Dealtime changed its name to shopping.com. Kevin Lee reports on a press release....
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A Web site in France offers a second chance to creative ideas (and for creative directors who fail to satisfy a client) through an anonymous tender process. Le Journal du Net reports. Martina Zavagno posts....
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Penton has launched what it deems the first B-to-B half page online ad units on its Windows and .NET web sites. Half page ad units are not new to the online world with New York Times Digital and CBS MarketWatch...
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ICAAN, occasionally criticized for moving slowly in its regulation and oversight of domain names, has redeemed itself by asking VeriSign to stop high-jacking incorrectly entered Internet addresses. CNET reports. Steve Hall comments....
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Broadband users are touchy about their access, according to a new study by Horowitz Associates/Livingston and Company. They feel that having restrictions such as download quantity limits - even enormous ones - and restrictions from setting up servers would severely...
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Advertisers generally agree that the cost of Superbowl television spots make the purchases extremely inefficient for most purposes. But last three seasons have seen perennial debates on whether or not the sheer PR value of having had a Superbowl spot...
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Veritas Software awarded its approximately $15 million media buying account to Grey's MediaCom. About 20 firms competed for the business, including Universal McCann and Carat. The incumbent was the San Francisco office of Hill, Holliday, Conners, Cosmopulos. The creative portion...
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In the current climate of corporate accountability, heads of large ad agencies are increasingly uncomfortable with the whatever-you-please and sometimes purely fictive methods of accounting for media billings. Where in the 1980s agencies fought to beat their chests the hardest,...
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The State of Illinois is suing 62 e-tailers, alleging that they failed to pay sales taxes on goods sold even though they maintain "a physical presence" in the state. In a novel interpretation of such a physical presence, Illinois maintains...
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Garnering mixed reaction, Roxio's Napster is trying its hand at street cred advertising in a new poster campaign that places Napster kitty stickers over the faces shown on faux posters. Wired reports. Steve Hall comments....
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An interesting interview with Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Michael Powell appeared in the New York Times. Topics covered include why he is likely to have three TVs going at once, playing with Spounge Bob Square Pants, the news...
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Kevin Aylward of Wizbang explains how to unleash an "Instalanche" on your site (i.e., a link from mega-blogger Glenn Reynolds of InstaPundit). The advice - write well, ask nicely, address topics of interest - is applicable to most large blogs....
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At a conference last week in Connecticut called "Cyber Crime 2003," Joseph Sullivan, director of the "law enforcement and compliance" at eBay, proudly told a room full of law-enforcement agents how the world's biggest online retailer is only too happy...
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Email marketing services firm Quris released research today about consumers' increasingly restrictive "inner circle" of permission email marketing relationships, with advice for companies as to how to gain and maintain access to that exclusive trust. Rick Bruner, who helped prepare...
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Afilias introduces the first domain names to incorporate special characters unique to non-English languages. Buyers can now register dot-info domains with the German umlaut character....
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No sooner did Dealtime decide it is "Shopping.com" than Yahoo went into the shopping bot, product comparison business. This is particularly interesting because Dealtime, Pricegrabber, BizRate, Nextag and other comparison engines are big customers of Overture, which is soon to...
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