December 30, 2005
Jon Fine tells papers to 'steal from Google'
BusinessWeek's Jon Fine urges newspapers to "steal from Google" and cut off their rival's oxygen.... [MORE]
December 19, 2005
Swap gift cards online
Consumers are buying, selling and swapping gift certificates online this holiday season at a new rash of web sites dedicated to gift cards, the New York Times reports: For buyers, these sites present an opportunity to pick up gift cards at savings of 10 percent to 30 percent. Almost... [MORE]
Yahoo to Measure Online and Offline Ad Effectiveness
Yahoo on Friday launched an analytics service that allows advertising on Yahoo sites to not only measure the performance of their online ads but also compare them with their radio, TV and print...... [MORE]
Test Drive an AJAX RSS Reader
Backbase has a whole bunch of AJAX web applications that you can test drive. One notable entry here is their RSS Reader. It's muy slick! Plus you can download the source code of this application and install it on your own server. While you're on the Backbase site take... [MORE]
December 08, 2005
'Podcast' Is Word of the Year
"Podcast" - both portmanteau (combining "iPod" and "broadcasting") and misnomer (neither iPod nor broadcasting is necessary) - was selected as the Word of the Year by the New Oxford American...... [MORE]
MIT grad: "I needed help setting up my home network"
MIT grad and former Apple executive Don Norman recently said that instead of hooking up his own home network, he hired someone to do it for him. His point, of course, is that home networking is so difficult fewer people do it. I know many Lifehacker readers are the... [MORE]
December 06, 2005
NBC Joins iTunes
NBC shows now for sale on iTunes as Apple says it has sold 3 million videos in first two months. That's nice. But what's up with video blogs at iTunes?... [MORE]
December 05, 2005
Why Can't We “Claim” Wikipedia Articles?
Responding to recent criticism, Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales told CNET that to avoid future problems, the open source encyclopedia will bar anonymous users from creating new articles; only registered members will be able to do so. Anonymous users will still be able to edit articles. More importantly, Wales said he's... [MORE]
December 02, 2005
Voila! TiVo Transformed into Online Portal
TiVo's rapid transformation into a media/communications portal continues with its announcement of new online services that extend its reach into e-commerce - in this case, t-commerce - MediaPost...... [MORE]
November 30, 2005
HP Marketing Re-org Pits Omnicom against Publicis
Hewlett-Packard has begun to devolve marketing responsibility from a centralized solution to individual business units, starting an ongoing evaluation of agencies - giving Omnicom Group a chance to...... [MORE]
Microsoft testing classfieds service
Filed under: OnlineMicrosoft is reportedly moving into the free online classifieds market. Unline the recently launched Google Base, the Microsoft service - internally referred to as Fremont - will most assuredly and unmistakably be a classifieds service and not just a general online database. The idea to start this was born... [MORE]
November 29, 2005
Akamai: Cyber Monday Traffic Spikes 35 Percent
Akamai Retail Net Usage Index - click to enlarge Traffic to online retailer sites in North America spiked 35 percent above normal levels on Cyber Monday, according to Akamai's Net Usage Index for...... [MORE]
Fairway Blog...so Close
The ups and the downs of a blog by a cheesemonger from Fairway, a local foodie store here in NYC.... [MORE]
November 23, 2005
Million Dollar Homepage Snags $623,000 in Ads
U.K. college student Alex Tew, creator of Million Dollar Homepage, has brought in $623,800 in ad revenue from selling pixel ads of various sizes, reports Adrants (via MediaBuyerPlanner); he will...... [MORE]
November 21, 2005
Companies I’d like to Profile (but don’t exist)
There are companies I review every day that I don’t write about. Reasons vary - it’s been done already and the product isn’t even as good as what’s been done, its a highly or totally one-way application, or it isn’t consumer focused (or have implications for consumer focused applications).... [MORE]
AtomShockwave Launches Game Ad Network
AtomShockwave has launched the Shockwave.com Immersive Network, which allows advertisers to dynamically insert ads within the company's popular games, writes AdAge (via MediaBuyerPlanner). A brand's...... [MORE]
Chrysler 'Person of the Year' Campaign Uses Web, Podcasts, Wireless
Click to enlarge CNN and Chrysler are expected to announce today a multimillion-dollar ad deal that includes not only TV and print but also online, broadband, wireless, podcast, video-on-demand and...... [MORE]
Did Google save web advertising?
Filed under: OnlineAs much reporting on Google as we might do here at AdJab, the New York Times is doing just as much. The most recent of their full-length profiles of the internet giant plays on the idea that Google has revolutionized internet advertising not only through the ease of and communal... [MORE]
November 18, 2005
Riffs Web 2.0 Consumer Review Site Debuts
Riffs is a newcomer to the world of consumer review sites. This category to date has been dominated by epinions and Planet Feedback. Riffs - which was developed by a startup called attap - is trying to break in with some neat Web 2.0 features. For example, Riffs has... [MORE]
Lightningcast Debuts Web Video Ad Network
Lightningcast has launched its InStream internet video ad network, hoping more brand advertisers will run online spots on smaller websites, writes AdWeek. The participating sites show about 100...... [MORE]
November 17, 2005
$100 Laptop a Reality
Though they've been bouncing the idea of a $100 laptop around for a while ($100 Laptop - No Child Left Behind), it looks like it's finally becoming a reality. The lime green laptop is about the size of a text book and with a hand crank to allow it... [MORE]
