Thursday, June 16, 2011
Cloud Wars with Google, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft - 10 Minute Strategy
Who is winning the battle for cloud services? As Google starts shipping its Chromebook nothing-but-Web notebook computers and Apple and Amazon introduce their own cloud products, it's raining opportunity for companies that know how to sync in to cloud-based content and services. Shore Communications Inc.'s Peter Propp and John Blossom discuss the latest events.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Wearable Tech on 10MinuteStrategy
Fun interview today with Nancy Thuvanuti from RedLight PR. Nancy gives a demo of wearable technology from HoodieBuddie -- jackets and hoodie with MP3 Connectors and Ear Buds built in. You can wear the Hoodie Buddie for a run in the rain, listen to your favorite music, and then wash the hoodie when you are done. Just make sure you hang-dry the hoodie and the headphones will keep on working. And the Hoodie Buddie is only $44!
Nancy also shows us a couple of fun products from the Paul Frank design house, an iPhone case and a iPhone speaker set the features the familiar Paul Frank monkey. (Here's some learning: the monkey's name is Julius)
Now go get yourself a hoodie, buddy!
Nancy also shows us a couple of fun products from the Paul Frank design house, an iPhone case and a iPhone speaker set the features the familiar Paul Frank monkey. (Here's some learning: the monkey's name is Julius)
Now go get yourself a hoodie, buddy!
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Zemanta -- A Blogger's Best Friend
Image via CrunchBase 10MinuteStrategy is happy to present this interesting interview with Zemanta CEO Bostjan Spetic. Zemanta’s mission is to improve the content on blogs, or better yet to help bloggers improve their content.
While traditional publications have significant staff to allow them to select good stories and edit content efficiently for maximum quality, bloggers are left alone to produce a media property. What Zemanta does is read over the blogger’s shoulder and suggest fur
ther content for research or for links that will make the blog more find-able by search engines.
ther content for research or for links that will make the blog more find-able by search engines.
Image via CrunchBaseZemanta will also suggest blog topics if you are in need of inspiration. And you can use it in your Gmail as well if you want to spice up your e-mail.Zemanta is a product we use on the 10MinuteStrategy.com blog and it allows us to make sure our content is easy to find. Zemanta
Image via Wikipediais funded by Union Square Partners among others and recently received what they say is their last round of funding. They expect to be profitable by the end of 2011.
Image via Wikipediais funded by Union Square Partners among others and recently received what they say is their last round of funding. They expect to be profitable by the end of 2011.The company has two revenue models – licensing technology to professional media companies like Forbes.com, and click revenue from the blogs of the general blogging community.
Zemanta shares revenue with WordPress.com, Zemanta’s biggest partner and are working on additional deals.
Size of blogging community, according to Bostjan
Nielsen – 150M Bloggers
E-Marketer – 50M Bloggers
Bostjan – certain there are more than 10M Bloggers writing in English.
Zemanta penetration among bloggers is strong – only blogging tools company to have partnerships with all major blogging platforms, WordPress, Blogger, SixApart, Saymedia. 100K Bloggers using Zemanta today. Very active, but only 1% of the 10M US Blogging community.
Zemanta is helping bloggers and publishers create meaningful content quickly and efficiently and helping consumers find content that they might not otherwise find.
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