Cyber Monday 2009 is a giant success! The results are in, Coremetrics is reporting a 13.7% increase in year over year sales for online retails during Cyber Monday. The average dollar amount spent per online purchase rose to just over $180, up from roughly $130 last year. The number of items purchased per order was [...]
Online retailers are likely getting a huge surge of traffic today as many consumers are avoiding the congestion of the mall by shopping online. Here are the top Trends on Google at 1:52PM CST: Top Google Trends * black friday online deals * cyber monday 2009 * leftover turkey recipes * iron bowl 2009 game [...]
Chase Carey, Deputy Chairman of News Corp, revealed HULU will begin charging for subscriptions as early as 2010. While Carey said that some content would remain free, he explained that a free model of distribution did not do their content justice. I think a subscription based model could work well for HULU. They are capturing [...]
Drew Carey offers a $1 million dollars donation to Lance Armstrong’s LiveStrong Foundation if he can reach 1 million followers on @DrewFromTV by the end of the year. He goes on to say he’ll prorate the donation relative to the number of followers he receives, just incase he doesn’t hit $1 million. Mr Carey was [...]
Oct 072009
Twitter is testing a feature that allows you to group the people you follow into “lists”, then make these lists public. Much like Facebook Groups, but with the twist that the lists and posts will be public and search indexable. Groups/Lists have long been one of the features I have required and most enjoyed while [...]
If you are looking for a quick way to download any YouTube video you need to install the Video DownloadHelper Plugin for Firefox. This plugin allows you to download the video by clicking an icon by the title of the video. No need to navigate away from the video page to grab the flv file. [...]
Aug 022009
Did you know anyone can easily download any YouTube video by adding the word “kiss” to the front of “youtube” in the url? Example: http://www.kissyoutube.com/watch?v=0WGVW7byRCA YouTube has been impressing critics and advertisers with new user friendly features this summer. I hope they continue to focus on developing the social networking aspect of their services. The [...]
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