The Rising Roar of Word-of-Mouth
More and more, consumers are relying on advice from friends, family and even strangers to make purchase decisions, select physicians, choose travel destinations...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/30/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Forecast: Game-Based Advertising to Hit $2 Billion by 2012
Advertising in games is poised to grow from $370 million last year to more than $2 billion by 2012, according to a new forecast from Parks Associates.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/30/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

CNN.com To Launch Web 2.0 Re-design This Weekend
Over the past year or so we've seen many mainstream publications 'web 2.0-ize' their web presence. BBC has been a leading force, while in March USA Today...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/30/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

14 Personalized Homepages Compared, Feature by Feature
We learned this week that Pageflakes is adding a social network, which seems to be the next evolution of the start page concept. Meanwhile, Facebook is looking...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/30/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Amazon Invites You to Askville
Media companies aren't the only ones looking to take advantage of the popularity of social networking sites. Online retailer Amazon.com is throwing its hat...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/30/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

7 Ways to Promote Your Content as Link Bait
In my last column, I wrote about creating link bait with compelling content. This time, I'll talk more about promoting your content and creating the buzz.
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/30/2007 | Link Building

15 Feedburner Feedflares that Promote Your Website
If you're using Feedburner to manage the site feeds for your blog, you might have noticed the Feedflares option, which allows you to include a simple footer at the....
eBusiness News | Posted 6/30/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Webcasters' Plea Falls on Deaf Ears
Internet radio broadcasters will need to fend for themselves in the face of efforts by the music industry to raise royalty fees, as Congress holds off on intervening.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/29/2007 | Digital Media

MySpace to Follow Rival's Lead
MySpace is likely to change its technology strategy to allow other online companies to 'plug' their web services directly into its social networking site, according...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/29/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Is Endeca The Next Google?
Some big names in search met Thursday at the Red Herring East conference and allowed their brains to be picked by venture capitalists eager to find the next good idea.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/29/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Now playing: Silicon Valley Short Attention Span Theater
Five weeks after the launch of Facebook's new platform, certain Internet commentators (whom you can find in my "Guilty Pleasures" blogroll, directly to your right...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/29/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Music Industry Attacks Sunday Newspaper's Free Prince CD
The eagerly awaited new album by Prince is being launched as a free CD with a national Sunday newspaper in a move that has drawn widespread criticism from music retailers.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/29/2007 | Digital Media

Microsoft Readies a Consumer Healthcare Platform
Microsoft has made no secret about the fact it has designs on being a healthcare-IT contender. But what the company has kept under wraps, at least until now ...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/29/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

The Most Expensive Web Addresses
The bidding started at $300,000 and blasted through the seven-figure mark before settling at $1.8 million. No, this wasn't Sotheby's--nor was the object d'art...
eBusiness News | Posting 6/29/2007 | Domaineering

Powerset's Search Technology Scoop, May Scare Google
Powerset, a San Francisco search engine company, will announce Friday it has won exclusive rights to significant search engine technology it says may help ...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/29/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

The Push vs Pull Gradient
In our lives, we all make different decisions regarding which channels to open up, and how to prioritize them. For instance, it's unlikely that someone replies...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/29/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Facebook Has 'Thrown The Entire Startup World for a Loop'
ROM A FACEBOOK PLATFORM DEVELOPER -- I work for a startup in the Valley and have nothing natural against Facebook at all - in fact my team and I have...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/29/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

File-sharing 'Graveyard' Still Filling Up
MPAA's legal strategy hasn't done much to slow down content piracy. But will that save TorrentSpy?
eBusiness News | Posted 6/29/2007 | Digital Media

Panama Opens New Locks
You can now copy and move keywords from one ad group to another, plus some other cool stuff.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/29/2007 | Search Marketing

The Cult of the Amateur
Andrew Keen points out in his provocative new book that Web 2.0, which incorporates user-generated content, social networking and interactive sharing, has a dark side.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/29/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Web Domains: Tools To Use, Articles To Read
A thought-out domain name can save you a lot of time and bring you a lot of traffic. Search engines love topic-related domain names and they seem to be an ...
eBusiness News | Posting 6/29/2007 | Domaineering

The Saboteurs Of Search
If your online business, like thousands of others on the Web, relies on Google searches for traffic, then Brendon Scott is a good person to have on your side.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/28/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Here Comes China 2.0
Forget about Google and Yahoo. Chinese Internet stocks are truly on fire, and analysts see more upside ahead.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/28/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Referrals 2.0 Launches to All AdSense Publishers
This past March, we launched a referrals beta to test the feature and iron out some wrinkles. Now that we've finished our testing, we're pleased to announce that...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/28/2007 |  Adsense & Other Context Ads

Gonzales: It's Time to Punish 'Attempted' Piracy
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales created quite a stir last month when he called for an aggressive rewrite of criminal copyright laws...
eBusiness News | Posted 6/28/2007 | Digital Media

The World Map of Social Networks
Let's play global domination. Here's a map of the world, showing the dominant social networks by country, according to Alexa. There are way more players than ...
eBusiness Information | Posted 6/28/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Smaller Search Engines Find Their Niche
The way specialized search services such as Spock and Marchex see it, there are some things they can do better than Google.
eBusiness News | Posted 6/28/2007 | Search Marketing