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The BlogRush Battle

I’m still not seeing anything more than a handful of clicks from the BlogRush network and the service is still struggling to deliver the syndication credits it owes us. At least BlogRush has emailed its users acknowledging their concerns and also admitting that ”bozos have come out of the woodwork and are trying to cheat the BlogRush system.” No, really?

Virgin America To Offer Music Videos

Virgin America and VH1 have partnered to offer domestic, on-demand music video library on the carrier’s New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington DC and Las Vegas routes.

What’s a Good Privacy Policy?

I wrote a few days ago about privacy policies and got several people asking, "So who has a good privacy policy? Well, lots of companies have good privacy policies, but I think what people really want to know is "Who has made their privacy policy a marketing asset?" That narrows the field considerably.

TV Networks and Online Networking

NBC isn’t the only one making moves online. ABC, CBS and MTV are also in the news today for their online strategies.

Fox And Apple Partner On TV Deal

Fox Broadcasting and Apple iTunes are partnering to offer free premiere episodes of seven of Fox’s television programs.

Idearc Media Partners With YellowUSA

Idearc Media Corp, home to Superpages.com and publisher of the Verizon Yellow Pages, and YellowUSA.com have signed a distribution agreement that allows Idearc to put its Superpages.com performance-based advertisers on YellowUSA.com’s search platform.

Google Appeals For EU’s DoubleClick Permission

The proposed DoubleClick purchase has put Google back on its heels as people assail the blockbuster deal on several fronts.

Your Email Campaign Needs Work
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A study of email campaigns presented at the Shop.org Summit contended that marketers aren’t doing enough to maximize the return on their efforts.

Some Employers Use Email To Layoff Workers

Some U.S. workers may experience anxiety about opening email from their boss. Ten percent of U.S. employees say their company has used email to fire or lay off employees. Another 17 percent indicated their boss used emails to avoid other difficult conversations.

Pricing plans for net neutrality

This humorous look at tiered pricing illustrates a possible future, where the telcos hold all the cards, charge what they please, and cheerfully continue to monopolize broadband access while viciously lobbying against municipal Internet access across the country. See here. …

Social News Site Launches In Private Beta

Social media Website Mixx, launched today in private beta. The customizable site brings together a combination of user-recommended news articles, videos and images, social networking and personalization tools.

Google Tools Around With Print Ads
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The company unveiled a new tool to assist its AdWords advertisers in creating ads destined for the world of newsprint.

Mortgage Downturn No Problem For Google

Concerns that have hammered the mortgage lending market and its ad budgets won’t trickle down to Google, or what lenders spend on Internet advertising.

PDF Potentially A Malware Vehicle

Proof of concept code demonstrated to Secure Computing showed how Adobe’s popular Portable Document Formet could become a massive attack vector for malware distributors.

Google Shares Its Stuff

Google entered the social bookmarking realm today real quiet like, but bloggers found Google’s Shared Stuff anyway.

SMS Ads Small In U.S., Big In Europe
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Close to three-quarters of Western European mobile subscribers received a short message service (SMS) advertisement in July 2007, according to M: Metrics.

Interview with Web Analyst Stephane Hamel

Continuing my series of interviews with Web Analyst, here is an interview with Stephane Hamel.

The Stumbleupon Algorithm

How does the Stumbleupon algorithm really work.? I have no idea, and I doubt anyone else really does know for sure, other than core programmers at Stumbleupon.

I do know one thing though, Tim is probably the person who has spent the most time studying Stumbleupon, analytically.

Whilst I really appreciate facts, where there are a lack of facts I appreciate discussions that at least try to create models based upon extensive research data

Trutap To Enter Mobile Networking Market

I remain wary of itty-bitty screens, but another social network designed for the mobile market is reportedly ready to emerge.  This one’s name is Trutap.

Cerf To Surf Out, IDNs To Surf In
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"The Architect," you might call him, or "The Father of the Internet," or more recently, as Google has titled him, "Chief Internet Evangelist," Vinton Cerf will perform one of his last official functions as Board Chair of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) next month.

Need a Web 2.0 Primer?

If you’re responsible for building and delivering online products and services to any audience, then you need to know Web 2.0. Because if you don’t know Web 2.0, you’re being left behind as the face of the World Wide Web changes.

AT&T And ESPN Partner For College GameDay

AT&T announced today that it is partnering with ESPN College GameDay host Chris Fowler and analyst Kirk Herbstreit this fall for "Confessions of a College Football Junkie," a series of weekly video clips available on AT&T 3G wireless handsets.

More Stress On AdWords Landing Page Guidelines
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Google is laying a lot of stress on landing page guidelines. For this, AdWords has new list of FAQs.

The Inside AdWords blog has a post called, "Websites that may merit a low landing page quality score" which mentions the kinds of websites that will be penalized with low landing page quality scores:

Trick Or Treat, Baby! Top Baby Costume Searches
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Ah, babies. Cute, round, fairly pliable and fun to make look silly because they won’t remember it and you’ll get to embarrass them with pictures when they’re teenagers. As Halloween approaches, dressing up baby is a tradition alive and well, or so say the search trends.

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