| Search Insider Summit - Day 1 Pics
Out of those photos there are daily favorites that give a visual of what the conference day was like. Day one of Search Insider Summit here in Park City Utah was fast paced and information rich. The Compete.com opening VIP breakfast warmed things up while snow started to fall out side. Sessions covered included Gord Hotchkiss’ opening remarks and keynote debate with Mike Margolin. Those lively presentations were followed by Managing Search in an Uncertain Economy and a breakout, Leveraging Local Search on a National Basis. Lunch was sponsored by Google / YouTube and while I unfortunately did not blog it, Chris Heuer did. There was a Google flip camera giveaway won by a young lady named Maxine.
MARKET SNAPSHOT: U.S. Stocks To Extend Fall Next Week; Financials In ...
The market's attention is poised to stay trained on the financial sector after the group suffered its worst week in years as Merrill Lynch & Co.'s (MER) chief executive was forced out and Citigroup's (C) board prepared to decide whether to accept the resignation of CEO Chuck Prince as well. 'The market is obsessed with these credit problems. People feel like they're standing in a mine field and they don't know where all the mines are,' said Brian Gendreau, investment strategist at ING Investment Management. 'We're looking for an opportunity to go back into equities. I just don't think next week is going to be the time. There's still just too much uncertainty.' The unraveling of the subprime mortgage crisis on Wall Street shook the financial services sector and much of the stock market during the past week, with uncertainty about the extent of losses in the collateralized debt obligations business locking up many of the global credit and derivatives markets.
Winners crack open the champagne at inaugural CNET UK Awards
CNET UK, the publisher of silicon.com, held its first annual awards ceremony last night, in association with IBM. Here are the winners and what they did right... Business Technology Innovation of the Year: Discover Travel and Tours International Ltd During the summer of 2003, Discover Travel and Tours International introduced an XML interface which allows data to be sent directly to publishers of travel brochures, preformatted exactly as the publishers want it. Previously, data was sent through the mail on disk and reformatted by hand from the reservations system along with the images of properties. The XML theme is currently being extended at Discover Travel, with a new custom-built XML gateway that allows any operator to directly book into Discover's system from their own, the only limitation being that they must be able to generate and interpret XML.
Swedes assess U.S. political process
America is a very important power in world politics, in defining a lot of things that happen globally, so we are very worried about another irresponsible president like George W. Bush." So said Bengt Lindahl, a 67-year-old Swede who, with his wife and daughter, got a front-row look at politics U.S.-style last weekend. In Burlington visiting acquaintances, the Lindahls heard Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois make a final pitch to local Democrats for the party's nomination. Afterward they assessed the speech, the Iowa caucuses and what next November's general election means on the global stage. Their insights, now that the candidates have moved on to New Hampshire, provide an outsider's perspective on the history that just happened. "What you do is important for the world," Bengt Lindahl said.
Idearc's Jeff Torgerson: Taming the M-Marketing Frontier
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