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Google monster part 2

Mike Carter — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:35:40 +0000

In a follow-up to my recent post on Google becoming too powerful, looks like there is a lot more arrogance not covered by a 2 minute video. Silicon Alley Insider gives you a good recap.

MySpace senior management jumping ship

Mike Carter — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:29:34 +0000

Looks like the leaders at MySpace are all looking for new opportunities. It’s a typical situation for many startups when the leading management decides to leave a sinking ship, that ship just sinks even faster. Oh well, opportunity for the rest of us to pick up some smart people.

Google is definitely becoming too powerful…

Mike Carter — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:41:55 +0000

I’m a big believer in a democratic web. A web where one big player doesn’t control too much of any one activity. These days that “big player” is really Google. Google owns the search space globally and hence, controls over half of all online marketing budgets depending on which country you are looking at. A [...]

Thebu2iness is giving away a free year’s worth of software

Mike Carter — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:15:54 +0000

In the market for new estate agency software, not a bad contest to sign up for, info below Set up your own account in thebu2iness.com and add all of your properties into the database, activate your website, activate your portal feeds and add your staff user accounts. The first company to successfully set up their account will [...]

Happy Birthday to Mr Peter Timperley

Mike Carter — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:11:09 +0000

To our favourite sales guy at Trinity Mirror ! Sorry we couldn’t dub the audio

Happy New Year from Zoomf and TMDP

Mike Carter — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:50:41 +0000

Merry Christmas from Zoomf and TMDP

Mike Carter — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:48:08 +0000

Octopus makes home out of coconut shell

Mike Carter — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:49:04 +0000

According to the BBC today, Octopi (the plural of Octopus so the internet tells me) are making homes out of coconut shells. I wonder who his estate agent is…. wait for it, maybe Octopus Residential? Could be a new recession strategy for the desperate UK property hunter, but too bad the coconuts in Waitrose will actually [...]

Congrats to Jacqui D at Greene and good luck!

Mike Carter — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:31:08 +0000

Just giving a quick congrats to the marketing maestro at award-winning agency Greene and Co in London. Jacqui’s been a longtime supporter of Zoomf and we were sad to hear she was leaving the space. We wish her the best of luck in the future!

Why Pay Per Lead won’t work in portal space

Mike Carter — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:26:07 +0000

So we heard from the Negotiator today that PropertyIndex.com has gone into administration. The media is reporting this as a failure of Pay per Lead (PPL) taking off in the UK property portal space. There are two simple reasons why I believe PPL will never make it as a pure model - Volume (visitors to conversion) Offline transaction So [...]