Articles from Garykim.Denver@Gmail.Com (Gary Kim)

1. Twitter Could be Driving 4 Times More Traffic Than You Think Explore IP Carrier (Jul 14 2011) Twitter might be driving 400 percent more traffic to your content site than you believe, despite what your analytics packages are telling you. Most web publishers measure where their traffic is coming from using an analytics package such as Google Analytics, Omniture or Core Metrics. Read more here.These were good packages in the pre-social media world at helping figure out who was driving your traffic.Today they’re wrong. Terribly wrong, argues venture capitalist ... (Read Full Article)

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2. 2008 was a Mobile Device Inflection Point, Apparently Explore IP Carrier (Jul 14 2011) Marketing It appears as though 2008 was noteworthy in several respects. It was the year the global "Great Recession" hit. It also seems to have been the year for big changes in the global mobile phone business.Notably, it seems to have been the year that the iPhone began to stamp its leadership on the device market. It also seems to have been the year that prior successful feature phone strategies began to unravel.Read more ... (Read Full Article)

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3. Mobile "Payments" are About Integrating Online, Real World Shopping Explore IP Carrier (Jul 14 2011) Marketing "The objective of next generation payment isn’t merely wireless payments," some would argue."As cool as it is, it is not a drastic improvement to the shopping experience." Instead, the broader goal is to integrate and enhance the physical shopping experience with Internet apps and capabilities. Though some think it is a rather trivial development, Groupon and other social shopping apps are more than "coupons delivered a different way."Over the longer term, the ... (Read Full Article)

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4. Streaming Video Could Help Access Providers, Really Explore IP Carrier (Jul 14 2011) Growing bandwidth demand is a genuine "problem" for access providers in one clear sense. If all access providers can sell is best effort, unlimited access, growing access is a problem, as costs grow, but revenues do not. Streaming video is the big driver of bandwidth consumption for most users, which is why everybody is hearing so much talk about the end of "unlimited access."What also is obvious is that the problem actually is an ... (Read Full Article)

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5. Netflix Hikes Prices To Shift Distribution Model Explore IP Carrier (Jul 13 2011) For those of us who can remember Netflix saying that online delivery of movie and other content was coming, but not so soon, and that, in any case, Netflix would adapt, it is a bit startling to see Netflix taking steps to push its customer base towards streaming delivery. Many have noted that the new price plans, for customers who want both unlimited DVD rentals and unlimited streaming, are increasing 60 percent. In fairness, 60 ... (Read Full Article)

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6. Facebook Worth $100 Billion? Explore IP Carrier (Jul 13 2011) Bubbles are fun on the way up; ugly on the way down. Lots of executives are going to grab financing while they can, knowing that in all likelihood a funding "nuclear winter" is coming. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Google   Facebook   Sprint Nextel Corp.

7. State of the Internet 2011 Explore IP Carrier (Jul 13 2011) Marketing If you thought that the Internet was just “really big,” you are sadly mistaken. The Internet is colossal, says Online Schools. This is an entertaining infographic. Created by: Online SchoolsState of the Internet 2011 (Read Full Article)

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8. Sprint Unlimited Strategy Shows One Way "Disruption" Can Play Out Explore IP Carrier (Jul 13 2011) Marketing Facing larger and more powerful competitors, contestants in just about any market will cast about for strategies that allow them to survive, and hopefully narrow the gap with the dominant providers.Attackers frequently employ the "same features, lower price" strategy. It's an easy thing for consumers to understand. Network services providers often try the "get more, pay less" strategy in ways that take advantage of unused capacity (evening hours and weekends for voice, for ... (Read Full Article)

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9. Microsoft's "can't lose" mobile strategy Explore IP Carrier (Jul 13 2011) Business Models , Marketing Microsoft’s deal with Nokia should increase the company's position in the smart phone operating system market. The number of smart phones now being sold with Windows Mobile or the newer Windows Phone 7 is pretty small, perhaps less than five percent of all sales, representing licensing fees of perhaps $10 to $15 license fee per phone. Some argue Microsoft can make more money by licensing other parts of its intellectual property portfolio.Microsoft ... (Read Full Article)

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10. 87% of Google+ Users are Male Explore IP Carrier (Jul 12 2011) (Read Full Article)

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11. Mobile Apps and Network Performance Now are Data Centric Explore IP Carrier (Jul 12 2011) Marketing Text messaging now is the preferred and most-used communications mode for 55 percent of Western European mobile customers polled in May and June 2011 by the Yankee Group. The survey of almost 5,000 European consumers in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom also found that 54 percent preferred voice calls, and used voice on a daily basis. About 27 percent preferred email and 22 percent preferred instant messaging. That is as stark ... (Read Full Article)

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12. Verizon has 33% U.S. iPhone Share Explore IP Carrier (Jul 12 2011) Marketing A little less than five months after Verizon Wireless began selling Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone 4, the carrier has claimed 32 percent of the U.S. iPhone 4 market, according to Localytics. Read more here.While the report noted that AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) still commands 68 percent of the iPhone 4 market, Verizon’s share has been steadily growing since the February launch of the Verizon iPhone, despite Verizon launching the phone ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   AT&T   AT&T Mobility   Localytics

13. Netflix to Restructure Pricing Explore IP Carrier (Jul 12 2011) Marketing Netflix is changing its retail service plans, launching separate "rent DVD" and "streaming" plans. Among the new plans are "DVD only" plans, offering the lowest prices ever for unlimited DVD rentals and priced at $7.99 a month for the "one DVD out at-a-time" plan and $11.99 a month for the "two DVDs out at-a-time" plan.Netflix also is  separating "unlimited DVDs by mail" and "unlimited streaming" plans, allowing users to choose a streaming-only ... (Read Full Article)

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14. Rent Movies, Buy Books on Android Market Explore IP Carrier (Jul 12 2011) Marketing Google has released a new version of Android Market (Android 2.2 and higher) supporting movie rentals and book purchases. In the U.S. market, consumers will be able to rent thousands of movies, starting at $1.99, right from Android Market on their phones, using the "Video" app.Users sign into Android Market with their Google account, and can rent movies from anywhere--the web, Android phone or tablet--and start watching instantly. Users also can ... (Read Full Article)

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15. More than Half of Users 18 to 29 Own Smart Phones Explore IP Carrier (Jul 12 2011) Marketing Smart phone penetration has reached more than half (52 percent) of 18-to-29-year-old U.S. adults, according to a July 2011 study from the Pew Research Center Internet & American Life Project. The study also reveals that 45 percent of 30-to-49-year-olds own smart phones, and this figure then drops by almost half to 24 percent among 50-to-64-year-olds. More than Half of 18-29-Yr-Olds Own Smartphones (Read Full Article)

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16. Google Estimated To Surge Past 10 Million Users Explore IP Carrier (Jul 12 2011) It’s only been two weeks since the launch of Google+ , but already there are “millions” of users, according to chairman Eric Schmidt. Beyond that ballpark figure, Google has not disclosed any user or usage numbers.But Ancestry.com founder Paul Allen has been publishing his own estimates of the growth of Google+. His latest estimate is that Google will surpass 10 million users on July 12, 2011. That estimate is up from 4.5 ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Google   Sprint Nextel Corp.   Eric Schmidt

17. Collaboration Myths Explore IP Carrier (Jul 12 2011) Mobility All those collaboration tools that have been developed over the years may not make your team more effective, Gartner argues. Gartner has said that collaboration initiatives often fail because people hold some basic misconceptions about the collaborative process.Among the myths are the notion that "the right tools will make us collaborative." It really is not about tools. Tools help people do things they want to do. Some organizations might not really "want" to practice ... (Read Full Article)

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18. PayPal Has to be In Retail Payments Explore IP Carrier (Jul 12 2011) PayPal believes that by 2015, digital currency will be accepted everywhere in the United States, from local businesses to large chains. By "digital currency," PayPal means a viable currency alternative to credit cards, debit cards and cash. Already a leader in online payments, PayPal believes the next, and largest opportunity, is retail payments at physical locations. Supporting Payments In The Physical World Is Critical For PayPal (Read Full Article)

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19. Mapping Twitter and Flickr Geo-Location Explore IP Carrier (Jul 12 2011) Geolocation data for Flickr and Twitter posts. Flickr data is shown in orange and Twitter data is displayed in blue. Not every tweet or Flickr post has geo-location data attached, but it is becoming a more-common practice, it seems. Mapping Twitter and Flickr Geo-Location (Read Full Article)

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20. Australian Consumer Attitudes Show Mobile Payments Issues Explore IP Carrier (Jul 11 2011) Marketing A survey conducted by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) confirm one fundamental element of the mobile payments business. People in developed countries do not think they have a compelling need for some convenient, trusted new way to pay for things online or in retail stores. That means mobile payments have to provide new value, rather than simply displacing payment systems that consumers find satisfactory.It also is important, one might add, to demonstrate ... (Read Full Article)

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21. YouTube Launches "Cosmic Panda" Explore IP Carrier (Jul 11 2011) YouTube is launching a beta test of Cosmic Panda, a new format for displaying videos, managing playlists and channels. TestTube experiments: Cosmic Panda. To take this experiment for a test drive go to http://www.youtube.com/cosmicpanda and click “Try it out!”YouTube Cosmic Panda (Read Full Article)

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22. Google+ Fastest-Growing Social Network, Ever? Explore IP Carrier (Jul 11 2011) "I predict that Google will go from 0 to 100,000,000 users faster than any other service in history," says Bill Gross, founder and CEO of Technology Incubator Idealab.Gross thinks Google+ already could be the fastest-growing social network, ever. Bill Gross on Google+ (Read Full Article)

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23. Mobile Execs Move to Banks Explore IP Carrier (Jul 11 2011) Marketing Omar Khan, head of strategy and product management, is joining Citigroup. Khan, who was the head of products and technology for Samsung's U.S. mobile division, will help develop Citigroup's global mobile services. In 2010, Dan Schulman, who previously ran Virgin Mobile, moved to run American Express' mobile business. If you wanted more evidence that the mobile business and banking are "converging" at an important level, both moves are illustrative data points. Samsung ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Samsung   American Express   Sprint Nextel Corp.

24. Why Tech Companies Don't Want to be Called "Media" Companies Explore IP Carrier (Jul 11 2011) Marketing Advertisers and other publishers have pointed out for years now that assembling audiences, and selling advertising against them, makes some significant "technology" companies media businesses. Google, for example, constantly says it is a technology company, not a media company, despite the fact that its revenue stream is overwhelmingly based on advertising revenue. Some might suggest that hesitance to embrace the "media" appellation is more than a cultural issue. One might argue that engineers and software ... (Read Full Article)

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25. Google Launching Huge Data Exchange to Target Ads? Explore IP Carrier (Jul 11 2011) Marketing Google might be just weeks away from unveiling an advertising data exchange that would create a liquid market for the data used to target display advertising, Ad Age reports. Executives familiar with Google's plans have described the initiative as one of the most ambitious in Google's march to become a brand advertising giant.Under the plan, publishers and third-party providers would be able to feed their data into the market and advertisers could ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Google   DoubleClick

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