The dollar sank to a record low against the euro Thursday and traded at parity against the Canadian currency for the first time since 1976. In semi-related news, A VC sees a downturn coming in Web 2.0 products and services. The venture market in any industry (biotech, nanotech, green tech, comm equipment, web, etc) does best when the supply of new companies is relatively modest and the demand to invest in them is …
DVR Destoyer
The Wall Street Journal (paid sub. req.) looks at a new content play by upstart CW Television Network--owned jointly by CBS and Time Warner. When the CW network launched this time last year, it experimented with a new kind of commercial break designed to look like a minishow built around products. The so-called content wraps were such a hit with marketers that the network is going one better this fall, with a …
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Iterate Your Way To Online Perfection
Author and consultant Annette Moser-Wellman recently had the chance to sit across from LinkedIn founder and VP of Product Strategy Allen Blue. What turned her on is Blue's take on improvisation. “We make it up as we go along. If you ask consumers about your ideas, they will say, ‘I have no idea what you are talking about.’ It’s better to build something light-weight and see if we can innovate effectively and then …
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Martha’s Community Ready To Bloom
According to Ad Age, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia is going the wiki way. The company already receives enormous traffic to MarthaStewart.com and is a powerhouse in the lifestyle space, but it has apparently decided to see what else it might do. President-CEO Susan Lyne said, "We are at work right now on a second site that will be much more community-based and will have wikis. We have only begun to scratch the …
Not A Pretty Picture
A credit crunch, sparked by the subprime crisis, prompted depositors to make the first run on a British bank in a generation, developers of London's tallest skyscraper to postpone construction plans and economists to warn that economic growth will shrink. [via USA Today] …
Ad Content To Swallow Widgets Whole
Canadian firm NewspaperDirect, the leader in same-day international newspaper distribution, is now offering the Adget, a new kind of ad that allows online readers to interact with a business - make an appointment, book a restaurant table, even order a product - without ever leaving the newspaper site. NewspaperDirect expects this to appeal to local advertisers that don't want to build their own flashy Web sites. …
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Indie Java Joints Join To Promote New Movie
According to Media Post, independent coffee shops around the U.S. will be offering free coffee from 2:00 to 4:00 pm tomorrow. The promotion is sponsored by MGM Studios in effort to get the word out about their new film, "Feast of Love," which premieres on Sept. 28. "Feast of Love," directed by Academy Award-winning Robert Benton, who directed "Kramer vs. Kramer," is an ode to life and love in all its facets and …
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