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ChannelAdvisor Acquisition of Marketworks Update

admin Popularity: 21% [?] September 30th, 2007

Marketworks a Channel Advisor CompanyThis is an update to the acquisition of Marketworks by ChannelAdvisor that I posted earlier. I have posted what I have found to be some bullet points of information on the Marketworks acquisition. These were various sources written about the acquisition that I have compiled and some other thoughts about the merger.

  • ChannelAdvisor will cut Marketworks staff by about 50%
  • Most all changes seems to be geared at the Marketworks customers, nothing I could find on existing Channel Advisor’s customers having to change anything
  • Not many details known about future implications, most everyone online is quoting the original press release
  • Sounds like ChannelAdvisor will keep both channels functioning independently for a time, then move everyone over to the Channel Advisor side
  • There are implications about this happening because of a slow down on ebay, and that Marketworks was not a well run company
  • Found MANY posts that were totally unhappy with Marketworks product line and features
  • Infopia and Zoovy may have to change tactics because of this move

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Image of the Day [Freezing Colorado]

admin Popularity: 15% [?] September 30th, 2007

This image was taken just a few days ago. YES, these two photos were taken on September 25th, in Creede, Colorado. Not the most photographic images I know, but we went up to visit some family in Colorado and froze to death in just a few days. The fall weather in this part of Colorado can be brutal, and the winter just miserable. Being from the south, cold is what it gets for two days in February when it gets below 40 degrees, here, at the 9,000 foot level, it gets to be -30*F in the winter, and just plain cold in the fall.

At this elevation, temperatures are well below freezing long before the rest of us even know fall is near. It is one of the most beautiful parts of the country, and the most unforgiving and harsh as well. The Aspens were in full yellow fall colors, frost and all.

The temp shown above was actually quite warmer than it was in the car. The car read 19.3*F as I took this photo. Just two long days in the car and we were back in the fall in the south, a cool 92*, ahhhh, we can almost turn off the air conditioning now. 73, Scott [KI4WLR]

Frozen Car in September

Cold Colorado Fall

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Google Launches TheGoogle.com

admin Popularity: 16% [?] September 28th, 2007

TheGoogle.com Search SiteOr did they? Well, not really, and it sounds a little stupid like theDonald, but a news type site (the Onion) reported yesterday that Google was launching a new site, called TheGoogle.com saying “Google Launches ‘The Google’ For Older Adults”. The article goes on to say how it is a more secure search engine and it has a more dumbed down version of the search, i.e. you can do a search or a url like http.google.com and it will render the correct address.

Just take a look at the article information below. Of course, the Onion does say that this is a satire site (or article) so it can be read with a grain of salt, but the site is still real, and it is still bringing in thousands of hits. So if it satire who cares. Well, perhaps those people using the site that doesn’t know it is a faux site, or that the article is just a joke. I am sure there are some out there that don’t know the history of everything on the internet (me being one for sure), afterall it is Google’s Birthday.

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Facebook Application Logbook Sold on eBay

admin Popularity: 19% [?] September 26th, 2007

FacebookThis is the first Facebook application put out by this company called Nothing Original and it sold on eBay (see listing here) for $2500, called Logbook. It makes use of the Amazon affiliate program along with Google Adsense, and allows Facebook users to add movies, books, and music to their reviewed items. This should open the door for more applications like it, and it certainly can’t make MySpace feel very comfortable.

There doesn’t actually seem to be a whole lot of other information about this application and it is the only app the company has put out, but it did sell for $2500 so that should say something about the sales opportunities for these types of applications.

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Image of the Day [NASA]

admin Popularity: 18% [?] September 23rd, 2007

No, I did not actually take these images this time, but I found them to be so spectacular that I had to go ahead and post them as the image of the day. I was forwarded the information on these photos taken by those on the ISS and the Space Shuttle on their last mission.

The detail on the full size images (see link below) is just incredible, so if you would like to see them in their full version just click on the link below (please be aware they are very large and will take some time to load). [Full Size Images]

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Great Firefox Plugin

admin Popularity: 16% [?] September 18th, 2007

Firefox PluginFor those who use Firefox, you can get some great plugins that add functionality to the browser. One that is pretty neat is the SearchStatus plugin. If you are interested in SEO or traffic utilization at all, this handy plugin puts the most popular rankings of a website, PageRank and Alexa (along with Compete) on the bottom of the browser where you can see the status in a quick glance.

In the screen shot here you can see it places an icon in the lower right corner of your browser and it will display the rankings of any page you are currently looking at. The other one shown there is called the SEO plugin which is also helpful but it takes a little more time to look at and shows only when on a google search page.

SearchStatus 1.21
Display the Google PageRank, Alexa rank and Compete ranking anywhere in your browser, along with fast keyword density analyser, keyword/nofollow highlighting, backward/related links, Alexa info and more.
Display the Google PageRank, Alexa rank and Compete ranking anywhere in your browser, along with fast keyword density analyser, keyword/nofollow highlighting, backward/related links, Alexa info and other SEO tools.

There are of course many many other plugins for Firefox, and several that are specifically great for SEO type research. For others, checkout the add-ons page on Firefox at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox and click on plugins.

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Image of the Day [Butterfly on Lantana]

admin Popularity: 12% [?] September 18th, 2007

Butterfly on Lantana in Alabama Summer

I thought I would post an image of the day post once in a while here so here is the first one. This was taken about a week ago in my back yard on some very overgrown Lantana (see description below). A good photographer and teacher once told me that you don’t have to go to exotic places to take some great photos, sometimes you don’t have to look any farther than your own house.

Some times it is very hard to find those images when you are looking at the same place day after day, but there are usually all kinds of great opportunities that we overlook just by looking at the same thing every day.

These butterflies come to this plant all day every day, and have done so now for months, I just didn’t think about taking a photo of them until the end of the summer.

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Theme-ing It Again

admin Popularity: 17% [?] September 17th, 2007

New SEO Wordpress ThemeWell, as I usually do, I have moved on to another theme (called fallseason) that I think better fits my blog and content. Although a majority of my posts are related to ham radio I do have many other interests like photography and small business, and I wanted to move to a design that was a little cleaner and one that I could customize a with different topics over time. I also wanted to have a design that was a little more Firefox friendly since that is the browser many bloggers use (including me).

Much of my research for online stores or resource utilization comes from many different SEO sources like some of those from SEObook, Blogoscoped, and several more . To have your site seen by others you not only need good content, links, updates, design, but you also need to employ good SEO techniques and I will post some of my findings here if I find them to be of interest to my readers (of course theoretically that should be anyone who is interested in promoting their website).

In the mean time, I hope you like the new layout. If you have any comments please post them below.

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Aurora Watch

admin Popularity: 15% [?] September 15th, 2007

There is so much to look at that effects the radio propagation and certainly a lot to learn if you are new at this, but I found this information interesting and wanted to post it. Thanks to Karen [KI4NGX] for the info. She always sends out a ton of really great stuff on space weather and ham radio. 73, KI4WLR

AURORA WATCH: A solar wind stream is due to hit Earth tonight, possibly triggering a mild geomagnetic storm. High latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras.

NEW MEXICO FIREBALL: On Sept 13th at approximately 3 o’clock in the morning MDT, an extremely bright fireball streaked over New Mexico, “It was terrifying,” says eyewitness Susan K. Burgess. “I was stargazing outside my house near Santa Fe when the landscape started becoming very bright, as if a brilliant full moon was quickly rising from the southwest. The fireball itself [slowly moved] over the house and disintegrated with a great deal of scatter in the northwest sky.”

At the Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, a Sentinel all-sky video camera captured the fireball in flight:


Click to view the complete movie.

Based on data from the video, the visual magnitude of the fireball was -14.6, about four times brighter than a full Moon!

“The fireball was a pure emerald green, uncomfortably bright to look at,” adds Harald Edens located in the Magdalena Mountains west of Socorro, NM. “The object was disintegrating when I saw it, with pieces parallel-tracking and trailing the fireball. Those smaller pieces had all different colors–most notably red. I think it has been a piece of space junk.”

Amateur radio astronomer Thomas Ashcraft not only photographed the fireball, but also recorded echos of a distant radio station bouncing off the meteor’s ionized trail: movie. “This fireball turned night into day!” he says.

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ChannelAdvisor to Acquire Rival Marketworks

admin Popularity: 24% [?] September 12th, 2007

Marketworks a Channel Advisor CompanyChannelAdvisor announced today that they will acquire Marketworks for some undisclosed amount (right now), see the press release below. As this develops further we will discuss what the implications might be for those using both MW’s and CA’s integration systems. Just off the top of my head, I would say the Marketworks people should see an increase in customer service and products offered by Channel Advisor (just from dealing with both companies), but it does say a little about the industry as a whole, especially how it might effect eBay in the long run.

One reason both of these companies exist is to provide support for larger sellers on the eBay platform. Does this indicate a kink in the eBay armour or perhaps a trend that says some larger sellers are trying to move off of eBay’s platform and survive on their own? It could be that the market is just not big enough to support two companies doing basically the same thing.

Some have said, thank goodness the acquisition was ChannelAdvisor buying Marketworks and not the other way around, I know several very nervous Channel Advisor customers that don’t know what is in store for them down the road. We will see soon enough I guess.

ChannelAdvisor Acquires Marketworks
Combination cements ChannelAdvisor as top e-commerce channel management solution provider

Research Triangle Park, NC – September 12, 2007 - ChannelAdvisor, the leading provider of e-commerce channel management solutions, announced today that it has acquired Marketworks, a leader in marketplace management software and services.

“Acquiring Marketworks solidifies our leadership position and reinforces our commitment to the marketplace segment,” says Scot Wingo, Chief Executive Officer of ChannelAdvisor. “We will continue to evaluate other opportunities in this and other e-commerce channel segments as they arise.”

“Marketworks is excited to join forces with ChannelAdvisor,” says Doug Hadaway, Chief Executive Officer of Marketworks. “This partnership will lead to great things for both company’s customers and partners.”

Following this acquisition ChannelAdvisor will have:

  • 5,500 customers on a global basis
  • $2,500,000,000 in annualized GMV (Gross Merchandise Value)
  • Operating offices in
    • Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
    • Seattle, Washington
    • Atlanta, Georgia
    • Bacharach and Berlin, Germany
    • London, England
    • Melbourne, Australia

ChannelAdvisor will continue to support and invest in Marketworks’ customers and products.

I am putting together some bullet points for some quick observations and will post them soon. Most of the information I have located at this point just reposts the press release (as seen above) and offers no further information, we will try to dig some up and post it here.

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