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Entries from February 2006

Amazon Acquires Fashion Apparel Site

February 28th, 2006 · No Comments

In a move that underscores the growing importance of apparel as an online retail category, Amazon.com said it would buy Shopbop.com, a site specializing in designer clothing and accessories.
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Tags: Amazon · Marketing · Web 2.0

edgeio is Live

February 27th, 2006 · No Comments

Post your classifieds using your own blog tool, popular tools are Blogger,MoveableType or Wordpress.edgeio has listed some simple steps to post a classified Advt in your Blog.
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Tags: Web 2.0

Long Tail

February 26th, 2006 · No Comments

Two websites to help you understand Long Tail
Retail takes it up the tail (the Long Tail)
Changethis, LongTail
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Weekend Reading

February 24th, 2006 · No Comments

Quick Links:
Tag Sale,
The Groundbreakers
business20,
cnnmoney
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YouAreTV

February 23rd, 2006 · No Comments

YouAreTV a online video portal for finding video that you really care and for video creators a site where you can put your video and share.
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Tags: Web 2.0

Phanfare

February 22nd, 2006 · No Comments

Phanfare is a subscription based website for creating online photo albums. Phanfare’s combines a full featured pc application for organizing photos with a online photo sharing service to provide significantly better workflow than can be achieved with a purely web-based system. Phanfare features include RSS feeds, integration with address book and support for mobile photos.
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Tags: Web 2.0

RFID TAGS in NASCAR

February 21st, 2006 · 1 Comment

RFID Tags Embedded in Daytona 500 Tires
Vroom. NASCAR and Goodyear have teamed up to mark all Goodyear Eagle tires with RFID tags. Pit crews, and potentially score-keepers, can read the tags as the cars come around the track or take pit stops. In the ultimate in PR-douchery, however, we get this sort of explanation from […]

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Tags: Web 2.0

Media 2.0

February 20th, 2006 · No Comments

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Yahoo! Drafts MLB Star Gwynn for Original Content Push
Teens at risk:MySpace 
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Rumor: Amazon to launch digital music service

February 18th, 2006 · No Comments

A New York Times story cited music industry executives as negotiating with Seattle-based Amazon on content, customized MP3 players, and an online music store to compete with Apple’s popular iPod and iTunes online store.
Amazon.com mute on rumored plans to challenge Apple’s iPod
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Mobile Network in a Box

February 17th, 2006 · No Comments

At 3GSM World Congress Alvarion showed what it calls a network in a box — a complete network containing a mobile switching center, a base station controller and a base transceiver station which it says is the world’s tiniest complete GSM network.
“Our smallest box can be lifted up by one person,” says Gilad Peleg, Alvarion’s […]

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Tags: Mobile