Americans were expecting this summer's major political party conventions to be chaotic, confusing and often silly affairs with unimportant outcomes, but now bloggers are getting involved. Democrats seem to be encouraging the bloggers, not surprisingly, seeing that the blogging demographics...
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AlmondNet announced the New York Post will use its targeting software, which allows publishers to target viewers based on what content they've recently viewed. Trying to position itself among Tacoda and Revenue Science in the behavioral targeting sphere, AlmondNet recently...
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E-commerce firms and customers will be hearing about a lot more online-versus-offline battles in various product categories, like the one centering on the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act that went into effect at the beginning of this year. Fearing...
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A study of online payment methods showed that direct checking account transfers now account for seven percent of online payments, with nine percent predicted for next year. The direct-from-checking-account payments have grown in good part because of credit card and...
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Search company Quigo launched an ad network allowing for click bidding on vertical batches of content, such as travel and beauty areas. The company hopes to address some advertisers' concerns that general bidding on keywords leaves too much waste when...
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Yahoo launched a new Chinese search engine just a week after Google announced its purchase of a stake in Baidu, another Chinese search firm. The new Yahoo Yisou ("top search") site will focus on a bare-bones search interface, contrasting from...
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The New York Times remains unimpressed with Gmail's ability to run ads targeted on the content of email messages. Part of the lack of ads on many emails comes from Google's own self-imposed restrictions. Emails mentioning sex or guns, for...
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A new web campaign by pro same-sex marriage group DontAmend targets Vice President Dick Cheney's gay daughter, accusing her of losing credibility for having championed her father's candidacy in 2000, yet remaining silent now that his administration's policy has proven...
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Harris Interactive reports that a study it conducted for Reply shows that the Internet is a very trusted source of product referrals, beating out referrals from parents, close friends and religious leaders. The only source that proved more trusted for...
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France is distributing post box stickers to citizens, allowing people to indicate if they do not want mail carriers to deliver unaddressed mail. The movement started off as an environmental effort, but quickly drew much support from anti-commercial groups. The...
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The Search Engine Lowdown story from last week turns out to be correct: Ask Jeeves is introducing several innovative search features in an effort to compete with Google not just on a marketshare basis, but also for search interface leadership....
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A day after Yahoo announced it will stop selling a special version of instant messaging clients to corporate customers, AOL announced it too would abandon the market. The move puts both companies squarely in the consumer camp. AOL said the...
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