Will Users Kongregate At The YouTube For Games?

It's spelled as if it comes straight from the Kaiser, or the Kremlin, and red like the Cold War (which Putin, apparently, is looking to put back in the cooler), and maybe, since it's somewhat communal, this online sharing thing, it's appropriate – Kongregate is being touted as "the YouTube for games."

Big Company Marketers Need to Influence

I was talking to the Web team for a large multinational company today, emphasizing the importance of setting up governance to make sure that the entire company mobilizes around their marketing efforts. At one point, they stopped me and said, "No, we don't have to do that because we have the whole team here." Unfortunately, unless it's the CEO talking, that's never true.

The Elephant in the SEO Living Room

Gord Hotchkiss put into words what I have been feeling: search marketers are paying far too little attention to personalized search. If you've looked at the baby steps that search engines have taken towards personalization and told yourself, "Well, no need to worry about that yet," think again. This may be your last chance to take action before the tidal wave.

Google Beats Baidu In Blind Test

Google fans take note: this victory wasn’t of the runaway variety.  But a win’s a win, and a new study did indeed find that Chinese users might prefer Google over Baidu.

American Travelers Make Plans Online

American travelers are taking a series of smaller vacations and are buying more travel products and services on the Internet, according to "The PhoCusWright Consumer Travel Trends Survey Ninth Edition" released this week. "American Travelers Make Plans Online"