Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo told investors that company would like to act “more like an internet company” than a “traditional manufacturer”. Translation - we have a Google Strategy and an iPhone Strategy.

The company has been on a buying bing very much like AOL has been. However instead of buying into new markets like AOL, the company has been making acquisitions that extend its core products in new markets.
Google StrategyNokia has More»

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Brightcove, the much touted internet TV company headed by Jeremy Allaire is shutting down. Users were informed via email that Brightcove.TV will no longer be accepting direct consumer uploads after December 17, 2007. The company had BIG dreams of becoming the next YouTube and competing with YouTube. The company had raised US$80 million.
Here are some important pointers for entrepreneurs, partners, and investors alike:
1) Web start-ups should embrace openness. Successful web companies disrupt and bring efficiency to a market. To do so you have to become immune to the rules and limitations of the old market being disrupted. Brightcove More»

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Mashable is reporting that Intuit, the company behind QuickBooks, Quicken and TurboTax software, has acquired Homestead Technologies for about $170 million. Homestead offers website creation tools and other e-commerce and marketing products made for online use, the combination of Intuit and Homestead will present opportunities for Homestead’s technologies to be used for small businesses both internally and with direct interaction with customers.
The plan is to basically offer a suite of solutions for companies looking for an integrated option to extend their businesses into the online sector, reach out to customers and retain More»

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Traditional Web Marketing needs to evolve, and this post intends to kick start the next generation.
What’s a corporate web site?It’s the domain they use after every advertisement where you can learn more about a company, ya know it, anycompany.com.
But we’re tired of the corporate website and all it’s happy marketing speak, stock photos of smart looking dudes or minority women crowded around the computer raving about your product, the positive press release, the happy customer testimonials, the row of executive portraits, the donations your corporate made to disaster relief, the one-sided More»

Labels: design, Internet Marketing, marketing 2.0, social media, web 2.0, web marketing, web strategy