Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Cutting Costs with Online Coupon Sites - Are we in a recession?

The number of page views on Web sites that feature money-off coupons for all manner of consumer products surged 38%, to 281 million, in March from a year earlier, compared with 5% for the Internet as a whole, according to comScore. Those visitors spent a total of 145 million minutes on the sites, a 37% increase. While the number of new users to coupon sites isn't growing faster than the larger Internet audience, existing coupon site users are certainly becoming more active. "User engagement by deal-seekers appears to be ramping up," says comScore analyst Andrew Lipsman. "As a general rule, something like online coupon site activity would increase as a result of macroeconomic trends."

Online Coupons & Recent Price Drops
Amazon.comEverything FurnitureShop.NHL
BareNecessitiesMoto LeatherSierra Trading Post
CatsPlayOverstock.comTool King
Closeout.comRugmanWalMart.com
CollegeJersey

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Hello! I am bored today. I am nice girl

From: "Nigel Wray" <a-aboyd@acreedaily.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 10:34 AM
Subject: I'd like to show you my pic

> Hello! I am bored today. I am nice girl that would like to chat with you. Email me at Gunilla@emaidaking.cn only, because I am using my friend's email to write this. Hope you like my pictures.

During the last week been receiving about one a day of this type of e-mail

Saturday, May 3, 2008

Protests against China

InterContinental Hotels and Resorts - In their latest shareholder report anticipates having 125 hotels open in Greater China by the end of 2008 up from 81 hotels this year (28,894 rooms). As China grows into the biggest inbound tourist destination over the next decade the government plan to build 97 new airports and invest over $190 billion to develop the railway network. Outbound tourists are forcast to rise from 20 million now to 100,000 million annually over the next ten years. Are protests necessary and effective?