Best Web Publicity? Go the Content Route
Launching a new product? A new book? Or a new product? If it’s mass consumer-related, you might want to take a leaf…
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Launching a new product? A new book? Or a new product? If it’s mass consumer-related, you might want to take a leaf…
People who are trying to sell a house might make all sorts of small upgrades as they attempt to offload the property. And Automattic made the “small upgrade” of acquiring Gravatar just two weeks ago. Automattic’s owners apparently aren’t looking to sell, though - a report indicates that they turned down a $200 million acquisition offer.
If you have content on a website, all it takes to make that content an embeddable widget is a little bit of code, which Clearspring happens to have available for free.
So what if the real estate market is tanking? I think that’s much more interesting to read about than a break-even or everybody-gets-rich scenario, and some investors may feel the same way; Curbed.com, a blog that covers real estate, just received $1.5 million in funding.
We’ve been speculating on this for some time, but now the really big dogs in the media have picked up on it.
Like Google and Yahoo before it, eBay is eyeing Asia and the best ways to succeed in that region. And although eBay is focusing on a slightly different group of countries, it, like Google, intends to concentrate on the mobile market.