Local, tech, digital transformation, management strategy and other stuff I find Interesting
Earlier tonight Mashable posted, By Traffic, Groupon Is Ten Times Bigger Than Its Nearest Competitor in which they showed the market share of group buying sites. See below. ComScore is not showing nearly the spread between Groupon and LivingSocial in the US. See graph below: In Canada, according to ComScore, here is the traffic trend
I had a great chat with Cara Sealock, the deal buyer manager in Calgary. She was telling me about how exciting it was to speak to local SMBs regarding the deal of the day concept and the reception so far within the Calgary market. If you have not already, sign up to receive offers at
Well the last 7-days have been nothing short of a great week for YellowPages.ca mobile. Some recaps: – 1.8M downloads of its mobile applications – 20% of business looks-up are coming from Mobile by the end of 2010 – launch of the Windows Mobile 7 Application, first local search application for Windows Mobile 7 (read
Over the past few years I have blogged often about news in the Canadian Space regarding mobile. Up until this point in time, I never stated explicitly that mobile was a necessity for SMBs in Canada but, we are at the tipping point in Canada of mobile usage (especially SmartPhone usage) and it is now
Last night landed in Toronto. Went to the car rental place and grabbed a Buick. Realized I did not want the Buick, so switched to a Ford. Left airport for a dinner meeting at The Keg. Get to the restaurant, realize my wallet is not with me. Then it hits me, I left it on
I was having a good discussion last week with @sebprovencher and during this discussion we ended up spending a few minutes talking about the iPad and the future of tablet computing. During this conversation I was explaining my personal usage of my iPad and how, since I have started using one, my desktop/laptop usage has