Global Media Outlook: $2 Trillion in 2011
The global entertainment and media industry will expand at a 6.4% compound annual growth rate over five years to hit $2 trillion in 2011, according to a ...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/23/2007 | Digital Media

The Highest Paying Google Adsense Keywords
This PDF report from our database presents the largest clicks per day for each keyword which has a CPC (Cost Per Click) price of at least $5.00 for that word.
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/23/2007 |  Adsense & Other Context Ads

Congress Set to Issue Virtual Taxation Report in August
For months, the community of virtual world publishers, players and economists has been holding its breath, waiting for the U.S. Congress to issue its report on the...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/23/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Dismantling The Media With The BBC's News Director
Richard Sambrook is surprisingly bloggy for the person who runs the BBC World Service. (His official title is "Director of the BBC's Global News division.") He blogged...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/23/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Social Networks Geared for Offline Success?
At an after-work event in a basement-level nightclub in Manhattan's West Village earlier this month, one partier didn't seem to approve of the fast-paced techno...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/23/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

FEDERATED MEDIA: Microsoft Pays Star Writers to Recite Slogan
The stodgy old media industry has a rule that newspaper reporters, and TV news hosts, shouldn't trade on their public trust to endorse products. It's become ...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/23/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Making Virtual Economies Work
Once you have users, how do you make them want to buy your stuff? Is that even a legitimate questions? And if there weren't enough complications in talking...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/23/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Broadband Subscribers, 300 Million Strong
At the end of first quarter 2007, the total number of broadband subscribers was close to 300 million, and according to folks at Point Topic, we are way past that...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/23/2007 | Website Analytics

In Your Face: How Facebook Could Crush MySpace, Yahoo!, & Google
There comes a time in every young person's life-soon after teething, usually-when she must make a momentous decision: MySpace or Facebook?
eBusiness News | Posted 6/23/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Travel Hacking: Essential Sites for Summer Travelers
Going on vacation this summer? For control freaks and geeks like us, there are now hundreds of sites to help organize your itinerary, discuss travel plans with...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/23/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Murdoch in Search of Online Deals
Rupert Murdoch is looking for deals beyond his $5bn offer for Dow Jones, people familiar with his plans said. He is seeking internet acquisitions or a deal involving...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/23/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Is it Harder for Women Techies to Succeed?
A new college grad wonders if she'll have a tough time getting promoted in the IT field. What do female techies think? Fortune's Anne Fisher explains.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/23/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Private I
It's the modern-day boy-meets-girl story: chatting online turns into chatting on the phone which turns into an in-person date over coffee. But before a relationship...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/23/2007 | Digital Media

No Download Required: 30+ Apps That Are Killing Microsoft
With Google acquiring a Powerpoint-like tool to bulk up its impressive web office suite, and hundreds of startups releasing everything from web based word processors...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/23/2007 | Digital Media

EBay to Resume Ads on Google, but Rely on Rivals
EBay Inc. said on Friday the online auction leader plans to resume placing Web advertising through Google Inc., but that it would rely on alternative advertising...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/22/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Who Will Be The YouTube Of Live Video?
The growth of Youtube and it's subsequent $1.65 billion buyout left behind a bevy of competing video sites. Since then competitors have been seeking to ...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/22/2007 | Digital Media

Google Wants U.S. Help Fighting Censorship
Once relatively indifferent to government affairs, Google Inc. is seeking help inside the Beltway to fight the rise of Web censorship worldwide.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/22/2007 | Digital Media

Business.com on the Auction Block?
This morning I woke up and got a bad feeling that we were back in crazy times. The WSJ ran a story about how Business.com was about to get the last laugh in a sale...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/22/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Facebook Gets Help From Its Friends
Music, horoscopes help boost site's user base; Will new offerings allow it to catch MySpace? No. 2 social-networking site Facebook Inc. has persuaded a...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/22/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Bush Official Goes Nuclear in Net Neut Row
A San Francisco tech show degenerated into a shouting match today, after a pugnacious Bush commerce official squared off with heated supporters of net neutrality.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/22/2007 | Digital Media

Revenues to Grow at YouAd
An explosion of user-generated content has reshaped the media landscape, shattering the status quo of content ownership and distribution and creating new opportunities...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/22/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Truveo Hits (Almost) 40 Million Visitors
If, as Compete suggests, 20 million visitors is the "magical mark" indicating a website has officially arrived as a dominant force - most recent additions to...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/22/2007 | Website Analytics

Publishers Move to Split eBooks Into Pieces
Ever wondered what happened to the promise of the ebook? In the '90s, when the Internet took hold in a big way, publishers half-heartedly looked to ebooks - electronic...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/22/2007 | Digital Media

The Info Tech 100
Constant reinvention of who you are, what you produce, and how you sell it is critical for any tech player.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/22/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Yahoo/eBay Merger Case Strengthened By Semel Departure
Tim Poulus submits: I believe all the turmoil around Yahoo! (YHOO) following CEO Terry Semel's resignation fortifies the case for a merger with eBay (EBAY), which I...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/22/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

ITunes Bests Amazon in Music Sales
Apple's iTunes Music Store is now the third largest retailer of music in the United States, overtaking Amazon.com in the first quarter with nearly 10% market share...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/22/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Gossip Site Perezhilton.com Yanked for Hours
Popular Internet gossip columnist Perez Hilton had his Web site shut down for several hours after the company hosting it received a flurry of complaints about...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/22/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

e-learning 2.0: All You Need To Know
One of the strongest, but least hyped, uses of web 2.0 technologies over the past couple of years has been e-learning.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/22/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

YFace: Yahoo's missing piece
In the past few days, Yahoo has shuffled the management deck and added Rivals.com to its portfolio. In addition, rumors of a deal with News Corp. and MySpace to fill...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/22/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Shaken and Stirred: For Liquor Campaigns, the Web's the Thing
Marketers of alcoholic beverages are joining the list of purveyors of consumer products that are devoting ad budgets to digital media.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/22/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Will Yahoo's Board Also Get a Makeover?
After months of criticism, Terry Semel is gone from the corner office at Yahoo, and Jerry Yang is finally back to running the company he co-founded.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/22/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Twas The Night Before The Auction
Twas the night before the auction and the reserve was too high. I wandered by this sign today and I wondered how many of the names that were on this...
eBusiness News | Posting 6/22/2007 | Domaineering

News Aggregation Site Daylife Gets $8.3 Million Second Round
Daylife, the much-hyped online news aggregation site which launched for public consumption in January but hasn't gained much traction as of yet, has raised ...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/22/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Google's Udi Manber - Search is a Hard Problem
Udi Manber, Google's VP of Engineering, gave a brief 15 minute presentation at Supernova today entitled Search is a Hard Problem.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/22/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Flash: The Pink Elephant or The Spark
Last week, I discussed the difficult process of Predicting the ROI for Future SEO Efforts, and this week I'm moving from one difficult topic to the next by talking about...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/22/2007 | Website Design & Development

Google Staffs Up in Nation's Capital
Slowly but surely, the government is getting Googled. Two years ago, the Google staff in Washington was one person - Alan Davidson, an expert in technology law.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/22/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

How a Six-Month-Old Startup Got Bought by Google
Three months ago, I met the two startup founders of Zenter, Wayne Crosby and Robby Walker, and blogged about how they wanted their online version...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/22/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

The Google Connection: Apple, Google & The iPhone
Safari for Windows is part of a PLATFORM in the same sense that iTunes is part of the iPod platform or vice versa. In this case the platform in question is the iPhone...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/22/2007 | Digital Media

I Have 250,000 Users, Now What?
Craig Ulliott is a web developer in Philadelphia, PA, USA. 3 weeks ago, he built the Where I've Been Facebook application, which lets you create a map for your profile...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/22/2007 | Digital Media

The Best Blog Designs From The Technorati Top 100
Nobody can argue that blogs have been the talk of the web over the last couple of years. For those that can appreciate a good design, like myself...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/22/2007 | Website Design & Development

Five Insights From What Teens Want
Every month 800,000 young people in the US enter the teen age bracket and join a constantly changing teen population numbering 33.9 million, the largest teen ...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/21/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Eric Enge Interviews Seth Godin
Seth Godin is a bestselling author, entrepreneur and agent of change. Godin is author of seven books that have been bestsellers around the world and changed the way...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/21/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

A Look Into an Search Engine Marketer's Life
Ever buy an ad on Google/Yahoo/or Microsoft's search engine? Here I talk with a guy who buys MILLIONS of keywords for his clients.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/21/2007 | Search Marketing

Web Spending Seen Rising by Double Digits to 2011
Internet advertising and access spending by U.S. consumers will rise each year by double digits on average through 2011, fueled by high-speed connections...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/21/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Who Should Buy Yahoo? Handicapping 5 Likely Suitors
At least Yahoo can't complain this week about Google grabbing all the headlines. While Google has been dishing out the usual morsels of news - tweaks to...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/21/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

US Search Share May 2007
Nielsen/Netratings monthly U.S. search rankings shows Google's search market share increasing to 56.3%.
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/21/2007 | Search Marketing

Microsoft Pushes One-Stop Shop for Advertisers
Microsoft is prioritising plans to develop a one-stop shop for internet advertisers in its bid to catch Google and take a bigger share of web advertising.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/21/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

SEO "Don'ts": 20 Fatal Mistakes You Must Avoid To Succeed
Small businesses are often hard-pressed for time and money. That's been a recurring theme in the Small is Beautiful columns here on Search Engine Land.
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/21/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Online Productivity Toolbox: 30+ Resources to Get Things Done
The Enterprise 2.0 Conference is underway here in Boston, and companies big and small are already jockeying for mindshare in the nebulous Enterprise 2.0 space.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/21/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Yahoo Acquires Rivals.com for About $100 Million
As we were first to report in early April, Yahoo was on the verge of acquiring college sports network Rivals.com. It took a few months to complete, finally closing...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/21/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Internet Smackdown: The Amateur vs. the Professional
Web 2.0 critic Andrew Keen is taking a lot of flak for his book attacking the internet as a refuge for mediocrity and dilettantism. The truth hurts, I guess.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/21/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

'Blog', 'Cookie', 'Wiki' Top List of Hated Internet Words
Topping the list of words most likely to make web users "wince, shudder or want to bang your head on the keyboard" was folksonomy, a term for a web classification system.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/21/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Tech Blogs Go from Hobbies to Businesses
Arrington, 37, is the force behind TechCrunch, a blog chronicling the rise and fall of Internet start-ups. (They're often called Web 2.0 companies.) Malik, 40, runs GigaOm...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/21/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Internet Radio to Go Silent on June 26?
If you depend on the sounds of Internet radio to get you through your workday, don't be surprised if your headphones pipe out little more than dead air next Tuesday.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/21/2007 | Digital Media

Two top Google Engineers Leave - to Benchmark Capital
Two more high-level Google engineers have left the Googleplex - this time to join well-known venture capital firm Benchmark Capital.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/21/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Ask.com: Worth a New Look
Its searches can be more useful than those of its bigger rivals-though it won't unseat search kingpin Google.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/21/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

A New Way to Pay - Google Expands Pay-Per-Action for AdWords
Google announced today the worldwide expansion of its pay-per-action advertising beta. Pay-per-action is a new pricing model that allows advertisers to pay only when...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/21/2007 |  Adsense & Other Context Ads

MySpace's Brad Greenspan to Seek Dow Jones Stake Via Dutch Auction
The former chief executive of the parent company of social-networking site MySpace says he will seek a non-controlling stake in Dow Jones & Co. through a $60-per-share...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/21/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Linux-based Website Beats Windows-based Sites
Linux websites have better uptime and load faster than Windows-based websites. Research by WatchMouse, a website monitoring company, also ...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/21/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

All the Films You Want to See, but When?
Downloading movies over a high-speed Internet connection offers the promise of convenience, but promise is the operative word for this new method.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/21/2007 | Digital Media

Are These The Google Killers?
In April 2002, The New York Times anointed Google "the king of search." It's impossible to argue with that today. Google, which is headquartered in Mountain View...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/21/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Blinkx's Project Trilby: AdSense For Video
Exclusive: Video search engine Blinkx is putting the final touches on a new advertising platform for Web video code-named Project Trilby.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/21/2007 |  Adsense & Other Context Ads

EMI Says DRM-free Music is Selling Well
Early sales indicate that DRM-free music is noticeably more popular than DRMed music, EMI senior VP Lauren Berkowitz recently told Bloomberg.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/21/2007 | Digital Media

ING Direct's Man on a Mission
Arkadi Kuhlmann is annoyed by banks. He thinks that it's ridiculous for customers to pay so many fees. That it isn't too much to ask for a real person to pick up...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/21/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

Short Descriptions Now Live
Starting today, ads that appear in U.S. Yahoo! Search results with descriptions longer than 70 characters will be cut off ('truncated') at the nearest complete...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/21/2007 |  Adsense & Other Context Ads

Yahoo's Semel Walked a Well-Trodden Path
Chief Executive Terry Semel's departure from Yahoo this week illustrates not only the daunting challenge of competing with search superstar Google, but also the...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/20/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Monetizing Facebook Applications
With Facebook's new platform reportedly attracting 1,000 developers a day in its first month, I thought it would be interesting to hear one developer's story of the...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/20/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

Digg overtakes Facebook; Both Cross 20 Million U.S. Unique Visitors
The first time I wrote about YouTube, it had just crossed 20 million visitors in the U.S. Just 4 days after my post, YouTube was scooped up by Google for $1.65B in...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/20/2007 | Website Analytics

80+ AJAX-Solutions For Professional Coding
Web-developers can create amazing web-applications with AJAX. Stikkit, Netvibes, GMail and dozens of further web-projects offer a new level of interactivity we've...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/20/2007 | Website Design & Development

Virtual Goods: The Next Big Business Model
People spend over $1.5 billion on virtual items every year. Pets, coins, avatars, and bling: these virtual objects are nothing more than a series of digital 1s and 0s...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/20/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

News Corp Explores Swap of MySpace Site for Yahoo! Stake
News Corporation has discussed swapping MySpace, its internet social networking unit, with Yahoo! in return for a 25 per cent stake in the enlarged group.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/20/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

VeohTV Launches - Taking Direct Aim at Joost
Dmitry Shapiro CEO of Veoh invited me to a GoToMeeting webinar today to unveil a serious challenger in the Web TV market. VeohTV Beta, subtly billed as a ...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/20/2007 | Digital Media

Getty Is Primed To Acquire Pump
Seattle rock trio the Presidents of the United States of America haven't had a hit since their novelty song "Peaches" reached the top 40 in 1996 with the infectiously...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/20/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

The Pmarca Guide to Startups, Part 1: Why Not to Do a Startup   Part II
In this series of posts I will walk through some of my accumulated knowledge and experience in building high-tech startups.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/20/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Enterprise 2.0: Think 'Collaboration'
The Enterprise 2.0 Conference is underway here in Boston, and companies big and small are already jockeying for mindshare in the nebulous Enterprise 2.0 space.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/20/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

ESPN Adding Video Games to Web Site
ESPN.com has launched a new video game section to further embrace the gaming culture of male sports fans.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/20/2007 | Digital Media

YouTube to Overtake BBC in UK Visits
Today, we are issuing a news release about the growth of the Entertainment category. In doing our research, we noticed that YouTube looks set to overtake BBC.co.uk...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/20/2007 | Website Analytics

Google Claim Spurs Vista Change
Microsoft Corp. will change the program that helps Windows Vista users search their hard drives, in response to antitrust complaints from Google Inc., a person...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/20/2007 | Digital Media

Blogging Into The Mainstream
Remember when blogging was about opinionated, snarky outsiders shaking up the media and "changing the paradigm" and so on?
eBusiness News | Posted 6/20/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Top 25 Most Popular Video Game Sites June 2007
When it comes to video game sites, we've found that many casual gamers regard the sites they happen to frequent as gospel, and therefore...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/20/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

MySpace Launches Early Version of Messaging Service
News Corp.'s Internet social network MySpace said it officially launched the early version of its instant messaging service, MySpaceIM, which has been available...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/20/2007 | Digital Media

Jaiku/Twitter/Facebook/Kyte/Plaxo
I've really been bitten by the Facebook/Twitter/Kyte/Jaiku bug. Stephanie Booth, everyone's favorite Swiss blogger, met me tonight at the Jaiku party (that's...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/20/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

YouTube Hits Apple TV Today
The wait is over, and you can finally train that Apple Remote of yours on videos of passable karaoke, mind numbing video blog confessions and the genius that ...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/20/2007 | Digital Media

Different Techniques for Optimizing for Yahoo! and Google
You may think that in the world of SEO what works for Google works for Yahoo!, after all they're both search engines with a primary purpose to serve up relevant...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/20/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Blogging Toolbox: 120+ Resources for Bloggers
An aspiring blogger can be overwhelmed with the vast amount of resources, tools, and advice for bloggers available on the net. While in no way definitive - there's...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/20/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Hyper-Personal Search 'Possible'
Google would consider keeping a user's search data for longer than 18 months if they had explicitly consented, one of the firm's key executives has said.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/20/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

'Cup Is Overflowing' for Future of Journalism
If there is one overriding debate in the world of journalism, it's whether technology and the Internet are going to doom traditional reporting or strengthen it in the long run.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/20/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Podcast Listeners Still Like Radio
And most of them prefer to listen on PCs. Nearly 20 million US consumers will download and listen to podcasts at least once a week by 2010, according to interviews...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/20/2007 | Digital Media

Top 50 Advertisers by Media Value in April, 2007
The top Internet advertisers by media value. The data are provided by TNS Media Intelligence.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/20/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Google Acquires Zenter; Y Combinator Gets Another Payday
Google made another acquisition announcement today - they've bought a company called Zenter ('a company that provides software for creating online slide...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/20/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

U.K., Teens Leading in Online Video Viewing
The United Kingdom is tops in streamed online video consumption, compared to the United States, France and Germany according to the latest report from comScore.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/20/2007 | Digital Media

Google Takes YouTube Global
No one's quite sure how video-sharing sites will make money, but YouTube is planting its flag around the world to make sure it gets a piece of the action.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/20/2007 | Digital Media

SupplyFrame, a Search Engine for Gadgets, Electrical Components
The search engine revolution continues to ripple through to other parts of the business economy. SupplyFrame, of Pasadena, Calif. is the latest to offer a specialized...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/20/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Can Yahoo Revive its Digital Dreams?
Yahoo chief executive Terry Semel has been sidelined, and search engine co-founder Jerry Yang is taking the reins - but can he revitalise the struggling company?
eBusiness News | Posted 6/19/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

eBay Ads Still Off Google: How Much eBay Traffic & Google Cash Lost?
The "experiment" continues. It appears that eBay ads on Google are still nowhere to be found, consistent with what eBay spokespeople said last week -- that the company...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/19/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

Is Google Too Big?
With its empire expanding, the search giant can have an unprecedented breadth of knowledge about you. Can we trust it with so much data?
eBusiness News | Posted 6/19/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

The YouTube Effect: HTTP Traffic Now Eclipses P2P
In the Internet traffic race, P2P used to be way out in front. For years, P2P traffic eclipsed HTTP traffic as broadband users slurped down music and movies, some of...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/19/2007 | Digital Media

Is The Internet Dumbing Us Down?
New book argues that YouTube, Wikipedia and Web 2.0 will ruin our culture. Andrew Keen wants to start an argument. And his new book 'The Cult of the Amateur...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/19/2007 | Digital Media

Brazil Beats a Path Online
After lagging for a number of years, Brazil is finally dancing online. Although home connectivity still remains too costly for the majority of Brazilians...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/19/2007 | Website Analytics

Webware 100 Winners Announced!
And now the moment you've all been waiting for... The Webware 100 winners. Go to www.webware.com/100 to see the top 100 Web 2.0 products, 10 each in 10 ...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/19/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

SEO: Metrics That Matter
Out with the old, in with the new. In terms of SEO, what's falling by the wayside? Obsessively watching indexation numbers and rankings on 'trophy' keywords...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/19/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Yahoo: Old Wine, Old Label
Howard Rubenstein's first rule of crisis management is this: Always tell the truth. That's exactly why so many people suspect Yahoo is still in trouble,...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/19/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Yahoo's Chief Resigns, and a Founder Takes Over
Terry Semel will hand over the reins to Jerry Yang in Yahoo's latest attempt to regain investor confidence.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/19/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Will H'wood Take a Stand on Net Neutrality?
"Net neutrality" may sound like something only a Web geek could love, but at some point showbiz, largely indifferent to it so far, will have to start declaring...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/19/2007 | Digital Media

Online Health Getting Hot, DailyStrength Raises Millions Quickly
Over 113 million Americans search for health information online, and internet companies dealing with consumer health are drawing lots of attention.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/19/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

The 10 Second Rule: How to Write for Diagonal Readers
If you count the number of online news sources, blogs, emails, instant messaging conversations and so on that the average person reads every day...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/19/2007 | Website Design & Development

Glubble Makes Firefox Family Friendly
The internet can be a crazy place for adults and even a dangerous place for kids. As more and more children are growing up with the internet as a part of their lives...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/19/2007 | Digital Media

Newspapers Should Embrace Online Aggregators
Many newspaper executives, most infamously Tribune acquirer Sam Zell, have made an enemy out of Google and other online aggregators who disintermediate newspapers...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/18/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

How Google Gears Could Augur The Death of Microsoft
A week ago, I ceremoniously yanked out my MacBook's Ethernet cable and toggled off the Wi-Fi. Once I was positive the machine was cut off from the Internet, I added...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/18/2007 | Digital Media

Mitch Kapor: Virtual Worlds Are Like A Drug Experience
Virtual worlds are driven by "crazy people" with a shared mystical vision, but -- like the PC and Internet revolutions -- they'll result in practical benefits...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/18/2007 | Digital Media

Terry Semel Steps Down Jerry Yang Assumes CEO Duties at Yahoo
Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet company, today announced that the Board of Directors has appointed Jerry Yang, Yahoo! co-founder and long-time board...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/18/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Yahoo May Be Forced To Explore Alternatives
Yahoo may be ripe for an activist play that forces the company to explore strategic alternatives. While it still remains in the realm of the speculative, bankers...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/18/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Jerry Yang: My New Job
The title of Chief Yahoo takes on new meaning today. I have the great honor of stepping into the role of Yahoo!'s Chief Executive Officer.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/18/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Terry Semel's Reign at Yahoo
The precise timing of Terry Semel's departure is a surprise, but that it would happen has long been an inevitability. Fortunately, we had a business obituary prepared.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/18/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Clearer Picture for IPTV Tech?
Microsoft thinks the TV is about ready for software. Granted, Microsoft has been thinking that for more than a decade. But there's some reason to think that this time...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/18/2007 | Digital Media

25 Web Sites to Watch
Think that all of the great Web sites have already been invented? Think again. The Internet is evolving in new and inventive ways thanks...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/18/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Is It OK that Google Owns Us?
Google's continuously raked over the coals regarding the massive amounts of PII (personally identifiable information) it collects, what it does with it, how long it...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/18/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Fox to Offer Ad-Supported, Embedded TV Content
Fox Entertainment Group announced its intention to get into Internet broadcasting this morning through a partnership with Internet TV service Brightcove.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/18/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

EBay Moves to Recharge Its Auctions
In making upgrades intended to make its site more friendly, eBay may endure criticism from more than 700,000 sellers who rely on it for their livelihoods.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/18/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

'Project Runway' for The T-Shirt Crowd
Online t-shirt retailer Threadless went XXL by making its customers part of a self-fueling marketing machine, reports Business 2.0.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/18/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

Google Labs: A Look Under the Hood
Google Labs has a wide variety of products in development that 'aren't quite ready for primetime' in their own words. From new search innovations to public transit guides...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/18/2007 | Digital Media

When Your Social Sites Need Networking
For those hooked up to Facebook and MySpace and similar Web sites, managing diverse profiles can be a chore. That's where aggregators come in.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/18/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Random House - Widgets and Web Services Done Right
When you think of widgets you typically think of web 2.0 companies. Flickr, Digg, del.icio.us were among the first services with widgets and many more followed.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/18/2007 | Digital Media

Glam Surges to No. 1 Women's Property, Overtakes iVillage
Glam Media, the Brisbane, Calif. network of women's online lifestyle, fashion and other blogs, said it has overtaken iVillage to become the number one women's...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/18/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

FaceBook Platform Attracts 1,000 Developers a Day
In less than a month, Facebook has attracted more than 40,000 developers who have already created around 1,500 applications for the social networking platform.
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/18/2007 | Website Design & Development

The Behaviorally Targeted Ad Audience
Is your campaign too finely targeted? Consumers like the idea of getting relevant ads tailored to their interests - at least online. In a study published in January 2007...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/18/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

So You Want to Register a Domain?
You've come to the right place! I review some of the top domain registrars including GoDaddy, Moniker, Enom, NameCheap, and DomainSite on terms of services ...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/18/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Another Attempt to Match Readers and Relevant News
A new Web site, Thoof, is an attempt to improve on sites like Digg and Reddit, where users filter and rank links to articles and blog entries.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/18/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google This! - eBay Feud Could Lead Others to Yank Advertising $
It may be like trying to re-establish your virginity. You know, Google trying to get back its patina of invincibility. Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the 30-something...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/18/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

SEO.com Domain Purchased for $5 Million
Mike Mann is a prominent internet entrepreneur who sold BuyDomains company a few years ago for more than $65 million. His latest tech venture is just that, a venture...
eBusiness News | Posting 6/18/2007 | Domaineering

Who Needs College? The Triumph of Young Web Founders
From Tom and his 100+ million friends on MySpace to Kristopher Tate broadcasting daily videos to the Zooomr faithful during the Mark III launch crisis, a side effect...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/18/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

How to Define a Brand's Soul
Laurence Knight, Unilever veteran and consultant to Unilever brands such as Dove, Axe, Caress and Pond's, likes to preach that a brand needs soul in order to thrive...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/18/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Amazon Valuation Tops Google's, Baffles Some
Two months after Amazon.com posted first-quarter results that gave a boost to bulls anxious for a sign of improved earnings and profit margins, the online retailer's...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/18/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Covering All the Online Bases
The digital business of Major League Baseball started out as a mess. Now it has $400 million in revenue and may revolutionize the economics of the sport.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/17/2007 | Digital Media

Tech Capitals of The World
Want ultra-fast broadband, free internet 'hotspots' across town and all the latest gadgets? You won't get it in Sydney, but Arjun Ramachandran finds the cities with...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/17/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

How To Keep Widgets From Slowing Down Sites
The whole world is going to widgets. This overused, overhyped term refers to third-party code one places on their website or blog in order to display such things...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/17/2007 | Website Design & Development

David Duffield 2.0 PeopleSoft Founder is Back in Business
It's a David Duffield-versus-Goliath rematch. Duffield rose to prominence building PeopleSoft Inc. into a software powerhouse -- celebrated for its rare combination...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/17/2007 | Digital Media

Some Buyers Grow Web-Weary, and Online Sales Lose Steam
Online commerce has enjoyed hypergrowth, but now that growth has slowed sharply in a trend analysts call a turning point.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/17/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

Has World of Warcraft (Finally) Hit a Plateau?
After 32 months of continual growth, the largest MMO in the world may, at long last, be peaking. Or atleast, that's my conclusion, at least, looking at the latest stats...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/17/2007 | Digital Media

Warnings of 'Internet Overload'
As the flood of data across the internet continues to increase, there are those that say sometime soon it is going to collapse under its own weight.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/17/2007 | Website Design & Development

Piracy Beyond P2P: One-Click Hosters
Sicko, Hostel 2, the new Fantastic Four flick: You can get all those summer blockbusters via BitTorrent. Of course, there is a small chance that you actually...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/17/2007 | Digital Media

The Very Organized Hit Job On LifeLock
Last month I received an anonymous email from a tipster warning me that there was 'a scandal about to pop' about an Arizona credit protection startup called LifeLock.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/17/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

YouTube Launches Online Editing Tool
YouTube has begun offering a Web-based editing tool that is apparently provided by Adobe Systems. The "remixer," which is branded with an Adobe logo, enables users...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/17/2007 | Digital Media

Expedia Shares Jump on Buyout Report; Company Denies
Shares of Expedia Inc., the world's largest online travel agency, rose after Theflyonthewall.com said Chairman Barry Diller may take the company private. ...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/17/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

NYTimes.com Leads Newspaper Web Traffic for May
The New York Times again topped other newspapers in Web traffic in May, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. It reports that nytimes.com had 12,755,000 unique visitors...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/17/2007 | Website Analytics

The Age Question (Continued)
Brad suggested I write this post. I've been reluctant because I don't want to pick at this scab of a meme. I really don't want to be the guy who made...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/17/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Digitas' Emerging Media Guru Departs
Digitas' director of emerging media platforms Greg Verdino is leaving the agency to join new-media startup Crayon.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/17/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

YouTube Mobile Goes Live
Somehow unnoticed by the press until now, Youtube's Mobile site at m.youtube.com has gone pretty damn live. That's Youtube in 3gp file format...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/17/2007 | Digital Media

Google Gears Draws Developers
New Google browser plug-in offers offline access to Web-hosted applications, intriguing developers. Developers have big plans for Gears, the Google Inc. browser...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/17/2007 | Digital Media

Embed Your Social Network In a Social Network
Ning, the build-your-own social network startup, will be rolling out a new feature that allows users to create their own Facebook applications around their Ning networks...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/17/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Yes, the Screen Is Tiny, but the Plans Are Big
After some hits and misses in creating content for cellphones, ESPN thinks it knows how to keep up with its fans as they go about their days.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/17/2007 | Digital Media