Google and Office Depot announced a partnership where Office Depot will offer advice and teach small businesses how to use Google AdWords. Any small business who registers and makes an AdWords purchase on the Office Depot site will receive a $50 advertising bonus. Office Depot will also likely receive a portion of all sales made [...] ...
Since the social networking phenomena began I have been an advocate of the Yellow Pages developing a platform for niche social networks since directories covers such a broad array of topics and content that can be related to highly conversational topics such as travel, music, legal, weddings, new mothers, retirement, interior design, home improvement, etc. [...] ...
Two separate but related news items caught my eye today. First, Comcast has acquired social networking technology provider Plaxo in order to integrate social network-like features that let viewers share programming, among other things. Second, Turner Entertainment Networks announced a new plan to index content within television shows so that contextually relevant ads can be [...] ...
Internet legend Marc Andreessen waxed positive about social networking and VC opportunities for the next 5 years during a packed luncheon at the Think Tomorrow — Today conference. Without spending too much time talking about his own social networking venture, Ning, he asserted that the decentralized “many to many” media world we now live in [...] ...
Today, I’m at ThinkPanmure’s Think Tomorrow–Today VC summit in Half Moon Bay California. As Where 2.0 is happening as we speak on the other side of the hill, some attention to location awareness has been paid here as well.
A panel discussion this morning on the convergence of fixed and mobile telecommunications stressed the opportunity for [...] ...