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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim


Amazon Launches Shopping by Text Message

Amazon.com has a new service - you can compare prices and buy things by text message. It’s called TextBuyIt. You text the name of a product, its description, its UPC or ISBN to the number...

Started in Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: google
Is Google’s Departing CIO About to Join the Music Industry’s Dark Side?

Normally our headline would read something along the lines of "Google Loses Another Executive." However, it seems the departure of a top exec is a regular occurrence at Google...

Started in Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: google
Pilgrim’s Picks for April 2 - Birthday Edition

It’s birthday cake time at Marketing Pilgrim! No, the blog itself is not celebrating its birthday, but today is the birthday of our own Jordan McCollum! OK, OK, it’s my birthday too!...

Started in Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: general
I Believe the Children Are Our (Social Media) Future

Pssst. Hey kid! Want to earn a quarter? Tell your friends about this cool new video game, and it’s yours. Silly? Not really. Not when you consider a new survey out of the UK that suggests 49%...

Started in Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: research, social media
Ad Age Agrees: 2008 Not the Year of Mobile

Last week, we talked about predictions for the future of mobile Internet and concluded that this isn’t the year mobile will take off. We’re not the only ones. Yesterday, Alice Z. Cuneo...

Started in Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: local/mobile
Adsense for Conversations

Google’s recent post about “Adsense for Conversations” is my favorite April Fools antic this year. The fictitious Adsense for Conversations is powered by an “unobtrusive...

Started in Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: general
Happy 10th Birthday Mozilla

Yesterday wasMozilla’s 10th birthday. Ten years ago Mozilla was launched and they made their source code available to the public. Mozilla is most popular for their web browser Firefox, which...

Started in Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: general
Google Docs Available Offline; Where’s My Offline Gmail?

First Google Gears brought us an offline version of Google Reader. Now, after many signs of its pending arrival, Google Docs is gearing up to go offline too.With Google Docs offline (powered by...

Started in Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: google
Microsoft Has No Plans to Raise Yahoo Bid

Despite what foolery you may read today, Microsoft has no plans to raise its $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo. According to the WSJ…Such pronouncements are standard in deal negotiations but people...

Started in Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: m&a, microsoft, yahoo
Pilgrim’s Picks for April 1st - April Fools 2008 Edition

Is any of today’s news real? Let me tell you, today is the day that you don’t want to be in the business of reporting internet news–the whole web has gone April Fools crazy! If any...

Started in Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: general