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A recent ad in the Washington Post takes aim at the Monster.com’s of the Internet who have taken away ad revenue from job classified ads (a cash cow for newspapers in the past). The ad copy reads "The average job listing in The Post is 2 days old. The average job listing online is 2 … Read more
Between 5 to 7 years ago, domain name registration was hot as a get-rich-quick scheme. People were registering large groups of domain names, random acronyms, common words, brand names, and anything else they could think of in the hopes that a large organization would come along, need the domain name and pay thousands or even … Read more
There is a part of the Internet that is closed to public eyes, available only to subscribers and registered site users — the "deep web." Media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal have made moves toward a new revenue model recently by placing content behind subscriber-only barriers, a move that a recent Technorati report … Read more
Here’s an interesting thought: advertisers and publishers working together to feature the most relevant ads to the user rather than focusing on the spiraling cost curve to drive internet advertising. Wouldn’t that result in a dramatic decrease in the us-versus-them mentality plaguing all facets of the advertising industry in connecting with customers? The gang at … Read more
I tried out Grokker today, the latest release from Yahoo! offering a "visual search" tool that groups search results contextually into circular clusters. Despite a somewhat clunky visual interface with some strange mouseover behaviours, it definitely has promise for giving users a more intuitive way to use online search more powerfully to hone in on … Read more
Apparently online real estate spending is set to more than double in 2005 to more than $1.8 billion dollars or approximately one in every six online ad dollars. Thank god. As anyone who has recently searched for real estate in any of the booming markets across the US will tell you, it’s not fun. The … Read more
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Rohit Bhargava is a trend curator, founder of the Non-Obvious Company and the 3-time Wall Street Journal bestselling author of ten books.
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