Hannah Montana Concert Film Top Online Ticket Seller
The Hannah Montana concert film "Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert" has been a top online ticket seller.
Microsoft Calls Out To Yahoo Employee(s)
More and more analysts are suggesting that a separate corporation buy Yahoo, and as Yahoo’s stock continues to sink, Microsoft is one of the most-mentioned names. But for the moment, Microsoft seems content to go after employees, rather than the company itself.
Google Redesigning Korean Search
Though Google’s strategy with the search engine is “the simpler the better,” it seems that cultural demands placed on the search giant is forcing it to tweak the philosophy a bit in Korea.
Yahoo Lifecasting
Earlier this month, Jerry Yang introduced Yahoo’s pending social-mail integration as “Yahoo Life” (though the company later clarified that the product was, in fact, nameless). But it looks like they’ll make sure the name, or something like unto it, goes to good use. Valleywag reports that Yahoo will launch a new “lifecasting” service called Yahoo Live.
Respect YouTube Marketing
I am a child of the 80’s. Play some New Order, Yes, or Van Halen and you’ve got my attention.
ICANN’s Recent Proposal to Curb Domain Tasting
Over the last month I and others have written quite a bit about domain tasting and how registrars are taking advantage of the policy, allowing them to capture potential domain names that their customers are searching for.
FCC Auction Bidding Tops $11.5 Billion
The big prize, a slice of spectrum covering the US, has stalled at a bid of $4.29 billion, under the Federal Communication Commission’s reserve price of $4.6 billion.
Own the Network by Building the Right Brand
VideoEgg announced $1.5 million in ad revenues over 5 months, which is not much when you consider that they have over 150 top widgets. You can use targeted widgets and gadgets to push things that are already valuable, successful, unique, or interesting outside of the social networks, but traditional advertising is no good.
Google Earth Introduced To Teachers
Celebrities and star athletes endorse products; why not teachers? Granted, young boys may not be in a rush to imitate Mr. Oldman’s turkey neck or Mad Hatter hair, but he still spends a lot of time with the lads. Hence (we believe) Google’s new move to introduce educators to Google Earth.
FTC Orders Online Advertiser To Pay $200,000
The Federal Trade Commission has reached an agreement with Member Source Media, an online advertising company for its use of spam emails with misleading subject lines that failed to disclose to consumers that they would have to spend money to receive "free" items.