December 2011
4 posts
From Check-In to Check-Out
Here is the future: we will use one application to: find a place to go, get a targeted/relevant deal, book our reservation, check in and share our location, get recommendations and tips, see the location’s inventory and place our order, check out and pay, and maintain our loyalty programs.
FIND+DEAL+BOOK+CHECK-IN+TIPS+INVENTORY/ORDER+PAY+LOYALTY
Foursquare is likely best positioned to win...
Cookies for the Real World
I feel like Groupon, LivingSocial, foursquare, and similar companies are providing the real-world equivalent of digital cookies. Here’s what I mean…. Ten or fifteen years ago there was lots of online content and everyone was trying to figure out how to monetize it. At the same time, there were lots of companies selling stuff online and they were trying to figure out how to get people...
Promoted/Social Discovery and, um, Deals?
Just thinking about promoted / social discovery a bit more here…. I rambled last week about how Twitter will make lotsa money from promoted tweets similar to how StumbleUpon already makes lotsa money from promoted stumbles (both = promoted discovery); and a few weeks prior re foursquare and social discovery. But what if we think about them together and swirl in some daily deals…?
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Twitter : StumbleUpon :: Google :...
Twitter’s gigantic freakin’ revenue opportunity is promoted tweets. And similar to how Google found its business model at Goto.com/Overture, Twitter is taking its cue from StumbleUpon. But first….
Remember when Google didn’t have a business model? Yeah, the Internet and media giant with a valuation of $150-200 billion, $35+ billion in annual revenue, and ~$15 billion in...