Some Jostling, but Less of a Frenzy Among Shoppers - NYTimes.com (via fred-wilson)
What we call ‘conversations to scale’. You can now talk to all your customers at once in a way that is indexed, searchable, ‘surprising & delightful(Brand Term)’ and permanent. This opportunity is the biggest thing yet(loosely defined as social) that the web has offered for commerce.
IBM taps into group language translation | Digital Media - CNET News (via smarterplanet)
Pretty awesome to have an asset that equals 400,000 highly competent humans.
“As Sundar [Pichai, Google’s vice president of product management] said in his presentation, we’re reaching a perfect storm of converging trends where computers are behaving more like mobile devices, and phones are behaving more like small computers,” Google said in a statement in response to questions about how and when the two projects would merge. “Having two open source operating systems from Google provides both users and device manufacturers with more choice and helps contribute a wealth of new code to the open source community.” (via Brin: Google’s OSes likely to converge | Relevant Results - CNET News)
hiten: A Conceptual Map of the Mobile Web (via tomzazueta)
Rafer sez:
Further support for @orenmichels and my conviction that the difference between the mobile web and the rest of the web is too small document.
+1
New York City is the Future of the Web - Anil Dash (via heyitsnoah) (via adamiss) (via msg)
It’s true. But boy do you have to avoid the suits: the blood sucking ibanker vampires that far outnumber any corral of feature-focused tech heads
(via tedr)
I couldn’t agree with this more, and I’m from and will one day go back to Cali!
@tedr the new “suits” are the people that hang around the endless venture/start up parties in SF. Last year seemed to weed some of that out, but NYC suits are being filtered out at a faster pace.
Culture, Media and Technology. SF only has 1, maybe 1.5, of the three pillars.
Bloomberg is buying pounds of web ads today.
fun picture of Pincus, Zuckerberg, and Paul Graham at Startup School
Anyone else feel slightly funny about this photo?
As Rafer sez, “Facebook doesn’t try to hide their intent at all”, but can you imagine Sergey Brin slapping five with some, call it, potential black hat SEOs or SEM arbitrageurs 6 or 7 years ago. They made Brin a lot of money as well, but he wouldn’t be caught in public with them. There’s Don’t be Evil, maybe we need a Don’t be Stupid.
Los Angeles adopts Google e-mail system for 30,000 city employees | Technology | Los Angeles Times
Google = Enterprise
Still think Android will be a big play for the G in the enterprise.
The sponsored posts should go for far more than the $3 CPMs on display. They’re taking a premium form of advertising and using it as an add-on, when they should be upselling it. (And there’s no inventory for sponsored posts.)
And in that email exchange, there’s no upselling, just throwing it in for free.
What’s more: this lead CAME to them! Why are you throwing in fries and a drink when the client is clearly willing to pay full price for the stand alone product? I’d understand if this was an effort to build a portfolio of executions for a new product or something… but the “sponsored post” is pretty old hat for Gawker Media, and the “client” is already starting at the 25k line!
What Ryan Brown said.
Because the rebuy is better than the buy. Because you want clients who get real value and keep coming back. That’s how you build a business.
Classic sales rule; Don’t sell what has already been sold. No need to throw in the sponsored posts, that is how you build value over time, and get the renewals. The drip feed of added value while also up-selling.
But I feel for this rep. Calling on the autos, its been slow all year, and then bam, economy comes climbing back, and you get this call from Spark for Suzuki. All the hard work has paid off and you are looking to hit your Q4 number so you throw a little extra at them.
I wouldn’t have noticed the slight tweak in the Spark email(-).
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