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Saturday, September 29, 2007
After considerable year over year growth since the inception of the Web, online sales growth in major sectors like books, computer peripherals, pet supplies and others have dropped dramatically. Online sales this year are expected to reach a respectable $116 billion or 5 percent of all retail sales. Nothing to slouch at, but it is becoming increasingly more difficult to maintain the growth rate seen in recent years.
Friday, September 28, 2007
While sites such as Flickr, Wikipedia and Digg have become a staple of many people’s day, the idea of opening up business functions traditionally delegated to a small group of people is a foreign concept to many organizations.
With the Winter ’08 release of Salesforce.com, concepts similar to what drive those and other “Web 2.0” sites are being added to Salesforce Ideas (open submissions and voting) as well as Salesforce Content (open publishing as well as a rating system and tags).
Thursday, September 27, 2007
“Getting away from it all” soon could become more difficult, thanks to an announcement by Alaska Airlines this week to test in-flight broadband service.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
As the excitement of fall slowly wears off and the people of the Midwest settle in for what promises to be a long, cold winter (c’mon, we all know its true) there is one more new autumn beginning to look forward to—the fall T.V. season, which kicked off Monday. And in this business, what could be more important than the shows themselves? Why, the advertisements, of course.
For those closely following our changing media landscape, you may already be familiar with the recently formed Association for Downloadable Media, an organization whose primary goal is to develop standards for podcasting advertising and audience measurement. On Friday, September 28th, the ADM will be hold its first in-person meeting at the Podcasting and New Media Expo. This will give attendees the chance to discuss the goals of the organization and discover what benefits podcasters may gain through ADM membership.