Review of the Internet news of the Day
From news on the market fall, technologies that can change the world (at least their market), why gamers matter, to an opinion about whether designers are or not Marketers, a discussion with Youtube co-founder, a post on why relationships are core to marketing, and 6 business books you should read. Here are the links:
Must Read Analysis: Why Markets Are Still Falling . . . The Shadow Financial Systems: I’m fortunate to be a member of the ACTA Open, which provides great analysis of today’s complex financial markets. Here is an excellent analysis by DK Matai, chairman of the ATCA Open. (I’m reprinting it because it is a member only organization - see description at end - but the information should be more widely distributed, imho.)… Read more on Silicon Valley Watcher.
5 Early Recommendation Technologies That Could Shake Up Their Niches: International recommendation technology provider Strands has announced the five finalists in the Strands $100K Call for Recommender Start-Ups. From music to video to pharmaceutical drug development recommendations, these plucky startups from all around the world will now present at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Recommender Systems 2008 conference in Switzerland and one will be offered a $100k investment from Strands… Read more on ReadWriteWeb.
Are Designers also Marketers?: Kathy Sierra says we’re all marketers: “In this new open-source/cluetrain world, I am a marketer. And so are you. If you’re interested in creating passionate users, or keeping your job, or breathing life into a startup, or getting others to contribute to your open source project, or getting your significant other to agree to the vacation you want to go on… congratulations. You’re in marketing.” … Read more on Bokardo.
Study: Gamers Social, Influential, Moneyed: Gamers aren’t lazy loners after all, contradicting long-held stereotype, new research reveals. In fact, they’re more likely than non-gamers to influence their friends on pop culture and technology buys, IGN Entertainment and Ipsos Media CT found in their study, called “Are You Game?”The study found that 37% of gamers said friends and family relied upon them to stay up-to-date about movies, TV shows and the latest entertainment news, compared to only 22% for non-gamers… Read more on Adotas.
YouTube Founder Compares Online Video To Nascent TV Market: YouTube Cofounder Chad Hurley spoke at the MIPCOM Conference in Cannes, France yesterday. In the talk, which is transcribed below, Hurley compares the current state of online video to the nascent years of television. In 1941, he says, “CBS has just launched its new television network amidst cries that it means the death of radio.” Advertisers were hard to come by. Content owners were afraid of alienating their existing audiences… Read more on TechCrunch.
Relationships, The Most Important Thing in Marketing: First of all, exciting news. I was selected to contribute to Online Marketing Connect, which is a site for marketing experts to share their ideas and knowledge. As the site puts it: “Online marketing for marketers is a new destination that brings together the very best minds in marketing to contribute news, ideas, strategies, commentary, insights, research and more.”… Read more on Jacob Morgan’s blog.
6 Brilliant Business Books That Are Highly Underrated: Not all of the best business books make it to the best-seller’s list. There are gems that have sold a little (and some that have sold a lot more) that never make it to any list… until now. Last week, the Six Pixels of Separation Blog post, Books You Need To Read To Succeed In Business, garnered a bunch of great comments and suggestions for business books you must read to be successful… Read more on Six Pixels of Separation Blog.
jacob morgan | October 16th, 2008 at 3:26 pm #
thanks for siting me here, glad you found the post informative and valuable enough to share with your readers, it has definitely received a good amount of attention.
thanks!
Jacob