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NSA, White House Give Cookies to Visitors

First the National Security Agency, and now the While House have been caught illegally tracking U.S. citizens' and others' online movements - but the latest revelations have little to do with domestic spying under the guise of national security measures, and more to do with the web sites of the NSA and White house placing cookie, apparently inadvertently, on the hard drives of those who visit them. Red Herring   [...]
Posted: Friday, December 30th 2005

New JibJab Video '2-0-5' Is Year-End Round-up

'Half of Europe Hates my guts...' Gregg and Evan Spiridellis's latest online animated jab, titled "2-0-5!" - once again aimed at at P  [...]
Posted: Friday, December 16th 2005

Women Shop Like Santa, Men Feel Like Scrooge

Women are ready to start holiday shopping - 60 percent of them say so, according to a BizRate Research study conducted for Shopzilla in September - whereas only 42 percent of men report such an inclination. Moreover, compared to women, men are more likely to feel aggravated or frustrated (17 percent vs. 8 percent) and befuddled or confused (8 percent vs. 3 percent) when thinking about holiday gift buying. Of those surveyed, 86 percent have   [...]
Posted: Thursday, November 10th 2005

BLOTO, or Online Shopping Under the Influence in the U.K.

A goodly number of Brits are shopping online after having tipped back a few pints with the blokes (or otherwise), resulting in what has been dubbed BLOTO (Buying Loads of Tat Online), according to research from customer experience firm Conchango, writes NetImperative. The research reported that 7 percent of Britons know someone who has shopped online while under the influence. The survey also found that 6 percent of Britons a  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 1st 2005

MSN to Show, Sell Vid Ads for JibJab Shorts

JibJab Media has hired MSN to distribute, sell video ad units for, and work with JibJab and its advertisers to develop p  [...]
Posted: Friday, October 14th 2005

Delaware Court Protects Blogger Anonymity

The Delaware Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that if an elected official who claims that he has been defamed by an anonymous blogger cannot use a lawsuit to reveal the identity of that writer unless there is substantial evidence to prove the claim of defamation, reports the New York Times. That standard "will more appropriately protect against the chilling effect on anonymous First Amendment Internet speech that can arise when   [...]
Posted: Thursday, October 6th 2005

Diller Will Fire Jeeves

Barry Diller announced Wednesday that IAC/InterActiveCorp, which in July completed its acquisition of AskJeeves, will phase out the ever-smiling butler, the Wall Street Journal (subscription) reported (via paidConte  [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 22nd 2005

Senator Targets Nielsen, Wants to Regulate Ratings

Murdoch, victim of discrimation Apparently unhappy with the lighter touch of the invisible hand of self-regulating markets, Senator Conrad Burns, Republican of Montana, last week announced a more heavy-handed approach, vowing to make the federal government an arbiter of media ratings,   [...]
Posted: Monday, August 1st 2005

BK: Despite 'Fowl Mouth,' Racy Text a Mistake

Sexual double entendres were removed overnight from Burger King's new website, CoqRoq.com,   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, July 27th 2005

Advertisers' Ears Buzzing with Talk of Viral Ads

Both USA Today and Reuters, reporting from the Cannes Lions awards, sing hosannas for viral advertising. The latter emphasizes that some big players in advertising, from Microsoft to Anheuser-Busch to Burger King and Volvo, are turning to vi  [...]
Posted: Friday, June 24th 2005

Webby Wisdom - Five Words' Worth

Lyrical springin the air,and on the webWebby Award winners waxed poetic, condensing the wisdom of the Digital Age into byte-size bits of haiku wit that would have brought a verbose blush to the jowls of more-wordy or longwinded word wonks of yore - the likes of Wordsworth or Wadsworth Longfellow, say... In other words, "keep it short" has a special meaning at the Web  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, June 8th 2005

Germans Ally with French to Counter Google Print Hegemony

To counter Google Print, the search giant's project to digitize and offer free, searchable versions of major university library collections in the United States, a task force of the German book trade association Boersenverein is organizing its own digital indexing project, Volltextsuche Online, reports the International Herald Tribune  [...]
Posted: Monday, June 6th 2005

Podcasting Seen as Agent of Media Change, Market Pollution

Perhaps not surprisingly, the most begrudgingly positive thing that Wall Street has to say about podcasting is that it might at least hurt the market for online audio purveyor Audible.com. Podcasts, the bloggish audio downloads put into syndication feeds that have proved wildly more popular among journalists than among listeners. Still more positive on podcasts are the traditional broadcast firms who now hold out ho  [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 26th 2005

JibJab Founder: Email List Root of First Viral Success

Gregg Spiridellis answered MarketingVOX questions recently, addressing the fickle nature of "viralness," and the ability of marketers to capture the qualities that make some content desirable and even the sort of thing people which to pass along to friends. MV: Brand marketers are captivated today by the idea of doing something funny or lurid or otherwise making ads  [...]
Posted: Monday, May 23rd 2005

Supremes: MPAA's Ignorance a Good Defense

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the appeal of the man whose website was shut down by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), which threatened his internet service provider with legal action. The MPAA issued an order to the ISP to unplug Michael Jay Rossi's Internetmovies.com because it said it had evidence that the site was distributing illegal copies of Return of the King. Lost on both the ISP and MPAA was the fact that  [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 5th 2005

Cookie Issue Makes Yahoo's Top Five Headlines, Jumps Shark

Click to enlargeAn Adweek   [...]
Posted: Monday, May 2nd 2005

News Corp Continues Tilt Against Nielsen's New Measurements

Rupert Murdoch,discrimation victimNews Corp. said it intends to ratchet up its lobbying efforts against Nielsen's local people meters, media measurement systems that more accurately measure individ  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 12th 2005

Google Responds to French Fears of Digitized Library

In an otherwise completely derivative piece, The New York Times managed to eke out a response from Google on the ginning up of nationalist pique at the idea that the "Anglo" Google might become the arbiter of what gets published in its massive Google Print project. Said a European G  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 12th 2005

French Court: Yahoo Ex-CEO Cleared of Helping Neo-Nazis

It turns out that former Yahoo CEO Timothy Koogle isn't a Nazi sympathizer after all, as a French court cleared him of the silly allegations made as part of an effort to force Yahoo to take down Nazi-related memorabilia from its auction site. French courts did find against Yahoo, forcing it to staff a group dedicated to taking down Nazi-related items as they pop up on the site. That case  [...]
Posted: Friday, April 8th 2005

FEC Mulls Rules on Regulating Blogs

E-Commerce Times covers the continuing debate over how much websites - especially blogs - should be considered campaign media activities, subject to the Federal Election Commissions rules and limitations. As the comment period begins on proposed rules, the debate is fully engaged. Separately, in a forum sponsored by the Pew Center broadcast on CSPAN on  [...]
Posted: Monday, April 4th 2005