Just on the heels of survey results from Compete indicating that many smartphone owners are open to targeted ads, Chitika has shared some findings of a study that suggests mobile users are "extremely ad-wary."
Ad Blindness Is Nothing New … and it’s No Surprise Google Is Seeing It!
Google’s stock is down because its rate of growth is down according to Google’s latest quarterly financial report. Google still had a 30 percent increase in payments from clicking ads, but that was substantially down from the 45 percent increase they had a year earlier.
Nothing’s Certain ‘Cept Wikipedia and Taxes
Humans are predictable creatures, but it’s interesting nonetheless to see seasonal trends depicting where everybody’s going online. January 2007, according comScore, was for taxes, job-hunting, and vacation planning, among a couple of trendy surprises. But the most significant change in traffic was to Wikipedia, which entered the top ten domains for the first time.
Also, as somebody-anybody sentiments rise, visits to potential presidential candidate websites also spiked in January.
Wikigate ’07 – Much Ado About Nothing
The informational integrity of Wikipedia has long been debated throughout the ranks of academia, business communities, and the like. While some cynicism can be lent to the validity of the online reference guide’s volume of information, today’s blogosphere explosion may represent a bit of an overreaction.
Top Ranking in Google But Nothing in Yahoo!
SEO Question: I rank #3 in Google for one of my core keywords and yet I am nowhere in it for Yahoo!. Why?
BlogHer – Gender Has Nothing to Do With it
If you read any of the posts that people wrote from or about the BlogHer conference in the US last week, you’ll probably arrive at the same conclusion I did – a terrific event filled with people who have interesting points to make and thoughts to share.
Microsoft ODF Plans Nothing New
Microsoft’s announcement that it would back the Open XML Translator project, and bridge the gap between Office 2007 and OpenDocument Format as an open source initiative, had been hinted at in October 2005.
Nothing New For IBM
Big Blue’s executive VP for innovation and technology does not think a “next big thing” will be coming around the corner ever again.
Yahoo/AOL Discussion Nothing New
Reports are surfacing all over the place about Yahoo now wanting a piece of the AOL pie. AOL has been in negotiations with Microsoft for some time and recently, Google and Comcast a joint venture to go after a minority stake in AOL also. The real deal is that it’s all old news.
300 Analysts Talk To Google, Remember Nothing
Google’s standard rule of not telling anybody anything until its too late has caused worldwide speculation as to what on Earth they plan to do with all that new money. A recent New York invitation-only meeting with Eric Schmidt and Sergey Brin did little to change that silent trend.