Archive for March, 2008
The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) released images earlier this week showing a large portion of the Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica, 13,680 sq. km in size (5,282 sq. miles) began to break up at the end of the Antarctic summer.
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Comcast has agreed to stop the traffic shaping of BitTorrent connections and work with the company to find common ground on rich media distribution and network capacity management.
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CBSSports.com March Madness on Demand brought in 3.3 million unique visitors to the NCAA March Madness on Demand video player, a 129 percent increase over 2007 for the first four days of the tournament.
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Google may be taking a closer look at AdSense placements dropped onto blogs created through its Blogger service.
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Google could have promoted energy conservation by lighting up gigantic "save electricity" billboards. Instead, in at least one country, the search giant has taken the equally unproductive path of turning its homepage black.
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A flat year-over-year February in paid clicks contributed to investor and analyst concerns about Google and today’s declines.
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The National Archives along with Footnote.com have launched an online interactive Web site of the Vietnam War Memorial.
"The Wall is more than just 58,000 plus names. Many of these people were my friends," Vietnam veteran Richard Schroepfer says in a video on the site.
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Jerry Yang thinks Alibaba represents part of the growth Yahoo will enjoy over the next two years, but it may not be so if Microsoft acquires Yahoo.
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Comcast CTO Tony Werner gets the last laugh on the most ardent BitTorrent users on his network, as the company plans to slow down all Internet traffic for them.
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As an independent company, Rapt picked up clients like Fox Interactive Media, Yahoo, and AOL/Tacoda as well as MSN. We’re sure MSN will stick around.
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As small businesses really start spending for local online ads over the next few years, they should push revenue for local ads alone to what the total market is today for all online advertising.
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Ready, set, bloviate. So, at the top of TechMeme’s Leaderboard, which ranks the publications according to their presence on the aggregation site, it shows TechCrunch as the go-to blog for all things tech or, assumedly, tech-business related.
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The line between a guideline and suggestion is a fuzzy one, but webmasters seem to agree a Google guideline is more of a stern warning. The most recent guidelines popped up on the InsideAdSense blog, instructing publishers not to blend ads with content.
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Twitter is a great new tool for the Internet savvy but it may already have past its prime as a way to keep in touch. Just looking around at Twitter profiles shows that most users are following hundreds of people which means your Twitter screen on the web has all new Tweets about every five minutes. Not exactly user friendly!
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In a move that’s either ingenious, scary, or both, Spot Runner has launched a new Political Advertising Program. Political campaigns of every size are supposed to buy preexisting video spots, personalize them, and then put the things on television.
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Strategic Internet marketing is a commonly used buzzword that often has nothing behind it. So let’s put the jargon aside for a moment and speak frankly about online marketing success.
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Late last year, the British Prime Minister asked a clinical psychologist to look at the risks the Internet and video games pose to children. Dr. Tanya Byron has now come back with several suggestions that the government has said it will follow.
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Yahoo Shine launched as the company reaches for attention from women amid a competitive web environment for the 25-54 female market.
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Users of Google’s Webmaster Central tools have access to an effective module for creating robots.txt files for their sites.
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Music tycoon Edgar Bronfman, Jr., would like to bundle a fee into your Internet access in exchange for unlimited access to music.
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Webmasters might be forgiven if they didn’t notice the option to opt their ad campaigns out of Google’s AdSense for Domains.
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A UK man from Birmingham has had harassment charges dismissed over his contacting of an ex-girlfriend on Facebook. The case is thought to be a first in the UK involving a social networking site.
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Lots of studies have shown that subliminal advertising doesn’t work—at least it doesn’t work as a direct cause of desired behavior. For example, imperceptibly flashing a hot dog in front of an audience does not increase hot dog sales. A recent study from Duke, though, says Apples might make you more creative.
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The major intelligence agencies in the U.S. have turned to Google to help them better share and process information they have on security threats.
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Search advertising company Google wants to help its television brethren by bringing ads to local TV markets.
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Taking a less heavy-handed approach than the outright blocking of BitTorrent traffic, Comcast announced the company has begun negotiating ways for simultaneous existence. The announcement comes at a time when Comcast desperately needs to diffuse public, regulatory, and legislative concerns about Network Neutrality.
There’s also the Time Warner WiMax deal to think about.
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Just a reminder: Traffic prioritization and management won’t matter much once we realize the full potential of fiber and other technologies on the near horizon. Second reminder: Those in control of the networks plan on gouging you the whole way via controlled, incremental upgrades in speed and capacity.
Charging 40 times bandwidth? Sure if it’s still 2005. The network providers are looking at a much better rate than that, at least for the foreseeable future, so long as the future can be delayed long enough to maximize profit.
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Dr Mark DeBrincat reveals the Top 25 Internet Marketing Millionaires Secrets that they tried to keep away from us.
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Forty-five percent of UK teenagers have been criticized by an adult for enjoying something that is not "proper" reading according to a new survey from the National Year of Reading.
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The shift from print to online media is giving journalists more responsibility and making them more aware of the commercial side of the business according to the "2008 PRWeek/PR Newswire Media Survey."
The survey polled 1,231 journalists including newspaper and magazine journalists, television, radio and online reporters, and bloggers.
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