Four Reasons Why Facebook is Succeeding
It's no secret that Facebook is one of the hottest Silicon Valley startups. They boast over 24 million currently active users, including a stunning 85 percent of...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/16/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Hackers Meet for Coding Festival
Web developers are gathering in London for the first BBC/Yahoo hackday. The free-form event aims to show web developers how to get more out of the data feeds...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/16/2007 | Website Design & Development

eBay Reshapes Itself as an Easier, Cooler Place
When Pierre Omidyar founded eBay 12 years ago, he wanted to build the world's most efficient marketplace. At the very least...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/16/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

Gone in 30 Seconds
Traditional TV spot may be headed toward extinction as more advertisers pitch their messages on the web.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/16/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move (Voluntarily!)
So, you don't mind being followed and tracked? You don't care if your friends can see what websites you've been to lately, what software you've been running, or...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/16/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

The Domains Of The Day
How two Boston entrepreneurs are making millions from names as simple as chocolate.com. The fact that Andrew Miller and Michael Zapolin don't speak German ...
eBusiness News | Posting 6/16/2007 | Domaineering

Web Help for Getting a Mortgage the Criminal Way
New Web sites have helped to fuel the rampant mortgage fraud that has caused a huge spike in loan defaults.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/16/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

HTML5 Differences from HTML4
This document describes the differences between HTML4 and HTML5 and provides some of the rationale for the changes. This document may not provide accurate information...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/16/2007 | Website Design & Development

MySpace Founder Looks to The Future
MySpace defined the red-hot phenomenon of social networking. But is the site which introduced millions to socialising online losing its edge?
eBusiness News | Posted 6/16/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Embedded Joost Will Change The Market
Reports that Joost is now talking to hardware vendors about embedding Joost into set-top boxes and televisions will change the market as we know it.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/16/2007 | Digital Media

AdSense Tips from an Expert
I recently stumbled into someone that is a wealth of knowledge regarding AdSense and how to make it pay. I asked this 'mystery mentor' to guest write a post here but he...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/16/2007 |  Adsense & Other Context Ads

Avvo Better Get A Good Lawyer
It's hard to see what Seattle class action Attorney Steve Berman is so worked up about given that newly launched attorney rating site Avvo gives him a "suberb "grade.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/16/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

eBay Yanks Google Search Ads, Yet Traffic Rises
After a rift over their competing internet pay services, eBay has removed all its search ads from Google in the U.S. Google has been attempting to challenge eBay's PayPal...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/16/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Which is More Popular Sex, Torrent, or Video Sites?
We wanted to know so we choose to take a look at traffic data, from multiple sources, for the top 5 sites in their respective categories to determine the victor...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/16/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Bush Administration Attacks 'Shield' for Bloggers
The Bush administration on Thursday blasted a congressional proposal that would shield a broad swath of news gatherers, including some bloggers, from revealing their...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/16/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

The Long Tail Is Getting Fatter
Three separate news stories involving numbers this week caught my eye. iLike announced it has now has 6 million registered users and is now adding...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/16/2007 | Website Analytics

Web Angel Investor on The Lookout for Another Big Winner
Stefan Glaenzer is looking for his third hit, although the German angel investor, now based in London, cannot complain so far.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/16/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Ask: Redesign
Ask Jeeves launched in late 1996 or early 1997. It was a search engine that tried to distinguish itself by taking on this servant persona. It became your helpful...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/16/2007 | Website Design & Development

Creative Favicons: When Small Is Beautiful
We love creative favicons. Their beauty lies in the approach a designer has chosen to put something really unique inside of the 16×16px box.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/16/2007 | Website Design & Development

The Bank of PayPal
With new security steps and plans for a debit card, eBay's online payment service is taking on its finance rivals. In Europe, it's even got a banking license.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/15/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

BlogHer, Site for Female Bloggers Raises Round
BlogHer, a site that aims to popularize blogs by women, has raised its first round of capital from Silicon Valley firm, Venrock.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/15/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Facebook's App Feeding Frenzy
At Wednesday night's Facebook Developer Meetup, the mood could be summed up by the appearance of a clean-cut young entrepreneur who had written...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/15/2007 | Digital Media

Top 25 Alternatives To Venture Capital
If you're struggling to find success in your quest for venture capital, maybe you're looking in the wrong place. Venture capital is not for everybody.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/15/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Windows Users Download 1 Million Copies of Safari
Safari was an early hit with Windows users, who have downloaded 1 million copies of the browser since Monday, according to Apple.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/15/2007 | Digital Media

MySpace, Facebook Privacy Limits Tested in Emotional Distress Suit
The operators of MySpace and Facebook social networking sites assure their millions of subscribers that only designated "friends" can read registrants'...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/15/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Chinese Eye Tracking Study: Baidu Vs Google
I thought the easiest way to share the results of the Chinese Eye Tracking study might be in a Q&A format, as that's what most research programs tend to be anyway.
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/15/2007 | Website Analytics

Michael Moore's Sicko Leaked on The Net
Sicko, Michael Moore's scathing look at the healthcare industry and the pharmaceutical companies that are destroying it, is scheduled to debut June 29 in theaters.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/15/2007 | Digital Media

How Justin.TV's Live Video System Was Born
Like most great ideas, the concept behind Justin.tv is simple: a video stream, anytime, anywhere. But the hardware behind it all wasn't so easy to make, so Justin called...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/15/2007 | Digital Media

TripAdvisor Trots out Social Network
TripAdvisor, that sea of au courant and sometimes complaint-driven posts about hotels, is making it easier to find like-minded travelers.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/15/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Forecast: Search to Lose Share as Video Ads Proliferate
An IDC Internet advertising report forecasts advertising online to nearly double by 2011. Search is expected to lose its dominance as broadband...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/15/2007 | Search Marketing

FTC Examines Web-Ad Deals Involving Microsoft, Yahoo
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating two more mergers in the fast-growing online-advertising industry.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/14/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

YouTube, CNN Aim to 'Revolutionize' Presidential Debate
In a joint announcement on Thursday, YouTube and CNN unveiled their plans for co-sponsored Democratic and Republican presidential debates that aim to bring ...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/15/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

MySpace Mini-Episodes, Courtesy of Honda
Honda plans to run smaller commercials for a smaller car in smaller versions of television series. YEARS after Volkswagen challenged drivers to...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/15/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Exclusive: Launch of Powerlabs, Plus More Powerset Screenshots
Lately there's been a swirl of buzz about Powerset, a stealth natural language processing search engine. Last week they released their first "Query of the week", which was...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/15/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Father's Day and Online Retail
Buyers go online for Dad's gadgets. US consumers will spend $9.9 billion on dads for Father's Day, according to the National Retail Federation's "2007 Father's...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/15/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

World Broadband Closes in on 300 Million Subscribers
According to the most recent data from Point Topic's Global Broadband Statistics service there were 298 million broadband subscribers worldwide at the end of March 2007.
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/15/2007 | Website Analytics

Veoh Hosts $26 Million Round
Updated Veoh may no longer host popular adult videos, but that hasn't stopped venture capitalists from backing up the Brink's truck. peHUB has learned that the...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/15/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Dark Days for Terry Semel
Yahoo, once an internet highflier, has been lapped by Google and hears the footsteps of MySpace and Facebook. How long can its C.E.O. keep his job?
eBusiness News | Posted 6/14/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

The Tech Lab: Dave Winer
Dave Winer, considered by many to be the father of blogging and a pioneer of RSS feeds, offers his personal view on technologies he would like to see in existence one day.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/14/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

I'll Tell You Where Your Ten Bux Goes!
Because I believe in transparency and accountability I have decided to open up the books on Something Awful and show you, our deer readers, where the money goes.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/14/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

eBay Experiment Demonstrates Frailty Of Google's Monopoly
For the past several days, Larry Dignan has been seeing what it's like to live without Google. Each day, he's been trying different, lesser-known search engines to...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/14/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Xing Integrates with ZoomInfo, in Move to Overtake LinkedIn
Xing, the Hamburg, Germany social networking site for business contacts, has just signed a deal that makes its network larger than it U.S. competitor LinkedIn.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/14/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

TorrentSpy Ruling a 'Weapon of Mass Discovery'
It was a pro-copyright ruling that stunned nearly everyone dealing with the issue of online piracy. In a decision reported late Friday by CNET News.com...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/14/2007 | Digital Media

Google Frames a Video Search Engine
Google Video, now a video search engine, shows a frame similar to the one from Image Search when you click on a search result.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/14/2007 | Digital Media

Vanessa Fox - The Person to Whom Webmasters Owe...
Vanessa Fox, Webmaster Central's long time head of operations, announced her departure from the company today.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/14/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Publishers Using Online Video to Open The Book on Authors
Author Marianne Wiggins doesn't pretend she's up on modern technology. She writes in longhand and doesn't bother with cellphones, except in her car - "in case I...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/14/2007 | Digital Media

40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS
Web users love informative clues. Whatever questions and misunderstandings might occur - delivering precise answers immediately is the primary task a responsive user...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/14/2007 | Website Design & Development

The 3D Real/Virtual World Hybrid: How Far Away?
How long will it be until we can stroll through the streets in a virtual world that is identical to our own? Given the state of a number of technologies, not very long...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/14/2007 | Digital Media

YouTube Testing New Beta Design, Bigger Player
Everybody's favorite video-sharing site is trying out a new design for its video pages. There's now a button that enables the new 'Beta Version'...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/14/2007 | Digital Media

Is Wis.dm Your Next Web Obsession?
Do bald people need shampoo? Good question. When Yuchen Long, 14, posted this question on the beta version of a new site called wis.dm on Monday...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/14/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Ask.com Ad Campaign Associated With Google
Ask.com has gotten a lot of flack over its 'algorithm' ad campaign, and it seemed possible that the publicity might hurt, rather than help, the company.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/14/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Business 2.0 Editor Lured to Run Valleywag
Owen Thomas, the Business 2.0 editor whom we've lured to run Valleywag, is all smiles. But don't be deceived. This Silicon Valley gossip rag...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/14/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Sound Start to Music on Mobiles
Omnifone's Chief Executive Rob Lewis says the new eAAC+ audio format allows mobile to store thousands of songs. Swedes have become the first to try a music ...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/14/2007 | Digital Media

After eBay Pulls Ads, Google Cancels Offending Party
A contrite and repentant Google canceled a party that irked eBay and that a source said led eBay to remove all of its ads from Google's U.S. network earlier this week.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/14/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

Facebook Forced to Sell Stake After 'Hardware Stuff-Up'
The networking site had to dilute its holding by 10 per cent after realising it hadn't bought enough servers to cope with its expansion.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/14/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Advertising Placements by Industry and Top Sponsored Links, May 2007
The industry breakdown of ad placements and unit types and top 25 companies placing sponsored links. The data are provided by Nielsen//NetRatings.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/14/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Effective Project Management for Web Geeks
"Project Management" has always been a term more likely to elicit a groan than a smile. Nevertheless, the use of project management skills is often what distinguishes...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/14/2007 | Website Design & Development

IBM's Management Games
No fooling around: Big Blue is promoting a video game that could change the way companies develop leaders and manage projects.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/14/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

GigaOM Top 10 Most Popular MMOs
The attention surrounding MMOs (massively multiplayer online worlds) has never been greater. But it's not just role playing games along for the ride...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/14/2007 | Digital Media

A Hip-Hop Star's MySpace Dreams
Business 2.0 columnist John Heilemann talks with music impresario Damon Dash about his new social networking venture and why he'd rather be Bill Gates than Steve Jobs.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/14/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

EBay Says Fraud Crackdown Has Worked
The auction giant will report a 60 percent decline in the number of complaints from luxury goods makers about counterfeit products.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/14/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

Did MySpace Slide Money in The Wrong Photo Bucket?
In what was perhaps the worst kept secret in Silicon Valley, News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media unit finally announced last month last month that it was buying the hot...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/14/2007 | Digital Media

Read Our Lips: No New Net Taxes Likely
Death and taxes are certain, a wise man once said. But in cyberspace, taxes are no sure thing, and federal lawmakers are considering several bills that would continue a...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/14/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

EBay Pulls Ads from Google's U.S. Ad Network
EBay Inc. has pulled all of its paid search ads from Google Inc.'s AdWords network in the U.S., an eyebrow-raising move likely to be seen in the industry as a sign of...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/13/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

Can Online Publishers Take Back Control From Ad Networks?
If the future of advertising is online, many companies, including Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and WPP, are betting that the future of online advertising...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/13/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Did Facebook Underestimate The Platform's Success?
I think most of the Web has reached the consensus that Facebook Platform, the social networking site's new initiative to open up its service to third-party...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/13/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Search Engine Advocates Metasearch for Search Result Accuracy
According to an updated study of search engines' result overlap conducted by Dogpile.com, there was a staggering 0.6 percent average difference in the first ...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/13/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

'comScore Widget Metrix' Service Launched
comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced the launch of comScore Widget Metrix, a new service to track the usage of widgets across the Web.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/13/2007 | Website Analytics

Online Video Ads Bringing Results
Online video ads are leading to sales, according to the Online Publishers Association (OPA) "Frames of Reference: Online Video Advertising, Content and Consumer...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/13/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

What Does Google Really Want for YouTube?
The San Jose Mercury News, among others, is reporting that Google's YouTube will begin checking content for copyrights, specifically in a test with Disney and Time...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/13/2007 | Digital Media

NBC Universal & Netfilx Announce New Short-Form Content
Netflix, Inc., the world's largest online movie rental service, today announced that NBC Universal Digital Studios will produce for Netflix a series of online webisodes...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/13/2007 | Digital Media

AT&T Willing to Spy for NSA, MPAA, and RIAA
In a move that has executives from movie studios and record labels grinning from ear to ear, AT&T has announced that it will develop and deploy technology that will...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/13/2007 | Digital Media

Results of Business 2.0s 'Who matters now?' Survey
Business 2.0 Magazine invited you to vote for the businesspeople who inspire, inform and infuriate you, from CEOs to entrepreneurs to media stars...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/13/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

How much traffic will I get if I rank #1 in Google?
We all know that ranking on the first page of Google for your chosen keywords will vastly improve your traffic as opposed to ranking on the second or third pages...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/13/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Mahalo Greenhouse Launches
Two weeks ago we launched the human-powered "search service" Mahalo.com in alpha at the WSJ's D conference in California.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/13/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

eBay in Patent Fight Over 'Buy It Now'
A small Virginia company in a patent fight with eBay Inc. asked a federal judge Tuesday to stop the online auction powerhouse from using its "Buy It Now" feature allowing....
eBusiness News | Posted 6/13/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

Open Source Ad Server openAds Gets $ 5 Million Funding
This is in keeping in line with open-source services becoming commercial companies: Mozilla, BitTorrent, WordPress and others: OpenAds, the open-source ad server...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/13/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Yahoo's Semel Faces the Music
At the annual meeting, shareholders made their dissatisfaction known, with votes on directors and executive pay.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/13/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Apple to Sell Music Through UK Bebo Network
Apple is tapping into the popularity of social networking sites, as it announces a deal on Wednesday to embed its iTunes internet music download service into the Bebo...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/13/2007 | Digital Media

Wired News Benchmarks Show Safari 3 Is Slower Than IE 7, Firefox
Apple CEO Steve Jobs touted Safari 3's speed as one of its most appealing features. But in tests by Wired News, the first public beta of Safari for Windows is actually...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/13/2007 | Website Design & Development

Holy Cow... 6MM Users and Growing 300k/Day!
The most amazing part is our overnight success on Facebook. The Facebook Platform enables new services to enjoy an unprecedented rate of viral growth, and our...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/13/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Ron Conway: Third-rate VCs Are Paying Off Entrepreneurs
Ron Conway, the most prolific investor in the latest wave of Internet companies, is hot for video companies, and ways to monetize them.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/13/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Auto Dealers Hike Sales With Do-It-Yourself Ads
Keith McKenzie, partner-general manager of Minnesota auto dealer Two Harbors Ford, once used various agencies to create a patchwork campaign to move 700...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/13/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Happy Second Birthday, TechCrunch
TechCrunch turned two yesterday. Like last year, I think its a good time to take a few minutes and give a report on the state of our blog network.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/13/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Rolling Your Own Online Office
I've done a lot of telecommuting in my life. My first real writing gig came when I was 16 as a freelancer for a computer magazine whose offices were 3,000 miles from...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/13/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Blockbuster Takes on Netflix with New Lower Prices
Blockbuster (BBI) introduced a new Internet-only DVD rental service Tuesday priced below a similar Netflix (NFLX) plan, sending shares of Netflix down...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/13/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

eBay Thinks Outside with eBox
eBay is rebuilding its technical infrastructure in a project that could lead to the e-commerce giant hosting applications from outsiders.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/12/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

New Features Added to Google Analytics
Since releasing the new Google Analytics, we've received repeated requests for specific features. We felt strongly that these features deserved to be incorporated...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/12/2007 | Website Analytics

Microsoft Versus Google: Apple Wins
Now Google is complaining to the U.S. Justice Department that the built-in desktop search features of Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows Vista, hinder...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/12/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Yahoo Shareholders Vote Down Pay Proposal
Shareholders at Yahoo Inc. gave thumbs down Tuesday to activist groups seeking to make changes to the company's policies regarding executive pay and the privacy...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/12/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

MySpace Gen Builds Business on Social Sites
While at a summer barbecue with her brother and his friends, Joyce Kim checked her e-mail and saw an unfamiliar name.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/12/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Babelgum's Big Bet on Internet TV
Italian broadband baron Silvio Scaglia enters Babelgum into the "networked television" race, with loads of cash to stake on his horse...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/12/2007 | Digital Media

How Long Should Google Remember Searches?
Over the years we've taken many steps to protect our users' data and privacy. For example, we have resisted overly-broad government subpoenas; we've designed ...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/12/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

MySpace Ex-Chairman Buying 'How-to' Video Site
A company founded by MySpace.com's ex-chairman is announcing on Tuesday its purchase of video site ExpertVillage.com to bolster its "how-to" archives.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/12/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Can A Search Engine Know Too Much?
Google thrives in part because of its reputation for being the best source of information on the Web. But has it compiled too much information about its users?
eBusiness News | Posted 6/12/2007 | Search Marketing

YouTube to Test Video ID with Time Warner, Disney
Top online video service YouTube will soon test a new video identification technology with two of the world's largest media companies, Time Warner Inc. and Walt Disney...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/12/2007 | Digital Media

For Yahoo, an Ordeal of Dissent
Terry S. Semel, Yahoo's chief executive, is facing mounting questions about internal morale problems.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/12/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google AdWords Adds Reports Showing Content Network Data...
Google, as expected, has added a new report type to give AdWords advertisers the ability to see the exact sites their ads are displaying on within Google's content network.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/12/2007 | Search Marketing

Download Store 'Takes on iTunes'
British download store 7digital says it will "take on iTunes" in the battle for digital music and video.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/12/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

Are Google's Moves Creeping You Out?
One lazy afternoon, Maer Israel and a colleague ducked out of work to have a double espresso at a nearby cafe in San Francisco.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/12/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Publishers Testing e-Books For Young People
Two leading children's publishers, Scholastic, Inc., and Disney, will soon discover whether the laptop compares to the lap in the hearts of young readers.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/12/2007 | Digital Media

Developers Buzz on Leopard and Safari, Bum Out About IPhone
It was a letdown to rival the final episode of The Sopranos. As Steve Jobs tantalized thousands of Apple software programmers here at the Worldwide Developers...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/12/2007 | Website Design & Development

Frameworks for Designers
These days, 'framework' is quite a buzzword in web development. With JavaScript frameworks like the Yahoo User Interface library, jQuery, and Prototype getting a...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/12/2007 | Website Design & Development

The Ultimate RSS Toolbox - 120+ RSS Resources
Never again will mankind have to look for RSS info in more than one place...ok, we're kidding, but we've aimed to create a near comprehensive list of all the RSS...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/12/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

LinkedIn Says it Will Own Business Networking
In the future, everyone will likely maintain two online profiles. So said LinkedIn CEO Dan Nye in an extended lunchtime interview last week here in Fortune's conference...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/12/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Marketing to Attract 150 million Users to Entropia
Recently, MindArk announced they were partnering with a Chinese company and expanding Entropia Universe into China. They stated their goal is to get 150...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/12/2007 | Digital Media

Online Security Threats and Market Grow
The arrest in late May of "King of Spam" Robert Alan Soloway focused attention on the scale of online criminal activity. Mr. Soloway was indicted on 35 counts involving...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/12/2007 | Website Design & Development

PayPerPost Raises $7 million More
Controversial pay-per-post startup PayPerPost has raised $7 million in a second round of financing, bringing their total raised capital to just over $10 million.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/12/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Travelocity Hands Search Marketing Duties to iCrossing
Online travel giant Travelocity has said goodbye to Range Online and hired iCrossing to handle its paid search management, customer analytics and search engine optimization.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/12/2007 | Search Marketing

Web Design-isms: 7 Surefire Styles that Work
Glossy buttons, ornamental backgrounds, futuristic interfaces. We've all been guilty at one time or another of committing the 7 design-isms in this article from Larissa Meek.
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/12/2007 | Website Design & Development

How Google, YouTube Power Their Way to Center of 2008 Campaign
Does Google want to be the 51st state this election season? It sure looks that way. The Mountain View search-engine giant and its wildly popular videosharing site...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/12/2007 | Digital Media

Safari 3 Public Beta: The World's Best Browser. Now On Windows, Too.
Experience the web, Apple style, with Safari: the fastest, easiest-to-use web browser in the world. With its simple, elegant interface...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/11/2007 | Website Design & Development

Apple.com Sports New Look
Looks like the web elves at been hard at work Leoparding up Apple.com. The website has been overhauled to be more in line with the new look of...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/11/2007 | Website Design & Development

Google Names Microsoft In Antitrust Matter
Just before Google Inc. went public nearly three years ago, Yahoo Inc. Chairman Terry Semel assured a roomful of securities analysts and money managers that...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/11/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

No Secret Search Engine Says Microsoft
Speculation that Microsoft has a crack team of developers in Silicon Valley working on a cutting-edge search project is news to the company's head of search and advertising.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/11/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

The NameMedia Story: How They Are Rocking the Internet
The pioneers in this business have long preached that one day the corporate world and Wall Street would discover the untapped power in high quality domain names and make...
eBusiness News | Posting 6/11/2007 | Domaineering

Using Ads, New Online Label Offers Music Free
In a move designed to upend the traditional record label business model, Downtown Records and Internet entrepreneur Peter Rojas plan to launch an online-only record label...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/11/2007 | Digital Media

Does Search Get Too Much Credit?
While search continues to dominate Internet ad spending, new research questions whether it gets too much credit for closing sales at the expense of branding initiatives.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/11/2007 | Search Marketing

Hollywood's YouTube Frustration Grows
Google and its YouTube subsidiary are trying Hollywood's patience. The search engine has made significant progress in recent weeks...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/11/2007 | Digital Media

Hollywood Studios in Video Talks with Apple
Apple is in advanced talks with Hollywood's largest movie studios about launching an online film rental service to challenge cable and satellite TV operators...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/11/2007 | Digital Media

Yahoo CEO to Face Shareholder Backlash
Just before Google Inc. went public nearly three years ago, Yahoo Inc. Chairman Terry Semel assured a roomful of securities analysts and money managers that...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/11/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

A Race to the Bottom: Privacy Ranking of Internet Service Companies
This report has been prepared by Privacy International following a six-month investigation into the privacy practices of key Internet based companies. The ranking lists...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/11/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Going, Going' Everywhere
eBay has been buying furiously to move beyond its auction-house identity, and a new raft of services will spread its reach even further.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/11/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

Behavioral Advertising on Target... to Explode Online
After years of deriding the Internet as "only" a direct advertising vehicle, major brand marketers are discovering powerful new ways to target their users online, and major...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/11/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

GE, Microsoft Discussed Buying Dow Jones
General Electric Co. and Microsoft Corp. were in discussions in recent weeks to combine Dow Jones & Co. with some portions of GE's NBC Universal, parrying a bid by News...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/11/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Me.dium Gets La.rge Boost
Boulder, Colorado-based Me.dium, which lets you see and talk to people who visit the same Web sites as you, has raised an enormous $15 million in its second round...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/11/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Google, China's Sina to Cooperate on Web Searches
Google & Sina Corp said Monday they plan to cooperate on search services and advertising, giving the U.S.-based search giant an ally as it seeks to wrest market...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/11/2007 | Search Marketing

Is The U.S. Winning Back Its Competitive Edge?
A new study finds that American universities are luring technology entrepreneurs from overseas, fueling a $52 billion startup boom.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/11/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Adobe's Apollo Platform, Now Called AIR, Goes Beta
Adobe Systems on Monday plans to release a beta version of AIR, a software download formerly called Apollo that makes Web-native applications operate like desktop programs.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/11/2007 |  Website Design & Development

Barry Diller's Third Act
Chances are you have shopped online. They call that interactive commerce, where you buy what you buy on a screen. Barry Diller, once a big wheel in Hollywood, was...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/11/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Awaiting Real Sales From Virtual Shoppers
Retailers and manufacturers are setting up shop in Second Life, the three-dimensional online world, hoping that users will steer their avatars to real world stores.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/11/2007 | Digital Media

Social Link Manipulation
The term "Social Media" is used ad nauseum to describe an ever growing collection of tools and services by which people share content...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/11/2007 | Link Building

Top 100 Ecommerce Tips
I am curious to see what people can come up with their own top 100 do or don'ts in ecommerce. I will start with 100 myself. 100. Never leave unanswered emails for...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/11/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

ESPN Buys Cricket Website Cricinfo
ESPN has made its biggest online foray into cricket: it has bought the largest cricket news and info website Cricinfo, from The Wisden Group.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/11/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Analysts: 1 Billion PCs in Use by End of 2008
It's taken 27 years to reach 1 billion PCs in use, and market researchers say it will take only five to reach the next billion.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/11/2007 | Digital Media

Technorati: When Will The Traffic Party End?
Recent Comscore stats show Technorati continuing to surge in traffic, more than tripling since a year ago. Founder and CEO Dave Sifry recently mentioned about this...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/11/2007 | Website Analytics

CNN the TV Channel Is No Match for CNN the Website
"I worry about CNN more than I do about CNN.com." Many news junkies already feel the same way, but when the person expressing concern about the state of the 24-hour TV...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/11/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

The Truth About Venture Capitalists, Part 1  --   Part II  --   Part III
A lot of people have opinions about venture capital -- the pros and cons of VC, whether or not to take VC, which venture capitalists to take money from, how to get VCs to...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/11/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

RIAA and MPAA Fund Anti-Piracy Politicians
Over the last month or two, we have seen congressional investigations started and bills proposed to deal with file sharing.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/11/2007 | Digital Media

Open Source Economics Driving Web 2.0 Innovation
In the area of computers and Internet, the open source movement is almost as old as computers themselves. In the beginning there was Multics, Unix, BSD, Minix etc..
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/11/2007 |  Website Design & Development

A Dog or a Cat? New Tests to Fool Automated Spammers
Several Internet companies, including Microsoft and eBay, are working on new ways to keep spammers from infiltrating their sites.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/11/2007 | eMail & Viral Marketing

Top 25 Most Popular Blogs - June 2007
There are many blog popularity-ranking services on the web, but unfortunately, they all rely on only one piece of data for their rankings.
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/11/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Facebook Hammers MySpace on Almost All Key Features
When you think of social networks you probably think of MySpace. But recently, Facebook has been gaining popularity - since it opened up beyond college users, it has...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/10/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Newspapers Find Online Video Niche
Dailies stake out Web territory with broadband newscasts. But can they make money? In the race to capitalize on the popularity of broadband video...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/10/2007 | Digital Media

German Viewers Pay Millions for 'Interactive' TV
There is money all over the floor. A TV set in the back of the stage is showing soft porn. More than half of the screen is occupied by flashy graphics...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/10/2007 | Digital Media

Microsoft Finds Legal Defender in Justice Dept.
A company the government once tried to break up has been repeatedly defended by the Bush administration against charges of anticompetitive conduct.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/10/2007 | Digital Media

The Anatomy of a Logo
Before any knowledge of the company has been acquired, perceptions have already been formulated based off of the logo.
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/10/2007 |  Website Design & Development

CNBC.com's Easy Money
BusinessWeek uncovers that the cable channel's own design flaw may be behind the investigation into its million-dollar stockpicking contest.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/10/2007 | Digital Media

NexTag Enjoys $1.2B Valuation In Buyout
San Mateo-based Nextag has sold two-thirds of its equity to private equity firm Providence Equity Partners for $830M, valuing the company at $1.2B.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/10/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Pingdom Offers Full Page Test, Mimicking Load Time
Pingdom, the site tracking tools provider, has released a new offering for getting data on your site. With the new Full Page Test, you can see how long it takes to load...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/10/2007 |  Website Design & Development

Watchdog Group Slams Google on Privacy
Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/10/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

CSS Galleries: Free Web Designs for Download
A visually appealing website design will not result in lots of recurring visitors if you don't have good content. In contrast bad, old-fashioned, or boring designs...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/10/2007 |  Website Design & Development

Can Blogs Become a Big Source of Jobs?
While running a Web log is a skill that more and more employers seek in their employees, finding full-time work in that world is still unusual.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/10/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs