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Five Key Internet Megatrends: 3. Knowing customers
Knowing customers wellCredit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAG39jKi0lI Key points: Big Data could be the digital equivalent of the friendly shopkeeper who has a good idea of what you want, as soon as...
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Five Key Internet Megatrends: 4. Browsers are too basic
Browsers are too basic and need to mimic the 3D world that we live in Key points: The future of browsing will be a 3D immersive ‘World’ experience It will solve the discovery issues of current...
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SAP & Salesforce shopping trips this week
What a week it’s been for some Digital Media businesses with two significant purchases: SAP & Hybris ($1-$1.5bn) SAP has bought Hybris for around $1b-$1.5bn. SAP provide enterprise application...
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Why User Generated Content sites should be paying users for content
TripAdvisor – should they pay users for content? My view of the future of the Internet is that many free apps and sites we currently take for granted will soon charge small amounts (nanopayments). I...
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Why the UK is still a nation of small shopkeepers, even on the web
The 10 most visited UK shopping sites ending August 24, 2013 according to Retail Week magazine who use Hitwise, is shown below. As the table indicates, the market share is stable. 10 most visited UK...
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Mark Read, CEO WPP Digital on WPP’s digital future
WPP expect digital revenues to increase at the expense of print This was the first keynote speech of ad:tech London. Here are my brief notes: A key focus for WPP at the moment is China and the Internet...
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Hugh Jackson, director of MediaCo on Venice and Panda
Almost to reconfirm how I described how the first morning at ad:tech had been full of It’s a sobering thought that on some searches the 3rd result is below the fold! practical tips and advice, Hugh...
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Google: the future passport across the Internet?
Google Authorship alone improved blog traffic significantly I’ve been applying a bit of Search Engine Optimisation to this blog over the last couple of weeks (successfully I should add – visits are...
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Why the Internet didn’t cut out the middle man
TripAdvisor: Who said travel agents are dead? There was a time when I thought that the Internet spelt the end for intermediaries, or third-party agents. Surely, I imagined, users would go and transact...
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The Titans of ecommerce – Alibaba vs Amazon
Alibaba billboard in London Alibaba had its record highest revenue day yesterday - a staggering $5.75bn in 24 hours during a promotional event. Or put another way, that’s $66,500 of sales per second....
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Hybris Partner Conference Day One
Hybris partner conference 2014 – very impressive I’m at a Hybris partner conference in Munich, Germany for the next couple of days. Hybris is an ecommerce platform recently acquired by SAP, and is used...
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Hybris Partner Conference Day Two
Hybris partner conference day two agenda – delivery stream Today is the second day of the Hybris partner conference. Yesterday was about changes at a company level and the commercial roadmap for...
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The Advertising business model
In today’s Western digital businesses, advertising is the main source of revenue for websites, mobile sites, mobile apps and anything in between: In the first quarter of 2013, Google advertising...
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The cross selling and upselling business model
This is the ninth part of the series on how companies can make money from high traffic websites. In this post we’ll discuss cross-selling and upselling. As we’ll demonstrate, cross selling doesn’t need...
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Is Airbnb’s $10bn valuation proof we’re in a second dotcom bubble?
Airbnb’s investors have reportedly pushed the company’s valuation to over $10bn, leading some industry commentators to claim that this type of valuation proves we are in a second dotcom bubble....
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Bitcoin introduction, key facts and opportunities
The number of Bitcoin transactions per day looks like it’s waiting for a major retailer to join the party Firstly, I want to set some context about Bitcoin and this article. I started this blog when I...
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Review of 2014 predictions
Blackberry shares in 2014 – at 49% growth, there are worse things you could have done with your money How did my 2014 Digital Media predictions from last December turn out? 2014 has been another...
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Reading tab list over the holidays
We were extremely busy at work during November and December, so I spent a few hours over the holidays catching up on blogs which I follow. Here are some of the better posts: Official Google Webmaster...
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View image | gettyimages.com One of my favourite annual Internet reports is out. It’s the KPCB report, from the Venture Capital company based in the US. It’s 196 pages of fact-packed charts, and here...
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Favor: This is going to be the next big mobile app
The excellent Favor app. Someone in my office thought this guy looks like me. I’m not so sure. Whilst I was in the US last week I heard about Favor, a new app which provides a concierge/ delivery...
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