Earlier this week, the ever acquisitive ValueClick announced that it added a new company to its interactive marketing mix. We hadn’t read the release when asked what we thought Valueclick paid for the 4th ranked…

Perhaps not quite a soft spot, but we have long followed and had a strange affinity for various forms of arbitrage. It is, in many ways, a representation of life at large – the pursuit of easy money, the ultimate cat and mouse…

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Nielsen//NetRatings has decided that it is finally time to bid adieu to the longtime metric staple of page views. The aesthetically appealing and experience enhancing programming technique called Ajax is partly to blame…

“Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart,” otherwise known as CAPTCHA, seems to have been trounced by some spammers. CAPTCHA is best known as the box that features an image of a…

Though there are many varying opinions of the current consoles out there, there seems to be no doubting that the gaming console industry will continue to be a financial boon for whoever can muster the courage to fight their way into…

A recent report released by JupiterResearch indicates that over the next five years the worldwide online population will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.6%, which means that by 2011 there will be 1.5 billion people…

Our industry is an interesting one; it’s a complex marketplace of intent, monetization, and relative performance. Those in the direct marketing space either have traffic, e.g. via their website or email list or they have the…

Miami has all the characteristics of a good convention town. It has an incredible amount of hotels, multiple convention centers, top notch dining, international accessibility, and generally good weather. It also has plenty…

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