Wikipedia Shakeup: Resignations
Two top employees of the Wikimedia Foundation have resigned, citing disagreements with the board.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/24/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

How Google Could Lose $2.1 Billion. Or Not.
Online advertisers can spend 30% less and still get the same results, says the head of a search engine marketing firm.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/24/2007 | Search Marketing

No Fear of Remapping URLs of your Site
Search Engine Watch published an interesting case study today about a site that remapped all dynamic URLs via a tools...
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/24/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Digital Assets: What Are They, And How Are They Sold?
Digital assets, often called digital content, are products that can be consumed via an electronic handheld device or used online.
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/24/2007 | Digital Media

Where Is Microsoft Search?
Its stumbles on the Web could open the door for rivals to come after its core business. Time has always seemed to be Microsoft Corp.'s ally.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/24/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

GM, Cadbury Sign With YouTube Rival
General Motors, Cadbury Schweppes, Intel, Cisco and E-surance are among the charter advertisers that have signed aboard the YouTube-rival video site launching...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/24/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Is Amazon.com catching the eBay disease?
Anyone who has closely watched eBay, the giant online auctioneer, knows that their sellers don't need them as much as they once used to, mostly because of contextual...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/24/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Comparing Search Popularity Ratings: Google Climbs...
Previously, I've covered individually the latest search popularity figures for February 2007 in the United States that have been issued by the major ratings services of comScore...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/24/2007 | Search Marketing

The community spirit of Yahoo's Fake
To many, Caterina Fake is one of the heroes of the Web 2.0 era. As a co-founder of Flickr, she has a lifetime of cred among the geek set.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/23/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Disney, startups battle for tweens online
Webkinz and Club Penguin struck gold by attracting millions of kids to their online worlds and keeping them there. What makes their sites so sticky? Business 2.0 reports.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/23/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Mark Cuban: Why the NBC/Newscorp Video Venture is a Great Idea
I have no idea what the traffic will be for this new venture if they create a single destination site. I have no idea what the traffic will be for video hosted by the distribution partners...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/23/2007 | Digital Media

YouTube May Have Met Its Match
The News Corp.-NBC online video service could be a worthy rival to Google's popular site-for viewers and content partners alike.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/23/2007 | Digital Media

A Web Analytics Breakthrough (That May Never Be Used)
One of the most potentially powerful Web analytics tools out there isn't being used for Web analytics.
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/23/2007 | Website Analytics

News Corp. and NBC in Web Deal
In a long-anticipated challenge to YouTube and other online video sites, two big media companies yesterday announced a new venture to showcase their own...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/23/2007 | Digital Media

Google AdSense makes you look unprofessional?
Just how much do you value your own appearance? Would you give up on making a great first impression for a few extra dollars a month?
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/23/2007 | Adsense & Other Context Ads

Step-by-step logo
I don't know about you but I love to see examples of how other designers work--they reveal better (or worse) ways of doing things and allow me to gauge...
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/23/2007 | Website Design & Development

Invasion of the Web Amateurs
Andrew Keen is not surprised at the latest twist in the ongoing saga of Wikipedia. In his view, the entire Internet movement involving...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/23/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google AdSense: Facts, FAQs and Tools
Google AdSense is probably one of the most popular revenue generators in the Web. We hear the stories about bloggers-genies, who manage to turn their blogs...
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/23/2007 | Adsense & Other Context Ads

Domain name sale of the century
After a dramatic story of theft and retrieval of perhaps one of the most desirable domain names ever, it is now up for sale and expected to attract substantial bids.
eBusiness Information | Posting 3/23/2007 | Domaineering

Online Advertisers Bet on Video but Count on Display
Nearly all Web sites with streaming content are monetizing it with video advertising, according to a survey of sites in the Advertising.com network.
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/23/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

New site aims to be the YouTube of gaming
When video game maker Jim Greer approached Silicon Valley investors to give him nearly $1 million for his start-up. he had an irresistible pitch: "It's video games meets YouTube."
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/22/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Net-porn ban faces another legal setback
Congress' efforts to muzzle pornography on the Web were dealt another serious setback on Thursday, when a federal judge ruled a 1998 law was unconstitutional and violated...
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/22/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

News Corp., NBC pull together to challenge YouTube
Several media giants are teaming up to challenge Google Inc. and its YouTube video-sharing service, seeking to blunt their incursion into the entertainment business.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/22/2007 | Digital Media

Google Testing Yellow AdWords Background
I have been receiving sporadic reports of this over the paste few months, and even JenSense spotted this earlier this month.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/22/2007 | Search Marketing

How To Market Your Web App
So after 1 year of fund-raising, planning and development, your shiny new beta web app is finally ready...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/22/2007 | eMail & Viral Marketing

Top 10 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites
When baby boomers get talking, there's no stopping them. Here are the top 10 largest social bookmarking sites ranked by a combination of Compete and Quantcast data.
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/22/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Yahoo names click fraud czar
Yahoo has promoted one of its staff attorneys to an executive-level position that is akin to being click fraud czar at the second largest Web search provider.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/22/2007 | Search Marketing

Systematic Theft - One Search Engine Optimization Company's 'Nasty Surprise'
Let's face it - any search engine optimization company knows that the industry has carried a collective black eye for many years.
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/22/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

66 Ways to Build Links in 2007
If 'Content is King', then links are what put that king on the throne. Build links and you'll be able to display your content to the world. Don't build links...
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/22/2007 | Link Building

Is Web 2.0 over and out?
New Internet technologies, defined vaguely as 'Web 2.0,' have gone mainstream, but the cycle of innovation may be slowing, suggests a venture capitalist.
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/22/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Podcasters aim to push song to top of iTunes chart
If a band of renegade podcasters has its way, the No. 1 song Thursday at Apple's iTunes site won't be by a major-label star such as Fergie or Fall Out Boy.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/22/2007 | Digital Media

Boomers Big on Word-of-Mouth
When baby boomers get talking, there's no stopping them. A majority of baby boomers get asked for recommendations on products and services about 90 times every...
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/22/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Panning for Video Gold
Sarah Harden is overwhelmed by all those videos available on the Internet. The vice president for business development at Fox Cable Group is one of a growing number
eBusiness News | Posted 3/22/2007 | Digital Media

Why a Strong Brand Is a Search Marketer's Best Asset
For brand marketers using search, a brand name may be their best asset. That's the finding of a recent Travelocity study...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/21/2007 | Search Marketing

Use the Internet to find investors
Question: I recently have launched a business that offers new products and services for digital photos. Where can I attract investors?
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/21/2007 | Venture Capital

Digesting Google's New PPA Advertising Product
Google announced the testing of a new pay-per-action, or PPA, advertising product today. It's important for a number of reasons, not...
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/21/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Google Webmaster Central Hack for Additional Link Information
Last week I posted about the new extended link support from Google through their Webmaster Central - earlier Google sitemap.
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/21/2007 | Link Building

Positive and Negative Quality Ranking Factors from Google's Blog Search
Google's blog search shows results in responses to searchers queries based upon a combination of relevance scores and quality scores.
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/21/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Setting A Value For An Ecommerce Business
How much is my business worth? It's a question most entrepreneurs eventually ask, and online merchants are no different.
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/21/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Top 10 Sites about Typography
Fonts and Typography are one of the most important aspects of any design, online or off, so to help you get to grips with it we are going to round up the best online resources...
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/21/2007 | Website Design & Development

Oodle Raises $11 Million
Oodle, the new way to shop with classifieds, announced it has raised $11 million in funding from new investor JAFCO Ventures as well as from Greylock Partners...
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/21/2007 | Venture Capital

Blogs turn 10--who's the father?
Someone, somewhere created the very first Web log. It's just not quite clear who. It may not be one of the Internet's grandest accomplishments...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/21/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

The power of brands: Commentary: Can Web 2.0 names smarten the pipes?
As voice, television, Internet and wireless services converge, the question facing the players is: Who accrues the most value?
eBusiness News | Posted 3/21/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Video Ads Get the Clicks
If you've heard enough about online video ads, too bad. You will probably hear a lot more, because they work.
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/21/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Would There Be A YouTube Without MySpace?
YouTube's explosion onto the Internet scene was no accident. It was timing - timing so fortuitous that you might compare it to an alignment of the planets.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/21/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Channels.com, another guide to Web video
Everyone wants a piece of the El Dorado of video, and the latest Silicon Valley start-up effort is Channels.com.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/21/2007 | Digital Media

Top Ten Things They Never Taught Me in Design School
The Architect's Newspaper is my new favorite design publication. It's a 16-page tabloid that comes out about twice a month.
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/21/2007 | Website Design & Development

Alexa error triggers crisis of confidence
Web 2.0 may indeed be waning as a meme, as Crosslink Capital's Peter Rip suggests. Technology evangelists and journalists have probably vented all there is to say ...
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/20/2007 | Website Analytics

How to Get Started as a Domainer: 28 Tips, Techniques and Resources
How does a salary of $10,000 per day sound to you? Webmaster and marketing extraordinaire Marcus Frind reportedly pulls in $10,000 per day in Google AdSense...
eBusiness Information | Posting 3/20/2007 | Domaineering

Allth.at Launches Innovative Search Agents App
Allth.at was one of the 100 top alternative search engines in Charles Knight's February list. It's a search agent that allows you to define...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/20/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Pay-per-action beta test
Is there a specific action on your site that you want visitors to complete? Do you know how much that action is worth to your business?.
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/20/2007 | Adsense & Other Context Ads

Google adds decorative themes to home page
Sprucing up its famously plain Web site, Google Inc. is offering a new option that plants its Internet search box in panoramic settings...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/20/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Web sales feedback hard to count on
The eBay vendor had a glowing record: more than 900 successful sales, with only a single complaint amid a long series of positive testimonials from customers.
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/20/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Web 3.0: When Web Sites Become Web Services
Today's Web has terabytes of information available to humans, but hidden from computers. It is a paradox that information...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/20/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

The realistic entrepreneur's guide to venture capital
Optimism is a key to success, but it doesn't necessarily work so well when it comes to VC. Because this is a cottage industry with thousands of players...
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/20/2007 | Venture Capital

Google searches for YouTube payoff
Google's purchase of YouTube last fall seemed like a no-brainer to the search engine's executives. Online video had exploded...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/20/2007 | Digital Media

One Digg Clone Takes Legal Action Against Another Digg Clone
File this under 'ridiculous.' Digg clone SuperGu has sent a cease & desist letter to (open source) Digg clone Pligg alleging a number of copyright infringements.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/20/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

J&J Jolts 'Old' Media With $250 Million Ad Spend Shift
Staid Johnson & Johnson is proving to be marketing's Elvis Presley: While rivals talk up nontraditional marketing without changing measured-media spending habits...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/20/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Baidu's click-fraud problem, and more on Fraudwall
Chinese search engine Baidu is apparently having more problems with click-fraud that Google is - and it has hurt Baidu's stock.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/20/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Top 10 Flash Sites of 2007
eBizMBA has scoured the web to deliver you the best and most inspirational Flash websites of 2007.
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/20/2007 | Website Design & Development

Hot but Virtuous Is an Unlikely Match for an Online Dating Service
In part because of its provocative ads, True.com has become one of the most popular and controversial sites in the online dating industry.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/20/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google ads coming to a video game near you as Adscape deal closes
Rumors have been flying for months about a Google buyout of Adscape, a San Francisco-based in-game marketer. The deal is now official...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/20/2007 | Digital Media

IE7 still creating problems for developers?
For the last couple of years, we developers have been struggling with IE incompatibilities while creating and testing our sites.
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/20/2007 | Website Design & Development

Is Online News Living Your Experience?
The essence of sites doing well with online news comes from embracing two concepts: participation, and community relevance.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/19/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

YouTube to announce awards for user video
Lonelygirl15, OK Go and other YouTube sensations will get an opportunity to walk down a virtual red carpet.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/19/2007 | Digital Media

Viacom's Full-Court Press for Online Ads
Justin Timberlake did not attend Nickelodeon's annual advertising presentation this month, but one of Viacom's own ad sales executives, Jim Tricarico, took the stage to perform...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/19/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

MTV injects prime-time TV into online game
In recent weeks, the network has quietly deployed Daily Rage!-- sparingly plugging its URL on air in selected prime-time series, from Bam's Unholy Union to My Super Sweet 16.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/19/2007 | Digital Media

Adobe Launches Apollo, Alpha Version
Adobe will launch the first public alpha version of its Apollo platform later tonight....It allows developers to build RIA (Rich Internet Applications) for the desktop,...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/19/2007 | Website Design & Development

Expresso Fitness Secures Additional $9 Million Investment
Expresso Fitness, the leading supplier of interactive cardio fitness systems, announced today that it has raised $9.3M in a Series C round of funding.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/19/2007 | Venture Capital

The Web 2.0 Address Book May Have Arrived
David Pogue has a new, universal phone number: [number omitted] This number rings all my phones at once: home phone, work phone, cellphone, hotel room, wherever I happen...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/19/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Digital Media Money Play
Web 2.0 properties have done a great job of generating traffic. But turning that traffic into profits is a tad bit trickier..
eBusiness News | Posted 3/19/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

MySpace launches politics channel
MySpace, the largest Internet social network, said on Sunday it has launched a politics channel ahead of the 2008 U.S. presidential elections.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/19/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google Gooses Big Media
'Content is king.' It's a phrase uttered repeatedly by media executives making the case that the movies, music, TV shows, books and journalism their companies produce...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/18/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

15 Minute SEO
Here is a checklist of the factors that affect your rankings with Google, MSN, Yahoo! and the other search engines. The list contains positive...
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/18/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Fox executive new TechCrunch CEO
Heather Harde, senior vice president of mergers and acquisitions at Fox Interactive Media is all set to join as the new chief executive officer at TechCrunch, an technology blog...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/18/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Creating User Friendly 404 Pages
Printed magazines are all well and good but they cant deliver up to the minute information and articles like an online magazine can.
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/18/2007 | Website Design & Development

Does an Interactive Upfront Make Sense?
The concept of the interactive upfront has been bandied about for the past five years or so. The idea is cribbed from the annual television ritual of splashy...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/18/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Viacom's Web guru plans for the future
If Viacom continues to engage in a corporate shoving match with Google's YouTube, Mika Salmi may well be the entertainment conglomerate's secret weapon.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/18/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

GOOG Acquisitions: Trendalyzer & Adscape Media
A quick heads-up on two new Google acquisitions. First, Google has announced the purchase of Gapminder's Trendalyzer software.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/18/2007 | Venture Capital