Whatever you want to call it, eCommerce online is due for an upgrade. Marketplaces such as eBay created an easy place for people to trade and PayPal made it easy for merchants to accept payment and for consumers to pay each other. Yahoo Stores allowed any small business to setup a website and trade online. [...]
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Web 2.0 – Beyond the Hype
I’m at the Nomadic Marketing course at UCT, and Mike Stopforth’s from Cerebra is doing a talk on Web 2.0 – “Beyond the Hype”. Mike starts off with a story about how Dell was “giving” away free laptops with their broken e-Commerce platform. This was a good example of how the news spread through the [...]
Incubators that incubate Incubators
Firstly, this post has nothing to do with incuBeta (which actually isn’t an Incubator!). I got this email from Nick Zaharias, brother of a friend of mine, Chris Zaharias. I had a good laugh, and hope you will too! I don’t think we’re in a bubble, mainly because the Web 2.0 companies out there are [...]
Web 1.0 De Ja Vu
Web 2.0 is merely next generation Web 1.0 (duh!). Isn’t it strange how many Web 1.0 business models are resurfacing and calling themselves Web 2.0! Many of the social networks today, are successors to websites from the Web 1.0 era. Cnet covers the Top 5 Dot Bombs of the late 90′s boom. It’s scary to [...]
AOL Only Adwords – Marketplace & Revenue Impact
So, if you haven’t heard by now, AOL is receiving their own version of Google Adwords (Private Label deal). I’m not going to rehash the background and deal info, referenced at SearchEngineLand, but instead, I’ll try to explain what I see the market impact as being. I’ve long argued the point that we should be [...]
Vinny Lingham is an International Award winning Entrepreneur & Search Engine Marketer. He is currently CEO of Free Website maker, Yola.