [more...]

Date: 2007-11-09 18:11:25
Blog: Search engine optimisat...

Creating a Coherent Social Media Strategy

Back from lunch and in the presence of two powerhouses -- Jeremiah Owyang and Chris Brogan. I’m not worthy. [more...]

Date: 2007-11-09 22:44:57
Blog: Bruceclay.com Blog - Se...

Carnival Of The Capitalists

Welcome to the November,12th Carnival of the Capitalists ... . Marketing David Kam presents Strategic Pricing, Setting the Price that is Just Right posted [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 14:38:33
Blog: Business Opportunities...

Telesur revamps strategy to face mobile competition

Suriname state-owned telco Telesur is revamping its investment and marketing strategy in both mobile and fixed line services to face competition in this recently liberalized market, Telesur's managing director Dirk Currie told BNamericas. [more...]

Date: 2007-11-09 16:24:17
Blog: cellular-news | Daily n...

If You Can’t Create Interest Move On

In my posts Create Momentum and Maintain Momentum I talk about how to increase VC interest and drive the process forward ... strategy that they described to their investors and 2) that they expect to generate the best returns [more...]

Date: 2007-11-09 18:10:40
Blog: CenterNetworks - Web 2....

Marlo Furniture Does 50 Better than Washington

After writing a nostalgic article about Marlo's, I wondered how long Marlo Furniture has been around Washington. Over 50-years. Marlo Furniture has actually been in Washington longer than I have! "Marlo Furniture opened its first store in 1955. Today, Marlo Furniture is the largest furniture retailer in the Washington, D.C [more...]

Date: 2007-11-11 10:22:14
Blog: Chris Abraham - Because...

HP to stop making digital cameras

Didn’t it seem like every known manufacturer was pumping out digital cameras last holiday season? Well, after seeing a huge decrease in market share in the last couple of years, Mark Hurd (CEO of HP) decided to exit this market. Of course, HP’s new strategy is simply to get everyone to print [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 11:43:46
Blog: Gadgetell...

California ARB Staff Posts New Concept Paper for ZEV Amendments; Encouraging BEVs and PHEVs

Among the amendments currently proposed by ARB staff is a method for calculating Equivalent All Electric Range to account for a variety of ... -electric vehicles. Under the Alt Path, automakers are required to produce their sales-weighted market [more...]

Date: 2007-11-10 15:39:17
Blog: Green Car Congress...

Windows Live wants to build Flickr competitor

It’s hard not to have seen this coming, but I have to wonder whether or not the world needs another Flickr or YouTube ... , the description clearly outlines Microsoft’s strategy to build a photo and video sharing website. Come make ... and Hotmail to construct a winning strategy for Microsoft in photo and video sharing. This role [more...]

Date: 2007-11-10 13:08:36
Blog: istartedsomething...

Minors: BA’s Mets Top 10 Prospects

Minors: BA’s Mets Top 10 Prospects ...posted by Jordan Zakarin.. ... of talent reflects New York’s decision not to wield its large-market resources to acquire talent ... ceiling talent into the system, but a change in draft strategy is seemingly crucial… …i’ll be back [more...]

Date: 2007-11-09 17:10:58
Blog: MetsBlog.com...

Adding progressive voices to cable news

Earlier this week, the NYT noted that MSNBC is becoming a hub for left-wing talk on cable TV ... .) If the entrepreneur coupled that move with a concerted strategy [more...]

Date: 2007-11-10 19:17:41
Blog: MyDD :: Direct Democrac...

Let's End the Charade: Your World w/Neil Cavuto is Not a Business News Show

It was a Miserable week on Wall Street, NASDAQ Worst Week Pt. Loss Since 9/11. Quite a headline. As things worsen on Wall Street, Fox's alleged "business news" program is carrying less and less business news though it hasn't announced that it is no longer a business news show. I think it's time to declare an end to the charade. (11-9-07) [more...]

Date: 2007-11-10 00:06:57
Blog: News Hounds: We watch F...

p2pnet talks to ISP TekSavvy

p2pnet news | Freedom:- If you’re Canadian, you could be forgiven for thinking you’re stuck with one or other of the five ISPs which seem to rule ... ;> Ottawa Gal: What got you into the ISP business? Rocky: We started as a Internet Development ... provider whose business plan, business ethics, and pricing plans includes customer input [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 13:13:43
Blog: p2pnet.net - the origin...

Association of Professional Genealogists speech

I spoke today at the Salt Lake Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists. The meeting was held in the Family History Center. I started by asking how many wanted me to talk about the history of Ancestry.com, (after all, these people spend all their time researching the past) [more...]

Date: 2007-11-10 00:13:06
Blog: Paul Allen: Internet En...

Liveblog: Mark Cuban Closing Keynote at BlogWorld Expo

Liveblog of Mark Cuban’s Closing Keynote at BlogWorld: ... , but what was written was totally different. Fortunately, there was an email exchange, so I had a record of what we’d said…. I started a blog, put a link to the article w/my email record [more...]

Date: 2007-11-10 03:55:34
Blog: Podcasting News ...

Imperial Conquest and Occupation

Current rhetoric aside, even Alan Greenspan's new book admitted what's "politically inconvenient to acknowledge (but) everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil" and it was "essential" Saddam be removed to control it. Unmentioned was Iraq's importance that explains why Washington plans permanent occupation of the country [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 05:11:10
Blog: Populist Party...

Content News: Glenn Close, Steve Gillmor and Microsoft's Office Live

Content News: Glenn Close, Steve Gillmor and Microsoft's Office Live Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 9, ... products) of a big niche market - dogs. Dogs are big, shopping is big and Glenn Close is big - sounds like a good combination. We'll see if the celebrity blog strategy can be sustained over time, I'd guess [more...]

Date: 2007-11-09 17:46:27
Blog: Read/WriteWeb ...

Weekly Wrapup, 5-9 November 2007

Here is a summary of the week's Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb ... , either via the special RSS feed or by email. Note: If you would like to sponsor the Weekly Wrapup ... on pushing out their new advertising network. See Josh Catone's coverage of Facebook's ad plans [more...]

Date: 2007-11-10 09:46:47
Blog: Read/WriteWeb ...

Israeli Start-up Yedda Acquired by AOL

As a part of its tactful market penetration strategy, AOL has acquired the Israeli Q & A start-up, Yedda.Yedda was founder in the capital city of Israel, Tel Aviv in 2006. According to AOL [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 16:47:06
Blog: Rev2.org: Profiling Web...

AOL Acquires Semantic Search Q and A Service, Yedda

AOL Goes on Early Christmas Shopping, Buys Yedda For AOL, Christmas shopping starts as early as November ... to other people-powered, sematic search engine that has been proliferating the web search market ... and technologies that the Yedda team has developed will fit perfectly with AOL’s strategy. “ [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 06:34:40
Blog: Search Engine Journal...

Digital Telepathy: Business In A Box

We all know that consultants often approach what they do in a cookie cutter fashion. So I get a kick out of Digital Telepathy's new push to respin what they do from a PR business ... ... Digital Telepathy offers three design my business options with varying service levels based [more...]

Date: 2007-11-11 14:33:41
Blog: /Message...

Ring! Ring! Monday 'Hot News', 12th November

In this edition of Telco 2.0’s ‘Hot News’ : Viviane Reding wants the power; The iPhone fails to explode in Europe; ... . Telco 2.0 Strategy Sprint’s WiMAX JV with Clearwire is dead; it’s an ex-parrot. Can the cablecos ... just that. Alternatively, Google might just get involved as part of its carrier-deterrence strategy… [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 15:24:49
Blog: Telco 2.0...

DrumBeat: November 10, 2007

European politicians wrestle with high gasoline prices Since the start of the year, diesel prices in France, where protests have started, ... bull market for crude oil, Bay Area gas prices could soon top records set just this spring [more...]

Date: 2007-11-10 14:07:04
Blog: The Oil Drum | Discussi...

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