MyLifeBrand: Social Network Aggregator Playing Catch Up
MyLifeBrand is a new social networking convergence service, currently in invitation-only alpha testing. This product aggregates Web 2.0 functionality, tools...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/04/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

As Broadband Adoption Slows, Lower-Income and Rural Users Grow
The rate of high-speed Internet adoption in American homes declined dramatically during the past year. But a new survey shows strong broadband adoption growth...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/04/2007 | Website Analytics

eBay Launches Kijiji, Craigslist Rival
eBay's International classifieds site Kijiji has just been launched in the United States.Founded and launched in 2005, Kijiji was not available in the US until now.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/03/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Wooing Interns to Silicon Valley
Ben Maurer is one of hundreds of Google interns this summer whose days include free clothes, free meals and free reign to delve into Google's code.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/03/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

SAP Admits Oracle Data Downloads
SAP has admitted its TomorrowNow unit carried out "inappropriate downloads" of documents from its rival Oracle, but said SAP had not accessed the material.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/03/2007 | Digital Media

In Web 3.0, No Humans Required
Nova Spivack is racing to bring meaning and order to the chaos of the Internet. And he's not alone. Business 2.0 reports.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/03/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google Makes FeedBurner MyBrand Free
Google is about making things accessible to everyone and one of the way to make this happen is to buy a service or software that used to cost money and release...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/03/2007 | Website Analytics

Hiring Staff in India May Not be Worth It
Salaries of engineers in India have risen strongly - as they should - but apparently enough for several U.S. companies to give up on the idea of hiring there.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/03/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

How To Build An Audience On MySpace
MySpace is a great social media site that marketers can leverage in a number of different ways. One of these is building up a large audience for your profile, which...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/03/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

NetVibes, Now with One Less CEO
Netvibes, the Paris-based personalized page start-up, which till recently had to co-CEOs, Tariq Krim (also the founder) and Pierre Chappaz, now has one less CEO.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/03/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Inspiration Package: 60+ Usable & Elegant Designs
We all love beautiful, usable and impressive web designs. To achieve them, web developers need to focus on many aspects, but basically it all boils down...
eBusiness Information | Posted 7/03/2007 | Website Design & Development

Apple Denies Big Record Label May Quit iTunes
Apple Inc. denied reports Monday that record label Universal Music Group did not plan to renew its contract to sell songs on its online iTunes Store.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/03/2007 | Digital Media

Google Acquisitions by Year, 2001-2007
Google has just acquired yet another company, telephony service GrandCentral, leading me to the conclusion that they're on an acquisition spree.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/03/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Hollywood Hates Pirates, but Can it Use Them?
Attorney Nancy Prager sees only thievery in file sharing. Don't even try to suggest anything otherwise to her.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/03/2007 | Digital Media

When Bad Ads Harm Good E-Commerce
Over a third of US consumers do not use payment cards to buy from unfamiliar Web sites because of security concerns, according to the Ponemon Institute and Vontu's...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/03/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

MySpace, Facebook: A Tale of Two Cultures
Emerging data suggest the two may not be direct competitors after all. Businesses that want to reach these audiences have more to learn.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/03/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Salesforce.com for Docs
When Dr. Tom Doerr started his own medical software company, he learned that it helps having a venture capitalist in the family.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/03/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Nielsen and Sony Pair to Measure Game Network Advertising
Game network traffic and other information from Sony Playstation3 systems and the Playstation Network will be shared with The Nielsen Company as part of a...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/03/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

How Much Funding is Too Little? Too much?
The first question to ask is, what is the correct, or appropriate, amount of funding for a startup? The answer to that question, in my view, is based my theory...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/03/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Four Factors Determine How Much a Facebook App is Worth
Many people have been asking what a facebook app is worth. Andrew Chen at MDV says in an interview with Insidefacebook that a facebook app user is worth about...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/03/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

John Chow dot Com Blog Income Report - June 2007
Back in September of 2006, I made a decision to see how much money I can make by blogging. Before, the blog served as a personal journal to ramble about ...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/03/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google Appeals Belgian Copyright Law
Google has filed an appeal against a Belgian court's February ruling that it violated Belgian copyright law, but says talks are ongoing and it hopes to avoid...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/03/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Online Taxes Could Be Implemented
A new voluntary tax agreement, the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement between 22 states means consumers could now be charged a sales tax on certain ...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/03/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

A Look at Redesigned Mainstream News Sites
Newspaper circulation has been on the decline over the past few years, but the traffic to newspaper websites continues to rise. Interestingly, the area of newspaper...
eBusiness Information | Posted 7/03/2007 | Website Design & Development

British News Sites Seek Out Readers in the U.S.
With Americans seemingly developing a taste for news with a Fleet Street twist, British papers are stepping up their efforts to court American readers and advertisers.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/03/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

20 Most Popular Sites for Bargain Hunters | July 2007
Smart online shoppers know that there can be a wide divergence in price between the same products from one e-tailer to the next, so in order to obtain the...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/03/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

30 Free HTML eMail Templates to Get You Started
Getting your email to look great in all the major email clients can be a challenge at times, so we've done the hard work for you with these 30 free email templates.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/03/2007 | eMail & Viral Marketing

GrandCentral Pulls Into Google
Google, continuing its start-up gobbling ways has acquired GrandCentral, the company announced today. This rumor did the rounds last month.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/02/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Russia Shuts Down Allofmp3.com
The music download website whose activities threatened to scupper Russia's entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has been shut down.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/02/2007 | Digital Media

Ellison's NetSuite Headed for IPO
Oracle's chief executive plans to take his accounting software company public in a September auction. Critics worry about his role...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/02/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Patent Wars: Local.com Nabs Local Search Patent
Local.com saw its stock price rise 52% today after it was awarded patent number 7,200,413 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/02/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Are My Online Friends for Real?
As Facebook continues its explosive growth here's one question troubling me. Are my friends for real?
eBusiness News | Posted 7/02/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

How SEOmoz Built One Million Links in Thirty-Three Months
Just look at it. The beauty - so magical, so inspiring. I feel like Gatsby finding Daisy again after all those years. It's enough to bring a tear of joy to...
eBusiness Information | Posted 7/02/2007 | Link Building

Widgets Gain Acceptance As Youth Marketing Tool
Like just about everybody else, preteens and teens tend to reject banner ads and other obtrusive forms of online advertising.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/02/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Online Customized Ads Move a Step Closer
Yahoo will announce new tools for online advertising that could pull the company ahead in the race to better tailor online advertisements to the people most likely to buy.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/02/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Universal Music Declines Long-Term iTunes Deal
Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company, has declined to sign a long-term deal with Apple Inc.'s iTunes music store, leaving open the possibility...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/02/2007 | Digital Media

Silicon Valley Star Face-off: Kevin Rose vs. Jason Calacanis vs. Guy
Over the past month three Silicon Valley celebs have launched their respective services. Guy Kawasaki launched Truemors, Jason Calacanis launched Mahalo...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/02/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

5 Social Media Millionaire Milestones
Craig Newman of Craigslist. Chad Hurley and Steve Chen of YouTube. Kevin Rose of Digg. What do they all have in common?
eBusiness News | Posted 7/02/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Domaining & Subdomaining In The Local Space, Part 2
In the earlier installment of this article I covered the topic of local-oriented subdomaining. In this second installment, I'm covering domaining.
eBusiness News | Posting 7/02/2007 | Domaineering

Internet Usage and Importance Expand
The Internet is the most essential medium for consumers and newspapers are the least, according to an Edison Media Research study conducted by Arbitron in January...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/02/2007 | Digital Media

5 New Online Advertising Tactics We Fear
Yahoo has a new advertising tool launching called SmartAds. By gathering as much personal data as possible (age, location, gender, recent searches), Yahoo ...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/02/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Google Apologises for Sicko Outburst
THE LATEST TWIST in Google's do-no-evil saga reflects a growing uncertainty about the direction Silicon Valley's biggest startup is taking.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/02/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Why We Hate e-Mail
Once a time-saver, the inbox has become a burden. That's why bold entrepreneurs stand to get rich fixing it, writes Business 2.0 columnist Om Malik.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/02/2007 | eMail & Viral Marketing

Public Enemy to Use a Digital Distributor
TuneCore, a digital music distributor, is expected to announce that Public Enemy, one of the seminal hip-hop groups, will use its service for its new album.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/02/2007 | Digital Media

Why iPhone May Really Matter
iPhone is more than just a breakthrough mobile phone device. It is a strategy that may expand Apple's sphere of influence, from web browsing to social networking...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/02/2007 | Digital Media

Social Networks and Online Retail
Social networks and online communities have little impact on online retail sales according to a report from JupiterResearch, "Us Retail Consumer survey, 2007."
eBusiness News | Posted 7/02/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

SeeqPod, 'playable' Music Search
SeeqPod is a music search and recommendation website that indexes uploaded music from around the web and lets you instantly play the songs you find when you search.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/02/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Calling In Pros to Refine Your Google Image
At the height of the cyber-abuse, Sue Scheff, a consultant to parents of troubled teens, would type her name in a Google search box and brace herself: Up would pop...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/02/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Is Google Breaking The Law In Providing Ads On Typosquatting Domains?
Lawsuits against Google come at a pretty regular pace, with some being more interesting than others. Often, companies blame Google for something someone else ...
eBusiness News | Posting 7/02/2007 | Domaineering

Facebook Helps iLike Stand Out in Internet Crowd
A month ago, iLike was just another online music community struggling for relevancy in an increasingly crowded market.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/02/2007 | Digital Media

Pownce, the Twitter Killer
I hate titles like 'X is the Y killer' because they're usually just a cheap way to grab attention. But, if there ever was a clearcut situation of a new application...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/02/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

U.S. Healthcare Industry: Google Wants to Protect You From Sicko
Taking a break from reading the wall-to-wall iPhone coverage on TechMeme, I ran across a post from Lauren Turner, who works for Google as an account planner selling...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/01/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

All the News That's Fit to Print Out
How did the world's biggest online encyclopedia turn into a leading source of daily journalism?
eBusiness News | Posted 7/01/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Marchex Unveils Network of 100,000 Local U.S. Sites
Marchex Inc. said on Wednesday it is looking to make a splash in the local U.S. online advertising market by introducing 100,000 memorable Web sites featuring...
eBusiness News | Posting 7/01/2007 | Domaineering

And Now The French Web 2.0 Wave
France leads Europe in its enthusiasm for Web 2.0 startups, an industry that has doubled in size across the continent since 2005.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/01/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

iPhony: Why The iPhone isn't Really Revolutionary
When the word iPhone appears in Apple press releases, the word revolutionary is rarely far behind. But what counts as revolutionary? In Apple's case, the bar is high.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/01/2007 | Digital Media

From Creation to Abandonment: the 5 Stages of Blogging
Between my earlier ScobleFeeds series and my current swivel feeds experiment, I have read a lot of blogs. During this time, I have been looking for patterns ...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/01/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Simply JavaScript: The Three Layers of the Web
You can do a lot without JavaScript. Using Hypertext Markup Language (HTML -- throughout this article, we'll refer to HTML and XHTML as just HTML.
eBusiness Information | Posted 7/01/2007 | Website Design & Development

Facebook Sorts Out Privacy Difficulties
Facebook, a social networking website, quickly fixed a feature in their advanced search engine options that was allowing users to find out personal information...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/01/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Can Susan Decker Turn Yahoo Into, Well, Google?
Susan L. Decker, president of Yahoo, faces daunting challenges: rebuilding morale, attracting top-notch recruits and delivering better results for investors.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/01/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

EMI To Sell Music Through Widgets
EMI Music is going to start selling music through widgets to be placed into MySpace and artists' own sites, among others.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/01/2007 | Digital Media

NoFollow Just Isn't Cool
I understand why Google wants us to nofollow tag all of the comments on our blogs. Comment spam is crappy-true. It's a nuisance and an eyesore...
eBusiness Information | Posted 7/01/2007 | Link Building

Valleywag and Danah Boyd Spar Over Facebook and MySpace
Valleywag and Danah Boyd are throwing around analyses of social networking services. Like we did with Om's analysis earlier this week, we'll provide you with some...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/01/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Clickable Areas in AdWords vs AdSense
Google once changed the top AdWords in their search results so that only clicking on the title of an ad - the link itself - you'd be taken to the advertiser's site.
eBusiness Information | Posted 7/01/2007 |  Adsense & Other Context Ads