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To narrow down your selection of articles, click on the "AND" or "NOT" next to any of the categories below. Say you’re currently browsing entries in category "A", you can then drill down into entries that belong both to category A and another category, or belong to category A but not another category. For instance, you could list entries about demographics in the automotive sector, or entries about email marketing that are not about spam. Numbers in the columns below indicate how many entries the selected operation will narrow your query to. You can combine multiple intersection and exclusion criteria to further limit the number of entries.
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| » ad selling | 6 | 70 |
| » ad targeting | 8 | 68 |
| » ad technologies & vendors | 4 | 72 |
| » advertainment | 2 | 74 |
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| » alternative marketing | 19 | 57 |
| » Asia/Pacific | 6 | 70 |
| » automotive | 2 | 74 |
| » best practices | 16 | 60 |
| » biz buzz | 8 | 68 |
| » branding | 4 | 72 |
| » broadband | 1 | 75 |
| » campaigns & creatives of note | 7 | 69 |
| » case studies | 1 | 75 |
| » computers & tech | 5 | 71 |
| » CRM | 1 | 75 |
| » cross media | 1 | 75 |
| » demographics | 3 | 73 |
| » direct marketing | 2 | 74 |
| » domain names | 10 | 66 |
| » don't believe the hype | 3 | 73 |
| » e-commerce | 5 | 71 |
| » email marketing | 2 | 74 |
| » entertainment | 2 | 74 |
| » Europe | 7 | 69 |
| » finance | 1 | 75 |
| » global | 1 | 75 |
| » I-PR & business communications | 9 | 67 |
| » instant messaging marketing | 1 | 75 |
| » interviews | 1 | 75 |
| » intrusive formats | 5 | 71 |
| » legal, government & regulation | 33 | 43 |
| » loyalty & retention | 4 | 72 |
| » major brands | 14 | 62 |
| » major players news | 26 | 50 |
| » media convergence | 3 | 73 |
| » mobile marketing | 2 | 74 |
| » multi-channel marketing | 1 | 75 |
| » new and improved | 4 | 72 |
| » nonsense & parodies | 5 | 71 |
| » online ad market | 10 | 66 |
| » pearls of wisdom | 1 | 75 |
| » people | 12 | 64 |
| » political parties & organizations | 19 | 57 |
| » privacy | 4 | 72 |
| » publishing | 34 | 42 |
| » research & stats | 8 | 68 |
| » rich media | 2 | 74 |
| » search engine marketing | 13 | 63 |
| » Segmentation & Markets | 1 | 75 |
| » sex sells | 1 | 75 |
| » signs of doom | 8 | 68 |
| » signs of what's to come | 11 | 65 |
| » small business | 1 | 75 |
| » spam & anti-spam | 8 | 68 |
| » syndication & RSS | 7 | 69 |
| » technical innovation | 3 | 73 |
| » text ads | 6 | 70 |
| » tools & software | 2 | 74 |
| » top stories | 21 | 55 |
| » user experience | 4 | 72 |
| » viral marketing & social media | 14 | 62 |
| » Youth | 2 | 74 |
Using SocNets? Great - Just Be Sure to Talk About What Your Customers Want
Just about every brand now has a toehold in social media - even such established staples as Land O’Frost and Sara Lee Deli, both of which recently launched campaigns centered around Facebook.
For Land O’Frost, its new community called Land O’Moms, is the brand’s first foray into social media, writes the New York Times. Consumers use the site to exchange recipes and parenting advice, download coupons, r [...]
Posted: Friday, March 5th 2010
AP Software Tracks Appropriation of Content
The Associated Press is adding software to its articles, intended to inform readers of usage rights associated with the content -- and act as a policing agent, automatically informing the AP about how the article elsewhere online.
Each article will be published with a digital "wrapper" -- data not visible to users that maximizes the content's ranking in search engines and tracks its movements across the web. The program will be introduced in stages stretching over the course of the next year, [...]
Posted: Monday, July 27th 2009
Biz Stone: Twitter to Charge Brands for Use
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has confirmed the microblogging network will begin charging companies for certain components of its service.
Rumors that Twitter may start charging for use began taking concrete form in November.
"We are noticing more companies using Twitter and individuals following them. We can identify ways to make this experience even more valuable and charge fo [...]
Posted: Tuesday, February 10th 2009
Twitter Finally Draws Attention from the Spammer Community
Perhaps as a tribute to its mainstream legitimacy, Twitter's turf has been invaded by at least two spammer-orchestrated scams.
In the most widespread of the two, users receive a direct message from a follower, bearing this or similar bait: "hey! check out this funny blog about you...", followed by a link to a webpage.
After clicking on the link, victims are presented with a false Twitter login page. Usernames and passwords entered on the page become vehicles for spammers to distribute sim [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 6th 2009
LiveJournal Cuts 20% of Workforce
LiveJournal, a mature blog community launched in 1999, cut 12 employees -- about 20% of its workforce -- without severance yesterday, reports Gawker (via LiveJournal's xb95).
A previous version of this article stated the staff cut consisted of 20 employees. In an email to the editor, a company representative corrected the figure.
In December 2007 [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 6th 2009
YHOO Layoffs Draw More Blog Coverage than Most Ad Campaigns
Yesterday Yahoo began making good on its promise to lay off 1500 members of its staff -- nearly 10% of the search brand's workforce.
Affected departments include sales, marketing, content, administration, engineering, and acquisitions like Maven Networks and Right Media Exchange. According to Advertising Age, marketers from its category- [...]
Posted: Thursday, December 11th 2008
Redlasso Sued for Violating NBC, Fox Copyrights
NBC and Fox, the co-owners of streaming video network Hulu.com, are suing video-clip service Redlasso for violating copyright and trademark rights.
Redlasso permits websites to embed short clips of shows "without any authorization, permission, consent or license from the networks," the lawsuit alleges. The site positions itself as "The Bloggers On-line Media Center [sic]."
The suit was filed in a New York federal dist [...]
Posted: Friday, July 25th 2008
AP Ends Blogger Battle Over Fair Use of Content
The Associated Press (AP) reports it has resolved its conflict with copyright-infringing bloggers.
The AP recently attacked bloggers in a media fight about "fair use" of content. Specifically, it took issue with bloggers excerpting titles or sentences from its articles, which other publications mus [...]
Posted: Monday, June 23rd 2008
Carl Icahn Launches Corporate Rant Blog
Carl Icahn debuted The Icahn Report, a professional blog, last week, reports MediaBuyerPlanner.
The controversial investor -- which currently seeks to oust Yahoo's board of directors -- first stated his intention to launch a blog in February, Reute [...]
Posted: Monday, June 23rd 2008
AP, Blogging Group to Create Unified Guidelines
This Thursday, the Associated Press (AP) will meet with the Media Bloggers Association in hopes of creating appropriate guidelines for quoting AP stories, reports Wired (via the AP).
Prominent bloggers recently critiqued the AP for its defensive stance o [...]
Posted: Wednesday, June 18th 2008
AP Takes Bloggers on in Copyright Fight; Arrington Boycotts It
The Associated Press is battling small online news sites -- in essence, bloggers -- that have "quoted too heavily" from its stories, reports the Guardian.
The news site takes issue with bloggers that quote large excerpts from a news story, even if they link to the original article.
Irene Keselman, the intellectual property governance coordinator for the AP, sent a letter to the Dr [...]
Posted: Monday, June 16th 2008
Spammers Crack CAPTCHA; ReCAPTCHA to the Rescue?
SecurityLabs has written an analysis on how spammers increasingly evade Captcha to impersonate humans with bots.
CAPTCHA, or "the Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart," is a common line of defense against comment spam and false registrations on websites.
Last year CAPTCHA re [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 22nd 2008
Gentoo Awarded Nearly $200K for 'Net Libel Damages; Representative Demands Web Publisher Conduct Code
Gentoo Sunderland, formerly the Sunderland Housing Group, has been awarded £100,000 (about $199,434) in compensation for cyber harassment. This is the highest amount ever awarded in the UK for internet libel damages.
Several years ago the firm was targeted by anonymous website Dad' [...]
Posted: Friday, April 4th 2008
ad:tech Survey: Best and Worst Online Tactics, Budget Plans for '08
Behavioral targeting, search engine optimization (SEO) and direct email using house lists are the best-performing tactics in online marketing, according to MarketingSherpa's annual survey of ad:tech attendees, writes Mark [...]
Posted: Wednesday, February 20th 2008
Google Publishes Whiplash Reaction to Microsoft/Yahoo Bid, Microsoft Snaps Back
The Googleblog has published insights on Microsoft's unsolicited bid for Yahoo, which was announced Friday.
"The openness of the Internet is what made Google -- and Yahoo! -- possible," wrote SVP David Drummond of corporate development at Google.
"Microsoft's hostile bid [...] is about more than simply a financial transaction. [...] It's about preserving the underly [...]
Posted: Monday, February 4th 2008
Malaysia Tightens Fist Around Political Bloggers
The government of Malaysia has just released a statement informing citizens that anti-terrorism laws could be effected against bloggers that insult the country's king or the religion of Islam.
The BBC reports that Raja Petra Kamarudin, editor of a political website and a major online personality in Malaysia, was questioned by police after the government filed a complaint against him. The anti-terr [...]
Posted: Friday, July 27th 2007
Read/WriteWeb: 'Buy Blog Comments' is Monumentally Poor Business Idea
A questionable new business model is raising critique from those concerned it may hurt the overall integrity of online publishing. For seedy marketers looking to buy spam comments on blogs, go to Buy Blog Comments, says Read/WriteWeb.
The service charges $.20 per "quality blog comment." Spam comments in blogs are typically stuff [...]
Posted: Wednesday, July 11th 2007
Canadian Teachers Put Foot Down on Cyber Bullying
Teachers across Canada are increasingly concerned about online bullying, reports The Globe and Mail, and this week, they will try developing national policy for protecting students and educators from the tactic.
A Toronto-based gathering of the Canadian Teachers' Federation will try to tackle the elusive problem of bullying over the Internet. The Federation [...]
Posted: Tuesday, July 10th 2007
Ziff Davis Snagged in Venomous Blogger Web
Last week blogger and B2B publishing consultant Paul Conley accused tech publisher Ziff Davis of engaging in unethical practices with online content, reports Folio Mag.
Conley aired his thoughts in a colorful post on Wednesday, outlining editorial indiscretions and demanding that Ziff Davis resign its membership [...]
Posted: Monday, May 7th 2007
The Blogosphere: Still Growing after All These Years
Technorati is now tracking over 70 million blogs, with about 120,000 new blogs created worldwide each day - or 1.4 blogs every second - according to the latest State of the Blogosphere report from David Sifry. Splogs (spam blogs) remain a problem. Technorati has been tracking 3,000 - 7,000 new splogs created each day.
There was a si [...]
Posted: Monday, April 9th 2007