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  • DM Pimping Cartoon V18

    Persistent Screamers become comic book creations in the newest addition to the Confidential, DM Pimping. The Web Surfing Sinners get brought to animated life in this weekly cartoon for the online media masses. Click below to get flashed by the prettiest peons and ugliest underbelly of affiliate life.

  • AOL and Yahoo! To Test Fee-Based E-mail Service

    America Online and Yahoo have partnered with Mountain View, California-based Goodmail Systems to offer a certified e-mail service for businesses. It would allow businesses to send emails to members and be guaranteed of…

  • Google To Challenge PayPal With GBuy

    Last March, Google created the Google Payment Corporation. It is now being reported that Google has spent the past nine months recruiting online retailers to test a payment system named GBuy. Users will see the GBuy icon next to…

  • Google News No Longer Beta

    In September 2002 Google News was launched in beta mode with the hope of giving readers the ability to read not only one perspective, but many, on whatever topic of news was out there. Over three years later Google News has

  • Vloggers: Be Your Own Scorsese

    From tiny acorns grow mighty oaks. Like weblogs (blogs) before them, video blogs (vlogs) are emerging from a tightly knit online community and entering into a more mainstream Internet fare. Our consulting team at

  • Google.cn: The Internet As Beijing Sees It

    In November I wrote an article and referenced a trip that ICMediaDirect.com’s VP of Business Development, Diana Lee, took to China. She participated in Shanghai’s inaugural ad:tech conference. It was a great trip and our

  • TRUE Selects Oridian Online Media Solutions to Sell Ads

    TRUE, the leading scientifically based online relationship service, has selected Oridian Online Media to provide exclusive advertising representation of its popular Web site and email newsletters.

  • DM Pimping Cartoon V17

    Persistent Screamers become comic book creations in the newest addition to the Confidential, DM Pimping. The Web Surfing Sinners get brought to animated life in this weekly cartoon for the online media masses. Click below to get flashed by the prettiest peons and ugliest underbelly of affiliate life.

  • The Super Bowl of Earnings

    For analytical types, the last two weeks in January are like this Sunday for football fans. It’s during these times that the public companies, including those in our space, announce their fourth quarter earnings. All the guessing ends

  • Email – Then and Now

    Six years ago, I was sitting in a hallway in a makeshift cube, trying to wrap my head around the business of Internet advertising. I joined this space the way many people do, as a media buyer. As I was “buying” on a CPC basis in a…