This is a bit of a late post but I want to get it out there before it gets swallowed up by all the other half-finished posts in my WordPress control panel.

I bet that got your attention

The past couple of years has been great for online advertising.

Google Finance unrolled a healthy offering of new features today, aimed at positioning the tool as a stronger competitor to the more widely visited Yahoo! Finance website, which offers a wide range of financial resources and services to its users.

Mamma.com and Pixsy Media Search Platform welcome the newest member of the family: a new video search engine.

As broadband access becomes cheaper, online business becomes more embraced, and more of the public comes to the realization we all come to at some point (that dial-up royally sucks), faster Internet connections have become the norm, not the luxury.

They say imitation is the highest form of flattery and if that’s true, Google flattered the heck out of Yahoo and thanks to a post by Yahoo’s Jeremy Zawodny, the flattery can be seen first hand. Oddly enough, the imitation …

When the Yahoo Publisher Network blog editor Michael Mattis asked me to write an short marketing article for small businesses I knew exactly what to write about.

Do you want to create dynamic rounded corners for your website? Well, as Zach found out, if you like a risky but fun way, you can abuse Google’s server and use a URL like the following:

Unfortunately, this spoofing has nothing to do with commedia dell’arte; in Italy, attackers are sending spam messages forged to appear to come from lawyers and directing recipients to download malware. There’s no reason to think it couldn’t happen here or elsewhere.

According to comScore data, MySpace has passed Yahoo! in page views.

Well look what the Alexa folks shared on their blog. They took the publicly available Sitemeter stats for a couple of web sites and matched them against the Alexa traffic history graphs.

Younger, participation-minded consumers will eventually dominate all of the online space, says trendwatching.

My jaw literally dropped when I saw that online store Buycause.com is actually, gasp, giving away a substantial percentage of their profit to charities.

Microsoft has filed for a patent involving ads on Digital Video Recorders. Now, don’t worry, they won’t be inserting ads over your shows; rather, this patent involves ensuring the ads you see are relevant when you see them.

SEO Question: Is a Yahoo! Directory registration worth it? How do I know what directories are worthwhile? What directories should I submit to? Do you have any good site submission tips?

MySpace aids Georgia police in tracking down a fugitive who made the mistake of using a public computer.

I want to start out by saying that this is one of the more troubling articles that I’ve written for this blog.

One of the major sections in my book is the development of a unified process framework.

It looks like Firefox plans to capitalize in its recent surge in popularity by airing fan-based television commercials, according to Read/WriteWeb.

Trend blog PSFK figured out a great way to leverage crowdscourcing and social media to round up 2007 trend predictions.

When you search US-Google for IE7 (or Internet Explorer, IE, Internet Explorer 7*) you may see a Google-sponsored advertisement for “Free IE7 Download” on top, the snippet reading “Google recommends upgrading to the new, safer Internet Explorer 7″.

Maybe Amazon invested so much money in Wikia, the company that runs the publicly edited Wikipedia, that founder Jimmy Wales started sounding like an end of the summer car commercial. Wales launched OpenServing today, which makes software, bandwidth, storage, computing power, content, and advertising open source. That means free.

Maybe it’s just meant to be “Digg-bait” (as Nick Denton at Valleywag likes to call it), but Jason Clarke of Download Squad has a long post up about Digg and how it is destined for failure.