Ahead Of Its IPO On Th NYSE, Yelp Shows Growing Losses It may now be obscured by all the hoopla surrounding Facebook's going public, but back in November the popular user-generated review site, Yelp, filed to go public and planned to raise $100 million ahead of its IPO (at an expected $1 to $2 billion valuation). On Friday, Yelp filed an amended S-1 that shows that the company plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "YELP."
Keep It Simple, Stupid: The Enterprise Version Back in 2009, my colleague MG Siegler wrote a brilliant piece titled 'Keep It Simple, Stupid,' which delved into how having a simple and easy to use product is a key formula for winning in the consumer tech space. A few days ago, Greylock Partner John Lilly echoed MG's thoughts, explaining that simplicity is quite simply very hard to beat. While this doctrine has been applied tonconsumer technology products like Dropbox, Gmail, Twitter and most famously, Apple; reinforcing simplicity in the product thought process is becoming an ever-present part of enterprise technology as well.
Facebook Could Jumpstart HTML5 Platform With App Bookmarks On News Feed Facebook's late-comer HTML5 mobile app platform lags way behind the Apple App Store and Android Marketplace. Yesterday I spotted Facebook's latest effort to catch up -- a test showing bookmarks for third-party applications at the top of the mobile news feed. Currently, Facebook buries HTML5 app bookmarks at the bottom of its mobile site's pull-out navigation menu, and only shows them in the iOS or Android Facebook app's search bar.
Placing them much more prominently atop the mobile home page could increase engagement -- the first step in attracting developers to the platform and earning money on in-app purchases.
Apple Schooled Music Execs Then, Here Are The Lessons Online Video Should Learn Now Apple?s all-in-one physical flat-screen iTV is coming, make no mistake. And, when it does, it will represent Apple?s attempt to reinvent the television experience in much the same way it did for music. But, while media execs were hopelessly naive in Apple's presence back then, they feel they are ready this time. They are determined not to let Apple rule the premium online video world like they did (and still do) for online music. The question is, do they have the will?
Personalized eCommerce Is Already Here, You Just Don?t Recognize It Reading Leena Rao?s recent article on Techcrunch about the personalization revolution, you get the sense that the tech world is waiting for a bus that isn?t coming. Rao quotes well-known industry experts and luminaries describing what needs to happen for e-commerce to finally realize the promise of personalized shopping, a future where online retailers predict what you?ll want to buy before you know yourself.
Ironically, Rao and her pundits are missing the zooming racecar that?s speeding by them as they wait for the personalization bus to arrive. That racecar is Pinterest and the new breed of startups marking the beginning of what I call the "Curated Web."
It may now be obscured by all the hoopla surrounding Facebook's going public, but back in November the popular user-generated review site, 
Back in 2009, my colleague MG Siegler wrote a brilliant piece titled 
Facebook's late-comer HTML5 mobile app platform lags way behind the Apple App Store and Android Marketplace. Yesterday I spotted Facebook's latest effort to catch up -- a test showing bookmarks for third-party applications at the top of the mobile news feed. Currently, Facebook buries HTML5 app bookmarks at the bottom of its mobile site's pull-out navigation menu, and only shows them in the iOS or Android Facebook app's search bar.
Placing them much more prominently atop the mobile home page could increase engagement -- the first step in attracting developers to the platform and earning money on in-app purchases.
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