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Exclusive: YPG to Buy Dex, SuperMedia
Recognizing that it has all but locked up the SMB market in Canada, Montreal-based Yellow Media (formerly YPG) has begun to focus on the US market in earnest. YPG has made minor and tentative forays into the US in the past but has now decided the time is ripe for a major push to the [...]
April Fools Jokes Abound
The annual tech industry April Fools ritual was in full swing late yesterday when TechCrunch broke the embargo with its early post Google Inadvertently Classifies Google Places As A “Content Farm” And Removes From Search Index. Then, as of about 9:30 Pacific last night, most of the rest of the jokes were on display. Search Engine [...]
Samsung’s ‘True Life Stories’ Pretty Obvious Fakes
Samsung’s new tablets will ultimately succeed — or not — on the strength of their overall design, cost and user experience. But at the company’s splashy on-stage event at CTIA last week the company did itself a major PR disservice by using paid actors to provide supposedly real testimonials about their experiences with the new [...]
Portlandia: Is It Local?
I find this show very funny (mostly) — Is it local?
Jon Stewart Nails Facebook
Yep . . . he captures the contradiction or hypocrisy if you prefer: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c The Anti-Social Network www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog</a> The Daily Show on Facebook
W Meets Zuck: Today’s Nixon-Elvis
George W. Bush was interviewed at Facebook on stage with Mark Zuckerberg. Here’s the video: If this appearance isn’t today’s equivalent of the following classic image I don’t know what is.
Telmetrics-Localeze Offer Potential Solution to Call Tracking ‘Problem’
I’m over my head technically here but Telmetrics and Localeze have potentially developed a solution to the call tracking-ranking problem that Chris Silver Smith and David Mihm in particular have railed against for many months. In a recent post Chris repeats his critique of call tracking online, calling it “poison”: In search engine optimization terms, [...]
We Don’t Need No Stinking Badges
After reading about a new service, OneTrueFan, that encourages people to interact with websites and share content in exchange for badges (with corresponding leaderboard status) I’m thinking that this whole game dynamics phenomenon is starting to run amok or run its course before it ever becomes mainstream. Here’s the TechCrunch summary of the new service: [...]
Hello Ladies . . .
The Old Spice Man campaign has been dissected and discussed to death online. However, it has to be said that it may be the most fabulous viral campaign ever designed. Look at this, now look at your marketing . . . It’s the triumph of ad creative over targeting. Unlike most advertising this has actually [...]
About Greg
Greg Sterling is the founding principal of Sterling Market Intelligence (SMI), a consulting and research firm focused on the Internet's influence on offline consumer purchase behavior.
