Links vs. Content
There’s a long standing debate in the search marketing industry about links versus content. Which is better?
Norway and Netherlands Threaten Fines for iTunes
Consumer protection agencies from Norway and the Netherlands have threatened to take legal action against Apple unless iTunes file-sharing limitations are lifted by later this year.
Mobile Technology Changing Social Media?
eMarketer released a report discussing how mobile technology – mainly the mobile phone explosion – affects social media. While there’s no denying the affect the mobile industry has had on social media (check out Mike Sachoff’s Murdok write-up), is the mobile technology medium going to change the way users interact with these social media hubs? […]
Email Experience Council On Image Rendering
A new study by the Email Experience Council says that images and links in emails are often not visible because of email reader restrictions and coding errors. The EEC Rendering Report examined 1,000 emails from business-to consumer and business-to business to find out the renderability of the messages.
Can’t Fix Stupid, But Congress Will Try
First let’s echo Ron White when he says, “you can’t fix stupid.” Now that we agree on that, let’s also doubt that imposing stiffer penalties on those stupid enough to post video evidence on YouTube of themselves committing a crime won’t really act as a deterrent. Because, again, you can’t fix stupid.
FTC Pushes ‘Stop’ On Free CD Scam
The Federal Trade Commission put the kibosh on Think All Publishing for alleged deceptive online marketing and billing practices. A US Magistrate judge recommended an injunction against the company to pull the reins on its “Free Software CD” Internet scam, and ordered the company’s assets frozen.
Amazon Launches Amapedia
Integrating user-generated submissions with existing content is one of the hottest new trends these days, mostly thanks to the success of Wikipedia. Now Amazon is jumping on the bandwagon with its launch of Amapedia; a wiki intended to serve as a companion to its extensive product catalog.
Shop.com Has Record Year
Shop.com, a multi-merchant ecommererce site reached 100 percent growth in revenue year over year in 2006. The company also had a record level of traffic in December with 7.5 million unique visitors according to Nielsen//NetRatings.
The Google Images Redesign
Google has done a terribly unpopular thing, redesigning Google Images so that it presents no new information, no new features, just increases the white space. It could be one of the worst redesigns I’ve ever seen.
The Inclusivity of SL
Earlier this morning, I joined about 20 other avatars in the Reuters Auditorium in Second Life to hear an interview with US politician Mark Warner, former governor of the state of Virginia and potential candidate in the US presidential elections
next year.