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  • Our Customers

    The people in our space comprise a hodgepodge of personalities with some major clusters around certain characteristics. One of those clusters still confuses me, but it seems to have something to do with the non-traditional…

  • Facebook Leapfrogs MySpace, But Not Completely

    The word is out: MySpace has finally lost its crown as the king of social networking sites to Facebook.

  • France is the Biggest Illegal Video Downloading Offender

    According to a recent study released by Futuresource Consulting, 8 percent of consumers in the U.K., France, Germany and the U.S. admit to downloading content illegally from file-sharing sites.

  • Coca-Cola and Albertsons to Give Away Dream Home

    The Coca-Cola Co. has launched the “California Dream Home Giveaway” sweepstakes in partnership with Albertsons

  • Craigslist, David Carradine Among Popular Search Terms

    For the four weeks ending June 6, 2009, “craigslist” was the top overall search term, according to Hitwise.

  • E-Mail Marketing to Reach $2 Billion by 2014

    According to a recent forecast made by Forrester Research, e-mail marketing spending in the U.S. will reach $2 billion by 2014, reflecting a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 11 percent from $1.2 billion in 2009.

  • Grocery Purchases Most Influenced by Product Placement

    According to recent figures released by Myers Publishing, product placement is among the few advertising channels to see growth in the U.S. this year.

  • SEO is Most Important for Generating Conversions

    Nearly half of all respondents to a recent survey conducted by Forbes said that search engine optimization is the most effective online marketing tactic for generating conversions online.

  • Bing. You Are Now Free to Move about The Internet

    As one of the few people in the internet world who still watches a lot of TV, last night I saw my first commercial for Bing. Today, as an experiment I decided to ask a few different people what they thought of Bing. A former Microsoft…

  • What’s in Your Wallet?

    Last week when thinking about the disruption innovation causes to businesses, airlines came to mind first but are far from the only widespread pillar of our business and personal lives that end up reacting to change…