American Web Radio Is Saved (For Now)
Amid intense debate and 11th-hour congressional hearings, American webcasters have been spared. As we discussed a few weeks ago, podcasters everywhere united in a day of silence to protest royalty rate...
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Rupert Murdoch Buys Dow Jones For $5 Billion
The Wall Street Journal (registration required) reports that the deal for News Corp (NWS) to acquire Dow Jones (DJ) will be put to the full Dow Jones board this evening for its approval. In addition to...
View ArticleThe Bling on Jing
TechSmith, the folks behind some of my favorite applications — SnagIt, Camtasia, Morae and UserVue — just released a new “project.” All I can say is I’m blown away by it. Ever since moving to the the...
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Google AdWords Optimizer: Consulting In a Box
Google announced a new ad performance tool called Campaign Optimizer that you can find once you log into your Google AdWords account. Google’s Campaign Optimizer tool analyzes your campaign budget,...
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“Yours for Just 3 Easy Payments of…“
eBay’s (EBAY) PayPal said today it would begin offering credit financing with General Electric Co.’s GE Money Bank. The new PayPal service, called PayPal Pay Later, allows online merchants to offer a...
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Would You Play with Helium?
My friend Anne Kennedy sat with me yesterday in the speakers’ room at Search Engine Strategies and told me about a company she’s involved with called Helium; a directory of about a half-million...
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PriceGrabber to Show “Hacker Safe” Trustmark in Results
PriceGrabber.com has just announced a partnership with ScanAlert to feature its “HACKER SAFE” logo next to results from participating e-commerce shops. This move makes PriceGrabber one of the first...
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Amazon is Ready to Take a Bite Out of Apple
Amazon (AMZN) pulled the cover off its long-awaited music store, Amazon MP3. Amazon is targeting the long tail that Apple (AAPL) hasn’t captured. Their selection is DRM-free MP3s with over 2 million...
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Bryan Eisenberg Appointed to “Marketing Dream Team”
A new collective of forward-thinking marketers has emerged, and you’re all invited to join in and tap their knowledge directly. Founded by John Marshall, Michael Stebbins, and Avinash Kaushik, Market...
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Showdown at Emetrics Summit: Google Analytics Retools, Microsoft to Compete
Competition among web analytics providers is heating up. Today, at the Emetics Marketing Optimization Summit in Washington DC, Google (GOOG) announced several new features for its popular Google...
View ArticleOmniture Acquires Visual Sciences
Omniture, Inc. (NASDAQ: OMTR), a leading provider of online business optimization software, announced today a definitive agreement to acquire Visual Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: VSCN) in a stock and cash...
View ArticleAmazon’s Patented Lousy Service
Techdirt reports that Amazon has been awarded a patent for Generating Current Order Fulfillment Plans Based on Expected Future Orders. Essentially, if Amazon deems that you won’t be a long-time...
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Can “w00t” Provide Wikipedia with Directions?
Merriam Webster just announced “w00t” as the online word of the year 2007. According to The New York Times, ”W00t,” a hybrid of letters and numbers used by gamers as an exclamation of happiness or...
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Information Overload: Why Less is the New More
A new report entitled Information Overload: We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us was written up recently in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. Commissioned by Basex, it details how...
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Flash May Now Bring More Search Traffic, Does it Matter?
Adobe was the first company to introduce the concept of plug-ins to software (Photoshop), to open up Post Script standards, now they are opening up Flash so that search engines can crawl the files....
View ArticleHot Tip! Super Secret “Dr. Phil” Software Release
Today we (FutureNow, FUTR.OB), issued a press release where we “sorta kinda” spilled the beans. We’re only accepting alpha clients right now and we’re not disclosing the name yet (hence, its code...
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Cuil is Not Kewl with Brands Yet
After reading Danny‘s, and Mel‘s first impressions of the new search engine launched by former Googlers, Cuil, I did what anybody in the industry would do first: search for their name. I wouldn’t...
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Insights into Google Search
Google released another great tool today, Google Insights for Search. Whether you’re an advertising agency, a small business owner, a multinational corporation, or an academic researcher, Insights for...
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Google Analytics Releases Enterprise Feature Set
At the eMetrics Summit today, Google Analytics announced new enterprise-class features including custom reports, advanced segmentation, an API, as well as an updated interface, richer data...
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Early Rumors of Commercial’s Death Greatly Exaggerated
It’s a commonplace on the Internet that the traditional 30-second TV spot is dying. What with increasing media fragmentation, the new “attention economy,” and TiVo/DVR’s, etc, etc. Of course, there...
View ArticleMarketing in the age of the “strategic minimum wage worker”
If you haven’t seen it yet, you’ll want to check out this YouTube video of two (former) Domino’s employees: Click here to view the embedded video. So, do you think that might have some rather profound...
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Will Amazon Zap Zappos’s Innovative Culture?
I just read a somewhat surprising story about Zappos.com being acquired by Amazon.com. The details were posted to Zappos’s blog yesterday in a very Zappos-esque transparent style, including an 8-minute...
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Win Conversion Rate Optimization with FutureNow, Inc. for 6 Months
So, you think you can convert, do you? Prove it. Are you really satisfied knowing that 97% of the people who visit your website never become your customer, and may even buy from your competitors?...
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Top 10 Brands for 2011: There’s a New No. 1 in Town
Millward Brown just released their 2011 BrandZ study, and the results show some shifting in the world’s most valuable brands over the last year. Apple’s success with the iPad managed to push Google out...
View ArticleNew Internet Launching Today
Wait! Don’t panic! If all goes well, you won’t even notice. Today Is IPV6 Day, Worldwide. Businesses and organizations are testing a new version of the Internet, Internet Protocol Version 6, or...
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