Midas Oracle .ORG » Internet Marketing – Internet Commerce http://www.midasoracle.org Prediction Markets, etc. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:14:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Cold fusion is now mainstream. — [VIDEO] http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/09/06/cold-fusion-fedex-federal-express-ad-tv-commercial/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/09/06/cold-fusion-fedex-federal-express-ad-tv-commercial/#comments Tue, 06 Sep 2011 07:57:51 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=26702 15 seconds into this FedEx commercial:

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/09/06/cold-fusion-fedex-federal-express-ad-tv-commercial/feed/ 0 Do webpages with higher PageRank rank higher than webpages with lower PageRank? — [VIDEO] http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/08/12/seo-pagerank-internet-sites/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/08/12/seo-pagerank-internet-sites/#comments Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:07:09 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=26398 [Download this post to watch the video if your feed reader does not show it to you.]

SEO Moz:

Wistia

Midas Oracle’s homepage is proud to have a PageRank of 6/10.

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/08/12/seo-pagerank-internet-sites/feed/ 0 About the latest Google PageRank update — [LINK + VIDEO] http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/07/28/june-2011-july-2011-google-pagerank-update-refresh-toolbar/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/07/28/june-2011-july-2011-google-pagerank-update-refresh-toolbar/#comments Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:53:51 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=26060 Excellent report here.

Midas Oracle is proud to have a PageRank of 6/10.

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/07/28/june-2011-july-2011-google-pagerank-update-refresh-toolbar/feed/ 0 Edward Bernays: Propaganda — [VIDEO] http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/06/28/edward-bernays-propaganda-video/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/06/28/edward-bernays-propaganda-video/#comments Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:07:01 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=25467

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/06/28/edward-bernays-propaganda-video/feed/ 0 QualiQuanti’s Daniel Bô misunderstands collective intelligence. — [REBUTTAL] http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/05/03/daniel-bo-qualiquanti-collective-intelligence-wisdom-of-crowds/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/05/03/daniel-bo-qualiquanti-collective-intelligence-wisdom-of-crowds/#comments Tue, 03 May 2011 13:47:46 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=24453 Continue reading →]]> Ignorant people misunderstands the concept of collective intelligence. The latest instance is Daniel Bô, who works for the advertising industry in Europe. In a commercial brochure bragging about his ethereal prowess and the suprême intelligence of his associates, Daniel Bô states that he and his associates constitute, just by virtue of numbers, a ‘collective intelligence’ machine. Nothing is more untrue, as James Surowiecki insisted many times on this:

It needs a way of summarizing people’s opinions into one collective verdict.

Sitting around with colleagues or e-mailing associates does not qualify. You need a specific mechanism to turn private judgments into a collective decision (e.g., a voting mechanism which permits abstention, a market mechanism, etc.).

ADDENDUM:

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/05/03/daniel-bo-qualiquanti-collective-intelligence-wisdom-of-crowds/feed/ 0 On Twitter, BetFair wins hands down over InTrade. — [SCREENSHOT] http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/04/04/hash-tag-battle-twitter-betfair-intrade/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/04/04/hash-tag-battle-twitter-betfair-intrade/#comments Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:30:56 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=24091

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/04/04/hash-tag-battle-twitter-betfair-intrade/feed/ 0 How does an upward trend impacts the novelty effect? — [STRATEGIC MARKETING] http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/04/01/strategic-marketing/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/04/01/strategic-marketing/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:56:40 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=24069

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/04/01/strategic-marketing/feed/ 0 Pepsi invested heavily in so-called “social media” while de-investing in traditional advertising. — [ANALYSIS] http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/03/31/pepsi-cola-social-media-failure/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/03/31/pepsi-cola-social-media-failure/#comments Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:49:47 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=24049 Result:
- Pepsi-Cola and Diet Pepsi had each lost about 5% of their market share in the past year.

#fail

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/03/31/pepsi-cola-social-media-failure/feed/ 0 MicroSoft stole BetFair’s marketing idea. — [PHOTO] http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/03/31/microsoft-stole-betfairs-marketing-idea-photo/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/03/31/microsoft-stole-betfairs-marketing-idea-photo/#comments Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:15:36 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=24037 Continue reading →]]> - June 2000, BetFair paraded the streets of central London with a coffin in a mock-funeral, to mark “the death of the bookmaker”.

- September 2010, MicroSoft employees celebrated a mock iPhone funeral, to commemorate the launch of Windows Phone 7.

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/03/31/microsoft-stole-betfairs-marketing-idea-photo/feed/ 0 New York Times is going to fail, big time. — [CHART] http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/03/22/new-york-times-is-going-to-fail-big-time-chart/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/03/22/new-york-times-is-going-to-fail-big-time-chart/#comments Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:51:27 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=23886 Too expensive.

More.

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