Yahoo Launches an Internal Tech Incubator
Brickhouse, which gets its name from a previous internal Yahoo project, is a tech incubator that the search giant hopes will produce the kinds of promising new...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/28/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

The Challenge in Merging DoubleClick & Google
Google's $3.1 billion deal for the online advertising firm DoubleClick could put the company at odds with itself.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/28/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Online Gambling on MySpace?
Legal web gambling will open $7B window for VCs and sites like Facebook or Revver. A proposed U.S. bill to legalize internet gambling could open a $7 billion betting window...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/28/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Getting Links Without Trying
Linkbaiting is a hot topic right now. However, one of the funniest definitions of creating linkbait was to 'forget linkbait, think about the user first, and develop content for them.'
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/28/2007 | Link Building

Analysis: The New PayPal
To more than 50 million users, PayPal used to signify a peer-to-peer payment exchange that relied largely on email notifications. Not anymore. While PayPal still stands as one...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/28/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Meet Google's Culture Czar
There's no question that Google is a trendsetter. The company made Web search sexy, and lucrative. It established the foundation for an ecosystem that allows any old little...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/28/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Buying Clicks To A Tragedy
How news outfits boost Web traffic when stories like Virginia Tech break. As news outlets deployed their teams to Blacksburg, Va., following the Apr. 16 shooting at...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/28/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

How Google, Yahoo & Ask.com Treat the No Follow Link Attribute
There seems to be a common misconception in the webmaster and search engine marketing field that inbound links which use the 'no follow' attribute have no value...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/28/2007 | Search Marketing

Ex-eToys Founder Launches Shopping Site
Online retail is a tough business and women customers are a tough crowd. Frank Han knows. He's been there, done that, and he's doing it again.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/28/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

A New Media Puzzle - How Do You Make Money on The Internet
You no longer need to convince media types that their audience is moving to the Web. They get that. But how do you turn that notion into money? Much trickier.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/27/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Comcast Goes for a Grand Slam
Its triple play is paying off big-time, and the company is expanding aggressively, with new wireless services, Web sites, and more in the offing...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/27/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Sold on eBay, Shipped by Amazon.com
Amazon.com is expanding a program designed to allow independent sellers -- even vendors who sell through eBay -- to use its network of distribution centers to store...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/27/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

TV Networks Adopt Anything-Goes Ad Rates as Shows Shift to Web
The growing availability of prime- time television shows on the Internet is pushing U.S. broadcasters to jettison their decades-old method of charging for TV advertising.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/27/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Flawed Business Model Behind Web Site for "The Hot" Misses the Point
Since when do über hotties need a specialized online dating service? If evolutionary psychology and People magazine teach us anything, it's this: When it comes...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/27/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Advertisers Look Forward to One-Stop Shopping on Google
Google cast a long shadow over this year's adtech interactive media conference, where the search and advertising giant's recent agreement to purchase DoubleClick for $3.1...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/27/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

MarketingSherpa's Viral Marketing Hall of Fame 2007
Get ready for some inspiration, folks. MarketingSherpa's editorial staffers have been busy poring over the 100+ viral marketing submissions for our third annual Viral Hall of Fame.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/27/2007 | eMail & Viral Marketing

Social-Networking Sites Link Hispanic Youth
Indie rocker Eric Monterrosa checks his ElHood.com Web page at least three times a day, answering fans, surfing for other new Latin artists...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/27/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Global Net Use Makes Rapid Rise
The net is helping to close the digital divide between industrialised nations, suggests a report. The annual e-readiness rankings by the Economist Intelligence Unit...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/27/2007 | Website Analytics

Microsoft Online Ad Revenue Up 23 Percent in Q1
While Microsoft announced strong revenues of $14.4 billion for the quarter ended March 31 amounting to a 32 percent increase over the same period last year...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/27/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Google: Serve YouTube Ads this Way and You'll Make Billions
YouTube is testing pre-roll and post-roll ads behind the scenes, say BusinessWeek and others. While these are shorter than your typical 30 second TV slots, they'll still...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/27/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Lawmakers Propose Reversal of Net Radio Fee Increases
A bill introduced in Congress Thursday aims to overturn a controversial royalty fee increase that Internet radio advocates say threatens to cripple their services.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/27/2007 | Digital Media

Social Networking Increases Internet Time
Social networking increases Internet usage, according to a Marketing Evolution study commissioned by MySpace called 'Never Ending Friending.'
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/27/2007 | Website Analytics

AOL One Step Behind Again: New Home Page Identical To Yahoo
AOL has started beta testing a new home page (the main AOL.com portal). AOL Senior Product Manager (and occasional TechCrunch contributor) Frank Gruber introduced it on...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/27/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

New Google Patent Apps Reflect Major Search Rank Methodology Changes
This morning, several Google patent applications were published that if enacted, would significantly alter the way that Google figures search rankings.
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/27/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

'Frienemy' Google Not a Threat (Yet) to Traditional Ad Sales
If you browse through Google's job openings, the dozens of advertising sales positions - from account manager of Print Ads in Chicago to account manager of Google...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/26/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Analysts: Microsoft's After Google's Ad Business
Microsoft may be older and bigger than Google, but it's Microsoft nipping at Google's heels and not the other way around, according to two Gartner analysts who closely follow...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/26/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

YouTube Lining Up Summer Ads
Beware YouTube watchers, ads are coming as soon as this summer. The video-sharing site that was acquired by Google in November is experimenting with the precise...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/26/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

11 Almost Perfect Business Layouts
Business companies tend to impress visitors with solid site structures, precise navigation and the credibility of presented content.
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/26/2007 | Website Design & Development

Jobs Says Consumers Don't Want to Rent Music
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs indicated on Wednesday he is unlikely to give in to calls from the music industry to add a subscription-based model to Apple's wildly...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/26/2007 | Digital Media

Viral Marketing's Video Love Affair
Next to 'cool microsites' and games, viral video is hot. Marketers with viral campaign experience think highly of microsites, games and video clips, according to...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/26/2007 | eMail & Viral Marketing

What Is PageRank? A Guide For Searchers & Webmasters
Several times in the past few months, I've written about new Google features where PageRank was involved. Unfortunately, Google itself has very poor information...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/26/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Google and the Rebirth of Banner Ads
The DoubleClick deal cements Google's dominance of online advertising-and augurs a revival of the lowly but oddly effective display ad...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/26/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Sun and I.B.M. to Offer New Class of High-End Servers
The companies plan to introduce specialized high-end server systems that provide fresh evidence of a new era in computing.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/26/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Adobe Flex Goes Open Source
Adobe is announcing that the Flex SDK will be open sourced under the Mozilla public license, the same license that they open sourced the Action Script...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/26/2007 | Website Design & Development

TheStreet.com to Buy Rest of Stockpickr.com
TheStreet.com Inc. (TSCM - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr), publisher of this Web site, announced Wednesday that it will acquire the remaining 50.1% stake in...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/26/2007 | Venture Capital

Google Surpasses Microsoft as World's Most-Visited Site
It's official: Google rules the world. The Mountain View search engine has outstripped Microsoft on two fronts, becoming both the most visited Web site and the most...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/26/2007 | Website Analytics

Court Questions Zale's Use of Trademark in Paid Search Text
A federal court judge has ruled that referencing a trademarked term in ad text generated by a Web search may violate trademark rights.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/26/2007 | Search Marketing

Magazines, Online And Off
They are the kinds of questions that keep magazine editors up at night: Do newsweeklies have a future? What's the best way to launch an online magazine?
eBusiness News | Posted 4/26/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

HitForge, a New Twist on Incubators
Naval Ravikant, who in his past life co-founded Epinions and Vast, has started HitForge, a San Francisco-based outfit that is a unique twist on the incubator model.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/26/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Looking Perfect, One Pixel at a Time
Web sites are selling professional retouching services to provide age progression, beauty enhancing or simple fixes.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/26/2007 | Digital Media

Enough about the big boys of search, what about everyone else?
If you're like us, it gets a little old reading and writing about the same thing over and over again. How many times have we read some variation of 'Google is up' in the past...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/26/2007 | Search Marketing

Six Ways Twitter Can Make Money
A web 2.0-sized boatload of buzz has surrounded Twitter, the addictive service that allows its users to answer one simple question: what are you doing?
eBusiness News | Posted 4/25/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Bill Introduced to Repeal Online Gambling Ban
In comments to reporters this morning, Rep. Barney Frank (D - Mass.) confirmed he intends to introduce legislation before the US House of Representatives tomorrow...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/25/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Payscale, Providing Useful Info on Compensation
PayScale, a Seattle start-up that shares salary information with Web users who share their own, has just released some useful tools for job searchers.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/25/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Is This The New Web?
Why Adobe's Apollo software could unleash the next wave of creativity and commerce. Sometimes new technology is instantly impressive. Think back to the first time...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/25/2007 | Website Design & Development

TripAdvisor: The Web's Strongest Travel Community
We have been discussing the online travel industry and have covered Yahoo! Travel from a Web 3.0 perspective already.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/25/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Ask.com to Launch Contextual Ad Network
IAC/InterActiveCorp is launching a contextual ad network to complement its existing search ad distribution network. It hopes the offering will become a viable alternative...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/25/2007 | Adsense & Other Context Ads

Portals Dominate Online Ad Take
Advertising is the main revenue driver for the top four portals, in growth if not in sheer dollars. Shrinking subscriber access revenues at AOL and MSN have increased...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/25/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

9 Ways to Make Money on Analytics
Web analytics tools can be one of the best investments you make, if you use the tools in the right way. The key is to realize that reading the...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/25/2007 | Website Analytics

How to Leverage Your Blog for Bigger Things
Much of what I wrote yesterday about my own journey shows how accidental, evolutionary and lucky the process was for me (although I've become a little more strategic in...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/25/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

The Expansion of Social Networks
Inventing new software for enterprises is really hard. Selling it to them is nearly impossible. For a startup to break through the thick doors of the enterprise takes years.
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/25/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Contrast and Meaning
If you're a designer, you work to communicate and convey meaning. So it's important that you understand the mechanisms by which things and ideas acquire meaning...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/25/2007 | Website Design & Development

Six Businesses That Should Hire Diggers
The users of Digg.com a horde. But so was the ass-kicking fighting force of Genghis Khan. And remember in Mulan, when Genghis's A-team pops out of the snow...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/25/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

New Blogger & Podcaster Magazine Launched
Those who believe we are not living through a dotcom bubble of some kind should have taken a look at my inbox last week, when a little...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/25/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Googler Games Google; Cutts Goes Silent
A week after Google's Matt Cutts set the SEO world ablaze by asking webmasters to report cases of link-buying, his area of the Googleplex is decidedly silent...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/25/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Murdoch Seeks Survival Plan in Digital Era
Rupert Murdoch has summoned his top news executives to his Californian ranch next week for a three-day meeting to plan a survival strategy for his global newspaper empire...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/25/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

HP Buys Logoworks
HP has acquired Lidon, UT-based Arteis which runs Logoworks and LogoMaker. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/25/2007 | Venture Capital

Southern Cal Overtakes New England in Start-up Activity
It's official. Southern California has overtaken New England as the nation's second largest center of start-up activity.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/25/2007 | Venture Capital

Bell Deja Vu: Is It Time To Break Up Google?
Since Google's surprise (and staggering) acquisition of DoubleClick, the most unlikely of trustbusters (Microsoft and AT&T) have emerged.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/24/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Amazon Quarterly Profit Doubles
Online retailer Amazon.com said quarterly net profit more than doubled, helped by a lower tax rate and robust sales, and raised its earnings and sales outlook for the year.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/24/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Download The Advertising Age 2007 Digital Marketing Guide
It's becoming critical to stay atop the digital media and marketing space, but the pace of technological change is making it increasingly difficult.
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/24/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Newsvine Relaunch Today: Build Your Own News Site
Seattle-based news site Newsvine will relaunch this afternoon with significant changes to the user experience. They're calling the release 'Evergreen.'
eBusiness News | Posted 4/24/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Investors Ramp up Spending on Startups
Venture capitalists invested $7.1 billion in U.S. companies in the first three months of the year, lifting the industry to its biggest quarter in more than five years, according...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/24/2007 | Venture Capital

Salesforce.com's Pitch to Startups
CEO Marc Benioff is opening an incubator to encourage software companies to develop complementary applications for AppExchange.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/24/2007 | Venture Capital

Yahoo Strikes Deal to Catalog Lyrics Online
Yahoo has teamed up with Gracenote, an Emeryville company, to offer what it is calling "the largest catalog of legal, licensed song lyrics" on the Web.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/24/2007 | Digital Media

Exposing the Invisible Web to Search Engines
The Invisible Web (aka Deep Web) is that humoungous slice of the Internet's web pages that traditional search engines either have not indexed or cannot index.
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/24/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Video Podcasting Comes of Age with ON Networks
Valleywag recently declared podcasting dead (or at least conceded the battle to Apple). But iPod's play video, remember, and video podcasting (or vidcasting...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/24/2007 | Digital Media

Is it Harder for Women to Earn Money Online?
In 'reality' (i.e. the offline business world) there is, without doubt, a bias against women. This is an unfortunate result of the traditional preconception that women are inferior...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/24/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

User-Generated Content Hopes and Fears
It's going to make someone rich. Somehow. More than half of media and entertainment executives surveyed in Accenture's "Global Content Survey 2007" cite user-generated...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/24/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Kids' Web Sites Growing in Popularity
If there's a child in your home, then you may already be familiar with the words Webkinz and Club Penguin. They are part of an exploding cyber world...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/24/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Keyword Tips For Writing Powerful Google Ads
Writing effective ads in Google is a formidable task. I often joke that the best ads I've written have never been seen because they exceeded the 70-character limit.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/24/2007 | Search Marketing

Viacom Admits Error -- Takes Steps to Protect Fair Use on YouTube
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Viacom have agreed to dismiss a lawsuit accusing Viacom of misusing the DMCA after the entertainment company admitted it erred...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/24/2007 | Digital Media

Free Music Downloads, Lawsuit Not Included
Peer-to-peer networks are going legit with pop-up ads embedded in MP3s. Business 2.0 Magazine reports.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/24/2007 | Digital Media

Podbridge Gets $8.5 Million Series B
Podbridge, makers of a podcasting analytics package that tracks audience demographics, plays, and ad rotation, just closed an $8.5 million series B round.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/24/2007 | Venture Capital

MySpace News: An In-Depth Look
This morning I finally had a chance to look at the recently launched MySpace News service and my first impression was - is this it? Labeled by many as a potential Digg...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/23/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

eBay's Changing Identity
Best known for online auctions, the PayPal parent is building a diversified portfolio of Internet businesses. So why aren't investors happier?
eBusiness News | Posted 4/23/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

MySpace: Friending Is the New Ad
MySpace, hoping to prove it is a new type of marketing platform, commissioned research firms to look at its user habits and responses to marketing campaigns..
eBusiness News | Posted 4/23/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Google Rises at Yahoo's Expense
The contrast between the financial results announced last week for the two top search engine companies couldn't have been more stark.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/23/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google AdSense (Publisher) Revenue Share Highest Ever
A WebmasterWorld survey has taken Google's first quarter earnings and has computed the revenue share of the ads sold on AdSense publishers sites. The survey noted...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/23/2007 | Adsense & Other Context Ads

Search Eninge Ranking Factors Simplified: Quick Reference
Just for the sake of it did I create a simplified version of the much more detailed search engine ranking factors 2007 document, which was compiled and published by...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/23/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

AttenTV Turns Web surfing into Eerie Spectator Sport
Someone peering over your shoulder as you browse the Internet would probably make you uncomfortable. But what if the situation were reversed?
eBusiness News | Posted 4/23/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

No Thank You Sex, We're Networking
When it comes to surfing the Internet, sex is getting licked by social networking and the ability to connect with people based on more than just hormonal urges.
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/23/2007 | Website Analytics

Move over MySpace, Gaia Online is here
By the middle of last year, it was attracting half a million unique visitors monthly; fast forward to last month, and that number is two million.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/23/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Amazon/Statsaholic Dispute Just Got A Lot More Complicated
The Amazon/Statsaholic dispute went from a simple UDRP domain name dispute to a full blown lawsuit last week (pdf of lawsuit is here).
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/23/2007 | Website Analytics

Facebook Tells Twitter to SHUT UP
If all that self-obsessed Tweeting was starting to irritate you, don't fear - Facebook now provides the same service.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/23/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

New Model for Sharing: Free Music With Ads
Several start-up companies are pursuing the idea of advertising-supported music on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/23/2007 | Digital Media

Indie Site Tries a Little Studio Savvy
A former Paramount exec helps bring a big-box-office mind-set to the online screening mix with iklipz.com.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/23/2007 | Digital Media

Baidu Results May Hinge on Search-Ad Sales
Internet search leader Baidu will report earnings on Thursday, sneaking in before China's week-long Labor Day holiday begins, but investors hoping for Google-like performance...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/23/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

After Slowdown, Angel Investors Starting to Go With the Flow
My two partners and I are working out the final details of a business plan for a technology-related startup. Our backgrounds are solid, we have some of our own...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/23/2007 | Venture Capital

DoubleClick May Have Spurned Offer From Microsoft
In what's shaping up to be perhaps Google's most profitable acquisition to date (just watch), there's another story that's starting to squeak out: not only was Microsoft...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/23/2007 | Venture Capital

Omniture: A Radar Screen For E-biz
Little Omniture's software is helping biggies like Toyota and Microsoft track Web performance, but rivals are hot on its heels...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/22/2007 | Website Analytics

eMusic With No Strings
The recently revived debate over usage restrictions on digital music probably seems old hat at eMusic, which has sold songs in the universally compatible MP3 format since...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/22/2007 | Digital Media

From Many Tweets, One Loud Voice on the Internet
Twittervision is an absorbing spectacle: a global vision of the human race's quotidian thoughts and activities, or at least of that portion of the species who twitter.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/22/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Kyte is Stickam Plus Splashcast
Kyte.tv is a new site, still in private beta, that lets you create your own channel to be broadcast across the net. I really like what Kyte is bringing to the online video...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/22/2007 | Digital Media

Middio: Music Video Search Engine For YouTube
Middio is a new site, still in private beta, that's indexing music videos from YouTube and tagging them properly with the artist and song name.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/22/2007 | Digital Media

Web 2.0 Wave Starts to Take Hold
Whether you use your computer for work or fun, the programs you use generally have one thing in common - they are stored on your PC. Increasingly though, that software...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/22/2007 | Digital Media

Web 2.0 Expo Wrapup
Just as it's become the custom for Tim O'Reilly to open the Web 2.0 conference keynotes with a fireside chat with Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com, and then later for John Battelle...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/22/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs