Internet Pornography Stats
Check out this video from Good Magazine that shows a number of stats about the Internet pornography industry, in an 'almost' not safe for work format.
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/12/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Who's Afraid Of Google?
Firms in Silicon Valley and beyond fear search giant's plans for growth. For a company that pledged to not be evil, Google makes a lot of enemies.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/12/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

How High Will the Orbitz IPO Fly?
A share sale by the online travel site may not be the dog some are predicting, but there's still reason for investor caution.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/12/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

SuperMoviesDownload: The YouTube Virus
YouTube users can't have failed to notice that the Most Viewed list is consistently dominated by videos branded by a site called SuperMoviesDownload.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/12/2007 | Digital Media

Digg & The Streisand Effect
A Web user and his information are like a grizzly and her cub. Come between them, and you're likely to get mauled.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/12/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

50 Web Usability Tips to Help You Attract and Retain Visitors
Web usability has a direct correlation to your potential to effectively make money online. This is largely because the usability of your...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/12/2007 | Website Design & Development

IAC to launch Ask Mobile GPS service
IAC/InterActiveCorp. said it launched on Friday a new mobile application for its Ask.com Web search service to help consumers find friends, shops and services...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/12/2007 | Digital Media

YouTube's New Inline Ads: Screenshots
YouTube is experimenting with inline ads, showing a text ad at the bottom of its player as a video is playing. If a user clicks on the text, a video ad expands and appears...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/12/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Passion Spotting
Hiring is one of the most difficult, and most important, things founders do. We all have our methods for finding great employeers...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/12/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Digg Life: How Social Media Will Change the World
With a very simple concept, Digg.com has changed the fundamental nature of the news media and how millions of people access information.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/12/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Media Rights Technologies and BlueBeat.com Issue Cease and Desist to Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and Real Networks
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was signed into law by President Clinton...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/12/2007 | Digital Media

Online Ads vs. Privacy
FOR advertisers, and in many ways for consumers, online advertising is a blessing. Customized messages rescue advertisers from the broad...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/12/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Bambi's Vator.TV, a Pitch Platform for Entrepreneurs, Raises Round
Bambi Francisco, the former MarketWatch columnist who left last month amid a stir to form her own video company, has finished raising a round of capital.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/12/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Facebook Marketplace: The Alternatives
Although Facebook has decided to launch its own classifieds service, many other sites have established themselves as solid choices for college students looking to buy...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/12/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Online Ad Spending Up in UK
Brits believe in online. Internet display ad spending, excluding search and classified, grew 9% in the 12 months ending March 31, 2007, according to Thomson Intermedia.
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/12/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Charles River Ventures' Angel Experiment: First Nine Investments
When Charles River Ventures announced its Quick Start program last year to provide a few hundred thousand dollars to startups on an expedited basis...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/12/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Startup Black20 Funded By Betting Roulette on Black20
Buzzmachine blog author, NYTimes/About.com exec, former CondeNet exec, and former Entertainment Weekly Founder Jeff Jarvis says he has made an angel investment...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/12/2007 | eMail & Viral Marketing

New Domain Names Could Come in Mid-2008
New Internet addresses for general use could start appearing in the summer of 2008 under a timeline the Internet's key oversight agency announced Thursday.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/11/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

New MySpace Copyright Tech Turns Heads
Faced with the looming threat of more legal action, MySpace announced Friday that it has begun implementing new technology to combat members' unauthorized use of...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/11/2007 | Digital Media

Google Sees Mergers Big and Small
Google Inc. has become more comfortable doing big acquisitions but still sees small technology deals as its primary thrust for buying businesses, its chief executive said...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/11/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

As RFID Tracking Booms, Privacy Issues Loom
RFID is a brilliant idea for business -- but a lousy one for people. Using the wireless chips the wrong way will just slow down the growth of the market, argues Business...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/11/2007 | Digital Media

Online Video No Threat To TV, YouTube Tells Congress
Executives from YouTube and HDNet, appearing before a Congressional subcommittee on the future of video entertainment Thursday, agreed that online video is not a threat to...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/11/2007 | Digital Media

Beatles Downloads On The Way?
Are the Beatles poised to transform themselves from digital laggards to digital trailblazers? Ever since the Fab Four exploded on the pop music scene more than four decades...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/11/2007 | Digital Media

Facebook to Offer Free Classifieds
Facebook, the social networking Web site, is adding free classified ad listings, putting it into competition with dozens of established companies...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/11/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Big Guns Jump on Open-Source Bandwagon
Hoping to win the hearts and minds of millions of internet programmers, the giants of the software industry are starting to sing a new song: Free your software and developers...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/11/2007 | Digital Media

8 Tips for Better del.icio.us Bookmarking
Yahoo's del.icio.us social bookmarking service is refreshingly simple while still offering plenty of power. Bookmark and tag pages, share them with the world, post them to...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/11/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Advertising's New Reality: Consumers Now Market to Themselves
Marketers have always loved consumers who so identify with a brand that they become its evangelists, wearing the logo on their backsides and preaching to their friends about...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/11/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Top 50 Online Advertisers by Media Value in March, 2007
The top Internet advertisers by media value. The data are provided by TNS Media Intelligence.
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/11/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Orbitz, The Worst IPO of 2007?
We're not even halfway through 2007 and I'm ready to make a nomination for worst IPO candidate of the year: Orbitz.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/11/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Google Searches Web's Dark Side
One in 10 web pages scrutinised by search giant Google contained malicious code that could infect a user's PC.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/11/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

The Large Agency SEO Client - How Does this Beast Differ?
When I started this column, I promised an inside view into the SEO life in an agency. Since then, I hope to have shattered some myths about the abilities of large agencies...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/11/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

9 Expert CSS Ideas You Should Think Twice About Before Using
Smashing Magazine does an excellent job of providing quality resources for web developers. Today while checking out Digg, I noticed that they have a new article...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/11/2007 | Website Design & Development

The Art of Chart - Bringing Wall Street Ideas to the Masses
In this post we analyze how web 2.0 companies are bringing price trending tools, traditionally found on Wall St, to the masses.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/11/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Exposed: The 7 Most Blatant Web 2.0 Rip Offs
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right? And judging by the number of Facebook, Digg, YouTube and Twitter clones that are springing up, their Californian founders must...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/11/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Mother's Day and Retail E-Commerce
More people click for Mom's gifts. Mother's Day spending will total $15.73 billion this year, according to the National Retail Federation's "2007 Mother's Day Consumer Intentions...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/11/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

24/7 Real Media Is Considering 'Strategic Alternatives'
Now it is official: 24/7 Real Media (TFSM) is for sale. The online marketing firm yesterday disclosed that it had hired Lehman Brothers as a financial adviser to assess...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/10/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Out-Googled: Is Terry Semel The Right Man to Lead Yahoo!
JERRY YANG, who co-founded Yahoo! and remains on its board, says that the internet company is in the middle of a 'transformation' and that its board members are...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/10/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Joost Gets Juiced With $45 Million Investment
It's probably no surprise that Joost nabbed a giant $45 million in funding yesterday, given it has positioned itself as Hollywood's best hope for resurgence on the Web.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/10/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Webkinz: I Fell in Love With a Cyber Alley Cat
It's Friday afternoon, and I've called 12 toy stores in the San Francisco Bay Area. All have the same frustrating answer: "We're sold out of Webkinz...sorry. We hope to get...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/10/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

70 Expert Ideas For Better CSS Coding
CSS isn't always easy to deal with. Depending on your skills and your experience, CSS coding can sometimes become a nightmare, particularly if you aren't sure which...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/10/2007 | Website Design & Development

Microsoft's Biggest Threat: MySpace?
Panelists at the Software 2007 Conference theorize what kind of real impact social networks are creating.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/10/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

NY Board Seeks Google DoubleClick Delay
Concerns about privacy have prompted the New York State Consumer Protection Board to ask the Federal Trade Commission for a delay in approving Google's proposed purchase...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/10/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Blog Search Engine Technorati Tops off With $11.52 Million
Technorati Inc., the San Francisco company that offers a blog search engine and other services, has raised another $1 million, but still has not articulated a clear strategy.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/10/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Fox to Offer MySpace Slots for Super Bowl Ads
News Corp.'s Fox Sports is expected Wednesday to announce today an agreement with corporate sibling MySpace and the National Football League that will give Super Bowl...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/10/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Kevin 'Digg' Rose Goes for 3rd Startup
First Digg, then the online video network, Revision 3 and now another start-up! Business Week poster boy Kevin Rose is rumored to have teamed up with Daniel Burka...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/10/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. Registers with SEC for Public Offering
Orbitz Worldwide, Inc., a division of Travelport Limited, the parent company of the Travelport group of companies, today announced that it has filed a registration...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/10/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Yahoo!'s Poker Face
Is Terry Semel an old media guy who can't figure out the Web? Or is the Yahoo! chief executive just a really good poker player?
eBusiness News | Posted 5/10/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Joost Announces $45 million Funding From Sequoia, Index, CBS & Viacom
Internet TV startup Joost raised $45 million in a venture round of financing, the company will announce this evening. Investors include Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/10/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

URL Buyers Hope to Cash in on Tragedy
When Fred McChesney heard about the Virginia Tech shooting spree on April 16, he was appalled. But what he did next has appalled many others.
eBusiness Information | Posting 5/10/2007 | Domaineering

Television 2.0
The founders of Kazaa and Skype believe their new product, Joost, can be just as revolutionary for the TV industry.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/10/2007 | Digital Media

2007 Web 2.0 Awards
Our team reviewed hundreds of sites in the Web 2.0 sphere to uncover the best in each of 41 categories. From there, we assembled a team of 25 of the most knowledgeable...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/10/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Mobile TV Predicted to Be a Hit
TV could overtake gaming and music as the consumer's favoured application for mobile phones, according to research.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/10/2007 | Digital Media

Move Over, Skype: Intel's Backing Jajah
For more than two years, Intel has worked with Web-calling leader Skype, but on May 9, the mammoth chipmaker announced a partnership that could make life for Skype...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/10/2007 | Digital Media

The Ecommerce Checkout Report
Do you want to see which checkout tactics are most used by successful online retailers? How does your conversion rate stack up to those who employ similar tactics?
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/10/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Dell IdeaStorm - A Brilliant Idea
If you have a user base consisting of millions of people, many of whom are technology-savvy, why not use this to your advantage?
eBusiness News | Posted 5/10/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

New Changes for eBay Users
From postage changes to great new additions to the eBay site, keep up with the alterations that will affect your eBay business.
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/10/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Got Cash? You Can Loan Money Like a Big-Time Banker
Jane Boon wants to see you stripped down to your financial undies. Boon, an engineer whose husband is former Time Editor-in-Chief Norman Pearlstein, is a new kind of loan...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/10/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google News Flash: Google.com SERPs get News, and Images!
Google News is indeed NOT newspaper driven, I reiterate: Google News is Google driven, Google.com that is. Poor Sam Zell I noted last month: The blogosphere has been quick...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/10/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Microsoft Buys Small Stake in CareerBuilder.com
CareerBuilder.com said on Wednesday that Microsoft Corp. acquired a 4 percent stake in the online jobs site and extended a partnership for CareerBuilder's job search placement...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/09/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Weebly Challenges TypePad, WordPress
Weebly, a San Francisco-based web publishing start-up and a YCombinator alumnus, is throwing its hat in the hosted-blogging arena, challenging existing players' SixApart's...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/09/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

The High Price of Getting Paid for Content
For YouTube's top video creators, being compensated for the Web traffic and ad impressions they generate isn't all it's cracked up to be...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/09/2007 | Digital Media

What Are Search Engines Saying About Your Brand?
In the offline world, companies make it a priority to influence the message people see in the media. However, in the search marketing world, very few companies make an effort...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/09/2007 | Search Marketing

Lessons for Entrepreneurs: Ignoring Is Bliss and Then Some
With all due respect to Thomas Gray, he missed the target when it comes to entrepreneurship: ignorance isn't bliss, ignoring is. For example, last week I posted a...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/09/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

eBay Close to Acquiring StumbleUpon
First reported here at TechCrunch on April 18, eBay is now said to be close to finalizing its deal to acquire StumbleUpon for $75 million, according to a new online report from...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/09/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Last.fm Launches Video - Aims To Be The MTV Of Web 2.0 Age
Online radio station Last.fm is adding a video section to its site this week, enabling users to create their own personalised video channels...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/09/2007 | Digital Media

Why YouTube is the New ClearChannel
A few days ago YouTube said it was creating a program that would pay content providers for their content. That's obviously great news...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/09/2007 | Digital Media

Venture-financed Survivors of Internet Bubble Hope to go Public
The debut of BigBand Networks Inc. on the Nasdaq Stock Market in March was welcome news for venture investors, eager for signs that the public markets are again a reliable...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/09/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Marketing to the Long Tail
The long tail (define) holds that outside the mainstream, there's a large, diverse, and potentially underserved market.
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/09/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

The Music Industry Enters Uncharted Territory
With falling CD sales and single downloads failing to pick up the revenue slack, the music industry worldwide has been singing a sad song for the last few years, but that tune...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/09/2007 | Digital Media

Gates Makes Case for Microsoft's Ad Business
While Microsoft may face some challenges taking advantage of the shift to Internet advertising, it's in good company.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/09/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

SEO: Link Baiting Tips To 'Juice' Your Site
Link bait, simply put, is content that is so funny, so interesting, so useful, or otherwise remarkable that it becomes irresistible to bloggers and website owners, who set up links...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/09/2007 | Link Building

How to Start A Business
The Internet is a pretty amazing tool for business-so long as you know how to use it. It is essential to understand that the Internet doesn't work like more traditional forms of media.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/09/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Online Advertising: So Good, Yet So Bad for Us
Online advertising is a revolution for marketers, who now can take advantage of previously unavailable data about readers' online behaviors and preferences to send commercial...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/09/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Going, Going, Gone. Yahoo Closes Auction Site
Yahoo Inc. has told users it will shut down its North American Web auction site, the second service the world's most visited Internet media company has set to retire...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/09/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

USC Professor Ponders a Digital Revolution
Taplin, an adjunct professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication in Los Angeles, specializes in the digital revolution. Following last week's merger mania...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/09/2007 | Digital Media

Indie Labels "Revolting" Against eMusic's Low Prices?
Billboard recently ran a piece discussing a label "revolt" at eMusic, the number two US retailer of downloadable music. According to the article, at least six independent labels...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/09/2007 | Digital Media

Buzzlogic Shows Which Bloggers Have Power, and Where
Buzzlogic, a San Francisco company that tell marketers which blogs are the most influential, is now distributing its online product.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/09/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Mom's Guide To Social Marketing
Your mother, if she did her job right, taught you everything you need to know about how to get along in the world and how to get ahead in it. When we were kids, we thought...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/09/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Congressional Hearings on Cybersquatting?
As we've reported recently, cybersquatting is attracting increased attention. A report released May 3, 2007 states that it is not just bloggers and business journalists that...
eBusiness Information | Posting 5/09/2007 | Domaineering

10 Tips For Investing in Domain Names
You may not have the genius of renowned futurist Ray Kurzweil who has been hired by Bill Gates on numerous occasions just to talk, but you can still predict the future...
eBusiness Information | Posting 5/09/2007 | Domaineering

Time Warner's Parsons Is Looking at Acquisitions to Bolster AOL
Time Warner Inc., which dropped a $900 million offer for a Swedish online advertising company earlier this year, is looking for acquisitions to bolster AOL, its Internet division.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/09/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Old Media Turns Combative Against New Media
Leading media executives took a combative tone against Internet companies on Tuesday, suggesting that Big Media increasingly considers new content distributors like Google...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/08/2007 | Digital Media

First Look - Google Analytics Launches New Interface and Reporting
Since Google acquired Urchin's popular web analytics technology in 2005, re-branding as Google Analytics, the service has become a popular choice among marketers looking...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/08/2007 | Website Analytics

Does JavaFX Spell The End Of AJAX?
You know all that AJAX code you've been writing and tearing your hair out over as you attempt to get the JavaScript working in both Internet Explorer and Firefox?
eBusiness News | Posted 5/08/2007 | Website Design & Development

Fark.com: Making Money Off of Goofy News Online
There are millions of home-grown Web sites out there, but only a few people actually make money off of them - people like Drew Curtis.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/08/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Paid Links Debate - The Experts Weigh In
A few weeks ago, Matt Cutts stirred a great big pot of controversy in our industry. I weighed in and asked our audience "Would You Report Paid Links?"
eBusiness News | Posted 5/08/2007 | Search Marketing

New York Times Spamming Google Results
The New York Times has worked to ensure that its site and search results are incredibly Google friendly, so Google friendly in fact that a search for 'sex' on Google currently...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/08/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Microsoft And Yahoo!, Take Two
Microsoft will pull out all the stops this week when it gathers its biggest advertisers in its backyard for its annual Strategic Account Summit.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/08/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Google Finance Cashes In Updates
Some new features arrived in Google's Finance site, with the big addition being content from events like earnings announcements and analyst calls.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/08/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

How to Build a Company Outside of The Valley
I am in Spain at the moment, sussing out a bunch of European startups at Innovate Europe. This morning at the University of Zaragoza Business School...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/08/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Google Preparing to Police Web
Increasingly worried by the use of conventional web sites to distribute the viruses that turn innocent PCs into botnet "zombies," Google appears to be readying a plan to police...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/08/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

The Bottom Line on the Long Tail
CBIC banker Lex Miron runs the numbers on Chris Anderson's theory. Will the collective bulk of interactive media companies in the long tail outweigh the old media head?
eBusiness News | Posted 5/08/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Building a Brand Through Social Networks
With all that's going on with social networking these days, we're seeing a lot of figures leverage the popularity of social networks to gain visibility for themselves.
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/08/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

On the Web, Oldies are Golden Again
Easy access to vintage hits creates new fans for artists from bygone eras. After the Beatles arrived on the scene, Frankie Avalon, whose hit "Venus" was the last No. 1...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/08/2007 | Digital Media

MySpace/Photobucket: User Overlap Is Nearly 100%
NewsCorp plans to pay half as much for Photobucket as they did for MySpace. Photobucket is going for $300 million with the earnout (a steal compared to...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/08/2007 | Website Analytics

The Nontrepreneur
The serial entrepreneur is dead, and thank god, because he bored me. The new archetypal business creator is not that interested in business at all.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/08/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Boston Newspaper Prints Local Bloggers' Posts
While most newspapers are trying to stake bigger claims online, one new publication is pulling material off the Internet to be printed in ink.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/08/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Newspaper Web Site Audiences Are Growing Rapidly
The audience for newspaper Web sites is growing at nearly twice the rate of the overall online audience, according to new data released today by the Newspaper Association...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/08/2007 | Website Analytics

ThinkFree Takes on Scribd
ThinkFree, the eight-year-old Microsoft Office alternative, seems to have startup envy. After raising $24 million and getting bought four years ago...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/08/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Me.com Follows Ning, Allows You to Build Custom Social Networks
It's hard to believe, but new companies are still emerging to offer you free social networking tools.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/08/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

What Makes a Good Blog Post?
Many good writers get stuck when they decide to start blogging, mostly because they aren't sure what they're shooting for in a blog post.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/08/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Educate Your Stakeholders!
As much as it hurts to admit it, most of the important decisions of website development are not made by design professionals. They're made by the business owners and...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/08/2007 | Website Design & Development

Tumri to Put Ad Selection Power in Long Tail Publishers' Hands
A new advertising and "merchandising" network, Tumri, is attempting to put the power to pick what ads run on their content partners' Web sites in the hands...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/08/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

17 New Rules for Successful E-Commerce Websites
E-commerce has, for the most part, evolved far beyond the late 1990's cliches of hair-wrenching, sanity-shattering slogs through yet another "clever" designer's take on...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/07/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Return of The Startup Factory
Startup incubators turned into cash incinerators during the dotcom bubble and burst. Now they're back, and Business 2.0 looks at whether they're any better at breeding the...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/07/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Top 17 Search Innovations Outside Of Google
There are an abundance of new search engines (100+ at last count ) - each pioneering some innovation in search technology. Here is a list of the top 17 innovations that, in our...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/07/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

MySpace is Buying PhotoBucket
Rupert Murdoch watched Google snatch YouTube, but he's not letting Photobucket get away. Social-networking site MySpace, owned by Murdoch's News...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/07/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Sun Sets its Sights on Web 2.0 Start-ups
Sun Microsystems, the company that said it was the dot in dot-com during the tech boom of the late '90s, is trying to woo the start-up community a second time around.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/07/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Tech Investors Cull Start-Ups for Pentagon
The Defense Department is using the nation's top technology investors to help it find innovations from tiny start-up companies.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/07/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Beating Warcraft at Its Own Game
With more than eight million subscribers, World of Warcraft dominates the online gaming market but some strong rivals are gearing up to take it on.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/07/2007 | Digital Media

8 Must Read Blogs for Pro Bloggers
So you want to be a pro blogger? That is fine. But do you have what it takes? More specifically do you have the knowledge that it takes?
eBusiness News | Posted 5/07/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Book Not Ready for Print? You Can Whip Up an Audiobook
Audio books are fast, inexpensive and easy to record, leading publishers to look to the format to fuel early interest in paper books.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/07/2007 | Digital Media

Yar! Why Web Pirates Can't Be Touched
Pirates don't just plunder. In Sweden, it seems, they also believe in sharing. As the world's largest repository of BitTorrent files, ThePirateBay.org helps millions...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/07/2007 | Digital Media

Microsoft Launches Windows Live Hotmail Worldwide
Microsoft Corp. today announced that Windows Live(TM) Hotmail(R), the successor to MSN(R) Hotmail, is launching globally in 36 languages.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/07/2007 | Digital Media

Ten Steps for Developing an Effective E-mail Strategy
Hello! We're almost there. If you've been following along, reading and implementing the ideas in parts one, two, three, and four, you're less than three weeks away from...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/07/2007 | eMail & Viral Marketing

Merger Mania Stirs up Online, Media Sectors
Rumblings of a Microsoft-Yahoo deal may not have panned out, but the pursuers and pursued are still out in force.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/07/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

IRS Wants Data on Users from Internet Firms
The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) is sounding an early warning on a proposal in the president's 2008 budget that would require Internet businesses like eBay...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/07/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Messaging Upstart Zimbra Cuts Big Deal with Comcast
Zimbra, the open-source messaging software company that offers more modern features than Microsoft's Outlook, has cut a major deal with Comcast, keeping it on an...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/07/2007 | Digital Media

Google Patent Defines The Sandbox
If there were any doubt new sites may be spending some time alone on part of the playground, a recent Google patent application seems to define...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/07/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Don't Count Us Out: Microsoft Assuages Online Advertisers
Microsoft's annual ad gathering this week in Seattle comes on the heels of big deals by Google and Yahoo, and the Redmond, Wash., giant wants its biggest...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/07/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Kevin Rose on DiggNation Revolt
Digg Founder Kevin Rose looks unbruised in this video of me interviewing him at last week's AlwaysOn OnHollywood event on a news panel, which also included the...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/07/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Survey Defines Split in Technology Use
A broad survey about the technology people have, how they use it, and what they think about it shatters assumptions and reveals where companies might be able to expand...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/07/2007 | Website Analytics

Attack of the Advertising Widgets
Widgets are being turned into advertising delivery systems. Their nature - rich media applicatons that are easy to build, customize and add to a site...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/07/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Why is Comcast Web Serious
Not happy with 2.5 billion page views a month, Comcast (CMCSA) is looking to enhance its position as one of the top Internet destinations in the US.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/07/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Craigslist's Contribution To Newspaper Woes Is Exaggerated
I'm at the Marriott Marquis for the NAA National Convention in a fairly quiet ballroom full of people in the publishing business still trying to figure out Craig Newmark.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/07/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

How to Make sexy Buttons with CSS
This tutorial will teach you how to create pretty looking textual buttons (with alternate pressed state) using CSS.
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/07/2007 | Website Design & Development

2007 Web Analytics Shootout - Interim Report
Every web analytics tool measures clickthroughs and page views a little differently. They're all using slightly different yardsticks and getting slightly different results. The disparity...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/07/2007 | Website Analytics

Sphere Focuses Search on Time and Connections
You may have noticed we have a Sphere link for every ZDNet blog post, which brings up a widget (below) that offers up related blogs posts and other articles.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/07/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Tremor Takes on Brightcove Ad Inventory
Tremor Media has inked a deal to sell the in-stream video inventory on Brightcove's network of small and midsize Web publishers.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/07/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

In-Game Ads Heat Up in UK
In-game advertising in the UK is poised for rapid growth, according to the UK Internet Advertising Bureau's "IAB In-Game Advertising: The UK Market" report.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/07/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Hollywood Loves the Tiny Screen. Advertisers Don't.
Multiepisode cellphone series are growing in popularity but advertisers have been slow to migrate to the supersmall screen.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/07/2007 | Digital Media

Don't Run the Risk of Click and Miss
As you may know, our tips and guidelines mention that "users should only click on Google ads if they're interested in the services being advertised".
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/07/2007 | Adsense & Other Context Ads

Want to See That Shot Again? Download It for $3
The N.B.A. announced a new video download store that will allow fans to download playoff games for $3 apiece.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/07/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Oddpath Is A Local Search Directory
Oddpath is a local search engine that has cataloged nearly 11 million U.S. locations to help you find exactly what you're looking for.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/07/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

NBC Lines up Against YouTube in Copyright Case
NBC Universal and Viacom have come out against YouTube in a legal case that could help to determine whether the video-sharing site is culpable for copyright violations...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/06/2007 | Digital Media

MiYahoo! Would Be Lousy For The Venture Economy
Here is our roundup of pundit opinions on the rumored $50B MSN + Yahoo! merger, but first our opinion. The a:c hates the potential merger...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/06/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Yahoo Sings a New Lyrics-Licensing Song
A new music lyrics service launched by Yahoo illustrates the potential and the challenges of integrating lyrics into digital-music products today.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/06/2007 | Digital Media

Technorati Steps Into MyBlogLog Territory
Popular blog search engine Technorati has undergone a number of changes over the past few days.
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/06/2007 | Website Analytics

Blogs Reshaping Film Coverage
Bloggers come in many shapes and sizes. Some are professional journalists. Others are amateur fanboys. A few create original content, but most riff on other people's blogs.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/06/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

7 Great Ways to Finance a Startup
From credit cards - hey, it worked for Google - to your own customers and suppliers, there's money out there if you get creative.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/06/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Rupert Murdoch Not Threatened By 'New Media'
Traditional companies are feeling threatened. I say, bring on the changes. Everyone knows that networking--once a face-to-face affair, sometimes captured in a Rolodex--is...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/06/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

DRM Group Vows to Fight Bloggers
Bloggers "crossed the line" when they posted a software key that could break the encryption on some HD-DVDs, the AACS copy protection body has said.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/06/2007 | Digital Media

Google Testing New Search Results Layout?
A tip in today pointing to Beyond Teck, a site that claims to have a screen shot of a new layout for Google's search results page.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/06/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Profitability Elusive for eBay Drop-off Stores
Call it the paradox of eBay drop-off stores. A recent AuctionBytes survey shows that while 63 percent of storeowners say the business has not met their original expectations...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/06/2007 | eBay & eCommerce