How Corrupt is the Digg Home Page?

A top Digg user with a popular ratio of 34% has been getting paid well for promoting articles on Digg. His/her popularity has allowed numerous stories to reach the Digg Home Page, and when that happens he/she gets paid even more.

Facebook Ads Rubbing Some the Wrong Way

Yesterday I posted an article on SmallBusinessNewz about targeted ads insulting customers, in which I referenced a Washington Post story from writer Rachel Beckman.

Amazon Looks for Bigger Piece of Online Video Pie

Online video competition has just gotten a little more heated. Amazon Video On Demand is making over 40,000 movie and television show titles available for streaming. Before, customers could only download titles and watch them on a PC via Amazon's Unbox or on their TiVo box. Now you can do that or stream the titles to watch them instantly.

Google Getting Aggressive with Advertising

Google is trying to get advertising agencies to warm up to it after years of not being their favorite entity. After all, think of all the marketing dollars spent on search engine advertising (and SEO campaigns for that matter) that agencies missed out on because of a certain search giant.Google Shows Off

Canadians Pleased With Major Search Engines

The majority of Canadians who go online are satisfied with their search results from search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft's Live Search, according to a new study by Ipsos Reid.Eight in ten (80%) online Canadians said they are receiving the best results from their primary search engines. Sixty-six percent said their search results are objective and three-quarters said they could usually find what…