Posted on February 25th, 2008 by Raj Gajwani
The IAB and PwC have announced the results of their annual study on Internet advertising.
Their conclusion: the online ad market grew to $21.1 billion in 2007. That’s a 25% growth rate over 2006.
The press will soon begin their eager speculation about whether 25% growth is a high number or a low number. [...]
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Posted on February 25th, 2008 by Raj Gajwani
Several readers left thoughtful comments about my recent post, Flash for the iPhone? It’s Apple vs. Microsoft all over again…
Ird writes: Steve Jobs has no intentions of supporting Flash; especially on the iphone. Apple’s pushing the H.264 open standard and will stick to its guns because Apple want to use it this standard for AppleTV, [...]
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Posted on February 25th, 2008 by Raj Gajwani
I know this sounds far-fetched, like something out of a William Gibson novel. But I swear I’m not making this up:
Pakistan didn’t like something on YouTube.
So they tried [...]
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Posted on February 21st, 2008 by Raj Gajwani
There’s a lot of speculation about whether Apple will soon offer Flash support on the iPhone. Insider rumors say yes (cf. Dan Rayburn at Streaming Media), published news reports say not-so-fast (cf. the Wall Street Journal, quoting an Adobe spokesman).
Why is this important? Because the iPhone is not just a smartphone. It’s Apple’s opportunity [...]
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Posted on February 20th, 2008 by Raj Gajwani
The Pew Internet & American Life Project has released a new report about Americans’ online shopping habits. In the study, the Pew Research Center highlights some interesting survey results:
More than half of internet users encounter frustrations and other frictions in the course of online shopping. 58% of Internet users say they’ve been frustrated, [...]
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Posted on February 19th, 2008 by Raj Gajwani
Google is launching a new initiative (very very quietly): they’re adding video ads to Google’s own search result pages.
This doesn’t come as a surprise; if anything, it’s way overdue. Google introduced Video AdWords back in mid-2006 but confined them to its “content network”. This week’s news indicates that Google is now going to [...]
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Posted on February 4th, 2008 by Echo
Dear readers and friends, a quick announcement:
Our CEO, Raj Gajwani, was interviewed by Practical eCommerce’s Pat Callahan for their “eCommerce Conversations” podcast. Raj spoke with Pat about why more and more retailers are using online video to merchandise products. Check out the podcast at Practical eCommerce (or search for it on iTunes).
The folks [...]
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