Twitter + Etiquette = Twitterquette?
I’m not an early adopter. I’m not even, necessarily, a late adopter. When pagers were en vogue I eyed them as suspiciously as I would electronic leashes. It wasn’t until after living in Japan that I learned mobile phones had some worth – just because I sort of had to have one there. I’m an observer, not an adopter.
Online Shopping Grows 30%
Online shopping continues to grow and 39 percent of adults reported making a purchase online at least monthly, versus 30 percent in 2005, a 30 percent increase over two years, according to a new study from icrossing, "How America Searches: Online Retail."
Selling Information Will Become a High Touch Industry
Newspapers Going Free
The NYT just went free and likely the WSJ will follow. Once something goes free it is hard to start charging for it again – just ask Prince.
Yahoo IDs Get Rough Start At MyBlogLog
About nine months have passed since Yahoo acquired MyBlogLog, and, starting a few days ago, MyBlogLog introduced support for Yahoo IDs. The companies might have done better to hold off for even longer, though, as the process was pretty rough.
Niche Selection 101 – The “Best” Niche
Here’s an intriguing query from Sarah:
Why Your Business Blog Shouldn’t Be On Blogger
Here are just a few reasons why your main business blog should absolutely not be on blogger.com or really any of the free blog sites.
Claiming Your StumbleUpon Blog through Technorati
Here’s an interesting tip that you probably haven’t thought of yet. In fact, this will increase the number of links to your StumbleUpon blog, and will automatically increase the “link juice” to every page that you add, review, or “Stumble” using the StumbleUpon service.
Starbucks Gives Away Tracks For iTunes WiFi Launch
Starbucks is going to give away 50 million tracks as it helps launch the new iTunes wireless service with Apple. From Oct. 2 to Nov. 7 customers in all 10,000 U.S.
Compete, ComScore Show Off Analytics Services
Compete.com has moved its Search Analytics out of private beta into a ‘pay as you go’ model, while ComScore introduced its Ad Metrix Publisher for advertisments.
The Privacy Is In The Pudding (Or Not)
There are so many obvious cliché puns just sitting there, grinning like toads: if you don’t eat your meat…; the proof is in the…; $240 worth of…Pudding. What pudding has to do with telephony services is unclear, except that Pudding Media has started a conversation about how far is too far when it comes to targeted advertising.