Ex-Googlers Launch Q&A Site
This just in: Uclue.com is a new website by a number of researchers who used to work for the (now cancelled) Google Answers program.
This is cool, and I wish my former colleagues all the best! (Disclosure: I watched the site come to life from afar, though I wasn’t actively involved in it.) I’m also happy to have another way now to pose urgent questions, and I’m curious how well the system will work out in the future. Certainly the biggest obstacle will be marketing the service right to find lots of people asking questions (especially people with little time… because with competing services like Yahoo Answers, while you don’t invest money, you usually have to invest more time).
ClickTracks Releases Version 6.5
ClickTracks is ready to release version 6.5 of its Analytics software, "designed specifically for the needs of sophisticated marketers deploying high-traffic ecommerce and large-scale web sites."
Attackers on Edwards HQ Come Forward
Earlier this month, grass roots supporters of presidential hopeful John Edwards took it upon themselves to set up an unofficial headquarters for the South Carolina senator within the virtual world of Second Life.
The news broke a little less than three weeks ago as supporters of the Edwards campaign heralded the move as brilliant strategy to reach out to an entirely new community of voters.
Search Tools Vaulable To Online Retailers
Out of the top online retailers, 91% have improved customer conversion rates, 60% have increased average order value and 100% report year over year increases in customer satisfaction because of their Web site search applications according to a new report "Web Site Search: Revenue in the Results", by Aberdeen.
Blogging a Parasitic Medium?
I kind of missed this one a few days ago, there being so many other things to blog about — YouTube and the BBC being the main one, I think — but Nick Carr’s latest post about bloggers and parasites sparked my interest again. I know that issues from more than two days ago are effectively ancient history as far as the blogosphere is concerned, but indulge me.
Enterprise Web 2.0: Getting To Critical Mass
In an earlier post, I put forth a checklist of things to think about before launching a business-oriented Web 2.0 effort (thanks, everyone). Going to continue that discussion here and get down to some tactics. In particular, going to look at a number of the things that one can do to help get a community on the path to critical mass and, more importantly, ongoing sustainability.
How Rowse Can Convince Internet Marketers to Blog
In today’s post, Darren Rowse at Problogger asks:
“If you had the attention of 400 internet marketers for an hour and were given the brief to talk to them about blogging – where would you take the session?”
It’s a great question, and a great opportunity to lay some important points out on the table. And why should you listen to me? Because I am a professional blog consultant who works with Alliance Software, a company whose clients are almost exclusively high-performance internet marketers. (We’re talking “gun” entrepreneurs running highly-leveraged businesses turning over millions per annum off online sales.) I am therefore in both worlds all the time, and never sure whether to call myself a blog guy or an internet marketing guy!
Apple, Google Ready To Make “New Things”
Rumors of a Mac Tablet spurred a question to Google CEO Eric Schmidt about what his company and Apple may be doing to make that product a reality.
New Music Download Model: 98 Cents, obo
You have to like a business model that is pure supply and demand.
CBS SportsLine Relaunches
CBS SportsLine, an Internet sports media organization and part of CBS Interactive has launched its redesigned Community homepage, providing registered users with more ways to contribute to the site and interact with other members.
The redesigned community enables members to create a "reputation" on the site by contributing to message boards, connecting with other users, taking part in fantasy games and by the overall frequency of their behavior.