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- Collecta Offers A Real-Time View Into MySpace
- The World Spent $112 Billion On 205 Million TVs This Year: 69 Percent Were LCD TVs.
- Spreezio Serves Up Deals From Merchants Based On Where You Live
| Collecta Offers A Real-Time View Into MySpace | Top |
| The buzz around realtime search of social networks has mostly surrounded Twitter and Facebook. Collecta, OneRiot and the search giants, including Microsoft, Google and Yahoo all tap into Twitter (and Facebook too) to capture the realtime stream of content. But MySpace is also getting into the game, recently releasing a set of real-time APIs that both OneRiot and Google will be tapping into to provide content from the social network. Today, real-time search engine Collecta has launched a search platform that offers a real-time view into MySpace. Based on Collecta’s Site Search Platform and the MySpace real-time stream API, the search portal indexes the collection of public comments, photos, links, and videos that are shared throughout the social network. Both MySpace users and non-users can perform real-time searches on any topic, and the search engine pushes out content the moment it has been published and lets users filter their result streams based on content type (videos, photos, blog comments, articles, updates). Each result includes the poster’s ‘mood’, giving insight to the emotion of the content. While MySpace’s traffic no longer reaches the breadth of rival Facebook, the social network still offers a good amount of publicly-shared content about what’s happening on the web, especially surrounding music. In the future, MySpace public content will be incorporated into Collecta.com’s standalone search engine which aggregates content from Twitter, news sites, blogs and more and lets you share the content as well. Launched last June, Collecta has raised $1.85 million in funding from True Ventures and Campbell were the investors. The company was co-founded by Jack Moffitt, Brian Zisk, and Patrick Mahoney. CrunchBase Information Collecta MySpace Information provided by CrunchBase Crunch Network : CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0 | |
| The World Spent $112 Billion On 205 Million TVs This Year: 69 Percent Were LCD TVs. | Top |
| LCD TVs have taken over the world. Market research firm DisplaySearch estimates in a new report that of the 205 million total TVs shipped in 2009, 140.5 million, or 69 percent, were LCD TVs (the rest were plasma and CRTs). In 2010, that percentage is forecast to rise to 78 percent for LCD TVs, when total shipments will rise to 218 million. Total TV shipments have actually been on the decline since mid-2008 as demand for older CRT TVs plummeted. Only in the third quarter did the increase in shipments of LCD TVs make up for the decline in other kinds of TVs. For the year as a whole, DisplaySearch still expects a 1 percent decline in shipments in 2009, followed by a 6 percent increase in 2010. Worldwide TV revenues fell an estimated 10 percent to $101 billion, from $112 billion in 2008. But revenues are expected to rise in the first quarter of 2010 for the first time in six quarters. As LCD TVs take over, the extreme price erosion they go through puts a lot of downward pressure on the industry’s revenues. For instance, the average price of LCD TVs in 2009 is expected to see a 24 percent decline, which is counterbalanced by the increase in demand. But after all is said and done, LCD TV revenues are only expected to rise 1 percent in 2009. Total TV shipments in Q3'09 were up Y/Y on a unit basis for the first time in a year, and DisplaySearch now expects that global TV revenues will rise Y/Y in Q1'10—the first time in 6 quarters. As shown in the latest DisplaySearch Advanced Quarterly Global TV Shipment and Forecast Report, total TV shipments will rise from 205 million units in 2009 to 218 million units in 2010, a 6% increase following 2009's 1% shipment decline. As flat-panel TVs dip below $500, that triggers a whole new surge in demand both in the U.S. and abroad. Much of the growth in TV demand is actually coming from China. TVs have always been a tough business, and LCD TVs turn up the volume on the commodity aspects of the business. But there are always new advances around the corner such as LED and “3D” TVs which will keep prices up at the high end. Year 2009 2010 LCD TV shipments 141 million 171 million Total TV shipments 205 million 218 million Total TV revenues $101 billion $? Crunch Network : CrunchBase the free database of technology companies, people, and investors | |
| Spreezio Serves Up Deals From Merchants Based On Where You Live | Top |
| We recently wrote about the alpha launch of Spreezio, a platform that makes it easier for shoppers to make deals with local merchants. Today, the shopping engine has launched a new version of the site with a complete redesign and more intelligent technology. Here's how Spreezio works: you sign up as a shopper, and browse Spreezio's product database, which includes over 35 million items, to find what you're looking for, using the category icons or search bar. Once you've found a corresponding item, you can indicate how much you'd be willing to pay for it or what percentage of discount you'd expect in order to get you to go out and buy it from the merchants who can supply it. You then can send out your deal proposal to the local merchants (which Spreezio will locate on a map) and once they get back to you accepting or rejecting your proposal, you can decide if you want to make a short trip and purchase the item(s) either way. Consumers get a more intelligent engine to not only bargain with local merchants for their desired items, but also local merchants get qualified leads from the inquiries (without the added expense of sales and advertising). The new interface has been upgraded to return only the best accepted or counteroffered deals from local merchants, weeding out some of the less attractive or expensive deals. And to increase the value of their offer, local merchants are allowed to offer “freebies” like free gift wrapping, free delivery, and more in their responses to win customer business, so it is not just based on price. Of course, in order for the shopping engine to be appealing to consumers, it needs a large amount of retailers to sign up. In the past few months, Spreezio has accumulated a list of over 100 national, well-known retailers to accept or counter shoppers’ offers, including Macy’s, Nordstroms, Best Buy, Target, and Sears. Marketed as an antidote to the recession, the shopping engine could work if enough consumers and merchants engage with the site. The idea is sound but the startup’s biggest hurdle will be gaining a loyal following in an already crowded online shopping engine field. Crunch Network : CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware. | |
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