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Gap’s Turnaround Strategy

Posted on Thursday, May 24th

Visualize the Banana Republic store. It has a few floors of merchandise. When you walk into this store, very little of this applies to you. You are a size 4 woman, dark haired, brown-eyed, olive-skinned. Your style is rather more professional and clean-cut, than much of the frills and laces that you look around and

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Web 3.0 & Photobucket

Posted on Wednesday, May 23rd

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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Web 3.0 and Flickr

Posted on Tuesday, May 22nd

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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Web 3.0 & Online Travel: Synthesis

Posted on Tuesday, May 15th

Today anyone with an Internet access and Credit card can just like that, plan for a week’s tour to South Africa or the Himalayas, thanks to the travel sites who offer trip planning at your finger-tips – flight booking, hotels and car rentals along with the reviews of the hotels, places of interest, and information

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Time Warner’s Ad Network Move

Posted on Monday, May 14th

In a previous post, I discussed Time Warner’s digital media strategy. In this one, I will analyze their move into Ad Networks, via an investment in Adify, a small company providing technology infrastructure services for building and running ad networks. [If you are new to the field on online advertising, please read my interview with

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Web 3.0 and Lonely Planet

Posted on Friday, May 4th

We have been discussing the online travel industry and have covered Yahoo! Travel, TripAdvisor, Travelocity, Orbitz, Expedia and Priceline from a Web 3.0 perspective earlier. Here we will take a look at Lonely Planet’s offering. Lonely Planet is a travel content publication company founded by Maureen and Tony Wheeler in 1973 and headquartered in Melbourne,

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Defying Google: Adify CEO, Russ Fradin (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, May 4th

SM: Where do you see Federated Media? RF: I really like what they are doing. We don’t look at them as a competitor, but we look at them as broadly in a similar space to what we do, and they are very, very smart. For Google and Yahoo, it’s not that they don’t play in

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Web 3.0 and Priceline

Posted on Wednesday, May 2nd

We have been discussing the online travel industry and have covered Yahoo! Travel, TripAdvisor, Travelocity, Orbitz and Expedia from a Web 3.0 perspective earlier. Here we will take a look at Priceline’s offering. Priceline founded in 1997 is an online travel agency headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut. The site provides a wide array of travel services

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