How Visitors View Websites

Invoking the Name of YouTube

Has the word "YouTube" become synonymous with phrases like "voice of the people" and "civil right"? The reason I ask is that though it's not abundantly clear what, exactly, YouTube has to do with New York City film permits, the name was invoked as if it were an argument stopper. I'm not a New Yorker, so the news that the Mayor's Office of Film, Theater…

Multiple Ad Placements Perform Well

I saw an old episode of “Cheers” the other night; in it, a woman repeatedly sang her phone number to Frasier, and (much to Lilith’s dismay) Norm, Cliff, and Woody took up the tune.  Believe it or not, this does (sort of) relate to eBusiness - a new study found that “Multiple Online Ad Placements Impress.”

NBC Gets Corny With P2P Fight

Let's hope the FCC is smarter than this. Wait, which FCC? Oh, crap. In a filing with the FCC, lobbyists for NBC Universal recently made this anti-piracy claim (paraphrased): Piracy hurts corn farmers and farm equipment manufacturers.

Project Red Stripe Reveals Lughenjo

Google and Yahoo do good deeds on a weekly basis.  Microsoft and Ask also make the occasional selfless act.  And now Project Red Stripe, a team within The Economist Group, has unveiled Lughenjo.  Lughenjo is intended to be “[a] business that does good, and returns a profit.”

iPhone Searches Steady All Year

U.S. search activity surrounding the Apple iPhone reveals that Americans have performed an average of 274,000 iPhone searches per week since the start of the year according to comScore.