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Om Malik: Pioneering Blogs (Part 8)

Posted on Friday, Jun 8th 2007

Om Malik was one of the pioneers of the blogging movement. Here, he discusses his early days of blogging. SM: How did people find out about your blog? The mainstream media was certainly not talking about blogs yet. OM: I think there were a bunch of us talking about it. It was intriguing for me

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Salesforce.com’s Incubator: René Bonvanie (Part 2)

Posted on Thursday, Jun 7th 2007

Salesforce.com has developed a truly intriguing concept with the Incubator. I wanted to get a bit of background on the history of the project before we delved into how its working. SM: I am going to focus our discussion primarily on the Incubator, however feel free to include experiences from the broader AppExchange. What was

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Why Bancrofts May Say ‘Yes’ to Murdoch

Posted on Thursday, Jun 7th 2007

Rupert Murdoch wants Dow Jones. The Bancroft family realizes that they are falling behind. Even though, they own the Wall Street Journal, America’s most important business newspaper and website, they have not been able to capitalize on the brand enough amidst upheavals due to the Internet. Murdoch sees the opportunity to build a global Business

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Web 3.0 and Jobs: Overview

Posted on Thursday, Jun 7th 2007

Jobs is one of the top online segments in the US with $5.9 billion online advertising revenues, which constitutes around 25% of Internet ad revenues in the US. The online job market has been steadily taking away market share from newspaper classifieds. In this series, we will evaluate the online jobs category against the Web

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Om Malik: Pioneering Blogs (Part 7)

Posted on Thursday, Jun 7th 2007

Om navigates his destiny through the market downturn … SM: Red Herring crashed too didn’t it? OM: Red Herring lasted a bit. As the market started to turn down, I think it was in September 2001, just before 9/11, I got a chance to go back to New York because I had not felt comfortable

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Salesforce.com’s Incubator: René Bonvanie (Part 1)

Posted on Wednesday, Jun 6th 2007

René Bonvanie is Senior Vice President and General Manager, AppExchange and Developer Marketing at Salesforce.com. Rene has responsibility for the marketing and strategic direction of the AppExchange on-demand platform and developer marketing through the ApppExchange Developer Network. AppExchange is a novel new business strategy which allows SalesForce to develop symbiotic relationships with established and emerging

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Google’s Radio Ads Yet To Take Off

Posted on Wednesday, Jun 6th 2007

After Google acquired dMarc in January last year, it was hoped that its AdWords customers in US would shortly have an option to place audio ads across prominent radio stations. dMarc is a California based company that facilitates advertisers to directly connect radio stations through its automated advertising platform. dMarc’s addition to Google’s formidable arsenal

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Shutterfly: Acquisition Target?

Posted on Wednesday, Jun 6th 2007

Jim Clark launched Shutterfly on December 13, 1999. On the same day Clark’s partner from Netscape, Jim Barksdale, launched Ofoto. Shutterfly is headquartered at Redwood Shores, California and offers storing, sharing, enhancing and printing of photos, as well as photo merchandise. Shutterfly has over 900 million photographs in its archive and was awarded the Field

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