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Online Clothing: No. 1 Retail Category

Posted on Wednesday, May 23rd 2007

Sales of clothing have surpassed sales of computer hardware and software for the first time in the ten years of online retailing, according to a new report by Forrester Research for Shop.org. Online sales are forecast to increase 18% this year to $259 billion. In 2006, clothing and accessories, including shoes, totaled $18.3 billion against

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Web 3.0 & Photobucket

Posted on Wednesday, May 23rd 2007

We have discussed an overview of the photo sharing industry and Flickr and here we will take a look at Photobucket’s offering from a Web 3.0 perspective. Photobucket, founded in 2003, by Alex Welch and Darren Crystal is an image hosting, video hosting, slideshow creation and photo-sharing site. VCs including Insight Venture Partners and Trinity

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Turn Logic into Magic (2)

Posted on Wednesday, May 23rd 2007

By Dominique Trempont, Guest Author A brand is a person’s perception about a company, a product and/or a service (support, training, customer service, straight service). It is emotional and personal: each of us decides to recognize a brand positively, negatively or not at all. A brand is what people say it is, not what a

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Social Entrepreneur: Harish Hande (Part 14)

Posted on Wednesday, May 23rd 2007

We continue our discussion on India’s economic development, and the gaining affluence of the middle class. Harish challenges the common statements that there is high economic growth, countering that the growth only affects a very limited portion of the population. SM: So the middle class has created affluence. HH: 18% of the wealth is with

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CNN’s Local Ambitions

Posted on Tuesday, May 22nd 2007

WSJ reports: “In a strategy shift, CNN, known primarily for national and international news, announced a deal that will allow it to offer more local news on its Web site and, it hopes, land a bigger slice of the fast-growing market for local online ads. The deal, with Internet Broadcasting, a privately held Minneapolis-based company

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Web 3.0 and Flickr

Posted on Tuesday, May 22nd 2007

Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield of Ludicorp, a Vancouver, British Columbia-based Company launched Flickr in February 2004. Flickr is a photo-sharing site, which allows users to search, upload, create photo albums and share them with community members. Flickr has 17 million unique monthly visitors. The company was taken over by Yahoo in March 2005. Flickr

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iPhone and the Future of Qualcomm: Addendum

Posted on Tuesday, May 22nd 2007

I wrote iPhone and the Future of Qualcomm last week, and it generated a huge amount of controversy. My main point in the iPhone series is that if iPhone succeeds in becoming the industry galvanizing event that I think it will be (even if the product itself is a limited success for Apple), it will

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Turn Logic into Magic (1)

Posted on Tuesday, May 22nd 2007

By Dominique Trempont, Guest Author Do brand and design matter? What is a brand, after all? Why has brand become so important these days? Why is it so difficult to build? How does brand relate to design? Ryan Air was launched in Europe 6-7 years ago to reinvent the airline travel experience.

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