User-Generated Telemarketer Butt-Kickin
If the mob is good for anything, it’s kicking some tail. Sometimes it’s a righteous wave of derriere demolition, and others it’s an unfair and maniacal feeding frenzy. But if all that ire is directed toward an unknown caller clicking on your answering machine ten times a day, nobody’s going to care whether crowd-sourced, digital brutality is justified or not.
Google Putting AdSense in Your Games
It was only a matter of time, but Google is beginning beta testing for in-game advertising, or "AdSense for Games". On Google’s Inside AdSense Blog, Ryan Hayward writes:
SMX East: Assessing The Googleopoly
Google’s big and getting bigger, as firms like comScore and Hitwise can confirm. Then there’s its pending deal with Yahoo to consider. So a session at SMX East addressed the question of whether Google is a monopoly, and what can and should be done about the issue.
YouTube Launches Ecommerce Platform
YouTube has reached agreements with iTunes and Amazon.com to offer users "click-to-buy" links to download music, games and other products.
MySpace and HP Work on Printing Your Profile Photos
MySpace and HP have teamed up on a deal that will see HP printing technology used across multiple areas on MySpace, including all photo sections. You will be able to easily print pictures from not only people’s profile photos, but ones that are inserted into blog posts, comments, messages, etc. The first stage of the partnership is anticipated to include an HP branded print button enabling MySpace users to preview and print photos directly from their MySpace profiles.
Facebook Launches Microsoft Live Search Integration…
Facebook temporarily launched Microsoft Live Search integration with its site before removing it a short time later. It’s unclear why the feature has been removed, but the post announcing it on the Facebook Blog was removed as well, so I’m guessing it wasn’t quite ready for primetime, and they goofed.
SMX East: Handling CSS, Ajax, And SEO
Since most relevant recommendations are presented as and relate to standard English words, it’s not too hard to understand most of the SEO basics. But stuff relating to CSS and Ajax can get a little confusing, so a session at SMX East tried to focus on a few tips and tricks.
SMX East: Reviving A Failed PPC Campaign
At the session "Reviving A Failed PPC Campaign" the speakers discussed how to turn around a failed paid search campaign.(Coverage of the SMX East conference will continue at Murdok Videos. Keep an eye on Murdok for more notes and videos from the event this week.)
Majority Of Retailers Rely On Site Search And SEO
The overwhelming majority (90%) of U.S. retailers rank site search, search engine optimization (SEO) and email marketing as the most important ecommerce tools helping to promote their online businesses, according to a survey from SLI Systems.Forty-percent of retailers ranked social media tools, such as blogs and podcasts, as gaining importance, and 38 percent said that user-generated content is increasing in popularity.
Online Advertising in Rough Times
The economy has everyone in the U.S. worried about what’s ahead. Many are calling for another great depression, and it is hard to know just what that will mean in a world where so much business thrives on the Internet. It’s a different world than it was in the 30s. Of course most money made on the Internet comes from advertising, so naturally, one has to wonder how Internet ad spending will fare in the not-too-distant future.