As I’ve reported in past, SNS services are really hot in Japan. While mixi went public with more than 7mil members, and Softbank to offer Japanese version of MySpace, there’s a new trend in SNS market in Japan. At nanoty.jp, … Read More
“.jp” domain debuted in February 2001. With more than 500,000 domain registered, now there are more “xxx.jp” registered than other form of JP domains such as “xxx.co.jp” and “xxx.ne.jp”. The total number of registered JP domain is 866.495 (as of … Read More
Forrester Research has released a study on Telecom and networking expenditure. The results show that European firms are now spending 32% of their total expenditure. Mobility is reported to be a strategic element providing increased productivity, cost savings, and higher … Read More
Baidu Inc. (Nasdaq: BIDU), the leading Chinese-language search engine and eBay EachNet, the Chinese arm of the online auction company Ebay, announced a multi-year agreement to cooperate in advertising, on-line payment and a co-branded toolbar. According to the agreement, Baidu … Read More
The Italian National Institue of Statistics, Istat, has issued an update on PC and Internet Usage of Italian Population for the current year: 41,4% uses a PC (was 40% in 2005) 34,1% of population over 6 uses Internet (was 31,8% … Read More
Sesam.se is a new search engine in Sweden that is launched by Schibstedt. Interrestingly enough they are trying to go up against Google and MSN to become the best local search engine. Their strategy is to work more with pics … Read More
Jupiter Research, released a report on the European Online Advertising Forecast, 2006 to 2011. The executive summary presented by eMarketer provides an insight on the European online expenditure future trends. Europeans are buying more online. Predictions by Internet Retailer see … Read More
Jupiter Research, released a report on the European Online Advertising Forecast, 2006 to 2011. The executive summary presented by emarketer provides an insight on the European online expenditure future trends. Europeans are buying more online. Predictions by Internet Retailer see … Read More
Jupiter Research, released a report on the European Online Advertising Forecast, 2006 to 2011. The executive summary presented by emarketer provides an insight on the European online expenditure future trends. Europeans are buying more online. Predictions by Internet Retailer see … Read More
Orkut is no big deal for anyone than brazilians: we account for 62% of Google’s social network. Now Google integrated GTalk with Orkut and you can know and reach all of your friends when they’re online. It will definetly boost … Read More
The Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference and Expo 2006 just finished with great success not only was there a sell-out for the conference but also for the Expo. RIMC got nearly 300 guests for the conference or about 0,1%* of the … Read More
Rambler [LSE: RMG] has changed ownership this week in a rather dramatic share buy out. Having just sold their TV business ‘Rambler TV’ to Osgora Productions Ltd, a 100% subsidiary of Prof-Media, for US$23m it seems that Prof-Media has come … Read More
The second day of the conference opened with presentations (one of which by myself) on Web 2.0. My presentation can be downloaded here. Pay per Click and analytics were reviewed in depth during the following sessions and followed by multilingual … Read More
The Reykjavik internet search engine conference and expo has turned out to be an outstanding success. All sessions of today were attended by numerous participants. This afternoon sessions were focused on web marketing related issues and online brand building as … Read More
The conference opened this morning with a very interesting keynote presentation by Chris Sherman on the history of the Internet and the evolution of search. Web 2.0, vertical creep, new content formats were the topics identified by Chris in his … Read More
