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Archive for 2005
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Exclusive Concepts Blog Team
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Online Holiday Shopping 2005Posted by: Exclusive Concepts Blog Team: Wednesday, December 28th, 2005
It was a good year for online retailers. Here are some stats from Amazon and the web:
Amazon
Had its best holiday season ever, selling more than 108 million items
Monday, Dec. 12 was the busiest day, when more than 3.6 million items were ordered, or 41 items per second
The most expensive item ordered was a [...] Continue Reading
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Exclusive Concepts Blog Team
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Amazon Connect’s author blogsPosted by: Exclusive Concepts Blog Team: Wednesday, December 28th, 2005
Amazon is getting creative with blog marketing and has recently launched author blogs to enable authors to reach out to potential readers on the Amazon website. The program is called Amazon Connect.
An NYTimes article explains that publishers are increasingly turning to blogs to market new books and compete in a crowded market:
Amazon is one [...] Continue Reading
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Exclusive Concepts Blog Team
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Blogs’ impact on journalismPosted by: Exclusive Concepts Blog Team: Wednesday, December 28th, 2005
Earlier this month ZDNet’s Tom Foremski wrote about the decline of journalism at the hands of search. He believes that “Google, Yahoo, Ebay, and many others, have figured out how to use servers to generate pages of content combined with highly targeted advertising taking money that was previously spent by traditional outlets on media [...] Continue Reading
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Exclusive Concepts Blog Team
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Weekly Round-up, December 27Posted by: Exclusive Concepts Blog Team: Tuesday, December 27th, 2005
I hope you all enjoyed your Christmas or Hannukah because this is the week we are inundated with lists, “best-ofs” and predictions.
2005 Foot-in-Mouth Awards from Wired.
Best tech moments of 2005.
Best Web Companies and Innovators of 2005.
Top 10 tech trends for 2006.
The 50 greatest tech gadgets of the past 50 years by Dan Tynan in PC [...] Continue Reading
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Exclusive Concepts Blog Team
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Web 2.0 and WinkPosted by: Exclusive Concepts Blog Team: Friday, December 23rd, 2005
The name Web 2.0 has been used to contrast the web in its current state with the “traditional” web characterized by static websites and email. Among Web 2.0’s defining traits is a heightened emphasis on tagging.
Users tag and bookmark pages through sites like Digg, del.icio.us, and Yahoo, as well as within Wink itself to [...] Continue Reading
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Herb
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Looks like Google has begun testing a service that will place ads in print publications. Google will be acting as the broker between their clients and selected print media. Advertisers will be able to use text and images and select the print publication based on demographics, circulation and pricing. Given the fall off in print [...] Continue Reading
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 Read Scott's Bio
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Google finally blogged about their deal with AOL. My concerns were partially addressed.
My major concerns were that:
1) Google would give AOL preferential treatment in natural search results
2) Google would undermine the auction system that drives the paid advertisements by giving free ads to AOL
Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products & User Experience for Google, tried to address [...] Continue Reading
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Read Scott's Bio
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I thought I would share a comment I just posted to Did-It’s blog post regarding Kevin Lee’s analysis of the AOL/Google deal. With each passing day, I’m becoming more and more concerned with the precedent this deal will set. Perhaps I’m being a little alarmist with the comment below, but I think history justifies my [...] Continue Reading
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Exclusive Concepts Blog Team
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Tuesday’s NYTimes article about the AOL-Google deal contained a line that has alarmed the SEO world. In addition to the other terms of the arrangement, it reports,
Google also agreed to provide technical assistance to AOL to help explain how to make its pages easier for Google – and other search engines – to find [...] Continue Reading
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Fastest-growing websitesPosted by: Exclusive Concepts Blog Team: Wednesday, December 21st, 2005
Among the top 10 online brands, Apple was the fastest-growing site in terms of traffic in November of 2005. As a result of new products like the iPod Nano, Apple’s traffic increased 57% compared to November of 2004. Google was second thanks to its seemingly endless parade of new features and services, growing [...] Continue Reading
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