January 2007 - Page 19 of 47

Birth of a Marketplace

To balance out this week’s Digital Thoughts, where we look at the incredibly non-direct marketing world of MySpace and YouTube, in this week’s Trends Report, we focus closer to our roots by looking at a company that has come a…

Google, Yahoo Gain Ground in December

According to the most recent numbers released on Monday by comScore Networks, Google and Yahoo were the only two of the five top search engines to gain ground in December 2006. Microsoft, Ask, and Time Warner all fell a…

Focus on Affiliate Summit West 2007

The stratospheric rise of the Affiliate Summit series of tradeshows is no secret in the industry. I remember attending my first Affiliate Summit a few years ago and I was struck in particular by two things: (1) I had never seen such a high…

In Support of User-Generated

In 1979, a British Band named The Buggles released a song that almost all reading have heard at some point in their lives. Chances are most people haven’t seen the video, which is slightly ironic considering its status as the first…

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USPS Unveils New Mail Standard Proposals

The U.S. Postal Service in a Federal Register notice Wednesday modified its original proposals for new mailing rules that will take effect with the next rate increase this spring.

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Connecticut Agency Recommends Child No E-mail Registry

Despite repeated warnings from the Federal Trade Commission that so-called child-protection do-not-e-mail registries are dangerous, a Connecticut agency has recommended the state implement one.

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Phisher Faces 101 Years in First Can-Spam Conviction

A California man has been convicted by a jury in Los Angeles for sending thousands of e-mails to AOL subscribers that looked like they were from the Internet service provider’s billing department and prompted the customers to send personal and credit card information.

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