Rick Bruner offers best wishes to Dave and Lorea Morgan on the birth of Ana Rocio Morgan, born August 13. Dave, as many of you know, was the founder and original CEO of Real Media (now 247 Real Media) and...
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Following the launch of gaming magazine Stuff Gamer, Bedford Communications is launching a competing magazine called Surge. Both magazines are capitalizing on the fast growing gaming trend occurring both online and off. Technology Marketing Reports. Steve Hall comments....
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Tired of seeing customer relationship management (CRM) software companies begin to stand on its turf, accounting software company Intuit will fight back with a September release of a CRM product of its own, attaching sales record analysis and other features...
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Furthering the aims of a China-backed, 300-site consortium formed to displace Chinese citizens' reliance on Western search engines, Huicong International launched a specialized tool covering 200 million Chinese language pages and incorporating special pinyin (a westernized Chinese script) tools. CNET...
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Snooping around the right sites gives a peak into the goings on at some of the major search engines. Kevin Lee takes readers on a tour of some of the more cutting edge research sites....
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iMedia interviews ING's Tom Lynch, the consultant in charge of things interactive at the banking and brokerage giant. Lynch notes that ING has "yet to find a point of diminishing returns in our theory that bigger and richer media deliver...
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With many paid search ads appearing on each screen and several completely different ways of buying search inventory, not to mention the fact that ignorant market players may over-bid in cost-per-click auctions, paid search is increasingly a dangerous place to...
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The Census Bureau reports that e-commerce increased 28 percent year-over-year in the second quarter. Other forms of commerce increased less than 5 percent. DM News reports....
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While traditional media companies continue to argue over tens of millions of dollars worth of discrepancies caused by the Great Lakes Region blackout, in the vast majority of cases, if it didn't run online the media simply wasn't counted and...
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Despite two thirds of this summer's Hollywood sequels failing to meet expectations, the agencies that arrange for product placement and promotion deals continue to congratulate themselves for what they consider unalloyed success. AdWeek reports. Tig Tillinghast comments....
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Aside from the fact that Ad Age is covering this story seven months after the fact is besides the point. The encouraging point here is that GE is apparently planning another "Etch-A-Sketh"-like campaign for 2004. Ad Age reports. Steve Hall...
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The Ecommerce Times reports that Overture Vice President Paul Volen expects that his company's contextual paid listings product to produce $2 billion of revenue annually by 2008. Even more astonishingly, he predicts this will be only a quarter of what...
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Ask Jeeves has added the Smart Answers service to its search query engine, allowing users to receive localized and personalized search results. The service is part of recently launched Smart Search that examines user preferences to deliver customized shortcuts. Steve...
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Billed as "the article to give to your boss or anyone else who doesn't have much time, but needs to know the basic usability facts," this article provides a great breakdown of the what, why, when, how and where of...
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Hoping to avoid potentially stiff legal penalties as a result of new laws, porn web site operators are reconsidering a proposal for an XXX top level domain. Wired reports. Steve Hall comments....
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Acknowledging the web is not a direct sales channel for most consumer packaged goods, companies like Kraft see value and are using the medium to build brand in support of offline sales. New York Times reports. Steve Hall comments....
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The Internet Advertising Report, in a canvas of email service companies such as CheetahMail and Silverpop, reports that the bulk emailers report no negative effects from the Sobig virus that stymied many corporate email systems last week. IAR reports....
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Media giant Fox News was slammed by U.S. District Judge Denny Chin for attempting to block the sale of Al Franken’s book "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them." The Fox suit had set Internet media discussion groups aflame,...
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Yahoo plans to announce a partnership with Paramount Television to take over the management of the company's 'Entertainment Weekly' web site. Under the deal, Yahoo will provide streaming content and sell advertising for the site. LA Times reports. Steve Hall...
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As if the search engine marketer's job wasn't hard enough, managing thousands of listings across paid search venues, the Internet yellow pages and directory sites are getting into the act. IAR reports. Kevin Lee comments....
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Brazil will host the southern hemisphere's first domain name root server. Ten servers currently reside in the United States, followed by two in Europe and one in Asia....
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A Jared Spool study demonstrates, even the most horribly designed and constructed site can achieve wonderful results - just so long as the visitors feel confident that they will achieve their tasks. Spool's study suggests there are a few tricks...
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