Testing for the Masses
Yesterday, Google quietly unveiled its newest product. It doesn’t have the glamour of last week’s billion dollar purchase of YouTube. In fact it has nothing do with video, recent acquisitions, or Web 2.0. Google’s new product, dubbed...

Thinking Outside the Banner
The ad network space has not seen too much activity with respect to investment / acquisition activity. Advertising.com sold several years ago; Fastclick went public then sold to Valueclick. Turn.com raised a decent amount...

SPOTLIGHT ON... Mark Carlson from SimpleFeed
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Social Media Optimization
Two months ago Rohit Bhargava wrote an entry on his blog about the five rules his firm uses to socially optimize a site. This article is credited with pushing Social Media Optimization (SMO) to the forefront of our industry.

Real-time Blogging
Blogs have become a credible information source for public consumption, threatening news outlets and prompting them to hop on the bandwagon. Most media outlets, large or small, now have blogs on their sites. Unlike a print...

Out-of-Context the Way to Go for Ads?
A recent study conducted by BL Labs, the research arm of ad network BlueLithium, revealed some surprising information regarding behavioral ads and their performances in context and out of context.

Affinity Circles Goes to the NBA
The Portland Trail Blazers might not be the most advanced team in terms of on-court skill, but the organization just took a step towards being one of the more advanced teams in terms of online technology. The NBA team, which...

The Plan or the Trash Can II: An Email Marketing Guide
The first installment of this email marketing walkthrough covered dividing your email master list into targeted subgroups. This week you can sit back, relax, and learn how to increase the open rates of your email campaigns through sender name optimization.

Britons Blog, Make “History” on Tuesday
According to a study called “Digi:Nation” conducted by the Harris polling institute along with the Guardian newspaper’s online edition, over a quarter of Web users in Britain have created their own blogs or Web sites. This is seen...

Italy and Microsoft Unite Against
On Monday, Italy became the first European nation to agree to implement an anti-child-porn system developed by Microsoft. Both Italy and Microsoft believe that the rest of the continent will soon follow suit.