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Media’s Love Of Twitter Translates To $48 Million
Twitter gets criticized on a regular basis for not having a business plan. But the point of a business plan is to…
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New Tool Aims To Fight Click Fraud
Click Forensics has introduced a new tool to help marketers combat click fraud. The new tool is called "Block List" which provides ad networks with a continually updated list of visitor IP addresses and publishers known to generate online click fraud. Block List can be used with the Click Forensics platform to block invalid traffic and to shift advertsing dollars to other sources that offer…
US Video Game Revenue Down 31%
U.S. video game sales of hardware, software and accessories declined 31 percent in June to $1.17 billion, according to the NPD Group. The year-over-year decline was the sharpest since a 41 percent drop in September 2000. "This is one of the first months where I think the impact of the economy is clearly reflected in the sales number, said Anita Frazier, NPD Analyst.
Does Retweeting Praise For Yourself Mean You Have A Big Ego?
Last night on Twitter, I saw a pretty high-profile user retweet a message he’d received from one of his connections. It was high praise about this person, and was retweeted verbatim with no changes to the text. My initial reaction to that was to ask the following question to the Twittersphere:
Facebook Not Living Up To Canada’s Privacy Law
It wouldn’t be a day in business any more if the main focus wasn’t government intervention, would it? It appears that all of the freedom that the Internet was supposed to offer is maybe a little too much for the folks to our north. The Canadian government has issued a report that tells Facebook that many areas concerning privacy for the social networking site don’t…
A Summary Of Twittergate
So here we are a day after Twittergate broke and what is the result? Not much really. Everyone is talking about it in some way or another. Was it lax security at Twitter? Was it a security issue with Google Apps? Did TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington go too far? What are the ethical implications of obtaining documents illegally then using them to advance your own cause?…
