Archive for September, 2007
Sunday · Popularity: 8% · acquisition, channel advisor, marketing
This is an update to the acquisition of Marketworks by ChannelAdvisor that I posted earlier. I have posted what I have found to be some bullet points of information on the Marketworks acquisition. These were various sources written about the acquisition that I have compiled and some other thoughts about the merger.
- ChannelAdvisor will cut Marketworks staff by about 50%
- Most all changes seems to be geared at the Marketworks customers, nothing I could find on existing Channel Advisor’s customers having to change anything
- Not many details known about future implications, most everyone online is quoting the original press release
- Sounds like ChannelAdvisor will keep both channels functioning independently for a time, then move everyone over to the Channel Advisor side
- There are implications about this happening because of a slow down on ebay, and that Marketworks was not a well run company
- Found MANY posts that were totally unhappy with Marketworks product line and features
- Infopia and Zoovy may have to change tactics because of this move
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Sunday · Popularity: 34% · image of the day, weather
This image was taken just a few days ago. YES, these two photos were taken on September 25th, in Creede, Colorado. Not the most photographic images I know, but we went up to visit some family in Colorado and froze to death in just a few days. The fall weather in this part of Colorado can be brutal, and the winter just miserable. Being from the south, cold is what it gets for two days in February when it gets below 40 degrees, here, at the 9,000 foot level, it gets to be -30*F in the winter, and just plain cold in the fall.
At this elevation, temperatures are well below freezing long before the rest of us even know fall is near. It is one of the most beautiful parts of the country, and the most unforgiving and harsh as well. The Aspens were in full yellow fall colors, frost and all.
The temp shown above was actually quite warmer than it was in the car. The car read 19.3*F as I took this photo. Just two long days in the car and we were back in the fall in the south, a cool 92*, ahhhh, we can almost turn off the air conditioning now. 73, Scott [KI4WLR]
Friday · Popularity: 8% · google, marketing, news, seo
Or did they? Well, not really, and it sounds a little stupid like theDonald, but a news type site (the Onion) reported yesterday that Google was launching a new site, called TheGoogle.com saying “Google Launches ‘The Google’ For Older Adults”. The article goes on to say how it is a more secure search engine and it has a more dumbed down version of the search, i.e. you can do a search or a url like http.google.com and it will render the correct address.
Just take a look at the article information below. Of course, the Onion does say that this is a satire site (or article) so it can be read with a grain of salt, but the site is still real, and it is still bringing in thousands of hits. So if it satire who cares. Well, perhaps those people using the site that doesn’t know it is a faux site, or that the article is just a joke. I am sure there are some out there that don’t know the history of everything on the internet (me being one for sure), afterall it is Google’s Birthday.
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Wednesday · Popularity: 29% · ebay, facebook, news
This is the first Facebook application put out by this company called Nothing Original and it sold on eBay (see listing here) for $2500, called Logbook. It makes use of the Amazon affiliate program along with Google Adsense, and allows Facebook users to add movies, books, and music to their reviewed items. This should open the door for more applications like it, and it certainly can’t make MySpace feel very comfortable.
There doesn’t actually seem to be a whole lot of other information about this application and it is the only app the company has put out, but it did sell for $2500 so that should say something about the sales opportunities for these types of applications.
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Sunday · Popularity: 32% · aerospace, image of the day, photography
No, I did not actually take these images this time, but I found them to be so spectacular that I had to go ahead and post them as the image of the day. I was forwarded the information on these photos taken by those on the ISS and the Space Shuttle on their last mission.
The detail on the full size images (see link below) is just incredible, so if you would like to see them in their full version just click on the link below (please be aware they are very large and will take some time to load). [Full Size Images]
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