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Re: How do I click an ad on the radio?

Mike — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:10:40 -0000

How do you click on the Radio?
Simple. Affiliate marketing has been doing this for years, with tracking built in. The radio announcer mentions a "deal" and to get that deal you must go to the website of the company and click on the "Heard about us on the radio?" link (or some other such link). Then you provide info on the radio personality and you get a deal.
See example at: www.proflowers.com (microphone in top right)

Re: Ebay dives deeper into classified ads

Mike — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 09:25:20 -0000

This is a case of "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer". Ebay invested in Craigslist and Craig claimed that one of the areas where eBay would help them is in localizing their service Internationally. We'll that's exactly what eBay has done, but they did it themselves, without Craigslist, thereby sticking a dagger in the heart of Craigslist's international plans. It is just a matter of time before they launch a competing service in the US. They spent a billion dollars buying classified ad properties last year for a reason...

Re: Yahoo’s job scraping: Cannibalizing the industry?

Mike — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 04:06:10 -0000

This has ramifications beyond employment sites, it accelerates the process of cannibalizing newspaper classified ads (a $16.6B market) that Craigslist, eBay and others have started. Read more at my blog on the topic: http://thinklocal.blogspot.com/2005/07/yahoo-accelerates-classified-ad.html

Re: “Google Base” digs more into your personal details

Mike — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:21:07 -0000

Newspapers have battled to defend the $19B U.S. classified ads business from the likes of Craigslist and eBay, but Googlebase is their worst nightmare. By providing a form-based front end for both posting and searching, they'll get richer information and it will be much more searchable than anything else out there. Combining this with Google's brand and traffic makes Googlebase a serious competitor. We built a similar solution, a "mini-googlebase" that we now sell to newspapers. Newspapers can only stay in the game if they embrace free classified ads, leverage their communities ties and leverage the printed versions as well to drive adoption.
http://thinklocal.blogspot.com/2005/10/what-does-googlebase-mean-to-newspaper.html

Re: A photo-sharing bubble? And a note about Goodstorm

Mike — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 05:19:12 -0000

There's another media-sharing company using a p2p platfom built as a Firefox extension comin from AllPeers.com see here recent pre-beta announcement: http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2005/12/22/allpeers-screenshots/

Re: NSA violating privacy? Some folks in Silicon Valley think so

Mike — Fri, 12 May 2006 10:14:29 -0000

For decades companies have been culling through your every purchase via credit card records. Companies track you every search and move on the Internet. Companies already track every phone call you make. These companies have been using this information to target sales pitches, direct mail, telemarketing, etc. Now the government wants to cull through a subset of this info to find patterns that could indicate terrorist activity and people scream bloody murder. I don't get it. Are people that ignorant that they believe that they have privacy or is it just that it is OK for businesses to do this, but not for government to use it to keep us alive?

Re: The Facebook lawsuit that hasn’t gone away

Mike — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:01:54 -0000

This could be why Facebook turned down the acquisition from Yahoo, the representations and warranties would kill them if Facebook lost, and the brothers sued Yahoo for $1B.

Re: Washington Post and Forbes plunge to PageRank 5 — Why?

Mike — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:23:34 -0000

It appears that Google considers selling links to be evil and they are imposing their “don’t be evil” on the entire Internet. The problem is that selling links is an important revenue source for many publishers. Is Google telling us that AdSense is the only approved way for these companies to generate revenue? Since Google is buying DoubleClick, I would assume that display advertising is good too. Punishing websites that buy links is bad enough, but punishing those that sell links is bad news. It is wrong for a company like Google to abuse their power like this.