Facebook is reportedly planning on expanding its staff by up to 50% this year. CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivered this news to Bloomberg, saying the economy has provided a "great environment" for them, because nobody else has been hiring.
Innovation & Ad Spend See Bright Spots in Downturn
Murdok had a very nice discussion with Charles Buchwalter, Senior VP of Research and Analytics at Nielsen Online. He had some quite interesting things to say. For example, he notes that despite the economic downturn, there is plenty of innovation and change happening online.
Some Bright Spots For Ecommerce In January
January was a month of casual browsing, with limited purchases at online retailers, according to a report from marketing firm Coremetrics.
The number of online sessions in which consumers browsed a Web site, viewing at least one product page, stayed largely flat compared to December 2008. The number of sessions in which consumers actually completed an order was down 21 percent.
A Bright Future for UK Podcasting
A tremendous success – that’s my judgment of PodcastCon UK which took place in London on Saturday.
My Three Suns: New Planet Thrice as Bright
Don’t let the sun go down on meokay, don’t let the next sun go down on me, yeah. Um, a third one? This song’s not going to work, and neither is the reigning theory on planet formation.
Future of Online Content is Bright
Could it be that in the future, only poor people will read magazines? Don’t laugh. It will happen.
Setting the Record Straight – Five reasons the future is bright for CRM
As I enter my 19th year in the CRM industry, I can safely say that I’ve gotten some perspective on what is real and what is fluff. This perspective has confirmed for me that for five key reasons, the CRM industry is indeed headed in a very healthy direction.
Bright Planet, Deep Web
www.allwatchers.com and www.allreaders.com are web sites in the sense that a file is downloaded to the user’s browser when he or she surfs to these addresses. But that’s where the similarity ends. These web pages are front-ends, gates to underlying databases. The databases contain records regarding the plots, themes, characters and other features of, respectively, movies and books.