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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...

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...

MTV and Maybelline Launch Education Contest

MTV and Maybelline New York have launched a program that will award a $25,000 scholarship to a female student that best embodies the theme of empowerment through education.

Heavy.com Gets Fifth Round of Funding

Just as Google’s dominance has failed to end the spawning of more search engines, the fairytale that is YouTube has not discouraged other video sites from pursuing greatness in their own, smaller-scale forms.

Mobile Gaming to Exceed $6 Billion

According to iSuppli Corp., the worldwide mobile gaming industry will surpass $6.1 billion in 2010. This is a far cry from the $1.8 billion the industry realized in 2005.

U.S. Teens Like Social Networking

New numbers from the Pew Internet & American Life Project confirm the obvious: teenagers in the U.S. love their social networking sites. And, as expected, MySpace is the overwhelmingly favored site for teens when it comes...

The Next Silicon Valley – Part 1

Close your eyes for a second and think about what you will be doing at the age of 65. If you are Dr. Leonard Liu whose career included helping create and implement SQL, serving as a C-level executive at more than one multi-billion...