YouTube's Favorite Clips
On YouTube, copyrighted video clips are far less popular compared with noncopyrighted material than previously thought, according to a new study.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/07/2007 | Digital Media

What is this thing called Web 2.0?
It has often been said by industry watchers that time flows faster when it comes to the development of the internet.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/07/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

MarketWatch's Bambi Francisco resigns to Run Startup
Dow Jones on Friday accepted the resignation of MarketWatch columnist Bambi Francisco, according to a brief statement released by the company.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/07/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

AOL launches search ad service with Google
Back in December 2005 when Google won a five-year extension of its search deal with AOL, the fine print included an AOL Marketplace based on white-label Google...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/07/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
For many web developers, myself included, the most intimidating part of the design process is getting started. Imagine for a moment that you're sitting at your desk...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/07/2007 | Website Design & Development

CrazyEgg - Measuring Web Site Usability
In Jakob Nielsen's latest book, Prioritizing Web Usability, the usability guru presents his latest discoveries on how to design usable web sites.
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/07/2007 | Website Design & Development

10 Tools to help you select a Web 2.0 Color Palette
Well, another day and another entry in our Bookmark Bliss series here at Fuzzy Future. I'll be the first to admit that when it comes to designing any...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/07/2007 | Website Design & Development

Technorati CEO Search Confirmed
Technorati has retained New York-based James & Company to conduct a CEO search for the company. For the last few weeks, the firm has been reaching...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/07/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

SEO All-Stars Rank Top 10 Algorithm Factors
This document represents the collective wisdom of 37 leaders in the world of organic search engine optimization. Together, they have voted on the various factors that...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/06/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Prices for '.com' and '.net' to rise
The master-keeper of Internet addresses ending in ".com" and ".net" - two of the most popular domain name suffixes - said Thursday it would raise fees charged to register...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/06/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

How to Get the Attention of a Venture Capitalist
At the Elite Retreat I gave an off-the-cuff answer to a question concerning getting the attention of venture capitalists. My buddy Wendy Piersall blogged about my answer...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/06/2007 | Venture Capital

Web Attack
Nastiness online can erupt and go global overnight, and "no comment" doesn't cut it anymore. Here's how to cope...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/06/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Beating Oprah at the book club game
LibraryThing is reinventing the reading group by offering bibliophiles a peek at everyone else's bookshelves.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/06/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Online Experiment for Print Magazine
The magazine, The Week, will publish the extra issue online to expand their digital presence in response to changing habits of both readers and advertisers.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/06/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Has Silicon Valley lost its edge?
Has the Valley lost its edge? Apparently it has, if the annual event at the Churchill Club in San Jose, Calif., last week is any indication.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/06/2007 | Venture Capital

Is DRM Doomed?
Digital rights management may be a failed experiment. Earlier this year, eMarketer released its Digital Downloading: Music, Movies and TV report, and predicted that...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/06/2007 | Digital Media

Another RedEnvelope loss
RedEnvelope, the luxury-goods site known for gift-wrapped packages and ivory ribbons, is once again stuck in a box.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/06/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Rewriting ethics rules for the new media
Some members of the so-called old-media establishment may no longer be able to wag a finger at what they say is questionable ethics among bloggers.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/05/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

How to Gather Competitive Research
To formulate an effective corporate strategy, it's essential to understand two basic questions: What is your company doing, and what are your competitors doing?
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/05/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Yahoo Lost Face Losing Facebook
When Facebook reputedly rejected Yahoo's billion-dollar buyout offer, Yahoo retreated to the sidelines. The missed opportunity may be one that did not really exist.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/05/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Rearden Commerce: Time For The Adults To Come In And Clean House
Silicon Valley based Rearden Commerce is a company that I've spoken to a few times over the last year to hear what they were up to.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/05/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

SEO Report Card: The Google Death Sentence
Seasonal online businesses, like Gifts By Delivery, have it tough. During most of the year, they live lean while sales slow to a trickle. Then autumn comes and the manna begins...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/05/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

DoubleClick Advertising Exchange - Could Lead To Major Showdown
The New York Times reported this morning that DoubleClick plans to launch an exchange for online advertisements. The system is described as follows...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/05/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Zillow Rival Snags $6M
Zillow.com rival Reply.com, a provider of online tools for buying houses and cars, has closed on $6 million in new funding from a venture capital syndicate...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/05/2007 | Venture Capital

Teens Scream for Streams
Three-fourths of US Internet users ages 12-24 have streamed digital content online, according to a new study by Ipsos Insight.
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/05/2007 | Website Analytics

DoubleClick to Set Up an Exchange for Buying and Selling Digital Ads
The exchange will bring Web publishers and ad buyers together on a Web site where they can participate in auctions for ad space.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/04/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Photo wars: A $2 billion business gets rough
The giants of the stock photo business--Getty Images and Corbis--are being challenged by a flock of tiny "microstock" agencies. And it's become a game that almost anyone...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/04/2007 | Website Design & Development

Don't Quit Your Day Job, Podcasters
Grammar Girl hit it big, but so far few others have been able to make the shows pay. Listening to Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing, ...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/04/2007 | Digital Media

Utah Law Bans Competitor Keyword Bids
The Utah State Legislature has passed a Trademark Protection Act that creates a new type of mark called an electronic registration mark...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/04/2007 | Search Marketing

Mozilla To Build Social Networking Into Firefox
Mozilla has released details on The Coop, a new product that will incorporate social networking features directly into the Firefox browser.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/04/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

The dirt on Amazon, Steve Jobs, Topix, Fatdoor...
First, Amazon rolled out a product called Mechancial Turk (image left), where people do tasks for you that a machine coudn't perform.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/04/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Peepel: New Web Office Suite
Peepel.com today announced the Beta launch of its Online Office Suite, entering a competitive market alongside existing vendors like Zoho, ThinkFree, Zimbra...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/04/2007 | Digital Media

Online Drives UK Total Ad Spend
Online ad spending in the UK accounted for 11.4% of all ad spending in 2006, according to new data from the Internet Advertising Bureau UK (IABUK)...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/04/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Domain Registrars' Better Business Bureau Records Spotty
Domain Name Wire surveyed the Better Business Bureau records of the seven largest domain registrars with considerable North American consumer operations.
eBusiness Information | Posting 4/04/2007 | Domaineering

Satellite circuit for Google TV ads
After months of speculation, Google has officially jumped into the television business. The Web giant announced on Monday that it is partnering with EchoStar to sell commercials...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/03/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Web-traffic specialist comScore files for IPO
ComScore Inc., a provider of influential Internet traffic-measurement reports and marketing data, said Monday it plans to raise as much as $86.3 million in an initial public...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/03/2007 | Website Analytics

ClickTale Heatmaps Launching Now
ClickTale, a user tracking service for websites similar to CrazyEgg, will announce the launch of ClickTale Heatmaps in the next few minutes.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/03/2007 | Website Analytics

Online Ads to Surpass Radio
Online advertising is set to overtake radio next year -- beating previous forecasts -- media experts have predicted. Media services firm ZenithOptimedia forecasts that worldwide...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/03/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Blogging Is About Writing
When you visit Google, do you click a picture to begin your search? Do you face a screen full of images like in a grocery store self-checkout?
eBusiness News | Posted 4/03/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Web site cuts out charity middlemen
Folks in need can post appeals, let donors decide whom to support. Ken and Kristie Sigler have sold cookbooks and football tickets to raise $16,000 for an adoption. For the final...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/03/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Compete.com Announces the only Attention-Based Web Metrics
For the last few months we have made several posts using a new metric we refer to as Attention. We created our Attention metric because all of us in online marketing need...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/03/2007 | Website Analytics

Next Service To Try Gaming Digg: Subvert and Profit
Subvert and Profit is the newest service to try to sell home page placement on Digg. Like User/Submitter and Spike the Vote before it...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/03/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Bloggers Resolve Dispute On CNN
Before their appearance on CNN this morning, bloggers Kathy Sierra and Chris Locke issued a joint statement responding to issues raised throughout the blogosphere...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/02/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

BritePic - photography may never be the same
Advertising start-up AdBrite has launched an elegant way to put ads on digital photos, a potentially revolutionary way for photographers to make money.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/02/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

EMI, Apple offer DRM-free music downloads
EMI said it was making its digital music catalog available without the anti-piracy measure known as digital rights management (DRM), with Apple Inc.'s iTunes as its first...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/02/2007 | Digital Media

Google joins race to buy DoubleClick: report
Google Inc. has emerged with Microsoft Corp. as a contender to buy online advertising company DoubleClick Inc., according to a media report Monday.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/02/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Topix.com homes in on citizen journalists
People who want to know more about what's happening in their neighborhoods will have a new way to stay abreast of local news beginning Monday.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/02/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

PayPal Entices Small Business
PayPal has launched a product aimed at helping small and medium businesses accept online payments securely and cost-effectively. The Website Payments Pro product...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/02/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Startup extends ads to video downloads
In what analysts think might be a first in the highly experimental advertising market, YuMe Networks Inc. is powering an ad campaign that allows the customization of video ads...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/02/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Warner's Digital Watchdog Widens War on Pirates
Warner's growing antipiracy efforts are at the forefront of the movie industry as they try to protect the studio's control over its content.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/02/2007 | Digital Media

eBay Watch: Choosing Categories for Conversions
This week eBay began extending its maintenance period by two hours to four hours a week. It's likely many sellers won't even notice the change, though...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/02/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

What it Takes to Sell to a Teenager Online
Many teens today are very particular about the websites that they use. From what the website is selling, to the cursors that are being used on them.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/02/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

If at First You Don't Succeed, Write a Check
Microsoft's new program to pay companies to use its search engine brings an entirely new approach to acquiring customers: buying them at wholesale, instead of retail.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/01/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Twitter: Is Brevity The Next Big Thing?
Jack Dorsey has long been obsessed with status. [I'M WRITING THE LEAD TO MY COLUMN] Not in the snob-appeal sense, but status as in 'where are you...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/01/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Advertising.com to Manage Video Ads for News Corp./NBC Venture
News Corporation and NBC Universal's upcoming video network needs an ad management platform. It comes as little surprise Advertising.com is charged with the task...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/01/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales