Google’s weekly report on the top search gainers, Zeitgeist, came with its usual disheartening revelations, boxed and wrapped by Christmas fanfare.
MSN Christmas Competition
MSN has ramped up its online ad activity for Windows Live Messenger, ahead of Live.com’s launch in the New Year, with a Christmas campaign site that’s aimed at promoting its video-call service.
AOL Video’s Merry Movie Christmas
AOL Video says Merry Christmas to customers of their online video service by giving away free movies.
The Grinch That Taxed Christmas
If you are an avid online holiday shopper, enjoy making some purchases tax-free while you still can.
Christmas Comes Early for Drop Spot Participants
The creators of the online gift sharing community known as Drop Spot restore a little faith in the human race by starting a chain of giving, linking cities across the United States.
Christmas Comes Early To Gmail
Google followed the addition of two new extensions for the Firefox browser with the announcement of two new features for the Gmail service.
An Online Christmas Carol: Part III
“Christmas timethe only time I know of, in the long calendar of the [online] year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up [wallets] freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to [eBay], and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys”
An Online Christmas Carol: Part II
So after being told of a good way to avoid the traffic-and-tryptophan-induced fisticuffs breaking out at shopping centers everywhere in a way that made perfect sense, you realize you’ve been hornswaggled. Cyber Monday, like Valentine’s Day, is a brand of marketing genius created a week in advance. Welcome to I-Feel-Stupid Tuesday, merry stinkin’ Christmas.
An Online Christmas Carol: Part I
There is so much to tell you, it’s hard to find where to start. Start at the beginning? No, I think we’ll start with today. Today is Cyber Monday, the latest buzz-phrase hitting commerce news and the online answer to the frantic, good-will-towards-men elbowing and man-handling that occurs on Black Friday, all in the name of a guy who told us to give all our stuff away, not collect more. Ahem. Sorry bout the preachin’.
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