perplexcard

perplexcard
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Perplexcity makes it to front page of News.com

The first advertisement appeared in USA Today a week ago, right on schedule.

People from around the world had stayed up all night waiting for it, talking in chat rooms and online forums. It had to be a clue, they thought. Everything before it had been a clue.

"LOST. The Cube," read the ad, posted at the top of the paper's "Notices" section. "Reward Offered. Not only an object of great significance to the city but also a technological wonder."

The cryptic notice, along with several subsequent ads in The New York Sun, The Times of London and Monday's Sydney Daily Telegraph, are the first tangible signs of a mystery called "Perplex City" beginning to unfold online.

rayol snow

rayol snow
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screenselect.co.uk leads lovefilm through dec to feb '05

screenselect.co.uk leads lovefilm through dec to feb '05
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Alexa puts Screenselect.co.uk, the direct brand of Video Island, ahead of Lovefilm from Dec '04 to Feb '05

good week for videoisland market share

good week for videoisland market share
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Video Island's platform of Screenselect.co.uk, Tesco, ITV and MSN shot ahead of Blockbuster [30%] to almost 40% market share, leaving Lovefilm and partners with around 25% share

taj

taj
Originally uploaded by cape.

pre-pneumonia, 2 years ago on honeymoon in india

itvmovieclub

itvmovieclub
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rayol pool

rayol pool
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European Brand Study

eurobrands 2001
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Slightly out of date, but still interesting to see the importance of brand value in more complex products across Europe

Video Island has 31% market share

dvdrental uk share
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Video Island and its brands are neck and neck with Blockbuster on Hitwise in Jan '05.

The online DVD rental marketplace in the UK accounted for nearly 10% of all DVD rentals in '04, the market's first real year of operation (this compares to the 7% of all retail spend which e-commerce took this Xmas).

plett

plett
Originally uploaded by cape.

Mind blowing web application from the Bezos factory

There is very little doubt that the web is becoming more interesting by the second and the last few years have seen something of a renaissance with killer applications like:

• Skype
• Meeetup.com
• Flickr

plus the continued stellar execution of Google's ever growing array of cool services but A9.com's entry into Yellow Pages this week is truly awesome in how it reinvents the yellow page concept, integrating imagery, maps and response (click-to-call) into a beautiful, superbly integrated shopping interface.

Not only can you find places simply and easily (price of entry) but the stakes have been raised by the ability to "Walk the Block" in images - I'm blow away by the novelty of this extension of their shopping platform into the physical world, bravo Mr Bezos and the team behnd this.

That's my old neighborhood in New York, follow the links and you can walk around the places around it, god help us when they can do this all over the world.

Skyping

This is surely the most ground-breaking way to save money on international phone calls, just download from Skype.com and you can call anyone in the world free

See more progress on: skype