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Top 10 Subject Line Words That Get Opens

Email list manager provider MailerMailer released its bi-annual Email Marketing Metrics Report (pdf) recently. The report revealed what the company claims to be the most popular words used in subject lines, with regards to attracting readers to open the message. According to MailerMailer's report, the top ten words are:

YouTube Dominates Video In The U.K.

The total number of videos viewed online in the U.K. in April grew 47 percent over a year ago to 4.7 billion videos, according to a new report from comScore. The report found that 21.8 million U.K. Internet users viewed a total of 971 million online display ads on multimedia sites during the month. Google sites were the most popular U.K. online video property during the month with 2.4 billion videos viewed, an increase of 58 percent compared to a year ago, driven by the popularity of YouTube, which accounted for 99 percent of all videos viewed on the property.

Is Bing Making Google Better?

Since Bing's launch, the search engine has garnered quite a bit of attention. This is no surprise since Microsoft invested so much money into marketing it. It may still be too early to tell, but it seems to be paying off so far. Bing's numbers have edged up since its launch.

Hulu Starts Sharing ABC Shows

A little more than three months ago, we learned of rumors that Hulu and ABC might partner.  About two months ago, they did.  And now, the arrangement's finally reached a stage at which real people can see the fruits, as ABC's content is becoming available on Hulu. "Grey's Anatomy" is the first show you'll be able to see, with five episodes from the most recent season online now.  Granted, this isn't a huge selection (and "Grey's Anatomy" may not be the ABC television series you've been dying to see more of, anyway), but it's a start.

Are Spammers Impeding Twitter Growth?

Over the weekend, Twitter found itself victim to the tomfoolery of 4chan as the online community's members apparently launched an initiative to make "#gorillapenis" a trending topic. They were successful, but Twitter of course responded by removing it from the trending topics. What is 4chan?

Online Advertising To Grow 10% In ‘09

Worldwide online advertising will grow 10 percent this year, accounting for 15.1 percent of global ad spending by 2011, according to a new report from ZenithOptimedia Group. The report said online advertising has performed better than what was forecast three months ago due to its transparency, accountability and flexibility. Online advertising is the only category forecast for growth in 2009.

2009 Not The Year Of Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer's days - or at least its days as king of the browser pile - may be numbered.  New statistics indicate that IE's market share has shrunk this year, and that its share is indeed now close to falling beneath the 50 percent mark.

Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz Look for Investments

Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz have started a new venture capital firm called (appropriately) Andreessen Horowitz. Andreessen serves on the boards of both eBay and Facebook, and is a chairman of the board of Ning, which he also co-founded. His biggest claim to fame was co-founding Netscape.

Google and Bing Tips for Site Architecture Issues

Google and Bing have both talked about site architecture issues lately on their blogs. Site architecture is an important part of search engine optimization, and crucial to ranking. "You can have great content and a plethora of high quality inbound links from authority sites, but if your site’s structure is flawed or broken, then it will still not achieve the optimal page rank you desire from search engines," says Rick DeJarnette of Bing Webmaster Center.

Twitter Unveils New Following and Followers Pages

Now when you click the Following and Followers links from your Twitter account you'll notice some major changes. Twitter has upgraded some of the design of the pages and added multiple new features. What do you think of the new design and features? Tell us.