Stephan's online marketing blog

Virtual world grows real economy
When an online game grows to become the 77th country in the world in terms of wealth....Who can still doubt that the Internet is fundamentally changing the way we live!

Creating E-Tail Sales Out of Thin Air
Industry analysts say retailers can generate increased revenues from their Web operations without cannibalizing sales that would have been made in their offline stores and without having to make huge new investments....

2002 predictions
An interesting set of predictions in the high tech world. In particular, hihglight on XML (web services, X Internet) as an enabling standard for new ventures. And in this space, watch a company called knownow which is making a lot of noise recently....

Jakob Nielsen continues his quest for micro-payments. In this revision of his 2001 predictions, he outlines the increasing trend towards for pay services on the web; and proposes an interesting thought on making micro-payments a reality (analogy to utility...