Facebook's Amazing Growth

Facebook's growth is amazing. Will it continue. That's the subject of this article: "Can Anyone Stop Facebook?"

What do you think?

Danny

Visual Search

Google continues to amaze me with the inventions that they come up with. This is a new technology that is just beginning but has a lot of promise. Search without having to type anything in or speak anything.



Source:
http://www.viralblog.com/viral-friday/viral-friday-google-goggles/

Danny

Dynamic Pricing

Seth Godin explains the idea of dynamic pricing - essentially prices that change over time or based on numbers of sales. It is essentially a form of price discrimination. As we discussed in Microeconomics pure price discrimination would be illegal. I think the ideas that Godin suggests might bring some legal challenges but likely would be ok.


http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/12/the-magic-of-dynamic-pricing.html

Danny

Pepsi Skips Superbowl

Pepsi has decided to skip advertising on the Superbowl this year and invest the money in a web-based social media campaign. This is an example of what Seth Godin says in "Purple Cow" - advertising is dead.

http://www.viralblog.com/social-media/pepsi-skips-superbowl-for-social/

Danny

Finding 1000 True Fans

A recent article suggested that artists and small businesses don't need a huge number of people who kind of support them. The musician doesn't need a lot of people who kind of like their music. What these people need is only 1000 people - but they must be 1000 true fans. What would 1000 true fans mean for you as a musician, artist or small business person?

Read the original article:
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fans.php

Seth Godin's thoughts on it:

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/12/first-organize-1000.html

Danny

What is This Really Promoting?

Check out this video and see if you can figure out what they are really advertising.... Don't read below the video until you've watched the video:





If you have a Catholic background (or perhaps some other liturgical denomination) you'll have got more out of that video.

But it's not really advertising a game called Mass, but the only way to find out what they are really advertising is by going to the fake website http://www.masswepray.com/# and clicking on the pre-order button.

What do you think?

Danny

Businesses Plan on Spending More on Internet Marketing

Businesses report that they will be spending more money on internet marketing in the coming year according to recent research. The largest spending increases will be on websites and email marketing, with search and social media coming in second. The big losers this year are banner ads and sponsorships.

The full article, including other interesting studies is here:

http://www.viralblog.com/online-video/increased-spend-on-social-video/

Danny

The Basics: How to Use Internet for Business

Seth Godin had a great post recently titled "Is it Too Late to Catch Up?" The point of the post is to show what a company should do if they missed everything related to the internet and social media over the last ten years. The list serves as a great checklist to make sure you are doing everything you need to, in order to take advantage of the internet.

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/12/is-it-too-late-to-catch-up.html

Danny

Google Launches an Operating System - Sort Of

Google has come out with Google Chrome OS, a unique operating system. It is an operating system for people who don't store anything on their computer, but rather keep everything on the internet. It will work for many, but at this time it won't work for me.

Check out the video and then in the comments share your feedback. What do you think, is this the way computing is going?



Source:
http://www.viralblog.com/viral-friday/viral-friday-bohemian-rhapsody/

Danny

Great Commercial

Check out this advertisement:



Danny