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The Danger of Aggressive Ad Placement
By · November 30, 2007
When I did a recent Q&A thread one of the recurring themes with sites that were struggling was AdSense ads positioned above their content.

Many websites are never given the chance to grow because they monetize too aggressively and look to spammy to enjoy the benefits of organic growth and community building.

Online Retailers And Gift Card Redemption
By · November 30, 2007

Gift cards are expected to be popular this holiday season and online retailers who are not prepared to handle post-holiday online card redemptions risk losing customers.

Internet Use Up By 24.3 Percent
By · November 30, 2007

According to Compete’s month-to-month statistics, there have been two dips in the amount of time people spent online in the past year, and one of those occurred between August and September.  On a year-to-year basis, though, the total amount of time is up by nearly 25 percent.

Google Delivered 2.6 Billion Videos In September
By · November 30, 2007

Driven by their acquisition of YouTube, Google properties rated tops in comScore’s Video Metrix lists for September 2007.

Newspapers Propose New Indexing Standards
By · November 30, 2007

This should come as no surprise from the people who’d sue you to stop you from linking to them: at a publishers’ consortium today, after complaining about the limited nature of robots.txt, the newspaper industry has proposed new standards to prevent search engines (and other sites) from indexing their sites willy-nilly.

Official: Google Penalizing Paid Links
By · November 30, 2007 · 1

 Google has officially said that buying and selling links that pass PageRank is a violation of the company’s Webmaster Guidelines, and can result in a drop in search rankings.

MSN Video 2nd Most Popular Video Brand
By · November 30, 2007

MSN Video is now the second most popular video brand on the internet, following a 25.3% traffic surge in October.

AdBrite Receives $23 Million In Funding
By · November 30, 2007

If we’re heading towards (or already in) a recession, it isn’t yet hurting online advertising much – AdBrite, which specializes in that field, just received $23 million in funding.

GoogleNet may get its wireless side yet
By · November 30, 2007

Eric Schmidt will put Google’s money where the company’s mouth is in January when the bidding begins for the highly valued 700MHz spectrum.

Analytics and Gut-Feelings
By · November 30, 2007

Neil sent me an interesting link yesterday – Less (Information) Is More in which the work of Gerd Gigerenzer, of the Max Planck Institute in Germany is discussed.

Gerd has a new book “Gut Feelings” that sounds like it has a lot in common with Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (reviewed here).

AOL Cashes In Money & Finance Beta
By · November 30, 2007

AOL will go head to head with Yahoo Finance as well as competition from Google and Microsoft, with all of these big Internet players looking for valuable financial news readers.

Universal DRM Free Music Speeding Up
By · November 30, 2007

The slow march towards universal DRM free music appears about to become a sprint to the finish line. 

Recent developments pushing Sony BMG, WMG and other holdouts to reconsider their protectionist positions include:

Gap Partners With Yahoo For Holiday Campaign
By · November 30, 2007 · 1

Gap has partnered with Yahoo for its new online ad campaign at gaptidings.yahoo.com. The site lets users upload and post their own video holiday greetings along with viewing videos from other users.

Hard Disk Compatible with Google?
By · November 30, 2007

Markus Renschler sent this in: “We bought a new external hard disk (WD MyBook). What I was completely fascinated by is the fact it’s not only compatible with Vista, XP, MacOS and USB2.0, but, according to the package, with Google as well.”

Digital Photo Frames Pique Searcher Interest
By · November 30, 2007

This holiday season, an unexpected gadget is high on the wish list, if a spate of searches in the United Kingdom is any indication. Searches for digital photo frames outpaced searches for digital cameras there last week.

Direct Mail Advertising’s Online Effects
By · November 30, 2007

According to a new study, eBusinesses that want to contact people through direct mail advertising might be best off trying to reach men between the ages of 55 and 64.  Compared to 2003, though, their odds of reaching just about everybody are significantly better.

iPhone Users Will be Able to Sync with PowerPoint
By · November 30, 2007

Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit has announced that Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac OS will allow iPhone and iPod users to sync with PowerPoint.

You will be able to run PowerPoint slideshows on your iPhone, iPod Touch, iPod Classic and fatty iPod Nano (any iPod with picture support) if you have a Mac with PowerPoint 2008 and iPhoto (2006 or better).

The Interns are Taking Over the Googleplex!
By · November 30, 2007

The interns are taking over the Googleplex! Seriously, if you want to know why Google is so intent on reaching geniuses at an early age, you need look no further than today’s upgrades to Google Reader.

TV Growth To Increase More Than Online Video
By · November 30, 2007

Growth in television viewing will increase more than time spent watching online video through 2012 and attracting a large audience for Internet video could take even longer according Bain & Co.

Google Will Bid On Spectrum
By · November 30, 2007

Google will bid in the upcoming 700MHz wireless spectrum auction, the company announced this morning. Run by the Federal Communications Commission, the auction is scheduled to begin on January 24, and could run until March.

Google Gadgets Go To The Mac
By · November 30, 2007

Google Gadgets aren’t as exciting as they sound – there are, in other words, no brightly colored grappling hooks or belt-mounted free food dispensers.  Yet Google Gadgets can be handy, and they’ve now been tailored to work on Macs.

Facebook Makes Another $60 Million
By · November 30, 2007

It might have been more reassuring if this had happened sooner, or if more than one person were behind the investment.  But as it stands now, Facebook certainly isn’t complaining – Li Ka-shing, a Hong Kong businessman, has endowed the social network with a fresh $60 million.

Online Consumer Reviews Drive Offline Sales
By · November 30, 2007

Internet users who read online reviews are willing to spend around 20 percent more for services receiving an "Excellent," or 5-star, rating than for the same service receiving a "Good," or 4-star, rating, according to a new study from comScore.

Young Europeans Love Their Text Messaging
By · November 30, 2007

E-marketer delivered a Forester study today that showed that 92% of young mobile users in certain European countries report sending SMS text messages on their phone.

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