Monthly Archives: April 2005

Consumers and the New Multi-Channel Reality

Event: Kelsey Group Drilling Down on Local Search 2005 Session Title: Consumers and the New Multi-Channel Reality Session Date: April 19, 2005 Session Time: 8:45 am – 9:30 am Session Description:The biggest gains online this past holiday season were recorded

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The Emerging Online-Offline Paradigm

Event: Kelsey Group Drilling Down on Local Search 2005 Session Title: The Emerging Online-Offline Paradigm Session Date: April 19, 2005 Session Time: 8:15 am – 8:45 am Session Description:Notwithstanding the big gain in online holiday shopping, e-commerce remains a tiny

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RSS represents 1% of NYTimes.com traffic

Alright, I lied… one more before calling it a day. According to this press release (likely to link rot since it’s on Yahoo!) from the NYTimes.com: For March 2005, NYTimes.com achieved a traffic record of 555 million pageviews, a 17%

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Netflix redesigns Netflix Friends

I’m taking the day off from any serious blogging ahead of the start of the Kelsey conference tomorrow, but just had to share what feels like a late, bad April Fools joke… I just got an email from Netflix (looks

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Sushi Boats and Yahoo! 360

I’ve put off commenting on Yahoo! 360 for a number for reasons (including finding out that a personal friend and former co-worker is part of the product mgmt team leading its development!), but I just read a smart bit from

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Federated Media Publishing

alarm:clock uncovers John Battelle’s not-so-hidden blog detailing his plans for his nascent venture, named Federated Media Publishing. [via PaidContent] From the site, we learn that FMP intends to, “…partner with site authors, acting as a platform which provides important services

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Blogging Kelsey Drilling Down On Local 2005

Just a quick FYI that I’ll be blogging Kelsey Group’s Drilling Down On Local 2005 conference next Tuesday and Wednesday. My goal will be to live blog ‘notes’ from the majority of the sessions (Blogger.com and connectivity permitting), followed by

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Yahoo News Beta

Yahoo’s launched a new beta of their Yahoo! News service. While at first glance it looks largely like a UI refresh (which Yahoo! has been busy doing across its network), there are some interesting improvements (and oddities) worth mentioning… Of

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Yahoo Makes Small Business Land Grab

In a long overdue move, Yahoo! is offering free web sites (up to five pages total) to small businesses. Chris Sherman at SEW has the best early write-up, noting (my edits in brackets): “The new program is available to any

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Hosted Blogs Errupting… Or Just User Experimentation?

Perseus Development Corporation announced earlier today that their recently completed blog survey shows that 31.6MM blogs have been created to date; further, they project 53.4MM blogs by the end of the year. These numbers don’t exactly jive with other blog

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