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Top News: 2011 email campaigns | Windows phone | Google search
Email Marketing:
Promotional email campaigns reach record high in 2011.
Mobile Computing:
LG Chrome OS device could be in pipeline.
Windows Phone: Microsoft's [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 12th 2012
Marketers Brace as ICANN Switches on Global Web Addresses
Three Arab nations are the first to receive their own non-Latin based language world wide web addresses from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN. Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates now can claim their own "country codes" - i.e. 'eg' for Egypt but written in Arabic script - after ICANN fast-tracked the plan to roll out these top-level domains last October.
O [...]
Posted: Friday, May 7th 2010
4 Tips to Get Ready for Domain Reputation
A number of top ISPs are putting in place, or have already established, domain-based reputation systems. It is a major shift in how email messages are delivered - one for which email marketers clearly need to prepare.
The good news is that if they have already been keeping their lists clean and focusing on subscriber engagement, the change should not be a dramatic one.
[...]
Posted: Monday, December 14th 2009
Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/03/09
Ad Industry:
It's synergy time at Razorfish and Digitas.
Social Media:
Google experiments with public domain name system (DNS).
Google Friend Connect competes with Facebook Connect. [...]
Posted: Thursday, December 3rd 2009
Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/17/09
Media Strategies:
Plans for iPods and iPhones to carry advertising that won't turn off.
US consumers less willing to pay for online news.
All eyes on Murdoch as newspapers [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 17th 2009
Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/16/09
Online Advertising:
Google trademark policy worries holiday advertisers.
Online Payments:
More ways to avoid cash or plastic at checkout.
Media Strategies:
Comcast [...]
Posted: Monday, November 16th 2009
Top-Level Domains to Feature New Alphabets
A world of opportunities and pitfalls may lay ahead now that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) - the governing body that oversees Internet addresses - has voted to fast track a plan to permit web addresses in characters other than the Latin alphabet.
The move means that internationalized top-level domain names - the coun [...]
Posted: Friday, October 30th 2009
Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/27/09
Search Technologies:
Google Social Search to go live next week.
Social web browser Flock is partnering with Spanish-language media company Univision
Google Voice lets users keep their numbers.
[...]
Posted: Tuesday, October 27th 2009
Competing Groups Vie for .Gay Web Suffix
Two for-profit groups are planning to start the application process to create a top-level website domain, “.gay,†adding another suffix to a growing list that includes “.com,†“.edu,†“.org,†and “.net,†the New York Times reports.
The petitions for the new gay-focused domain reflect a growing adoption of top-level internet domains by various causes - such as the en [...]
Posted: Monday, October 26th 2009
Time Inc. Vaunts 'Hulu for Magazines'
Time Inc.'s John Squires has come up with a means that he hopes will save the magazine industry: a Hulu for glossies, All Things Digital reports.
Squires is in the process of convincing publishers to join his joint venture, which is aimed at a market that doesn't yet exist, whereby magazine-esque publications are delivered via e-readers.
The company [...]
Posted: Monday, October 5th 2009
Twitter Fair Game for Serving UK Court Orders
The British High Court is permitting an injunction to be served to an anonymous user on microblogging site Twitter.
The user, who has been posing as right-wing political blogger Donal Blaney of website Blaney's Blarney, is accused to breaching Blaney's copyright.
Blaney, who felt the content appearing on Twitter under his name was "mildly objectionable," approached the courts to find out whether an injunction could be served via the social network -- as opposed to contacting Twitter headqu [...]
Posted: Friday, October 2nd 2009
Twitter Adds Ad/Spam Clause to ToS
Late last week, co-founder Biz Stone sent an email to news outlets informing them of changes to Twitter's Terms of Service.
An overview appears on Twitter's blog; but in short, they follow thus (from the blog):
Advertising—In the Terms, we leave the door open for advertising. We'd like to keep our options open as we've said before.
Ownership—Twitter is allowed to "use, copy, repr [...]
Posted: Monday, September 14th 2009
YouTube Video Reviews Join Google Product Search
Google is incorporating user-created YouTube reviews onto releated results pages in Google Product Search.
"Videos include reviews from sources like USA Today, Wired, and Digital Trends, and they appear above the 'Similar Items' section of the page," the company explained. One example of how reviews have been incorporated is in [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 10th 2009
Soldiers Blog Under Pentagon's Watchful Eye
The New York Times reports on the military's embrace of social networks -- both to recruit new soldiers, give existing ones an opportunity to let off steam and share public opinion on the war.
For example, General Ray Odierno, who commands American forces in Iraq, has a Facebook. Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has a YouTube channel and a [...]
Posted: Wednesday, September 9th 2009
Tuesday Tops for Brands on Facebook
Data from social media services vendor ViTrue says Tuesdays are the day in which click-through rates are highest on content posted on Facebook-based brand pages: 9.89%.
Brand pages are like human profiles, except for companies. They typically aggregate news about the brand in question. Users can become "fans" of ones for which they feel an affinity, and receive updates from them on their news feeds.
Click-throughs for Fac [...]
Posted: Wednesday, September 9th 2009
FCC Pressed to Incorporate Behavioral Targeting in Broadband Plan
In a set of written comments filed Friday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to consider privacy issues associated with behavioral targeting when crafting its national broadband strategy.
In particular, the FTC referred to deep-packet inspection, which enables providers to "track a consumer's online activities to deliver targeted advertisements" while enabling them to "advantage or disadvantage certain content or applications."
"A signific [...]
Posted: Tuesday, September 8th 2009
Google Books Massages European Publishers' Concerns
Yesterday Google decided to make public concessions to publishers outside the US, part of an effort to ease concerns over its Google Books project.
In October 2008, Google was granted temporary approval for a settlement that enables it scan non-copyright-protected books -- including those whose copyrights have elapsed -- and put them online. Final approval of the settlement was delayed for a fairness hearing, scheduled this October 7th.
Meanwhile, companies that include Microsoft, Yahoo an [...]
Posted: Tuesday, September 8th 2009
Bing & Ping Connects Search to Socnets; Windows Live Ominously Omitted
Microsoft is now inviting Facebook fans to test a new program called Bing & Ping, which enables them to share their Bing search results with friends on various social networks, as well as email.
Results include restaurant recommendations, local movie times, flight statuses and other means by which data has been terraced.
"Say you use Bing's Instant Answers feature to check the score of the game, and you notice that your buddy's favorite team has just been beaten pretty handily," surmised N [...]
Posted: Friday, September 4th 2009
Talbots Restyles Online Customer Experience
Specialty women's apparel retailer The Talbots, Inc. is relaunching its e-commerce site with new functionality, features and personalization.
The updates are designed to align its online shopping experience with in-store product offerings and catalog customer service, Retailer Daily reports [...]
Posted: Monday, August 31st 2009
Tribune Co. Offers Localized Network of 70+ Blogs to Advertisers
Tribune Co.'s Tribune Media Group has created a blog network of about 70 local blogs on Chicago-area interests, anchored by the Chicago Tribune, reports MediaBuyerPlanner.
The network, ChicagoNow.com, is the first in a series of blog networks the Tribune Media Group hopes will increase its online footprint and expand market share in Chicago.
The Tribune Co.'s plans f [...]
Posted: Wednesday, August 26th 2009