Internet Brands Acquires Several Car Forums
Cars, cars, cars – I like ‘em, and it would seem that Internet Brands does, as well. The company, which already owned sites like Autos.com and CarsDirect, has now bought at least eight popular automotive forums.
Google Drops Upon 2Q Earnings Report
Google shares are dropping in after hours trading after the company announced its second quarter earnings report, missing estimates by 3 cents per share.
YouTube Steps Towards Widescreen
All the latest televisions have embraced this format, and now YouTube (sort of) has, as well: video search results are being displayed in a widescreen ratio. It’s not clear when this feature might make the jump to the videos themselves, however.
Local Businesses Need Reputation Management Too
If you think it’s only large businesses that need to worry about their online reputation, the Wall Street Journal wants to remind you otherwise.
They take a look at the effects of negative reviews on small businesses and give an example of a spa owner who discovered she had a 2 1/2 star rating on Yelp.com.
Click Fraud Up In Second Quarter
Click Forensics has released pay-per-click (PPC) fraud figures for the second quarter of 2007.
China Puts Limits On Online Gaming
Kids are creative, so it’s difficult to enforce any rules without the smart little…minxes finding a way around them. You know that tone that only teenagers can hear and drives them crazy? They turned that around by making it a ring tone the teacher wouldn’t hear in class.
AdSense for Games Coming “Soon”
Google’s Bernie Stolar and Greg Schaffer spoke at the Casual Connect game convention this week and shared details of Google’s plans to bring AdWords to video games via “AdSense for Games.”
8 Things You Wished Your Affiliate Manager Had Told You
I’ve been tagged by Pepperjam Affiliate Marketing Director Robyn Martin (and soon to be Mrs Kris Jones) in the latest incarnation of the “8 things about me” meme.
Instead of telling you more things beyond what’s already in my bio, I’d like to focus on 8 things I’ve learned about affiliate marketing.
Here are the tag rules:
Here are the tag rules:
Pageflakes Blizzard Rolls In Late
Forecasters are widely maligned for their inability to predict the weather, but today, Pageflakes’s forecasts about its own “Blizzard” upgrade were proven wrong. There should be a lot of major changes, but at the moment, nothing works.
Getting To Know Google Australia
Australia’s all alone out there, thousands of miles from everything (except Papa New Guinea, Indonesia, and New Zealand), and most people don’t know too much about it. It seems that, even within the continent, Google’s Australian branch is also one big question mark. So the Australian Googlers have filled the public in on some of their accomplishments and quirks.