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Defeating Feature Fatigue
The Idea in Brief Are you adding features upon features to your products to boost revenues? If so, you're probably endangering your brands--and your customer relationships. Why? Consumers think they want feature-loaded offerings when they're shopping....
Tags: Debora Viana Thompson, Roland T. Rust, features, product development, Sales, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Feature, Customer, Product, Rebecca W. Hamilton, Harvard Business Review, In Brief
Articles 2007-12-14
Babelgum Scaling Down By Closing HQ, Italian Office
Is billionaire investor Silvio Scaglia‘s inclination to keep bankrolling Babelgum running out? The video service is shutting its Dublin HQ and Nice office, paidContent:UK has learned and confirmed.We also heard its New York operation is being wound down, but the company says the office there will stay open. Operations...
Tags: Microsoft Office, Milan, Office, Babelgum, Corporate Communications, Peer To Peer (P2P), Desktops, Digital Media, Marketing, Internet, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Features, Exclusive, Companies, Robert Andrews
External links 2009-11-20
paidContent Quick Hits 11.20.09
»  Five ex-Googlers are putting working full time on what they hope will be the next big thing, Brizzly. [LA Times]»  Hoping to be the Canadian Pandora, Listen.fm buys up the remnants of Streamzy. [TechCrunch]»  What Walt Disney’s management style can teach the news industry about succeeding in a...
Tags: Intel Corp., Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Features, Quick Hits, Alex Ferreyra
External links 2009-11-20
paidContent Quick Hits: 10.16.09
»  A profile of Hulu that looks at whether it can save traditional TV. [Fast Company]»  Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson says the idea that VCs “need to own” 20% to 30% of a company they’re funding is “baloney.” [A VC]»  Australian Broadcasting Company’s managing director Mark Scott takes...
Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Web Site Development, TVs, Search, Web Technology, Tv & Home Theater, Channel Management, Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Features, Quick Hits, Alex Ferreyra
External links 2009-10-16
paidContent Quick Hits: 10.19.09
»  How BusinessWeek’s ad-sales team can help Bloomberg LP reach new markets. [AdAge]»  Friendster is planning to add virtual currencies. [ISG]»  Why sports aggregators seem to have a better relationship with the sites whose content they aggregate than news aggregators do with their content sources. [Slate]»  An early peek...
Tags: Google Inc., Online Advertising, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Features, Quick Hits, Alex Ferreyra
External links 2009-10-19
Home Improvement Social Net BeJane Acquired By Builder Homesite
Yesterday we mentioned that BeJane, the home improvement social network based in Burbank, CA, was acquired by an unnamed buyer. Today we know the name: Austin, TX-based Builder Homesite, the national homebuilder listing company, with sites such as newhomesource.com. BHI was formed in 2000 as a consortium of 36...
Tags: Home Improvement, Emergency Fund, Real Estate, Business Operations, Features, Exclusive, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, Rafat Ali
External links 2009-10-20
Click Fix: How Digital Advertising Can Get Its Game Back
Jim Spanfeller is the outgoing president and CEO of Forbes.com. He is also treasurer of the Online Publishers Association and chairman emeritus of the Interactive Advertising Bureau.Get clicks or build brand? That question, long a hot topic within the online-media community, has taken on new urgency recently with the...
Tags: Game, Advertisement, Brand, Jim Spanfeller, Upside, Advertising, Features, Leading Voices, Media & Publishing, Research & Metrics
External links 2009-10-20
paidContent Quick Hits: 10.20.09
»  What book publishers can learn from the new crop of online gaming companies. [Publishing Perspectives]»  Who deserves more of the credit for shaping the Twitter experience—the creators or the users?  [Wired]»  Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is replacing its free Silverlight Streaming service with a paid, Azure-hosted service. [ZDNET]»  The...
Tags: Technorati, Amazon.com Inc., Internet, Blogging, Games, Personal Technology, Features, Quick Hits, Alex Ferreyra
External links 2009-10-20
paidContent Quick Hits: 10.21.09
»  Windows 7 has beaten Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows as the top-grossing, pre-selling title on Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) UK. [TGDaily]»  New York Times executive editor Bill Keller is trying to consume his company’s content in as many formats as possible. [Nieman Journalism Lab]»  Bing is close to...
Tags: Google Inc., Twitter Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Product Development, Microsoft Windows 7, TVs, Search, Research & Development, Business Operations, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Features, Quick Hits, Alex Ferreyra
External links 2009-10-21
Why Steve Jobs Could Be A Savior For Media Companies
Arnon Mishkin is a partner with Mitchell Madison Group, where he consults for media companies on improving legacy businesses as well as making the internet profitable. Prior to MMG, he was a partner at the Boston Consulting Group, where he did some of the firm’s earliest work on the...
Tags: Media Company, Steve Jobs, Web, Content Company, WINS, Apple Inc., App, Arnon Mishkin, Tablets, Advertising & Promotion, Channel Management, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Marketing, Features, Leading Voices, Media & Publishing, Books, eReaders, Companies, Apple, iPhone
External links 2009-10-22
paidContent Quick Hits: 10.22.09
»  Verizon (NYSE: VZ) CEO Ivan Seidenberg says Net Neutrality could hinder the economic growth potential of the internet. [CNET]»  MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta tells the FT that the social network is done competing with Facebook. [FT.com]»  Will there be a Blu-Ray Xbox add-on? Steve Ballmer thinks so....
Tags: CEO, Internet, Social Networking, Blogging, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Features, Quick Hits, Alex Ferreyra
External links 2009-10-22
paidContent Quick Hits: 10.23.09
»  Eric Schmidt says the rise of Chinese as the dominant language, and amazingly fast internet speeds will be the main stories over the next five years. [Yahoo]»  Schmidt also believes interns are a growth business—he has given an undisclosed sum to start-up InternInc. [VentureBeat]»  Newsday, which this week...
Tags: Eric Schmidt, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Internet, Federal Government, Pricing, Government, Marketing, Features, Quick Hits, Alex Ferreyra
External links 2009-10-23
Inside Word: What The Netflix Prize Says About The Shortfalls Of Ad Targeting
The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies.Blogger: Andrew ChenPosition: A self-described entrepreneur-out-of residence, Chen is a former entrepreneur-in-residence at early-stage VC firm Mohr Davidow Ventures and was a director of product marketing...
Tags: NetFlix Inc., Advertisement, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Venture Capital, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Finance, Financing Startups, Advertising, Features, Inside Word, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-10-23
paidContent Quick Hits 10.26.09
»  NYT’s Bill Keller may have let slip that his paper is working on content for the new Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) tablet. [Gawker]»  What can giant corporate mergers like Time-Warner/AOL (NYSE: TWX) tell us about what to expect if Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) goes ahead with NBCU? [NY Times]»  NBC...
Tags: Apple Inc., Tablets, Mergers & Acquisitions, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Investment, Finance, Features, Quick Hits, Alex Ferreyra
External links 2009-10-26
paidContent Quick Hits: 10.15.09
»  Analyzing what the internet has done good and bad to the publishing and news industries. [McKinsey & Company]»  The U.S. military is creating its online media presence via its own stable of branded outlets, including TV channels and social-media sites. [Web Ink Now]»  Samsung will be offering Blockbuster...
Tags: Wall Street Journal, Amazon.com Inc., Online Media, Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Features, Quick Hits, Alex Ferreyra
External links 2009-10-15
Why E-Reader Adoption Will Be Slower Than People Think
Jack McKeown co-founded and was CEO of Perseus Books Group. He is now director of business development for Verso Digital, a vertical ad network for book publishers, and president of Conemarra Partners, a media consultancy. As the world’s book publishers gather for this week’s annual Frankfurt Book Fair, the...
Tags: E-reader, Features, Leading Voices, Media & Publishing, Books, eReaders, Jack McKeown
External links 2009-10-15
Will Hyperlocal Ever Scale? One Entrepreneur's Story
Justin Carder is the VP of business development for Instivate, maker of the Neighborlogs publishing system for local news sites, and is also the founder and owner of the Seattle neighborhood blog CapitolHillSeattle.com. Previously, he worked for MSNBC, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Marchex. He’s reachable at justin@instivate.com.Stuffed in a...
Tags: Advertisement, Site, Helicopter, Seattle, Justin Carder, News Site, Advertising, Local, Features, Leading Voices, Media & Publishing, Online News
External links 2009-10-06
paidContent Quick Hits: 10.6.09
»  First there were ISPs, then aggregators. Now lots of people are mining social media for new content. [Nielsen]»  Google (NSDQ: GOOG) acknowledges that Gmail has been targeted in a “industry-wide phishing scheme.” [BBC]»  Scripps properties like HGTV and the Food Network will syndicate their video on how-to-video site...
Tags: Google Inc., Video, Corporate Communications, Phishing, Portals, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), E-mail Providers, Marketing, Security, Spam And Phishing, Internet, Features, Quick Hits, Alex Ferreyra
External links 2009-10-06
paidContent Quick Hits: 10.7.09
»  Has the curiosity surrounding Bing worn off? [Marketing Pilgrim]»  Facebook is playing around with new layouts. [The Next Web]»  Hedge fund manager Thane Ritchie wants a bankruptcy court to reopen bidding for the Chicago Sun-Times another 30 days. [Reuters, Earlier: paidContent]»  Condé Nast finally begins its web push....
Tags: Cloud Computing, Phishing, Virtualization, E-mail Providers, Security, Spam And Phishing, Hardware, Internet, Features, Quick Hits, Alex Ferreyra
External links 2009-10-07
mocoNews Quick Hits 10.08.09
»  With the iPhone-Android battle stealing most of Windows Mobile’s thunder, it makes sense for Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) to buy RIM (NSDQ: RIMM). [TeleCompetitor]»  The upgrades to Google’s search page are now available on its mobile version. [Search Engine Journal]»  Although AT&T (NYSE: T) has been bending on some...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Wireless, Smart Phones, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Features, Quick Hits, Alex Ferreyra
External links 2009-10-08
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