What do Starbucks and movies have in common? No, its not that a coffee will cost you four bucks in either place… Starbucks, who currently sells CDs in its stores, is now promoting movies. In A Starbucks Jolt to the Big Screen, Newsweek reports that the ubiquitous ...
Friday, Microsoft announced that Steven Berkowitz, formerly CEO of Ask.com, would head up its MSN and Windows Live operations. Berkowitz was previously CEO of IDG Books, which publishes the “Dummies” series. More recently, in an odd twist to the old “the butler did it” theme, Berkowitz was a ...
At the recent WebmasterWorld Conference (Pubcon), I talked to lots of site owners who derive at least some of their income from contextual ads, typically Google’s Adsense product or the Yahoo Publisher Network. I asked quite a few for their opinions on the two networks. Surprisingly, there was ...
Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink and The Tipping Point, says that social power often trumps political power and economic power. Speaking at the Webmasterworld Conference (aka Pubcon) in Boston, Gladwell focused on anecdotes from this bestselling Tipping Point to illustrate how well networked individuals have been able to disseminate ...
InternetWeek reports in Apple Discussion Board Users List Boot Camp Woes that Apple’s new Boot Camp software destroys the OS X partition on some Macs. In essence, users with this problem find that their Macs can run PC applications perfectly, but can no longer function as Macs. (more…)
Search engine users are increasingly clicking on listings in the first page of search results, according to new data from Jupiter Media and iProspect. The new study shows that 62% of users click on a result on the first page of search results, compared to 48% in 2002. ...
We like Netflix, and have been bullish on their approach to movie rental. In our opinion, their collaborative filtering and community approach to DVD rental will serve them well in an eventual switch to downloads. But we really wonder about their claim that a list of movies that ...
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