It was widely reported that Best Buy was sitting on over 200,000 TouchPads before HP enacted their drastic price cut, but the fire sale has come and gone, and that would normally be that. Instead, a notice in Best Buy’s Employee Toolkit system shows that their contentious relationship with the TouchPad may not be...
About a month ago, Tom Anderson (or Myspace Tom, if you prefer) wrote a post on his new favorite social network, Google+, offering a few bits of advice for Twitter. While many of us enjoy a good Twittering now and again, Anderson pointed out that there are a few simple features Twitter might consider...
On the 25th of April Facebook’s discount shopping platform Facebook Deals was unveiled and I belligerently declared Groupon as good as toast. Today Facebook announced that it will soon shutter its Facebook Deals product. (“Facebook Deals Launches Tonight Groupon Doesn’t Stand a Chance“) There were so many reasons Facebook would win, I thought: it...
By far the biggest news this week is Steve Jobs’ resignation as CEO of Apple. Long one of the most fascinating and enigmatic technology leaders, Jobs’ resignation had us ruminating on the things to learn from his leadership, what entrepreneurs should disregard, and just how large of an impact this detail oriented CEO had...
A screenshot from GigaOM’s video demo of Inkling 2.0 This week, digital publishing startup Inkling debuted the 2.0 version of its software, which provides interactive, digital versions of college textbooks for the iPad. The San Francisco-based startup is just down the street from GigaOM’s office, so I headed on over to Inkling headquarters on...
Exactly what will end up being the very final, last word on the subject of Mozilla Firefox’s expedited release system, may yet be seen. Yesterday, however, the Mozilla Foundation’s chairperson, Mitchell Baker, weighed in with what appears to be an attempt at finality, albeit a dualistic one. On the one hand, Baker wrote, Firefox...
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Recommendations are a big deal in the online economy. On YouTube, video recommendations account for about 30% of all views. Some have speculated that up to 35% of Amazon’s sales are driven by recommendations. And at Netflix, a full 60% of all video rentals are driven by Netflix’s recommendation engine. Clearly, if you get...
After quietly announcing they were killing off their nascent Deals product this afternoon, Facebook caused some confusion. You see, with the decision to kill off Facebook Places earlier in the week, everyone wondered what it meant for the location-based deals they launched alongside it? Those would remain alive, Facebook said at the time. But...
Facebook’s big bid to take on Groupon and other deal sites is coming to an end, at least for now. The company said in a statement to Reuters that it is killing Deals in the coming weeks after four months of testing. “We think there is a lot of power in a social approach...