Viacom's Vision Doesn't Include Facebook
So Viacom won't be buying Facebook, apparently. Philippe Dauman, the media giant's new chief executive who made waves by suing YouTube over copyright violations, said...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/02/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Kevin Rose: Digg Expanding to Images, Restaurant and Product Reviews
On Friday, Kevin Rose spoke via video link at TheNextWeb conference in Amsterdam, outlining Digg's plans for expansion. The good news is that they plan to add images...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/02/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Most Expensive Domain Names Ever
What's in a name? Your domain name defines your company's business and how your customers perceive you. It's your philosophy, your identity, everything that you are.
eBusiness News | Posting 6/02/2007 | Domaineering

Community-Edited News Sites Abound in Other Languages
Back in 2004, when developer Kevin Rose launched the community-edited news site Digg , he could not have imagined it would launch a global phenomenon.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/02/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

The Next Web Conference
The Next Web Conference happened today in Amsterdam. It was a one day event hosted by Scott Rafer of MyBlogLog fame and was a mix of presentations from startups...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/02/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

For Pornographers, Internet's Virtues Turn to Vices
The Internet was supposed to be a tremendous boon for the pornography industry, creating a global market of images and videos accessible from the privacy of a home computer.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/02/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Webby Awards to Honor Best of the Net
Last.fm, How Stuff Works, Comedy Central's Honesty and EepyBird.com are among the top winners of this year's Webby Awards.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/02/2007 |  Website Design & Development

Yahoo's Disappearing Management Team
When we checked Yahoo's management page, we noticed yet another missing face: Lars Rabbe, the Sunnyvale internet company's chief information officer.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/02/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

The Best E-commerce Host for You?
Estimate sales growth, ensure potential hosts can work with your existing technology and fulfillment house, then start shopping around.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/02/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Sites For Startups
For all you startup entrepreneurs out there, here are two sites worth checking out: PartnerUp and StartupSearch.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/02/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Google Now Manages Your RSS Feed With Feedburner Buy
Google has indeed bought Chicago-based Feedburner. Both companies affirm the idea that the deal gives publishers the dream 360 degree metrics package.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/02/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Bewkes: Full sale of AOL is unlikely
Time Warner Inc. likely would only spin off "a slice of AOL" if it decided to create a stock currency for acquisitions down the line, TW president and COO Jeffrey Bewkes...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/02/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

10 Signs You're in a Tech Bubble
From Wall St to Silicon Valley, experienced finanical types and entrepreneurs are privately conceding the obvious: we're in a tech bubble. The only doubts are over whether...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/02/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

eHarmony Sued for Excluding Gays
The popular online dating service eHarmony was sued on Thursday for refusing to offer its services to gays, lesbians and bisexuals.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/02/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

A Gold-Plated VC's Billion-Dollar Secrets
Roelof Botha played an integral part in the building of two of the most successful Internet companies of all time: YouTube and PayPal.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/02/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

3 Common Misconceptions Regarding Digg
There are several misconceptions people have when it comes to content being promoted on Digg. The three main ones, though, pertain to the lifetime of an...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/02/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Slacker Raises Another $40M in Series B Funding
Slacker, the digital music service that has executives from iRiver, MusicMatch and Rio, has reportedly raised $40 million in Series B funding...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/02/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Baidu-Google Rivalry Continues
Baidu has a huge share of the Chinese search market. Google does not. And as if that wasn't bad enough (from the American company's perspective), people are once again...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/02/2007 | Search Marketing

CNN Launches New Beta Website
This morning, Steve pointed to me to the new beta version of the CNN.com website, which is now available for public testing.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/01/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Don't Call It a Bubble
It may be tempting to draw parallels between Web 2.0 hype and the dot-com frenzy. But hard numbers show this isn't 1999.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/01/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Revolution Health Traffic Doubles in 4 Weeks
This Wednesday AOL Founder Steve Case spoke at D5 about his new venture, Revolution Health. Revolution Health is setting out to be far more than just a health information...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/01/2007 | Website Analytics

Studio CEO: Blockbuster, Best Buy to Launch Movie Download Services
Best Buy and Blockbuster are both set to enter the growing movie download business-at least that's what Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer told a bunch of industry analysts...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/01/2007 | Digital Media

Anger Over DRM-free iTunes Tracks
The launch of music tracks free of digital locks on iTunes has been overshadowed by the discovery that they contain data about who bought them.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/01/2007 | Digital Media

Google Photos Stir a Debate Over Privacy
A new online feature of Google Maps called Street View is stirring up a debate over privacy concerns on the Web.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/01/2007 | Digital Media

What To Make Of Google Gears
Being a non-developer I was a bit of a fish out of water at Google Developer Day yesterday. The event, which took place in the 10 countries where Google has offices...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/01/2007 |  Website Design & Development

Last.fm, CBS' $280 Million Hedge for Its Radio Biz?
Why did CBS decide to spend $280 million to buy Last.fm, a UK-based music community that faces many challengers, and other risks such as the rapidly transforming Internet...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/01/2007 | Digital Media

How Ads Really Work: Superfans and Noobs
The obvious way to make the most money possible is to plaster your sites in as many ads as your visitors can stand. But if you look at your traffic, chances are you'll lose little...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/01/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Corbis to Take 'Microstock' Plunge
For the small army of photographers looking for Web sites to sell images at low prices, there already are many choices: Dreamstime, Fotolia, iStockphoto, Stockxpert, 123rf...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/01/2007 |  Website Design & Development

Silenced Venezuelan TV station moves to YouTube
Radio Caracas Television, the station silenced by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, has found a way to continue its daily broadcasts -- on YouTube, the popular...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/01/2007 | Digital Media

AP to Copyright Infringers: Pay Up, for News Online
Has the Web's copyright infringement tide turned? A (very) 'old media' company is taking the digital copyright protection lead, big time.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/01/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Oversee.net to Acquire SnapNames
Oversee.net, a leading technology-driven online marketing solutions company, and SnapNames, the operator of the largest available source of expired and deleting...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/01/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Are Banks Ready to Cash In Online?
The virtual world of finance is starting to add up to some real money. Financial institutions large and small are rushing to open virtual branches...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/01/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

Newspaper Online Ad Growth Slows
Newspaper online advertising revenue growth is starting to slow, according to the most recent data from the Newspaper Association of America.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/01/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Real Makes Its Video Move: Downloads
Real is announcing today a test version of its new RealPlayer, fully 2.5 years since the product's last major update and well behind the explosion of web video.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/01/2007 | Digital Media

What Search Engines Know About Us
The search engines that power our journey through the internet know a lot about us - from the operating system and browser we use, to the kinds of websites we typically visit.
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/01/2007 | Search Marketing

EMI Music, Google and YouTube Strike Milestone Partnership
EMI Music - one of the world's leading global music companies, Google and YouTube, the leader in online video - today announced a landmark agreement which will give YouTube...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/31/2007 | Digital Media

Placeblog Pioneer Sees Geo-Tagging as Key to Local Aggregation
For the past few years, bloggers have been living in a keyword-based world. When they write a blog post, they can tag the post by putting it into relevant topical categories.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/31/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google CEO Eric Schmidt at All Things D
Along with founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt has built Google into a colossus that not only continues to dominate search, but now also rules Web video...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/31/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Apple TV + YouTube = What's Next
Google and Apple's deal to show video clips is a major step in the race to bring Net entertainment to TV.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/31/2007 | Digital Media

Ripping Up The Rules of Management
Meet Business 2.0 Magazine's contrarians, 11 business leaders who achieved success by zigging while the rest of the world zagged.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/31/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Auto Dealers Are Getting the Biz Online
The local Internet scene is heating up for automotive dealers and sellers, according to a recent report from Borrell Associates. Local online advertising by automakers, dealers...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/31/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

The New Portals: It's the Bread, Not the Peanut Butter
For the last several years, Yahoo, MSN and AOL have all suffered a declining share of pageviews, but that does not mean the portal is going out of style.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/31/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates: Historic Discussion Live From D 2007 (Videos)
A selection of rip-roaring laughs and jokes from the joint interview between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at the D5 conference.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/31/2007 | Digital Media

Google Kicks Offline Web Apps Into Gear
Google engineers have enabled what Internet surfers for years have yearned for--Web applications that work offline.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/31/2007 | Digital Media

Let's Build a Grid
Khoi Vinh, the design director for the New York Times, explains how essential grids are to web design in his SXSW presentation with Mark Boulton, Grids Are Good (Right?).
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/31/2007 | Website Design & Development

Studies: Music Industry Overstating Threat of P2P Piracy
Unauthorized sharing of digital music remains a huge issue for the global music business, but is most of that sharing taking place on peer-to-peer networks?
eBusiness News | Posted 5/31/2007 | Digital Media

Comedy Business Turns to the Web
Many experienced comedians, talent agents and financiers see the Web as a way to showcase talent while trying to turn a profit.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/31/2007 | Digital Media

StartupSearch Gives You Data on Start-Ups
StartupSearch is a new site that gives you quick statistics and other data on Web 2.0 start-ups. It is built by Niall Kennedy, a former Technorati and Microsoft employee.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/31/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Google Buys Spanish Mapmaker Panoramio
There is lot of news company out of a big online mapping confab this week. Panoramio, a website that connects millions of photos with the exact geographical location where...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/31/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Mass Deletion Sparks LiveJournal Revolt
Thousands of LiveJournal customers are rebelling against the company's recent decision to censor hundreds of sex-themed discussion groups, a broad swath that has led...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/31/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Former Cisco Exec Mike Volpi In Line To Be New Joost CEO
We knew several weeks ago that Joost was getting a new CEO but held the info until we could confirm the identity ... multiple sources have now confirmed that Mike Volpi, who...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/31/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Man Described As a Top Spammer Arrested
A 27-year-old man described as one of the world's most prolific spammers was arrested Wednesday, and federal authorities said computer users across the Web could notice...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/31/2007 | eMail & Viral Marketing

Yahoo's Management Vacuum
Would the last person left at Yahoo please turn off the lights? We've just learned that Zod Nazem, an 11-year-veteran of the Sunnyvale internet company, is leaving the company.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/31/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Jason Calacanis Launches Mahalo Today: Human Powered Search
Jason Calacanis, formerly of Weblogs, Inc. and more recently an Entrepreneur in Action at Sequoia Capital, will launch his newest startup, Mahalo, this afternoon at 3 PS PST.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/31/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Better than Google? Creator Thinks So
Google is keeping a close eye on a small, suburban Melbourne start-up that claims to be developing a search engine that improves on the world leader.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/31/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

13 Tips For Getting Page One Search Rankings
How do you get what you want on page one for your brand phrases? When facing negative content at the top of the SERPs, it's a challenge many companies want to conquer...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/31/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Break.com To Charge Users?
Break.com, the online video site, may start charging a subscription fee for users. While Break.com is among the top ten video sites online, gaining a reported 2.9 million...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/31/2007 | Digital Media

Search Engine Optimization Article at Wikipedia Doesn't Deserve Attention
Carsten is hoping that some experts from the world of search marketing will help to join in the discussion about making the article on search engine optmization featured.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/31/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

From Oxford to Silicon Valley, Part Three
Kulveer Taggar moved to Silicon Valley in California after graduating from Oxford and working as an investment banker. His start-up is now getting ready for business, but...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/31/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

How Many Lightbulbs Does It Take To Change A Startup?
Generally, I'm a big believer in sticktoitedness when it comes to startups. Many entrepreneurs give up too early on their idea. This could be driven by economics...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/31/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

YouTube on Apple TV - It's Official
Apple today announced that it's bringing the Internet's most popular originally-created content from YouTube to the living room with Apple TV.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/30/2007 | Digital Media

Music Site Last.fm Bought by CBS for $280 Million
Social music site Last.fm has been bought by US media giant CBS Corporation for $280m, the largest-ever UK Web 2.0 acquisition.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/30/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Yahoo! Tech Chief Checks Resigns
The Internet giant said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it had entered into a "separation agreement" with Nazem on Wednesday, leading to his departure...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/30/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

StumbleUpon bought by eBay for about $75M
EBAY today announced it has acquired StumbleUpon, an early-stage company that helps people discover and share content online, for an aggregate transaction value...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/30/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Apple Launches iTunes Plus with DRM-Free Tracks
Today Apple launched iTunes Plus, a premium service that offers music tracks free of copy protection. The iTunes Plus service debuts, as expected, featuring EMI Group's...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/30/2007 | Digital Media

Fox Interactive Agrees to Acquire Photobucket and Flektor
Web's fastest-growing personal media site and next generation web-based photo and video service to join news corporation's leading network of internet brands.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/30/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Fancy Form Design Using CSS
Forms. Is there any other word that strikes as much fear into the hearts of grown web designers? I think that the reputation of forms as an untamable, ugly necessity has...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/30/2007 | Website Design & Development

Social Networking Meets Social Change
Even in a city that has seen it all, in an industry that has invented it all, the experiment taking place on a busy San Francisco sidewalk turned heads.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/30/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Secrets of The Fastest-Growing Techs
CEOs reveal the business strategies that put companies like Akamai, Netflix, and Priceline at the top of Business 2.0's ranking of the 100 fastest-growing...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/30/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Yahoo Publisher Network Offering PayPal Payments
The Yahoo Publisher Network has taken a major step in building its appeal amongst US based webmasters and publishers with the addition of PayPal transfers as a payment...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/30/2007 |  Adsense & Other Context Ads

Soft Launch For Google Audio Ads
We are getting reports from advertisers that Google Audio Ads have been added as an option to their Adwords accounts, although we can't confirm yet that everyone...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/30/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Equity Firm to Acquire Net Retailer CDW
The CDW Corporation, a leading online computer reseller, said yesterday that it had agreed to sell itself to Madison Dearborn Partners for $7.3 billion in cash, the latest....
eBusiness News | Posted 5/30/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

The Case Against Twitter
One of the latest fads is Twitter, the free social-networking service that lets people broadcast up-to-the-minute accounts of their thoughts and activities to their friends...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/30/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google Web Toolkit 1.4 Release Candidate
I'm very happy to report that Google Web Toolkit (GWT) 1.4 Release Candidate is now available for download. This is undoubtedly the biggest GWT release yet. In addition...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/30/2007 | Website Design & Development

Death of Journalism - Blame Google? No. Ask Google to Lead? Yes.
The Chronicle's announcement earlier this month that 100 newsroom jobs will be slashed in the coming weeks in the face of mounting financial woes represents just the latest...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/30/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

When Users Attack: How Online Communities Respond to Chaos
Terrorism, protests, boycotts. You might think these terms only apply to politics and current events, but massive upheavals can also occur in the world of online communities.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/30/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

U.S. Broadband To Reach 86 Million Households
Around 86 million U.S. households will have broadband Internet access by 2012 according to a new report from JupiterResearch.
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/30/2007 | Website Analytics

Google News Falls Behind Digg in UK Visits
Two weeks ago, Google News fell behind Digg.com in share of UK visits to News and Media websites. Yahoo! News UK & Ireland ranks at #4, Digg.com at #6 and Google...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/30/2007 | Website Analytics

Google's Web Developer Day Emphasizes 'Mash-Ups'
Internet search giant Google wants to be everywhere you are online. It hopes to be to the Internet what Microsoft is to the desktop, ever-present and essential.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/30/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

TV Preferred for Video Viewing
Is online video viewed on TV still online video? With PCs, iPods and mobile phones, video viewing has become completely untethered from the TV, right? Not quite.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/30/2007 | Digital Media

Mama, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be E-mail Copywriters
Lately, I've been getting about five calls a week from prospective clients requesting my copywriting services for their e-mail campaigns. How many have become clients? Zero.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/30/2007 | eMail & Viral Marketing

Web Registration Tool Digitizes Books
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a way to enlist people across the globe to help digitize books every time they solve the simple distorted word puzzles...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/30/2007 | Digital Media

1,718 Sites Are Attracting Over 1 Million Visitors
There has been a lot of talk about the 'long tail' of the internet. In December we decided to investigate various attributes of the size of the internet and walked away with two...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/29/2007 | Website Analytics

Selling Web Advertising Space Like Pork Bellies
The next big Internet race might turn the buying and selling of advertising space on Web sites into the online equivalent of the pork-bellies pit.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/29/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

VeriSign Founder, CEO Resigns
Stratton Sclavos, founder and chief executive of VeriSign, resigned Tuesday in a surprise management shake-up that left more questions asked than it answered.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/29/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

My Investments in the Video Online Space
This week I ran into Chad Hurley of Youtube at Google Zeitgeist Europe and I mentioned to him my view that while incredibly successful and simple to use, YouTube needs certain...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/29/2007 | Digital Media

Google Launches Street View
Google's latest move on maps is impressive, and knocks out Microsoft's latest effort to spruce up its maps with 3D imagery.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/29/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google Acquires GreenBorder - First Step Towards Google Antivirus?
Google's acquisition spree shows no signs of stopping: now the company has acquired Mountain View-based GreenBorder, which creates security software.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/29/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Google Deal Said to Bring U.S. Scrutiny
The Federal Trade Commission has opened a preliminary antitrust investigation into Google's planned $3.1 billion purchase of the online advertising company DoubleClick...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/29/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Can't Get Enough Justin? You Can Watch Justine
Don't adjust your browser. Same network, new show. The online reality folks that brought you Justin.tv are releasing its first spin-off: Justine.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/29/2007 | Digital Media

GoDaddy Agrees to Run RegistryFly Domains
GoDaddy.com, the leading registration company for Internet domain names, has agreed to take over and manage more than 850,000 addresses belonging to customers...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/29/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

TV under pressure in online shift
Television broadcasters face 'severe pressure' as advertisers abandon traditional media in favour of the internet, Sir Martin Sorrell, head of WPP, the world's second-biggest...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/29/2007 | Digital Media

Turner To Stream Summer Shows
Turner Broadcasting System's TNT and TBS plan to stream all seven of their combined original summer series on their respective Websites.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/29/2007 | Digital Media

Who Needs Headlines?
A lot of web copy is written by copywriters who aren't trained in writing for the web-and much of the rest is written by people who aren't trained writers at all.
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/29/2007 | Website Design & Development

Jobs & Gates, the Biggest Reunion Since Simon & Garfunkel
It's been a long, long time since these two have shared a stage together, but the Mongoose and the Cobra will join hands and sing "Kumbaya" at The Wall Street...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/29/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

More Bandwidth Than You Can Use?
Companies such as Verizon are starting to offer Internet connection speeds that are 5 to 30 times faster than standard cable or DSL lines.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/29/2007 | Digital Media

DIY PR
My buddy, Glenn Kelman, the CEO of Redfin, had a strong reaction to last week's post about PR by Marge Zable Fisher. So much so that he penned an alternate solution...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/29/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Link & Ranking Strategies for Enterprise Sites
Enterprise sized sites range between 10,000 - 10 million pages in size. Good examples would be sites like AllBusiness.com, Answers.com and Findlaw (full disclosure...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/29/2007 | Link Building

Democrats Have an Early Lead ... in the Web 2.0 Race
Two weeks ago, in a 38-second YouTube video, presidential hopeful Fred Thompson chomped smugly on a cigar and issued a scathing, belittling response to Michael Moore.
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/29/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

How to Use Web 2.0 Inside Your Company
Today the business world is undergoing a significant transformation thanks to a set of technologies collectively known as "Web 2.0." Although it's tempting to dismiss...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/29/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

'Exclusive Offers' Help Retain Customers
Minding the Store is a classic book written by one of the all-time great merchants, Stanley Marcus of Neiman-Marcus fame. Its lessons were extensive...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/29/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

Microsoft Live Takes New York 3D
Microsoft has announced the launch of new functionality for Microsoft Live Search Maps; three-dimensional, photo-realistic maps covering New York City and 8 other locations...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/29/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Trend Watch: Game Startups Landing Seed Funding
Investments in games is picking up thanks to a couple of new trends in monetizing games. The ad supported game model has been proven...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/29/2007 | Digital Media

Spam and Virus Partnership Still Strong
Although spammers and criminals have many tools at their disposal, e-mail remains the method of choice for attacks, according to MessageLabs.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/29/2007 | eMail & Viral Marketing

Particls Launches Advanced Alerts Platform
Particls essentially serves as a proportioning alert filter that notifies the user via news ticker, pop-up alerts and mobile SMS messaging prioritized according to user needs.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/29/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Fatdoor Turns Neighborhoods Into Online Social Networks
Ever wanted to get to know your neighbors before interacting with them in real life? If so, fatdoor, which launches its public beta tomorrow, might be for you.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/29/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Millions of Addresses and Thousands of Sites, All Leading to One
What Internet business has raised $120 million in financing in the last year and owns 725,000 Web sites?
eBusiness News | Posting 5/28/2007 | Domaineering

Will ISPs Spoil The Online Video Party?
With an ever greater amount of video being consumed online, many Internet users are in for a shock. There's a dirty little secret in the broadband industry: Internet Service...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/28/2007 | Digital Media

Getting in The Game at Microsoft
For all the challenges Microsoft Corp. faces as it moves into the future, the Redmond, Wash., software giant remains a formidable money machine.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/28/2007 | Digital Media

Digg.com's Jay Adelson on the Hot Seat
How did you come to be the CEO of Digg? It seems to be a bit of a jump from an entrepreneur who founded Equinix, a provider of data center and Internet...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/28/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Real World Intrudes on Virtual Fashion Domain
Second Life, the online virtual world created by Linden Lab that is officially classed as a game but has evolved into big business, is at a tipping point.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/28/2007 | Digital Media

MySpace v. Facebook: 'It's Not A Decision. It's an IQ Test'
Venture capitalist Josh Kopelman rips into MySpace today as he applauds Facebook's new developer platform. Facebook's timing is perfect.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/28/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Myspace - The Next Prodigy?
Over the last year, there's been a tremendous amount of focus on the 'Widget economy'. Newsweek has even dubbed 2007 as the 'Year of the Widget.'
eBusiness News | Posted 5/28/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Dotcom Stars Have Designs On Your Home
THE founders of Lastminute. com, Brent Hoberman and Martha Lane Fox, have teamed up again to form a new business.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/28/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Desktop Tower of Money: 3 Tips to Profit From Casual Games
So here's a couple ways to a create successful game online: a), Find an investor who's crazy enough to give you millions of dollars, or b), Put it on a distribution network...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/28/2007 | Digital Media

Meet My Third-Grader Networker
Laurel Ettinger is typing at the computer in her parents' bedroom, chatting on a mushrooming online social network called Webkinz. She changes screens to play...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/28/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Exclusive: AOL to Launch User-Generated Site Next Month
AOL's UnCut, the consumer generated service that has been in beta for a about a year, but little talked about, will launch next month...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/28/2007 | Digital Media

In Fierce Competition, Google Finds Novel Ways to Feed Hiring Machine
Pizza parties, treasure hunts and programming contests are meant to create excitement around a company and impress potential recruits as young as college freshmen.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/28/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Assumption-driven Entrepreneurship
Thesis-driven investment is the process of making investments based on theories about the future. The basic process is as follows: 1. Make a prediction about the future...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/28/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Google Making $1 Per Internet User
Check out Don Dodge's recent article, entitled 'Why 1% of search market share is worth over $1 Billion'. His math concludes that each search query produces $0.12 ad revenue...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/27/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Facebook Users Vote For iLike, but What Happened to Audio?
Here's the early winner of Facebook's open embrace of third-party applications, announced two days ago: iLike, a hot music service that lets you discover music that matches...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/27/2007 | Digital Media

Screenshots of YouTube's New Player
YouTube tests a new version of its player that will improve the way you interact with videos and will create a cinematic experience.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/27/2007 | Digital Media

How Much Is Your Soul Worth? PayPerPost Now Lets You Set The Price
PayPerPost, the controversial blogging service that lets advertisers purchase commentary on blogs, has released a new product called PayPerPost Direct.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/27/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Reddit Hacked, Fixed
A slightly overhyped piece of news about Reddit being 'hacked' is being discussed this weekend. As it turns out, the hack in question is due to Reddit not stripping certain...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/27/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

CBS Has a Crush on Wallstrip
WHY would CBS want to buy the stocks-oriented video blog Wallstrip? After all, the network exited the online-business-news business when Dow Jones...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/27/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Make Room For New Video Ad Formats
This week marked the one-year anniversary of the launch of click-to-play video ads. To that end, we thought it'd be fitting to introduce three new members of our click-to-play...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/27/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales