Two out of three users have encountered problems accessing the mobile web over the last 12 months, with close to 75 percent citing slow load times and more than half complaining of site content incorrectly sized for the device screen, according to a new subscriber survey commissioned by web application experience management services provider Gomez.

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Brand Affinity Technologies uses automation to match advertisers with endorsers and create ads like this, all within a matter of days.

Interesting. Potential to revolutionize the athletic talent business? Or maybe it create the "long tail" of sports marketing affinities?

Disney’s Retail Plan Is a Theme Park in Its Stores

LOS ANGELES — The Walt Disney Company, with the help of Steven P. Jobs and his retailing team at Apple, intends to drastically overhaul its approach to the shopping mall.

 

Jim Fielding, president of Disney Stores Worldwide, leading a tour, says, “It’s time to take risks.”

 

More and more retailers are recognizing that shopping behaviors have fundamentally changed and that consumers want more than rows and rows of product. It's the experience that ultimately drives engagement and has the power to transform a retail space into something more than a simple transaction.

The article notes that Apple has mastered this in many ways. Kudos to Disney for taking the risk.

What other retailers are making this leap? Who's doing it well? Who's not?

Apps Trump Tunes at Apple

As iPod sales ease, the company is focusing more and more on software—to the dismay of the record labels

By Peter Burrows

One could argue that the music industry itself is responsible for it's current position. The labels did little to shift business models to adapt to the obvious consumer demand for digital distribution. So along came a third party to do it for them. Some labels have complained over the years about how much power Apple now wields in the industry. And now, at least one executive at a major label is suggesting that Apple's lack of innovation around music could be another blow to the battered industry.

What the labels should have learned in the first place is that innovation will happen, and it's up to you whether or not you control it. If you don't do it, someone else will, and potentially in a way that won't be all that good for your business. So, if Apple is growing complacent with regard to music (which I'm not sure is the case), then maybe this should be viewed as an opportunity, no? Complaining about the lack of innovation from a third party seems to be falling into the same trap that caused the mess in the first place.