Internet Access, the CEI Podcast, and Lessons in Entrepreneurship

Internet Access

Progressives like Rep. Doris Matsui (D-Calif.) argue that internet acess is a human right. Matsui has proposed legislation to provide internet access to low-income families.

Research Associate Luke Pelican points out the problems with this way of thinking.

"No doubt Internet access offers a great many benefits, but there are many problems with this claim. Aside from the theoretical question of whether any consumer product can be a 'right,' there is no evidence that government subsidization is the best means to ensure wider access. Matsui’s website reports that as of 2010, '28 million Americans do not subscribe to broadband services because of affordability barriers.' This does not take into account accessibility barriers. If Internet access is a right, then why isn’t the government subsidizing computers and smart phones for these Americans as well?"

 

CEI Podcast

In the latest CEI Podcast, Lee Doren explains why ATMs do not "kill jobs," contrary to the claims of President Obama.

Listen here.

 

Lessons in Entrepreneurship

Montgomery County recently shut down a lemonade stand run by children, who planned to donate the proceeds to charity.

Fellow in Regulatory Studies Ryan Young comments.

"It’s good that these children are learning about entrepreneurship and running a business at such a young age. One worries, though, about the lessons Montgomery County is teaching them."

Nicole Ciandella

Mon, 2011-06-20

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15 Internet Marketing Predictions for 2010

Its been pretty long that I have a made a post here, so now that we are on the last day of 2009 and are all set to welcome the new year 2010 in a few hours - here are few predictions from my end about the overall online marketing trends for the coming year.

1. Search Marketing is definitely going to grow ( both organic and paid search), however, businesses would tend to invest more on SEO than on PPC.



2. Cost per click prices would rise across all the paid search platforms. More money will start moving to the content network and the overall quality of ad targeting would improve.



3. Social Media links would likely to start playing a major role in the search engine algos. Search engines algorithms might be tweaked to rely on the mass-wisdom from social media platforms.



4. More active effort would be there to measure factors like engagement rather than apparent metrics like number of visitors/ followers. Advanced analytics platforms might become available for free that would allow even small businesses and individuals to look beyond the last click attribution model.



5. Social media would be much bigger and small businesses would increasingly adopt Twitter and Facebook



6. More celebrities would get on to Twitter & many of them would start using professional social media experts and consultants



7. Advertising on social media platforms like Facebook would be the norm for small businesses



8. Technological advancement and refinements would happen on Facebook ( and likely on most other social media platforms) for better targeting and ad serving capabilities.



9. Location based services like FourSquare would gain popularity. Existing social platforms like Twitter or Facebook might integrate some location based service to increase their utility



10. Twitter can launch its own URL shortening service or buy a popular one like bit.ly . Though Google has launched its own URL shortening service recently possibilities are that they might also acquire bit.ly to get hold of all the click data



11. There are likely to be some experiments done with paid news content, however, it is likely to be a major failure. This will actually benefit the providers of ad supported content and the ones providing multiple options for free ad supported content and Paid ad free content


12. Video ads, video search and video content on websites would increase by great extent



13. Mobile as a marketing channel is going to get much bigger & sophisticated - well beyond those crappy spam texting. Mobile couponing is likely to become a regular staff for most big retail chains.



14. iPhone would continue to grow very fast however, Android would slowly start to build up its own market share. It would not be able to take a major bite off iPhone's market but would definitely create a mark.



15. Businesses and individuals would start storing more and more of their data and running application on the Internet rather than from the desktop.

WISHING YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010

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How Internet Affects Our World (Infographic)

Internet is a wonderful place to grow, learn and share stuff with your friends, colleges and family members. But have you ever thought how much is used produced by the internet and how it affects our world or other stuff like this? If not then head over to this image below to get up close and personal with some of the major problems we don’t realize we have.

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