Local TV stations face Net threat
The Internet is the cause of much fear and loathing here at this gathering of broadcasters. Some attendees of the National Association of Broadcasters conference this week...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/21/2007 | Digital Media

Atten.tv Lets You Track Others' Video-Watching Habits
Atten.tv is a new service that creates a network of those watching and broadcasting online videos. Atten.tv will track the clickstream of users to offer up a unique data set based...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/21/2007 | Digital Media

IAB Calls for Third-Party Audits on comScore, Nielsen/Netratings
It's another sign the internet is growing up: The Internet Advertising Bureau is calling on comScore and Nielsen/NetRatings for audited and accredited third-party audience...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/21/2007 | Website Analytics

The Six Things You Can't Say in Silicon Valley
God, these people are uptight! The recent tiffs over some startupper dissing the women of Microsoft and another startupper's wandering wifi sniffer reminded me one of the...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/21/2007 | Venture Capital

More Boomers Watching Online Video
It's not just the kids watching online video these days. At 39.4 years old, the average adult who downloads video is about five years younger than the average Internet user...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/21/2007 | Digital Media

DreamHost Goes Green
DreamHost has today announced that they are carbon neutral. They now purchase renewable energy credits and carbon credits to offset the pollutants that are created...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/21/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Most Frequently Visited Websites - Not What You'd Expect
March's Comscore numbers just came out. I took a look at the top 2000 web domains, but this time I ranked them by number of visits per month. The results were a little surprising.
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/21/2007 | Website Analytics

How to Do Long-Term (Budget) SEO using Keyword Domains
Search Engine Journal's Ahmed Bilal has an article at Marketing niche SEO and how the industry will change in the next two months.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/21/2007 | Search Marketing

Marketeers Enter Virtual World
Real-life reps rolled onto the Riviera Thursday to discuss virtual worlds and their role in the digital future. In a series of panel discussions, Mip TV delegates learned you can buy...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/21/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Google's TroubleClick
Is Google becoming an impulse shopper? Last October, the company traded $1.65 billion of its stock for YouTube, a start-up with enormous potential that has produced little...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/20/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

The Unstoppable Surge of Search Advertising
Looking at the numbers, according to comScore, US Internet users performed 75.8% of their January 2007 searches on Google or Yahoo!, and Nielsen//NetRatings put the...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/20/2007 | Search Marketing

Campus Massacre Puts Spotlight on FaceBook
At a moment of great trauma, the students of Virginia Tech - and a wider world of horrified onlookers - have turned to the social networks of the internet to connect...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/20/2007 | Venture Capital

35 Designers x 5 Questions
35 designers. 5 questions. 5 precise answers. Result: 175 professional suggestions, tips and ideas from some of the best web-developers all around the world.
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/20/2007 | Website Design & Development

The Surfer's Guide to the Web TV Galaxy
Search engines, tech startups, and media networks are competing to become the go-to portal and guide to professionally made online programming.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/20/2007 | Digital Media

Breaking: Google Acquires Video Conferencing Company
Google's acquisition spree just keeps going on. Today Google announced that it has acquired Sweden based Marratech's video conferencing software.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/20/2007 | Digital Media

TicketMaster Sues Stubhub (eBay) For Scalping
We had posted some months ago that TicketMaster was red hot over the wave of ticket reselling startups like Stubhub and Razorgator and it vowed to take legal action.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/20/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

The RSS Dilemma
People subscribing to the RSS feeds of VentureBeat or other blogs are no more likely to click back to the original site if they are reading 'partial' feeds than if they are reading...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/20/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Two-Thirds of the US Online Population Is Using Google
After last month's market share release Danny Sullivan was kind enough to reach out to us and asked us a few questions about our search numbers.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/20/2007 | Search Marketing

Web Counting Tools 'Need Change'
The way web audiences are measured could be ripe for an overhaul, according to two reports out this week.
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/20/2007 | Website Analytics

Experian Buys Hitwise
Information solutions company Experian today announced that it acquired internet market intelligence firm Hitwise for approximately $240 million.
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/19/2007 | Website Analytics

Goodbye Froogle, Hello Google Product Search!
Back in December 2002, Google launched its long expected product and shopping search engine. It was called Froogle, a combination of 'frugal' and 'Google.'
eBusiness News | Posted 4/19/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Yahoo's Next Search: A New CEO?
An 11% decline in profits raises questions about Terry Semel's longevity and overshadows the expansion of the search engine's eBay partnership...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/19/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Web 2.0 Showing Signs of Bubble 2.0 Already
Everything is about exit strategies, not good products. There were numerous trade shows here and there this week. In San Francisco we had Web 2.0 Expo, a joint effort by CMP...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/19/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google Rains on StumbleUpon Parade: Launches Direct Competitor
Google's latest rollout of features are great for those of you that like personalization, regularly use your Google start page, and like Google search. They still do search...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/19/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

eBay Acquiring StumbleUpon
High-flying startup StumbleUpon has been rumored to be in acquisition discussions since at least last November. Recently we've heard that talks have heated up again, with...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/19/2007 | Venture Capital

BBC to Open Up Archive For Trial
The BBC is to open up its vast archive of video and audio in an on-demand trial involving more than 20,000 people in the UK.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/19/2007 | Digital Media

Amazon Sues Alexaholic...Everyone Loses!
Imagine this scenario...You're CEO of a $16 billion company and you've just given a warm and fuzzy sales pitch to thousands of up and coming Web 2.0 developers...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/19/2007 | Website Analytics

Basic Definitions: Web 1.0, Web. 2.0, Web 3.0
'What do people mean when they talk about the Web 2.0?' is a query we receive repeatedly, and probably has as many answers as the number of people out there...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/19/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

MSN: The Dr Pepper of Search
Call us crazy, but it seems highly unlikely that the folks at Microsoft's Redmond, Wash., headquarters use this rallying cry when talking about the company's MSN unit.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/19/2007 | Search Marketing

The Four Comedy Sites You Haven't Laughed at Yet
There are two ways to do internet video. Either let everyone throw up whatever they want and hope the good stuff sticks, or demand a little quality.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/19/2007 | Digital Media

Schmidt Defends DoubleClick Buy, Net Neutrality
At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco today, Google CEO Eric Schmidt spoke with Federated Media's John Battelle to discuss Google's purchase of DoubleClick...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/19/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

EBay Profit Climbs 52 Percent
EBay posted better-than-expected profit in the first quarter as several of its newer businesses compensated for disappointing results in its mainstay auction service.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/18/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Web 2.0 is All About the Money
The Web 2.0 crowd totally cracks me up -- all this prattle about reinventing the wheel, as if networking and community building haven't been core aspects of the Internet since...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/18/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Web 2.0: More Voyeurs than Creators
Web 2.0, a catchphrase for the latest generation of web sites where users contribute their own text, pictures and video content, is far less participatory than...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/18/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Bungee Labs - Next Generation Web Development Platform
An ambitious new on-demand, web-based development environment that enables developers to build and deploy web apps that utilize the large variety of APIs and...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/18/2007 | Website Design & Development

AOL Boss Predicts it Will Be No. 1 Again
AOL CEO Randy Falco spent 31 years working in television, most recently as the president of NBC Universal's television group.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/18/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google: The Ad Dominator?
Deals with Clear Channel and EchoStar and an agreement to acquire DoubleClick have competitors worried. But they shouldn't give up the game just yet...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/18/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Yahoo Profit Down From a Year Ago
Yahoo saw a drop in net profit for the first quarter from a year ago, but met its revenue guidance as its new online advertising system started to gain steam.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/18/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

TechStars Summer Camp for Entrepreneurs: Winners Selected
TechStars is doing something similar to what YCombinator has done - they're funding 10 teams with up to $15,000 in seed capital and providing office space...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/18/2007 | Venture Capital

More Domain Names Sell than you Think
The 'unreported' domain name market dwarfs reported sales. Each week Ron Jackson publishes the week's highest reported domain name sales for the week at DNJournal.com.
eBusiness Information | Posting 4/20/2007 | Domaineering

New IAC Site to Aim for Black Audience
IAC/InterActiveCorp, which operates 69 Web properties including Ask, Ticketmaster and Lending Tree, is moving into the realm of 'ethnically focused' online destinations and its...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/20/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google's Profits Surge 70%
Google said profits soared nearly 70 percent in the first quarter on the back of solid sales growth, allowing the world's No. 1 search engine to keep its dominant spot...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/19/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Social Network Ad Scramble
With fierce competition, sites explore new ad models. Social networking buzz belies an impending sector shakeout, according to In-Stat's 'Social Networking: Finding Friends...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/19/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

MySpace Visitors to Vote on What's News
Leave it to the folks behind "American Idol" to ask tens of millions of MySpace visitors to vote for their favorite news story.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/19/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Price Is Key to Digital Music Growth
A dollar per track is the sweet spot for online, mobile services. Two new digital developments promise relief for the music industry, which has been fighting declining...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/18/2007 | Digital Media

YouTube to Split Revenues with Users
YouTube could take an important step toward integrating advertising with its vast library of videos as soon as next week.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/18/2007 | Digital Media

14 Tab-Based Interface Techniques
The popularity of tabs, well-known from tabbed document interfaces (TDI), is rapidly growing, challenging the creativity of both developers and designers.
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/18/2007 | Website Design & Development

Amazon Web Services Losing Money
Amazon.com Inc.'s Web services business isn't profitable, but it's growing very rapidly and the company expects it to make money eventually,...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/18/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Ferrell in Web Comedy Venture
Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's Gary Sanchez Prods. is making a splash on the Internet, partnering with leading venture capital firm Sequoia Capital to launch comedy video site...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/18/2007 | Venture Capital

390 Search Marketing Blogs
Below is a collection of over 390 blogs covering search marketing with a few that venture into blogging, social media and new media public relations.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/18/2007 | Search Marketing

Web Design 101: Positioning
Any cascading style sheets (CSS) newbie will have heard about it, right? CSS positioning-absolute this and relative that. Perhaps you have some vague idea...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/18/2007 | Website Design & Development

Yahoo, PayPal Team Up On Checkout
Building on their existing alliance, Yahoo and PayPal today announced that Yahoo Sponsored Search results will feature a blue shopping cart icon linking to merchants...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/18/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Google Treads on PowerPoint Turf
Google is adding a feature to its Docs & Spreadsheets Web-hosted software that will enable people to create presentations and slide shows...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/18/2007 | Digital Media

Google Vows to DoubleProtect Consumer Privacy
When Google announced its purchase of the internet's largest placer of banner ads, DoubleClick, last Friday for $3.1 billion in cash, the search and text-ad giant took...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/18/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Adobe Previews New Media Player
Adobe gave its new free desktop media player one heck of an introduction on Monday at the National Association of Broadcasters show, with live demos at its booth...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/18/2007 | Digital Media

How to Make Money Without Really Trying
Business 2.0 Magazine looks at scrappy entrepreneurs who are squeezing big money out of websites that tap into the latest news, trends, and search fads.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/17/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Yahoo Takes on Google in the Analytics Game
As Google moves ahead with its acquisition of online advertising powerhouse DoubleClick, Yahoo continues to wage its own battle with Google on several fronts, including...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/17/2007 | Website Analytics

Internet Radio Broadcasters Dealt Setback
Internet radio broadcasters were dealt a setback Monday when a panel of copyright judges threw out requests to reconsider a ruling that hiked the royalties they must pay...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/17/2007 | Digital Media

Venture Capital's Biggest Losers
For many of last year's high-profile dot-com failures, the big-dollar losses were shared by a large number of investors.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/17/2007 | Venture Capital

Domain Name System Shows Signs of Stress
Cybersquatting - the practice of registering Internet domain names that poach well-known trademarks - is profitable for just about everybody involved. Money is made off of...
eBusiness Information | Posting 4/17/2007 | Domaineering

Brought To You By Goopple
Oh, you two already know each other? Great! Time for the two of you to hurry up and tie the knot, then. Or at least start working together.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/17/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

7 Reasons Google's Paid Link Snitch Plan Sucks
Matt Cutts blogged that Google would like you, the average search engine user, to report on sites you feel are displaying links for cash.
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/17/2007 | Link Building

Up Close & Personal With Robots.txt
The Robots.txt Summit at Search Engine Strategies New York 2007 was the latest in a series of special sessions with the intent to open a dialog between search engines...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/17/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Microsoft, Adobe Competition Heats Up
It has not escaped Microsoft's attention that some of the coolest sites on the Web - YouTube and MySpace included - get much of their flash from Flash and other...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/17/2007 | Website Design & Development

In a Troubled Time, a New Business Magazine
Portfolio, the glossy new business magazine from Condé Nast, is hoping to capitalize where other bigger magazines have faltered.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/17/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Yahoo's Panama Pays Off, but It's No Panacea
'I'm totally all smiles,' Yahoo CEO Terry Semel told a crowd at Advertising Age's recent 360 Media Conference when asked about the new Panama search platform.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/17/2007 | Search Marketing

Cookie-Based Counting Overstates Size of Web Site Audiences
Frequent Cookie Deletion by 3 out of 10 U.S. Internet Users Leads to Overstatements in Audience Sizes by a Factor as High as 2.5. Implications for Advertising and...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/17/2007 | Website Analytics

Netvibes Universes: Single page aggregators for the big guys
Netvibes, which makes the single-page aggregator (or metagator) that I favor, is making an aggressive announcement at the Web 2.0 Expo.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/17/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

SEO: Google Cracks Open Its Black Box
Wouldn't it be great if Google offered insight into how your website stacks up against its super-secret algorithms? What ails your site...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/17/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

A Netflix for Music and a Lulu of a Book Publisher
Nobody buys CDs anymore, right? You want that new album by The Shins or Kings of Leon? You go download it from a service like Apple's iTunes (AAPL)...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/17/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Online Marketplace for Video, TV Launched
Jalipo, a new online distribution network for high-quality TV and video content that aims to act as an alternative to YouTube, launched on Monday with partners including BBC...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/17/2007 | Digital Media

Schmidt Says YouTube 'Very Close' to Filtering System
Google is very near enacting a filtering service that would prevent copyright content from being uploaded to video-sharing site YouTube, CEO Eric Schmidt said Monday.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/17/2007 | Digital Media

The Legal Pitfalls of Email Marketing
Since so many small businesses now do a substantial part of their marketing on the Internet, it is not surprising that many have resorted to doing e-mail marketing to...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/17/2007 | eMail & Viral Marketing

Reunion.com Raises Massive $25 Million Series A Round
Reunion.com, a social network for reconnecting with old friends and family, just grabbed a huge $25 million round of funding from Oak Investment Partners to join their original...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/17/2007 | Venture Capital

Lonelygirl15 Has a British -- and Brand-Friendly -- Spinoff
Like any wildly popular teenage-entertainment juggernaut, it was only a matter of time before Lonelygirl15 had a spinoff.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/17/2007 | Digital Media

The Coming Virtual Web
In the future, the Internet is almost certain to look more realistic, interactive, and social-a lot like a virtual world...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/16/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

AOL Founder Hopes to Build New Health Care Web Sites
Stephen M. Case, who plans to unveil RevolutionHealth.com, says the time is ripe for a dominant health care brand.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/16/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google's DoubleClick Bid Draws Complaints
Google's planned $3.1bn acquisition of DoubleClick ran into a storm of complaints on Sunday. Some of the companies biggest rivals claims...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/16/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

April 2007 Traffic Stats for Web 2.0's 25 Hottest Sites
eBizMBA's monthly survey of traffic data for the top 25 largest web 2.0 sites ranked by a combination of Compete and Quantcast data...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/16/2007 | Website Analytics

Microsoft Silverlight Takes On Adobe's Flash
Today at the 2007 National Association of Broadcasters conference (NAB2007), Microsoft and Adobe have gone tit for tat with product launches that directly target one another.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/16/2007 | Website Design & Development

How to Leverage Web 2.0 & Social Media Sites to Market Your Brand
Either the term Web 2.0 makes your blood boil, or you've taken to throwing it around like a free Google frisbee. If you're in the camp whose collective feeling...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/16/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Google Reaches Deal With Clear Channel to Sell Radio Ads
Google will begin selling ads across all Clear Channel stations at the end of June, a partnership that represents a step forward for Google.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/16/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Hidden Links
Most people understand hidden text is something like white text on a white background, and know to steer clear of it. Let me show you an example of a hidden link. Normally...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/16/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Google-Yahoo battle persists
Yahoo, no longer the Internet's top-visited site, is facing increased pressure from longtime rival Google. The battle intensified Friday when Google purchased online advertising firm...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/16/2007 | Website Analytics

The Devil & Online Advertising
A very long time ago, way back in the past... like 10 years ago, people started getting on this crazy thing called the World Wide Web.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/16/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Ustream.tv Enables Mass Live Streaming Through Webcam
Ever since Justin started reinventing The Truman Show on the Internet and broadcasting his everyday life for all to see, a bulb has been lit among many.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/16/2007 | Digital Media

How to Generate Search Engine Traffic Through Link Building
Links are a very important component of search engine success. Search engines normally consider links a vote of confidence, and a decent number of links from trusted sites...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/16/2007 | Link Building

Can LeapTag Capture The Magic Of StumbleUpon?
San Jose based LeapTag is part bookmarking (like del.icio.us) and part discovery (like StumbleUpon). It's a good way to keep track of websites that...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/16/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google's DoubleClick Strategic Move
With its $3.1 billion acquisition, the Internet giant secures entry into the promising business of display advertising and thwarts Microsoft in online search...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/15/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

10 Most Successful Web 2.0 Startups To Date
I've had an idea for this kind of a list for months now, but I guess I've been waiting until we have clear, agreed, and well-defined players rather than something we insiders consider...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/15/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Y Combinator: An assembly line for tech start-ups
The Silicon Valley venture capital industry is famously clubby. Its angel investor community, where packs of investors tend to fund start-ups together, is also cliquish.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/15/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

New Blog At GigaOm, Focusing on Growing A Startup
Found+Read, GigaOm's newest blog, will be a must-subscribe to resource for many web entrepreneurs. It is edited by Carleen Hawn...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/15/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

EBay profit expected to climb as sales rise 22%
EBay Inc. is expected to report higher sales and a surge in profit on Wednesday, fueled by growth in its PayPal online payment processing business and improving average...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/15/2007 | eBay & eCommerce