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The following words appear on the very top of today’s Wall Street Journal in bold, red letters: “The Journal Report: Creating a Website for Almost Nothing.” Instead, the title should have been, “Creating a Website that Does Almost Nothing.”
The Wall Street Journal is offering bad advice to millions of small business readers by recommending an [...] Continue Reading
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It’s now one full week since Internet Retailer Chicago concluded and i’ve finally found a little time to blog about it. This was my first Internet Retailer and I can say without reservation that i’ll be attending their future conferences. What I liked most about the event was the opportunity to connect with friends, colleagues, [...] Continue Reading
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According to a new FaceBook advertising tool that we’re playing with, there are 220 MySpace employees with FaceBook accounts.
Other companies with US employees on FaceBook:
—- 5,000+ Google’ers
—- 2,800+ IBM’ers
—- 1,000+ United Nations’ers
—- 5,000+ Apple’ers
—- 200 WSJ’ers
—- 500 FaceBook’ers
—- 280 CNN’ers
—- 260 FoxNews’ers
Want to advertise to these people, or other networks? Contact us.
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Scott on MSNBCPosted by: Herb: Saturday, September 29th, 2007
A while back Scott appeared on several segments on “Your Business” with J.J. Ramberg and Jeffrey Bussgang (General Partner, IDG Ventures). Here’s one of the segments…
Business Answers: Ownership strategies
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Bravo to the The New York Times. They just launched a new feature called My Times that allows you to create your very own Internet start-page that aggregates content from the Times, but also from a variety of other important Internet sources. You’ve heard all the hype about RSS thanks to the “blog explosion,” but [...] Continue Reading
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Widget-Mania?Posted by: Scott: Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
A colleague of mine shared this interesting article on the subject of “widgets.” It’s worth a read.
My take…
What are widgets?
In a sense, Widgets are Web 2.0 versions of the small software applications and shareware that we saw in the 90’s, only they are web based and they are much more useful. If you are an [...] Continue Reading
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All work and no play… not a good recipe. So Scott Speaks will be off line for a week as I head north for my annual rafting trip to Maine, followed by a journey to the University of South Carolina to help my sister move in to college.
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Google Wireless PhonePosted by: Scott: Saturday, August 4th, 2007
Google is shopping a prototype for a new cell phone.
Here is the WashingtonPost article.
Google would give away FREE phones and subscriptions in exchange for pushing ads through the phone. In the article questions are raised as to whether people will be willing to listen to advertisements, but my guess is that Google will not ask [...] Continue Reading
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Earlier in the year I gave a series of lectures on search engine marketing to classes at Bentley College. I’m a Bentley grad and i’ve always enjoyed going back on campus to share real-world perspectives on entrepreneurship and Internet marketing.
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Founder of Wikipedia launching a new search engine (WIKIA) that uses the excess computing power of its users. This could be interesting… I get the impression that while i’m sure they will work hard to build a solid search algorithm, they will rely heavily on the editorial judgment of users to decide what ranks where. [...] Continue Reading
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