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Web 3.0 & Amazon (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Dec 12th 2007

Web 3.0 Framework discussion Below is a quick overview of the Web 3.0 framework for the Amazon sites. Context Amazon’s primary Context is shopping. Whether it is for books, music, toys, or clothes, you come to Amazon to shop. Content Amazon has really good content about its merchandise. In fact, the Amazon catalog is a

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Word of Mouth: Marketeers’ Delight and Nightmare

Posted on Wednesday, Dec 12th 2007

One of my absolute favorite sites on the web is TripAdvisor, which we reviewed a while ago. Let me use a screenshot from the TripAdvisor home page to demonstrate what Word-of-Mouth can do to a business:

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eBay of Latin America: Mercado Libre CEO Marcos Galperin (Part 5)

Posted on Wednesday, Dec 12th 2007

SM: What was Internet adoption like in 2003? MG: I do not remember year by year. I think the evolution was somewhere around 10% per year. SM: What type of revenues were you seeing in 2003? MG: I believe we had $4M in 2003. I would have to check that number, but 2006 was $52M,

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Web 3.0 & Amazon (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, Dec 11th 2007

Vertical Strategy Amazon is the most popular e-commerce site in the world. We will take a look at the Company’s various online verticals below. Books, Newspaper and Magazines Amazon was started as an online bookstore. It is the largest retailer of books online. It allows users to buy books, magazines and newspapers online. Amazon has

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Mobile WiMAX – 4Ging the Future?

Posted on Tuesday, Dec 11th 2007

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author In my last piece, I gave a brief historical perspective of WiMAX as a fixed wireless broadband standard. This article provides an insight into mobile WiMAX and its future as a 4G standard.

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eBay of Latin America: Mercado Libre CEO Marcos Galperin (Part 4)

Posted on Tuesday, Dec 11th 2007

SM: What was your platform in those early days – an auction platform or a fixed price platform? MG: It was completely an auction platform, and today it is 90% a fixed priced platform. Another thing we did different is that we did not like the Buy It Now feature on eBay. We used it

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Fixed WiMAX – Last-mile broadband

Posted on Monday, Dec 10th 2007

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author Today belongs to CDMA-based wireless technologies. These technologies will continue to dominate the wireless market at least until 2012, beyond which they will slowly be phased out by 4G technologies based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA). OFDMA is a multi-user version of OFDM systems that transmit data by

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Web 3.0 & Amazon (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Dec 10th 2007

Introduction I posed a question to ponder: Is eBay or Amazon a better company? Recently, I have covered eBay in detail, and this week, we will analyze Amazon. I will reserve the answer to the question until after. Meanwhile, I do encourage you to think about the question. I will give you my analysis later.

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