An E-Commerce Times piece covers the growing phenomenon of blogs making advertising dollars, especially when specialized audiences are aggregated together by third party ad sales outfits like Burst and BlogAds. The report indicates bloggers quitting their day jobs remain rare....
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MSN will offer its own shopping search site to compete with the likes of Google's Froogle and Yahoo Shopping, according to ClickZ. The site, at beta.shopping.msn.com, hasn't yet developed a revenue model for listings and offers small rectangular ads....
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Yahoo's new Media Group in Hollywood continues to grow, according to CNET, placing ads for new positions in the news field as well as the entertainment-oriented staffing it has been pursuing. The new positions will report in Santa Monica, continuing...
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Time spent on the internet in the U.S. is now flat, with growth coming mostly from countries still catching up, according to Nielsen/NetRatings data covered by Internet Retailer. Americans with access spend about 14 hours online each month on average....
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Reports (via PaidContent) indicate InterActive Corporation is close to a deal with Ask Jeeves to acquire the number four search engine for about $1.9 billion....
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With "branded entertainment" all the rage today, MSN renamed its custom publishing unit the MSN Branded Entertainment Experiences Team, according to AdAge. The unit helps large brands figure out cut-through-the-clutter promotions and sponsorships....
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The largest French news service lodged a lawsuit against Google for having included headlines, pictures and other elements of its stories in its Google News aggregation service. Google's policy has been to allow sites to opt out of the Google...
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Google's Blogger application, allowing millions of people to run their blogs on a free system, has been choking recently. Reports indicate Google is aware of the performance problems and is working on them....
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A new survey by Jupiter revealed widespread skepticism as to the usefulness of RSS feeds among marketers, according to DM News. That skepticism may be well founded given that a recent BlogAds study showed that even the early adopters that...
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Wired reports that social networks are recruiting the "rock stars," both figuratively and literally, of various industries in order to attract new membership. The story likens the practice to night clubs promoting their hipness factor by finagling appearances by celebrities....
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MediaPost reports that NetApplications again is reporting reduced marketshare for Microsoft's Internet Explorer, losing out to increases by the Firefox browser. Firefox increased its share by about 10 percent to 6.17 percent of browsers used. IE's share went down to...
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