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Yahoo Gets Short With Advertisers

Today is the day where Yahoo begins enforcing the 70-character limit for descriptions in search marketing ads placed by their advertising clients.

EbayLive: Godin Spreads Ideaviruses

We are entering an era of emotional marketing, Squidoo's Seth Godin told the attendees at eBay Live today. Don't worry too much if that's not clear, it will become clearer, as Mr. Intangible Concept explains. Seth Godin At eBay Live

Microsoft Partners With Games For Change

Microsoft announced it is partnering with Games for Change to examine new ways to promote social awareness on issues through digital gaming.

Yahoo Ad Descriptions to Change

If you are currently using long descriptions for your Yahoo Ads, be warned that effective this June, the short description option will be the only way to go.

MyBlogLog Name Change, Redesign Imminent

When the Five Hundred sedan didn’t sell well, Ford renamed it after a much older model, the Taurus.  Ford didn’t change the car in any substantial way, but name recognition is everything, right?  Now Yahoo may be attempting to apply that theory to MyBlogLog; a name change is in the works, and other, more substantial, alterations should also take place.

IRS Proposal Could Change Ecommerce

The U.S. Treasury Department wants to crack down on Internet businesses like eBay and Amazon.com and require them to share their customer's personal data with the Internal Revenue Service.

Microsoft "Rebooted the Web"

One way you can tell how good a product launch is by waiting for the day after effect. Are people still talking about it? Still excited? Does it cause people like Steve Gillmor to change opinions?

Upcoming.Org Now Upcoming With Yahoo Local

The social event tracking site has been transitioned to Yahoo's Local platform as the company brings Upcoming closer to its other products.

A Big List of Blogging Mistakes

Here’s the final list of the 48 blogging mistakes from the partecipants to the blogging project started by Daniel at dailyblogtips.com. There’s also my entry, the blogging mistake I did for 25 years … but they changed my catchy title

EMI Drops DRM Restrictions On iTunes

Crusaders against Digital Rights Management (DRM) believe the practice does nothing to curtail music piracy while placing unnecessary restrictions on downloaded audio content. In a move that should please the anti-DRM contingent, EMI has announced that it will remove the restriction from its tracks on iTunes.