Amazon’s New Marketplace for Used Goods
New Amazon Marketplace: “List your used and collectible book, music, DVD, video, or console-based video game on the page where Amazon.com sells that item new. There is no finer real… Read more »
Category: business models
Yahoo! Wants to Bill You
Here’s my first post at Traffick. Apparently I can mimic sanity enough that I convinced Andrew Goodman to give me posting and publishing rights (Blogger doesn’t differentiate).
Clay Shirky on The BMG/Napster deal
Clay Shirky: “As the BMG deal reverberates through the industry, though, it will become apparent that those Napster users were really just agitating for better prices. In unleashing these economic… Read more »
The anti-Napster Backlash Backlash
Here’s my own backlash to Charles Cooper’s article.
Themestream
Themestream – by the time you have to bribe contributors with a $50,000 giveaway to get them to join you, it might be a little too late to recruit anyone that… Read more »
Freedrive, SmartBargain instant meta analysis
What these two have in common is alignment with big players before they get the big funding round. SmartBargains knows where to buy (Gordon Brothers Group) and sell (AOL), while… Read more »
SmartBargains, a B2C firm, gets big funding
“SmartBargains, an online shopping site that features discounted brand name merchandise, said it secured $33 million in its first round of funding, led by Highland Capital Partners. Other investors include… Read more »
Are Portals Passe?
I love the ASP/infrastructure story: “we’ll sell our technology to other sites rather than be a destination site.” If end users are not interested, then why would a third party… Read more »
Keeping Track of Website ‘Concepts’
I wanted to post an idea on a new idea marketplace but the submission process uses a stupid screening system and the link to go to manual submission is broken…. Read more »