the reasons for Black Friday bricks-and-mortar sales just don't apply to the online world.I don't know about that. Traditional retailers aren't doing it right, that's for sure. They could probably learn something from Woot, which has the equivalent of a line of people waiting up until 1:00EST every night to be the first to see what they're selling for the day. Though, many of them are just there waiting for the next bandolier of carrots...
If Walmart or Target had such sales on their online sites, and advertised them as starting at midnight, I could see them getting the same kind of following.
That, and http://www.dialpad.com/ has also been around since the late 90s. I remember making FREE PC-to-phone calls using Dialpad's Java applet. Then, at the very same time the free ISPs (Altavista, NetZero, etc.) stopped being free, so did Dialpad. And now, Yahoo! recycles their services by acquiring them and adding it to Yahoo! Messenger.
This is not news. Tell me Yahoo! is providing a Vonage-like service that will integrate my Yahoo! account, voicemail, email, and information services into my regular phone, and that will be news.
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the reasons for Black Friday bricks-and-mortar sales just don't apply to the online world.I don't know about that. Traditional retailers aren't doing it right, that's for sure. They could probably learn something from Woot, which has the equivalent of a line of people waiting up until 1:00EST every night to be the first to see what they're selling for the day. Though, many of them are just there waiting for the next bandolier of carrots...
If Walmart or Target had such sales on their online sites, and advertised them as starting at midnight, I could see them getting the same kind of following.
Interesting that nobody posted when MSN/Hotmail started offering the same service recently.
That, and http://www.dialpad.com/ has also been around since the late 90s. I remember making FREE PC-to-phone calls using Dialpad's Java applet. Then, at the very same time the free ISPs (Altavista, NetZero, etc.) stopped being free, so did Dialpad. And now, Yahoo! recycles their services by acquiring them and adding it to Yahoo! Messenger.
This is not news. Tell me Yahoo! is providing a Vonage-like service that will integrate my Yahoo! account, voicemail, email, and information services into my regular phone, and that will be news.
funny, I just did the same thing and the most common password is "qbttxpse"...