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I was browsing one of the tech sites and I stumbled upon this company - Swoopo.com. Pretty interesting and lucrative business model  - NO DOUBT!!! Basically, they are an auction company which sells directly to consumers. Swoopo started in Germany and is making an impact in US. They focus on electronics like LED TVs, SLR Cameras, laptops, ipods, top end cell phones like the Nokia N97, etc This is how ...

I have been working with Google since they were a fledgling company that was trying to claim market share from Overture/Yahoo and one of the beta testers for Gmail. When a company grows so fast, sometimes they will get sloppy. Here is a good example, I signed up for a new MCC account for the Google Pay Per Click aka Google AdWords, the MMC confirmation email goes directly to ...

I was in Seattle recently and I met up with some of my friends from college, most of them worked for Microsoft. Wait, I think it was everybody who worked for Microsoft and there were people from the server group, guys who were working on the long awaited Windows 7 to some guys working on the infrastructure of their internal applications. One thing I heard from them were "Microsoft ...

Today, Google sent out about 100,000 invitations to the Google Wave for the Beta users. The Google Wave project was revealed at the Google I/O on May 27 - 28, 2009 in Moscone Center, San Francisco and limited account were given to those who attended. On Oct 1, 2009, it was released to beta tested who did not attend the I/O. The Google Wave is basically a communication ...

I was helping a company do a competitive analysis on a pro bono basis, and I came up with a short page for "intro to affiliate marketing". I thought that I will post it here to give merchants (advertisers) an idea of affiliate marketing and an illustration of affiliate marketing. AFFILIATE MARKETING DEFINITION Affiliate marketing is an advertising channel in which advertisers (merchants) pay publishers (affiliates) only for results, such ...

In the book, Stealing MySpace by Julia Angwin (published in 2009), it brought up lots of interesting facts especially in the earlier years. Here are some things that you might not know about that small company that started in Los Angeles, CA. Domain name (MySpace.com). The original domain name was bought and utilized as a free online file storage and at its peak, it saw 7.5 million registered users utilizing their ...

As reported on CNN, Internet boot camp operators are under investigation after a youth boot camp attendee died and another was admitted in critical condition. Well folks, this is happening in China where the parents are sending their kids to these Internet boot camps that have sprouted up like mushrooms after storm. Internet use has skyrocketed in China, especially among teens and young adults. Knowing about this alarming addiction, ...

MySpace, the once big dog on the block when it csomes to social networking announced today that it is acquiring iLike for $20 million to try to stay ahead of the curve. MySpace is trying to reinvent itself to stay ahead of the competition, i.e. Facebook. In May 2008, MySpace was flying high with 74 million visits that month coming from U.S. alone. MySpace's closest competitor, Facebook had only ...

Back when in the good old days, there was only one decent way to get on the internet - NETSCAPE (I wouldn't consider telnet a way to reach the WWW). But with Microsoft's push for Internet Explorer and the initiation of the "browser wars" in the 1990s, that led to Netscape's demise. Following that, Microsoft via Internet Explorer controlled 90% of the browser market. Marc Andreessen, the founder is ...

If you think you know internet/online markting, then you should know these twenty (20) terms or jargons that are widely used by online marketers. If you are need to the industry, it's good to pick up some of these acronyms as it is often thrown around. ASP Application Service Provider AOV ...