They're crying over at The Onion, but it's tears of laughter. And, now that the seven year old satire site is turning profits, they're laughing to the bank. Poking fun and boldly citing the absurdities of the digital world, The...
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Marketers anticipating commerce traffic spikes, such as holiday rushes, will either grin and bear the site outages or start now to prepare for the 2003 holiday season. E-commerce Times gives the run-down on the different types of back-end options to...
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Because several states - like Delaware - have already passed laws banning unsolicited email, to no real effect, many netizens have written off state legislation as a means of squelching spam. But Delaware's attorney general office never attempted to enforce...
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America Online, as part of their launch today of 'AOL 9.0 Optimized' is offering its broadband subscribers free live video access to the Dave Matthews Band concert in New York's Central Park. Internet Advertising Report reports. Steve Hall comments....
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Ringo.com, a networking site like Friendster and Ryze, put out an RFP to members of Fark, a community weblog, asking Farkers to create an ad campaign for the company. Ringo offered a $1,000 prize to the winning entry. Well, the...
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Payments transaction service provider PayPal may be the biggest thing since credit cards, but it has a ways to go before it convinces a great many sites that it's serious about becoming a seamless, behind-the-scenes part of the commerce enterprise....
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Arianna Huffington, candidate in the already-funny California gubernatorial recall election, put out another Flash spot, (http://votearianna.com/cleanhouse/) her competition's special interest brown nosing. Characterizing them as prostitutes in an Old West cathouse, her ad is good for at least three good...
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In the U.K., Mazda launched two new viral movie clips promoting the new Mazda6 to thirtysomething men. Digital Bulletin reports. Steve Hall posts....
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Fredrick Marckini discusses the implications surrounding Microsoft's threatened entry into the search engine space, and speculates on how it is likely to position itself in the market. ...
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In this article, C.J. Fraleigh, head of marketing at General Motors (which spent a staggering $3.5B on advertising last year) says, "Traditional ad agencies have become soft and flabby and no longer figure out how to sell product by coming...
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In a move that may frighten many mainstream companies that use online streaming, a holding company that owns a sheaf of patents was able to shut down (temporarily) a large porn streaming site for failure to come to a licensing...
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The much anticipated federal Do Not Call Registry was inappropriately created, according to an Oklahoma federal district court, ruling that it may not go into effect, as it had planned to do October 1. The court ruled that the registry's...
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Starting this week, British Airways has launched an "aggressive effort" to attract more customers to its Club World flat bed business class with an ad campaign that will span TV, print and online, in the form of "cinematic" rich media...
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In a move that is sure to please child safety advocates yet raise the ire of sex chataholics around the globe, Microsoft has shut down its chat service in 28 countries and will move to subscription models in other countries....
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