Wize.com News Bites

http://nextagnews.nextag.com/2011/09/01/selling-your-company-integrate-early-and-often/#more-115 on September 02

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wired-success/201009/why-change-management-fails-in-organizations on October 01

NexTag acquires Wize! Check out a copy of the official press release on our blog: http://bit.ly/NexTagAcquiresWize Special thanks to Vator for being such a powerful platform for our business. on July 08

Wize just got acquired by Nextag Inc! on July 08

It's exciting to see brands being a lot more open and creative about their online advertising budgets. Feels like 2010 will be a great year on this front and we'll see lots of innovative brand ad campaigns around the Web. on February 17

We've launched our 2009 Wize Choice Awards: http://bit.ly/best-wii-games We're doing deeper analysis to find the best and worst products of 2009. Check it out! on October 30

Proud to announce the re-launch of Wize.com to the Vator community: http://bit.ly/wize-relaunch Appreciate all the support and feedback. Hope you enjoy the new site! on September 29

Had a chance to browse through the development version of a site that's launching a partnership with us in the next few weeks! Great way to start the week. on August 31

Very interesting article by the New York Times about the importance of being able to make sense of all of the content on the Web. http://bit.ly/NYTimes-SentimentAnalysis This is exactly what we are doing at Wize -- specific to conversations and content about products on August 27

We had a great week at AlwaysOn's Stanford Summit. I'll post up a link to our video as soon as it's live. Lots of follow-up to do! on July 31

Wize announced as winner of the 2009 AlwaysOn Global 250! http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/32719 Let us know if you are attending the event next week. Would love to meet up! on July 22

What a great week at Wize! We are settling down in our new office in downtown Burlingame. We're also looking at adding a new member to our team: http://wize.com/espresso-makers/t637-office-use on July 21

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-newmark/user-review-sites-next-bi_b_229236.html great article by craig newmark of craigslist on the changing nature of advertising....recommendations are the future... on July 13

We're working on some exciting initiatives at Wize and will share with the Vator community soon! In the meantime, check out this new study put out by Nielsen about how opinions and recommendations are the most trusted form of advertising online globally: http://bit.ly/opinions on July 13

Another solid quarter from Amazon.com: http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3817046/Bucking+Recession+Amazon+Profits+Jump+24.htm on April 23

Continued support of innovation in search and the importance of the long tail: http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,,25261858-15318,00.html?from=online+business+review_rss on April 02

AltSearchEngines Day II was a great event and I'm looking forward to exploring many potential partnerships. Gained insights into the future of search from various perspectives and met lots of cool people on April 01

Check out our story over at the Vator Newsroom: http://vator.tv/n/765 on March 16

According to HitWise, longer search terms are growing, while 1-3 word searches are actually declining: http://directmag.com/online/news/long-search-terms-popular-0311/ on March 11

Testing out the new Vator/Twitter integration feature. Our Twitter account is here: http://twitter.com/WizeDotCom on March 09

Interesting research by Carnegie Mellon Green Design Institute on how online shopping is environmentally friendly: http://voices.allthingsd.com/20090303/the-green-side-of-online-shopping/ on March 03

Been a while since we've posted here, but have definitely been keeping track of our friends' updates. Great to see how the program has grown! Thought I'd quickly share a recent update to our widgets. We've gone live across a bunch of new product categories: http://bit.ly/4OSQe on February 27

Looks like online retailers are winning the organic search battle: http://bit.ly/r2QWP Other interesting points: 24% of all offline purchases are influenced by the Internet, E-commerce sales have increased by 28$% since '06 (retail sales only grew 3% in that same period) on February 05

Great news coming out of Amazon: http://bit.ly/YHG2 Even with the decline in spending during the holiday season, they saw solid growth and positive results for Q4 '08. on January 29

Launched a new version of our widget: http://bit.ly/gQ7L Please let me know if you are interested in testing out on your site or blog. Implementation is simple and we can provide you with a unique partner ID to start earning some money (CPC business model) on January 26

Finalizing some analysis on some new initiatives we're going to test soon and also will be launching some new releases for our partner program later today. on January 16

Interesting information on remnant advertising from PubMatic via TechCrunch: http://tinyurl.com/8heqta Looks like eCPM is down across all sites (large, medium and small) on January 13

Excited about entering the Vator/AO Media Game Changers Contest! We're working on many unique initiatives in the product research space and are starting to understand the power the Wize experience provides to both consumers and marketers/advertisers. Thanks for your support! on January 09

According to ComScore, overall sales during the Holiday season were down, but on the bright side, total unique visitors to retailer sites (Amazon, Wal-Mart, Apple, Best Buy, etc.) increased by about 5% from last year on January 05

Just wrapped up the last conference call of the day. You'd never guess we're in the midst of a recession right now. Everyone is super focused and excited about the opportunities in the new year... on December 29