Midpoint - The Evolution of Exchange 2011 Consumer Internet Predictions Once again Lightspeed is going on the record with some prognostications for what the future holds. Before I try gazing into my crystal ball to see what 2011 will bring for the consumer internet industry, let me first see how I did on last years predictions: 1. Social games overflow out of Facebook Grade: C+. 2. Grade: A. 3. Grade: A. 4. Grade: B-. 5. Grade: B-. Overall for 2010, I figure a B average, a little worse than last year. 1. In 1995, when Amazon was founded, e-commerce was like the proverbial talking dog. This worked great for most internet users at that time because back then most internet users were men, and in general, men do not like to shop. But a few years ago, that changed. The Flash Sales sites and Local Deals sites both make shopping fun by offering deep discounts. Sites like Modcloth make shopping fun through discovery. Shoedazzle* makes shopping fun by democratizing the personal stylist experience. More models keep popping up. 2. 3. 4. 5.
hyperWALLET - Payment Solutions for Global Commerce Y llegaron los agregadores de groupones Loogic Por Javier Martín el 20 diciembre 2010 G+ Lo importante no es ser el primero, es ser el mejor y el más rápido. Finales de 2008, nace Groupon, dos años después ha conseguido 171 millones de dólares de financiación que le ha permitido comprar cuatro empresas de su competencia y extenderse por medio mundo. Y llegaron los agregadores de groupones: Yunait, fundado por Pablo Elosua, el primero en llegar y que evolucionó de comunidad de ahorradores a agregador de ofertas a nivel local. Chollos Locales ha sido fundador por Mathias Jacobs que en Alemania también ha creado los agregadores Myliveshopping y Tagesangebote. Ratealo creado por Roger Pujol es el primero que me ha hablado del concepto bautizado como Online-to-offline (On2Off), que busca los consumidores online y los lleva a las tiendas reales. Dscuento, el último en llegar, que yo sepa. Me dejo alguno?
Daniel Raffel’s Favorite New Geek Stuff Of 2010 Daniel Raffel is a former Yahoo product manager and a newbie entrepreneur. A year ago we asked him to write a guest post telling us about his favorite new products, projects and features of 2009. The post below is an updated list of his favorite new geek stuff from 2010. Looking back at 2010, I’m particularly struck by the quantity and quality of new projects that launched. As I started assembling a list of launches from 2010 that caught my eye, I grouped them into the categories I used last year: New Products and Services, New Projects, Feature Updates, and Mobile Apps. New Products/ServicesApple Airplay, iBooks, iPad, Magic Trackpad My iPad can just about always be found in my backpack. Bagcheck / Fancy / Pinterest / Svpply Each of these services deserves to be reviewed in their own right and I regret not doing each of them their proper justice because they are certainly not the same. Greplin A challenge of adopting multiple cloud services is knowing where your data lives.
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Is Groupon Stores Dead On Arrival? At the beginning of December, Groupon announced two radical new features: Groupon Stores and the Deal Feed, the former a self-serve deal platform for merchants, the latter a Facebook-like experience for Groupon users. The announcement was very well received: some hailed “Groupon 2.0″ as the future of commerce . True, the potential strategic benefit of the new features would be massive: self-serve offers recommended to consumers through a personalized, social experience would erect badly needed network effects in the fiercely competitive Daily Deal space. However, neither appears to be taking off. I haven’t received a Groupon Stores deal since December 3, 2010 I started seeing Groupon Stores offers in my emails immediately following the announcement. Groupon just removed the link to “My Deal Feed” Once Groupon 2.0 was announced, I started seeing a link in my header for My Deal Feed. Possible reasons Groupon Stores isn’t taking off 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 1. 2. 3. 4.
Read the fucking HIG. i guess its time to start posting shit again because this crap is really getting out of fucking hand End of line as you may have not noticed i am not maintaining read the fucking hig anymore since having shot myself in the head. i might again in the future. if you feel up to maintaining it give @readfuckinghig a reply on twitter first and probably last non-screenshot image. this was too appropriate to pass up on. thanks, anonymous submitter. shame on the developer who makes a semi decent twitter client (twittelator) and then goes off to do this. what the fuck? haha oh fuck me they really had to make a second title after you know, the fucking titlebar, and they chose to set it in this font. what is this, just baiting me to post this? thanks iamjordanlittle i am pretty sure no religion or philosophy, including the more relaxed asian ones will let you escape developer hell if you publish this random arrangement of buttons and stock photography to an app store Break thanks octothorpe
Compra Colectiva: Visión general de todos los ofertantes El mercado de las compras colectivas ha revolucionado la manera de comprar en nuestro país. Cada día, desde primera hora de la mañana, se publican cientos de ofertas con descuentos de hasta el 80% que sólo son válidas durante uno o dos días. El funcionamiento es muy sencillo. Con el sistema de compra colectiva todo el mundo sale ganando. Dscuento ofrece las mejores ofertas de los sites de compra colectiva de España reunidas en un solo lugar. Dscuento mencionado en... UK Proxy Server - UK Proxy Server – IP address for BBC iPlayer, 4OD, ITV Player, Live UKTV, Spotify, Sky Sports