Who Matters Now?
Ahead of our annual 50 Who Matter Now, vote on which leaders are having the bigger impact on business today. Is it Steve Jobs, the Google boys, or someone else?
eBusiness News | Posted 6/09/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

The Man Behind the Google Doodle
Dennis Hwang's drawings are viewed by nearly 180 million people a day. He's one of the most important graphic designers in the business world. And yet the mild-mannered...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/09/2007 |  Website Design & Development

Paid Content Providers Try Free Trials
What makes some paid content sites better than others at turning free trial users into subscribers? In an initial step to find out, MaketingSherpa signed up for free trials...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/09/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Advertising's Death is Greatly Exaggerated
No one could have missed the mad rush in recent weeks among advertising and technology players in their high-stakes game of musical chairs over online advertising...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/09/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

TorrentSpy Ordered By Federal Judge to Become MPAA Spy
TorrentSpy, one of the world's largest torrent dump sites, has been ordered by a federal judge to monitor its users in order to create detailed logs of their activities...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/09/2007 | Digital Media

Will The Next Tony Soprano be on The Internet?
When The Sopranos wraps its final episode Sunday, it will mark the end of one of the most successful television series in the medium's history.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/09/2007 | Digital Media

No Stranger to Controversy, Jason Calacanis Starts a New Venture
The months leading up to the launch of Jason Calacanis' new search engine, Mahalo, were filled with speculation and intrigue.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/09/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Flickr Not Even Flickering in China
The popular Internet photo site Flickr said that its service is being blocked in China, although the Yahoo subsidiary did not directly blame the Beijing government...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/09/2007 | Digital Media

Happy 10th Birthday, Search Engine Watch
Ten years ago today, I created Search Engine Watch. Now I'm here at Search Engine Land, but since I ran SEW for 95 percent of its existence, I thought it would be nice...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/09/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Jim Buckmaster Q&A: Why Craigslist Banned Listpic
Yesterday Craigslist blocked listpic, a website that lets you browse classifieds on Craigslist through a graphical interface.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/09/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

Xing May Be In Talks To Acquire Plaxo
We are hearing a LOT of chatter about a possible Xing-Plaxo merger in the $250 million range. The deal makes some sense...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/09/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Online Map Craze Helps People Visualize Data
It's not often that you find an Internet trend based on something ancient. But that's what's happening with maps.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/09/2007 | Digital Media

Search Marketers Measuring ROI Rises to 88%
Search engine marketing firm iProspect today announced the publication of the iProspect Search Marketer Measurement & Performance Study, sponsored by ...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/09/2007 | Search Marketing

Snapshots That Do More Than Bore Friends
How sharing your family vacation photos online can help others discover a place through your travels.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/09/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Skype Co-founder on Disruptive Technologies
In the first of a new series in which the world's leading thinkers outline their personal vision of where technology could be leading us, the co-founder of net telephony...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/08/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Online Video Fragmentation Is a Good Thing
The future of video advertising is not tied to spots running on specific sites, but on broad online content distribution across the entire Internet, Brightcove CEO...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/08/2007 | Digital Media

Can Google Get Any Bigger?
Google's share price reached an all-time high Tuesday at $518.84 with the announcement of a new partnership with marketing software maker Salesforce.com.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/08/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

A Big Google-Apple Partnership Next Week? Bet On It.
I don't typically join the gaggle of folks trying to guess what Steve Jobs' next move is going to be, but for once I can't resist.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/08/2007 | Digital Media

Are Marketers Growing Numb to Click Fraud?
Fake clicks don't seem to be a deal breaker. There are two main types of click fraud: One is when a competitive firm clicks on another's ads to drive up its costs, deplete...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/08/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Could Karl Rove Be Right About Tech?
In an illuminating interview published in the June 4 issue of The New Yorker, White House political aide Karl Rove suggested that a nexus exists between the spread of...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/08/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Netflix May Have a New Direction
The online DVD rental store's shares saw some action this week on speculation of a sale to Amazon, a move that could amp its subscriber base.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/08/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

10 Reasons Free Porn Does Not Threaten the Adult Industry
The internet, once hailed for augmenting pornographers' profits, is now blamed for reducing them. An article in last weekend's New York Times asserts that giving the milk...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/08/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Which Rivalries are Real?
Ever caught yourself saying you Googled something, then realizing you were talking to a Yahoo developer? Or wondered whether it's okay to talk about iTunes to a friend...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/08/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Does Digital Fingerprinting Work?: An Investigative Report
Audio and visual fingerprinting of copyrighted video is seen as the best way to combat infringement, but in NewTeeVee's testing this week across multiple sites, it did not work.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/08/2007 | Digital Media

Viewers Submit Vids For MTV
MTV is bringing user-generated content to the net, incorporating video it has gathered online into two of its series.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/08/2007 | Digital Media

Despite Reservations, ComScore and NetRatings Carry on with Audits
Despite its contention that audience measurement data from Web site publishers is flawed, as presented in its just-published white paper, comScore is following through...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/08/2007 | Website Analytics

How to Deal with Pagination & Duplicate Content Issues
This post has been a long time coming - there's a definite need to address internal duplicate content issues in an intelligent, simple, illustrated manner.
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/08/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Rupe's Tough Love for MySpace: Kissing Up to Zuckerberg
The head of Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, must be swelling even larger after the comment News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch made at the very end of an extended...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/08/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Predicting the ROI for Future SEO Efforts
Last time, we said measuring ROI can be difficult for SEO. Again, I am no statistician, but based on the challenge of predicting the ROI for future SEO campaigns, you...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/08/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Americans Willing to Pay (A Little) More For Privacy
Are American consumers willing to pay more in order to protect their privacy, or is online commerce all about the lowest possible price?
eBusiness News | Posted 6/08/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

Webby Awards 2007: Big Winners Include Flickr, LinkedIn, Last.fm
This week the winners of the 11th annual Webby Awards, billed nowadays as the "Oscars of the Internet", were announced at a ceremony in New York. Much of the publicity was...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/08/2007 |  Website Design & Development

Yahoo CEO's Pay Too High, Groups Say
Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Terry Semel has not earned his considerable pay, and shareholders should therefore withhold support for the company's compensation ...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/07/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Facebook's Copyright Quagmire?
Facebook Platform's tremendous growth in popularity over the past few weeks has thrown the company into a thorny legal quagmire concerning copyright and music pirating.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/07/2007 | Digital Media

Web 2.0 Madness Grips China
Forget Silicon Valley--if you want to see a place enthralled with Web 2.0, come to China. A rising middle class, cheap start-up costs, increasing penetration of PCs...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/07/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

53% of US Homes Have Broadband
Rich love their broadband, and not so rich, well they are still on the fence! That's the inference of the latest research conducted by Leichtman Research Group...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/07/2007 | Website Analytics

Time Warner to Make Decision on AOL at Year-End
Time Warner Inc. said on Thursday it will make a decision on AOL's future by the end of the year, addressing rampant speculation the online unit could be spun off...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/07/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Big Business in Seeing The Future of Business
Some forecasters say more companies than ever are interested in future. In the 1967 movie 'The Graduate,' Dustin Hoffman's floundering...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/07/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

New YouTube Interface for Embedded Videos
Embedded YouTube videos have now received the new interface that had been around for a while, as Daniel Garcia reports in the forum.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/07/2007 | Digital Media

In a Virtual Universe, the Politics Turn Real
The kingdom is in crisis. After pledging to treat its citizens equally, the government stands accused of unfairly favoring one powerful, well-connected political faction.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/07/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

11 Steps to Developing a Web Literacy
The Web reaches out to embrace businesses online, even if the owners of those businesses hesitate at the attempt. There are many that haven't...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/07/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Finding a Date -- on The Spot
Internet matchmakers migrate to cellphones, promising more-immediate results. Earlier this week, Jeff Blum was out buying a sandwich when his mind wandered toward...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/07/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

What Would You Ask Yahoo CEO Terry Semel?
Every shareholder at the meeting will be given the opportunity to ask some questions to Terry Semel.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/07/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Time For Multilingual Net Domains
Internet law professor Michael Geist argues that delays to multilingual domain names are holding back internet diversity.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/07/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Effective Adsense Link Units Optimization
Most websites and blogs make money from their website through Google Adsense and I've noticed that not all of them include Adsense link units as part of their contextual...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/07/2007 |  Adsense & Other Context Ads

Google: Foreign Workers are Key to Our Success
A Google executive on Wednesday credited the company's phenomenal success to the United States' openness to immigrants and called on Congress to let in more foreign...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/07/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Amazon One-Click Patent Extended to Gift-Giving
Amazon's infamous one-click patent got a baby brother last month. The US Patent and Trademark Office approved patent no. 7,222,087 on May 22.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/07/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

Broadband and Media Consumption
If TV and the Web are competing for attention, TV is still winning. TV and radio consumption tends to be less in cities that have high broadband penetration rates...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/07/2007 | Digital Media

Ecommerce 2.0 is Happening Now
I just spent the last two days at the Internet Retailer conference, and emerged convinced more than ever that we've just scratching the tip of the iceberg with...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/07/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

Google-DoubleClick Deal Draws New Challenge
Privacy and human rights groups fired their latest salvo Wednesday in an ongoing battle with Internet giants over their collection of personal data on Web users.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/07/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Web Analytics Survey Points to Need for Better Processes
In what it claims is the largest such survey ever conducted, the Web Analytics Association (WAA) has released a report finding most analytics professionals feel they...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/07/2007 | Website Analytics

Akamai Gives Free Peek at Internet
What does the Internet look like? A free new Web service from Akamai Technologies Inc. offers a peek, providing a sort of Internet weather report on global traffic tie-ups...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/07/2007 | Website Analytics

Incuby: Social Networking For Inventions
San Antonio, Texas based Incuby is aiming to build a community where inventors can display inventions to the general public, entrepreneurs and investors.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/07/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Netflix Shares Higher On Rumors Of Amazon.com Bid
Netflix (NFLX) shares are higher today on rumors that Amazon.com (AMZN) might make offer to buy the company. In a research note, Bank of America analyst Brian Pitz writes...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/06/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

Top 25 Social Bookmarking Sites - June 2007
If your looking for the best sites to help drive traffic to your blog or just looking for the latest informational gem on the web. Here are the top 25 largest social...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/06/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

You're Getting Older, And So Are Social Networks
We've speculated doom, as is our nature some say, doom for the real world, the digital world, and most pointedly and assuredly for social networks. But social networks...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/06/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

'Amateur' Charge Infuriates Blogosphere
Internet culture, often portrayed as the vanguard of progress, is actually a jungle peopled by intellectual yahoos and digital thieves, according to a Silicon Valley...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/06/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Internet Advertising Revenues Soar Again, Near $5 Billion in Q1 07
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) today announced that Internet advertising revenues reached a new record of $4.9 billion for the...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/06/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Why DRM Won't Ever Work
Trying to make Digital Rights Management (DRM) work in the real world is like asking engineers to do "Star Trek" style magic, rather than real engineering.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/06/2007 | Digital Media

Google Introduces Audio Ads to a Wider Customer Base
Google's foray into radio advertising is about to be broadcast to all of its AdWords advertisers. Google has been testing its Audio Ads platform for months, having spent...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/06/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Mike Volpi's Trek from Cisco to Joost
Mike Volpi was looking for Internet adventure when he left Cisco Systems some months ago, and he seems to have found it.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/06/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Vator.TV Launches, Lets You Pitch Your Business
Vator.TV, the video site started by Bambi Francisco, the former MarketWatch columnist, officially launches tomorrow.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/06/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

How to Kill a Great Idea! - The Death of Friedster
Jonathan Abrams created the first online social network and enlisted Silicon Valley's best and brightest to run it. Yet Friendster flamed out spectacularly. What went wrong?
eBusiness News | Posted 6/06/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Facebook Frenzy
"How come you're not at All Things Digital?" I asked James Hong. The Hot or Not founder's distracted answer: "I'm too busy working on Facebook apps.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/06/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Clearspring Lands Major Deal With NBC
Clearspring is going to annouce tomorrow that it was chosen by NBC to be its exclusive widget platform for the next year.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/06/2007 | Digital Media

How Craig Newmark Built Craigslist With "No Vision Whatsoever"
Craig Newmark started craigslist in early 1995 as a way of staying on top of San Francisco's busy arts and technology scene. Despite (or perhaps because of) the site's...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/06/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Google Growth May Depend on Lobby
Google Inc., the Web-search company whose motto is 'Don't be evil,' now has to confront the realities of Washington to propel its stock further.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/06/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Doll Web Sites Drive Girls to Stay Home and Play
Millions of girls are fueling the growth of interactive sites that offer virtual versions of traditional play activities.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/06/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Treating Downloads Like Drug Deals
The Justice Dept.'s proposal on digital copyright protection puts violators in the same league as terrorists and criminals. It's excessive.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/06/2007 | Digital Media

Chances Are for an AOL Spinoff? The Twelfth of Never.
While it did not get a lot of play last week when Time Warner COO Jeffrey Bewkes dangled the idea of a stock offering for its AOL unit, the suggestion made my head...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/06/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Brand Marketers Use Direct Methods
Direct metrics tempt the purest of branders. Brand and mass marketers are now using direct techniques in their campaigns, according to the Direct Marketing Association's...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/06/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Google Acquires PeakStream?
PeakStream, the software developer, has been reportedly acquired by Google for an undisclosed sum.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/05/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

EBay to Auction Advertising on U.S. Radio Stations
Online auctioneer eBay Inc. said on Tuesday it is ready to begin auctioning advertising airtime on 2,300 participating U.S. radio stations, expanding on an existing plan to...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/05/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Movable Type 4.0 Announced - Becomes Social Media Platform
Six Apart is announcing today the beta release of Movable Type 4, a much anticipated upgrade to a blog platform that has two distinct user bases nowadays...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/05/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Ask Relaunches: Now In '3D'
Chris Sherman once compared Ask.com to Apple. Ask CEO Jim Lanzone remarked to me that he liked the comparison because it spoke to quality and innovativeness.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/05/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google, Salesforce Deepen Ties
It's not the merger some had hoped for, but other on-demand software vendors could soon find themselves in buyers' crosshairs.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/05/2007 | Digital Media

Policy updates -- and it's not even Thursday!
After our many weeks of policy posts on Thursdays, you're probably intimately familiar with all of our program policies. So we can imagine your surprise when you woke up...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/05/2007 |  Adsense & Other Context Ads

Google PageRank: What Do We Know About It?
Everybody is using it, but (almost) nobody really knows, how it works. Google PageRank is probably one of the most important algorithms ever developed for the Web.
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/05/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

A Rational Debate on Net Neutrality
The subject of Net Neutrality has become so politicized that it's almost impossible to have a rational debate on the subject.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/05/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Lawyer Ratings Site Not Without Objections
A venture capital-backed Web site called Avvo that launches Tuesday claims to offer a "game-changing" alternative to the Yellow Pages for anyone interested in hiring a lawyer.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/05/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Listen to Music Free, but Pay to Carry
The music industry is so desperate for new ways to make money that a Silicon Valley start-up is trying a counterintuitive approach: giving the music away as a way to...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/05/2007 | Digital Media

YouTube Signs Deal for Local News
Hearst-Argyle, a conglomerate controlling 29 local TV stations that reach 18 percent of the television households in the United States, has signed a deal with YouTube...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/05/2007 | Digital Media

Joost Names Former Cisco Executive New CEO
Internet television service Joost named former Cisco senior executive Mike Volpi as its new chief executive on Tuesday, choosing a telecoms veteran to lead the company as...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/05/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Why Have The Yahoos Departed?
We have seen three Yahoo executives announce departure plans in the past month, and we have to wonder why they have opted to log out of the portal company.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/05/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Amazon to Spend More in China, Fastest-Growing Market
Amazon.com Inc., the world's biggest online retailer, will raise spending on its money-losing unit in China to bolster sales in the largest Web market behind the U.S.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/05/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Humans Get Bigger Role in Search
On the heels of the introduction of the people-powered Mahalo.com search engine, Google announces that it is using 'human intervention' in addition to algorithms.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/05/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Competing as Software Goes to Web
In the battle between Apple and Microsoft, two men are in charge of competing efforts to ensure that the PC's basic software stays relevant in a Web-centered world.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/05/2007 | Digital Media

Removing The Login Barrier
When presented with the login barrier, I did what 99% of all the people who encounter a login barrier do: I turned back.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/05/2007 |  Website Design & Development

A New Pricing Model Rolls Out Today
Yahoo! Search Marketing is rolling out a new feature that we think will help enhance the quality, potentially reduce the cost and increase the value of traffic to you, our advertisers.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/05/2007 |  Adsense & Other Context Ads

Maximize Your Social Media Participation and Traffic
While the idea behind Social Poster is not new, this is the first time I've seen it implemented in a way that is truly useful.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/05/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Who Blogs?
America is going to the blogs. Every year millions of people create blogs, and even more check in daily to read them.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/05/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

HTML Entity Character Lookup
Using HTML entities is the right way to ensure all the characters on your page are validated. However, often finding the right entity code requires scanning through 250...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/05/2007 |  Website Design & Development

The Twitterization of Blogs
Most bloggers prefer mundane tidbits to deep thoughts, and backed by voice transcription and video sharing, the cell phone may soon be the tool of choice.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/04/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Soapbox Re-opens, Beating YouTube to The Punch with Content Filtering
MSN reopened Soapbox to the public this weekend after a two-month hiatus while the company implemented a content filtering system on the site.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/04/2007 | Digital Media

Scribd Banks $3.5 Million from Redpoint
Scribd, dubbed the 'YouTube for Documents,' was the dark horse of their Y Combinator class, but the social document site now gives its critics pause to think.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/04/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Search is History, Says Yahoo!
The company says personalisation is now more important than search, in what some have seen as an admission that it can't compete with Google.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/04/2007 | Search Marketing

Yahoo Opens Panama Search Ad Platform
Yahoo announced Monday that its Panama search advertising platform is now open to third parties.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/04/2007 | Search Marketing

Rolling the Dice on Local News
Media companies have high hopes that hyperlocal news online will bolster their newspapers' futures. But early returns suggest the financial outlook for such ventures...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/04/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

The State of Search Engine Safety
One year after releasing The Safety of Search Engines in May 2006, we reassess the state of search engine safety and evaluate changes in search engine safety levels...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/04/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Waxing Philosophical, Booksellers Face the Digital
At BookExpo America, the publishing industry's annual convention, the battering ram of technology was back.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/04/2007 | Digital Media

Pay to Play: Uncovering Online Payola
A three-month study of the online technology publication industry uncovers pay-to-review tactics, viral marketing and a few beacons of light.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/04/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

How I built a Web 2.0 ... Site for $12,107.09
Because of Truemors, I've learned a lot about launching a company in these 'Web 2.0' times. Here's quick overview 'by the numbers.'
eBusiness News | Posted 6/04/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Europe Online '24 Hours a Month'
More than 122m Europeans aged 15 and above use the internet each day at home, school or in work, says a report.
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/04/2007 | Website Analytics

AdSense is Coming to Google Maps
You know those push-pins on Google Maps? Soon, the bubbles that open when you click them will become much more interesting, but they'll also carry ads.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/04/2007 |  Adsense & Other Context Ads

E-mail Deliverability Report Card: Permission Isn't Enough
Even when prospective recipients give permission for advertisers to send e-mails, Internet Service Providers in the United States route about 13 percent of the messages...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/04/2007 | eMail & Viral Marketing

In Silicon Valley, the Crash Seems Like Just Yesterday
A once cocksure region is displaying a deep-seated insecurity - raising the question of whether there's really a bubble about to pop or whether Silicon Valley is just...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/04/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Salesforce Is Acquisition Bait
Salesforce has scheduled a press conference tomorrow to announce a strategic partnership with a 'leading Internet company based in the Bay Area.'
eBusiness News | Posted 6/04/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Amazon Comes to Twitter
The use cases for Twitter, the IM/blogging hybrid that has taken the blogger world by storm, continues to grow.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/04/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

The Ebb and Flow of Social Networking
I joined Facebook today. I resisted as long as I could. I couldn't help but notice a recent surge of other people I know signing up recently as well - nor could I shake...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/04/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Desperate Botnet Battlers Call for an Internet Driver's License
Frontline internet-crime fighters from security companies, law enforcement agencies, banks and e-commerce sites huddled at a secretive conference last week...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/04/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Microsoft: Silicon Valley Team Building Stealth Search Engine
Microsoft has gathered a team of twenty or more 'rock star' developers who've been tasked at building Microsoft's next generation search engine, a source has told us.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/04/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Five Things You Didn't Know About Google's Search
To be completely honest, I was a little worried about Saul Hansell, a journalist for the New York Times, sitting in on some of our confidential quality meetings at Google.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/04/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

YouTube Signs Licensing Pact with Hearst-Argyle TV
YouTube said Sunday it has reached a revenue-sharing deal with Hearst-Argyle Television in which local TV stations will be paid when users of the video-sharing site...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/04/2007 | Digital Media

Listing Top Jobs but Charging Candidates to Seek Them
A growing number of niche sites devoted to high-end jobs are finding that applicants will shell out a few dollars - or a few hundred - for access to job ads.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/04/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

Are TV Ads Best for Product Intros?
TV ads are the best way to reach and engage online consumers with new product information, according to the American Marketing Association's "Mplanet" survey...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/04/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

String of Digital Deals Leaves Ad World Baffled
The major advertising-industry associations have voiced their concerns over all the recent mergers-and-acquisitions activity in the online-advertising space...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/04/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Tech Camps for Kids: Get The Right Fit
The next generation of high-tech summer camps offers unique opportunities that may make adults wish they themselves could go.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/04/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Book World Tunes Into Internet Social Networks
Faced with the challenge of marketing a book with a vulgarity in the title, publisher Rick Wolff turned to Internet blogs and social networking sites to spread the word...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/04/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Amp'd Mobile Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
Amp'd Mobile, the content-heavy MVNO which has had close to $360 million pumped into it over the last two years, will be filing has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/03/2007 | Digital Media

Deconstructing TripAdvisor
Nancy Keates on how seasoned travelers decode the ratings on the nation's most influential hotel review site.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/03/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Does Virtual Reality Need a Sheriff?
Earlier this year, one animated character in Second Life, a popular online fantasy world, allegedly raped another character.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/03/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

The New Facebook is On a Roll
The social network's new strategy has already led to surprising innovation - and another million or so users.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/03/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Redeye VC Talks Valuations
Philadelphia venture capitalist Josh Kopelman believes there's a benefit to operating a little outside the 'echo chamber' of Silicon Valley.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/03/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine
At Google's corporate campus, a squad of engineers strives to improve the quality of its searches by tweaking its ranking algorithm.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/03/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Crunch Time At A Web Startup
Fast-growing Meebo has VC backing, great ideas, and rivals nipping at its heels. It's Tuesday in Mountain View, Calif., and that means Seth Sternberg, Sandy Jen...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/03/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Essay: Usenet, the Original Piracy Hotbed
So you think piracy is primarily taking place on BitTorrent, eMule and Gnutella? Think again. There is a whole parallel universe out there with people trading huge...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/03/2007 | Digital Media

Genius and Misfit Aren't Synonyms, or Are They?
THE story of the college dropout who became the world's richest man still has the power to inspire us. It affirms our deeply engrained view that rejecting the received wisdom...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/03/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Kids Socialize in a Virtual World as Avatars
Children have always enjoyed make-believe. Now, some new Web sites are letting them live out their fantasies in virtual worlds using self-designed avatars.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/03/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Spot Runner Tackles Legal Field
If you think there are already too many lawyer solicitations on cable TV, prepare yourself for a new deluge of ads from attorneys.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/03/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales