Online Or Off, Star Power Overrated

Getting an A-list blogger to endorse your product isn't all it's cracked up to be, according to new research. And, according to another research paper, getting celebrities to endorse political campaigns can backfire.

MTVN To Offer Video On AOL

MTV Networks has reached a deal with AOL to provide video clips from a number of popular series from its large collection of cable and online properties, including Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, MTV's The Hills and Nickelodeon's iCarly.

Blogpile On Scoble: He’s Leaving PodTech

After just a year and a half with PodTech.net, reports are surfacing that celebrity A-list blogger and author of Naked Conversations Robert Scoble is leaving the company next month. As a result, he's really been taking his lumps from other A-listers.

Web Retailers Keep Holiday Shoppers Merry

Holiday shoppers report higher satisfaction with the online shopping experience this week compared to both last week and last year, according to the ForeSee Results Holiday Retail Benchmark.

Compete Puts Overall Searches, Google Higher

According to new numbers from Compete, the search engines were busier than ever in November - Americans made a record 8.1 billion queries.  Also - you guessed it - Google’s market share went up.