Archive | May, 2009

Is Social Network Automation Spam?

One of the biggest complaints I hear about social media platforms like LinkedIn, Plaxo, Facebook and Twitter is the amount of spam on the network. As a person with a high sensitivity to both internal and external distractions, this unwanted din makes it very difficult to listen carefully to the conversation.On... (more...)

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Kayak CEO Steve Hafner Interview: keep it simple, focus on search, stay out of Asia..oh…and get back into offline marketing

Kayak CEO Steve Hafner Interview: keep it simple, focus on search, stay out of Asia..oh…and get back into offline marketing

Enjoyed a chance to catch up with Kayak CEO Steve Hafner last week. I had planned the call to be about the challenges of a traffic arbitrage business model. I had hoped to draw out of Hafner that there was pressure in the Kayak model fuelled by rising paid search costs, being late to the review game... (more...)

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Omniture lanza una solución para medir las aplicaciones de Facebook

Parece que este fin de semana me ha dado fuerte con el tema de la analítica web, pero me he encontrado con bastantes noticias interesantes que he querido comentar con vosotros, puesto que una empresa como Omniture (para mi el mejor programa de analítica web del mercado) haya apostado tan fuerte como... (more...)

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Tubemogul: an efficient way to upload, distribute and track your videos

Tubemogul: an efficient way to upload, distribute and track your videos

Upload your videos to all major video sharing sites in one shot! So you’ve made it to a point where you’re happy with video editing and want the world to be aware of how cool your place is, how awesome your last travel was, or how warm was the atmosphere during your last dinner, or just... (more...)

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Crisis y suerte

Crisis y suerte

Mediocridad Dicen que a grandes males, grandes remedios. Veamos algunos de los grandes remedios que se escuchan (remedios para destinos urbanos, se entiende): ¿quieres vender? dame ofertas, dame gratuidades, dame 2×1, dame … dame y dame pasa de la intermediación, tu puedes vender solo esto... (more...)

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The Ups and Downs of a Nomadic Lifestyle

The Ups and Downs of a Nomadic Lifestyle

As we drove, for the last time, past the bay area of Singapore, I turned back to see the shimmering night lights of the glitzy city fading behind me. Like time, the city has come and passed. It’s the end of yet another sojourn in the country I call home. Time to hit the road again. Yet, I am hit by... (more...)

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At Last… A Bay of Fundy Limerick!

At Last… A Bay of Fundy Limerick!

I've gotten used to seeing the Bay of Fundy used as a metaphor for predictability ("as regular as the Bay of Fundy tides") or for massive change ("the difference between them was like the difference between high and low tides on the Bay of Fundy") but I rarely see Fundy used in poetry. It, well....it... (more...)

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10 mitos sobre Google Analytics

Sebastián Tonkin ha publicado en el blog oficial de Google Analytics los 10 mitos más importantes sobre esta herramienta de analítica web. He decidido copiar los 10 títulos, aunque si visitáis su página web, podréis encontrar la explicación que facilitan sobre cada uno de los mitos: “You... (more...)

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