Rumor has it Amazon will unveil the second generation of its ebook Kindle at a press event next Monday. The device is expected to be thinner and cheaper, but still will lack certain functionalities the digital consuming public might expect. Beyond that, predictions for the device seem overly optimistic.
Travelzoo Talks $1.8 Million Acquisition of Fly.com Domain
Last Friday, travel site Travelzoo announced that it had purchased the domain Fly.com for $1.8 million. Not a lot of details were released about the transaction, so I contacted Travelzoo to find out a bit more. Mindy Joyce, Travelzoo’s senior marketing director got back to me and answered a few questions.
Microsoft Names Most Popular “How To” Searches Of ’08
Like it or not, we’re now 35 days into 2009, and textbook writers are probably already trying to compose a few paragraphs about last year for the overpriced latest versions. Microsoft may want to help, as it’s just released a list of the top "how to" queries of 2008.
Facebook Marks Five Years
Facebook is celebrating its 5th birthday today and the social networking site now boasts more than 150 million users globally.
In a blog post, founder Mark Zuckerberg reflects on the last five years. "Facebook was founded in 2004 to give people the tools to engage and understand the world around them. We are glad and humbled that so many people are using Facebook in this way."
Microsoft Virtual Earth Gets Massive Imagery Update
Earlier this week, Al Gore, Jimmy Buffet, and a famous oceanographer came together to announce a Google Earth update. Don’t look for the same level of hubbub here, but Microsoft’s now taking its own impressive step in this area by releasing about 100 terabytes’ worth of Virtual Earth imagery.
Interview with Muxtape CEO Justin Ouellette
Muxtape has been known in the past as a place where music lovers could create their own playlists of songs and share them with others like an old school mix-tape. Last summer, it was shut down after legal issues with the RIAA.
Is It Time For Facebook To Sell Out?
Methinks the Telegraph was hoping to spark controversy when they published this article yesterday:
Facebook is planning to exploit the vast amount of personal information it holds on its 150m members by creating one of the world’s largest market research databases.
PETA
Say what you want about PETA’s vego-fascist ways and loony breast milk Ben & Jerry’s proposals, whoever does their marketing had a stroke of genius by getting an ad banned by the network broadcasting the Super Bowl—a method we shall forthwith describe as “The GoDaddy Method” of viral marketing.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ “Veggie Love” commercial was deemed too hot for NBC (except on the Today show I noticed) and was not accepted for airing during the annual Super Bowl advertising bonanza.
AOL Names Former Yahoo Exec To Run Its Ad Business
AOL has named former Yahoo sales executive, Greg Coleman President of its advertising business Platform- A.
"Greg Coleman is perfectly suited to build on the foundation we created at Platform-A and drive branded display sales across our fast-growing MediaGlow programming network," said Randy Falco, AOL Chairman and CEO.
Dell Ramps Up Twitter Advertising Efforts
Twitter fans, advertisers, and people who are in the market for a refurbished computer should take note: in what represents a potential win for all of you, Dell has decided to offer certain deals exclusively through one of its 80 Twitter properties.