Hoovers Launching Business Social Networking Site
When it comes to social networking, sites that target businesspeople are pretty small potatoes. LinkedIn, the category leader, has 7.8 million members, a respectable niche, but not in the same league as MySpace or Facebook.
Measuring Influence in the Blogosphere with BuzzLogic
Among the toughest tasks that marketers face daily is tracking what is being said about their company or its brands in the media, identifying which of the external voices are most influential and are having the most impact-positively or negatively-and then devising a strategy and specific tactics to influence the influencers.
Microsoft Renews Commitment To Search
Microsoft has been called many things, but rarely has it been labeled “complacent,” particularly in regards to the search industry, which has been a major point of frustration for the company. Earlier today, Microsoft tried to address that issue by launching a new advertising campaign. The campaign aims to boost the company’s search market share.
Ask Mocks Googling
Unlike its much more heavily visited search competitor Google, Ask.com has no problem with its brand name being a dictionary word. The search engine industry needs more Scott McNealy-style chippiness between its respective companies.
Social Link Spam
Remember the tale “Villiage Wine”, where nobody thought their little bit of wine would be missed from the town festival? Then nothing but water poured forth from the cask on festival day…Social link spam is a similar thing in reverse. My few social self-diggs etc. wont affect things, so why not..?
Microsoft Grabs $10.8B For Quarter
If you were impressed with Google’s successful financial quarter, consider this: their much-ballyhooed competition with Microsoft ends at the balance sheet, as Redmond’s juggernaut pulls in as much quarterly revenue as Google will do this year.
Picture This Hollywood: Online Ads
Instead of spending tons of cash on providing substantial assistance to federal investigations of torrent trackers, maybe the MPAA should use those funds to educate its member studios about the mad, mad, mad, mad world of Internet advertising.
Google To Restructure, Add AdSense For Audio
It’s funny how a whisper can sometimes push a hurricane; expect one to swirl up by Monday. The rumor, as was whispered into the ear of a DM News reporter, is that Google is about to undergo a major corporate restructuring just as they prepare to release AdSense for Audio.
Microsoft, Yahoo, Google: “Top Web Properties”
comScore released a list of the top fifteen Web properties earlier today, and there are some very familiar search-related names in the first three positions. Microsoft’s sites lead the way, with both Yahoo and Google trailing behind, according to these September rankings.
Lessons from Blog Business Summit
There is a dichotomy at the Blog Business Summit; it is not a bad dichotomy, but it is interesting.