Boeing is testing wireless fidelity Internet access on flights. Very, very cool, security concerns not withstanding. Silicon.com reports. Rick Bruner's knees get wobbly....
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In what might be a historic moment in online publishing: Six Apart, makers of the popular Moveable Type blog publishing software (which we use to produce Up2Speed), finally released TypePad, its web-based blog publishing platform. Rick Bruner reports....
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MSNBC runs a Newsweek story about Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean that appears next to ads for Dean's campaign. Rick Bruner wonders if this is just a coincidence and, suspecting not, raises questions about the journalistic ethics of this practice....
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Seeking a "fresh start," Yahoo fired creative shop Black Rocket and enlisted as the first client for new WPP firm Soho Square. The $40 million account will be helped along by other firms within the WPP network, according to Soho...
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Danny Sullivan discusses LookSmart's expansion of their LookListings service that's been designed to better cater to small businesses. Previously, the deep listings were offered only to large companies. ClickZ reports, Robert Loch posts. ...
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ClickZ publishes a guide to maintaining a sane newsletter production process, whether seeking to reach out to clients or merely communicating internally. It requires "inflicting discipline" on many others. ClickZ reports. Tig Tillinghast posts....
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Online marketing firm NetPlusMarketing opened up a Washington-Baltimore corridor office and hired Laureen Peck to head new business efforts. MediaPost reports. Tig Tillinghast posts....
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Excluding costs associated with the friendly takeover by InterActiveCorp, Expedia posted twice the profits of the last years equivalent quarter. The travel seller attributed growth in travel packages and, particularly, hotel bookings. NYT reports. Tig Tillinghast comments....
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A new study by the National Association of Realtors shows that 70 percent of home buyers turn first to the Internet to start their search. In the San Diego market, paid search clicks cost about a dollar and a half...
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Women's site iVillage bought the teen site gURL.com. Terms were not disclosed. gURL.com was purchased by Primedia - owner of Tiger Beat, among other titles in the genre - in 2001 from dELiA*s. IAR and Crain's NY report. Tig Tillinghast...
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The Interactive Advertising Bureau's e-mail committee chairman plans to withdraw support to the IAB's members for the Direct Marketing Association's Council for Responsible E-mail's long-awaited e-mail best practices document. This following yesterday's report of resignations from within the DMA's subsidiary...
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If you were wondering how third party rich media companies plan on competing with DoubleClick's Motif product, one response has just been introduced by floating ad pioneer Eyeblaster. It is a one megabyte drop-down banner ad unit. The ad unit...
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OK, so I'm a search marketer, and search is hot, but it seems I'm in the wrong business. If I were willing to toss away ethics and become a spammer, it looks like I could be making millions, at least...
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Cory Treffiletti writes of his three biggest pet peeves for online buying. They include insertion order shuffling, invoicing and reps that speak more than listen. MediaPost reports. Tig Tillinghast posts....
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Dynamic pricing helps e-commerce sites win the most revenue, shifting prices up in regions, times or in front of specific people, where logical criteria show that customers should be willing to pay more. But it isn't easy. Companies exist today...
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First comScore released qSearch, now Hitwise has launched a search tool to their own web stats product. They call it Hitwise Search Terms Intelligence Service, and it determines the terms that lead to competitive sites or sites within a specific...
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Espotting accidentally sent a really boring press release to 375 journalists today with all of their names in the CC field. Rick Bruner cruelly mocks them....
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Following on the heels of the NYT starting to charge for its popular email news alerts, Google News steps in to fill the void, providing free email new alerts of its own. Olivier Travers reports on a press release.
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A documentary maker is profiling Craigslist, the wildly successful grassroots classifieds forum. Sign on San Diego reports. Rick Bruner comments, including coming up with his own estimate for the company's revenue....
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