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  • New All-in-One Destination for Online College Degree; Education Counseling At Its Finest

    November 14, 2006: Internet Advertising Group, an iMedia Holdings, Inc. company, has launched CollegeEducationWeekly.com, a one-stop online destination for potential students interested in pursuing an online college degree. Education counseling just became even more…

  • MySpace is the Driver, All Other Sites Are Destinations

    If the Internet was a bus, MySpace would be the driver, and other Web sites would be stops that users are dropped off at. This is the basic idea behind a recent report by Hitwise. The report analyzes the traffic that big sites like…

  • Calling Dr. Google

    Reports surfaced a few weeks ago indicating that Web users were relying on the Internet for answers to their medical queries and concerns. A report titled “Online Health Search 2006” was released by the Pew Internet & American Life…

  • Online Courses Growing, For Better or For Worse

    Regardless of the disapproval from some academic officials, online learning is a phenomenon that is continuing to grow quickly and does not look like it will dissipate any time soon. New figures released by the College Board in…

  • FTC Raises Fist Against ERG Ventures

    About a week after Zango settled with the Federal Trade Commission for $3 million concerning its adware installation procedures, the FTC has its eyes set on a similar battle with ERG Ventures and Timothy P. Taylor, one of its…

  • Cheerios Puts Books in 5 Million Boxes

    General Mills said today that it is repeating its Spoonful of Stories campaign for the fifth year, putting 5 million kids’ books inside boxes of Cheerios cereal.

  • P&I Postcripts

    WYNDHAM HOTEL GROUP: is rewarding members of its…THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: has debuted a…COMDATA CORP.: a company that offers…LOYALTY LAB: San Francisco, has hired…

  • Court TV Brings Murder to Viewers in New Campaign

    Court TV is invoking a bit of murder mayhem under a new marketing campaign that seeds mysterious messages to unsuspecting consumers.

  • Huge Popularity of MyCoke Rewards Pushes Extension of Program

    MyCoke Rewards has extended the expiration date for the program due to its overwhelming popularity.

  • Wikipedia Gets Bad Press

    Antivirus vendor Sophos published a notice last Friday indicating that malicious code was being spread by way of the German version of Wikipedia. The code was found in links to a fix on the page for the “Lovesan/MSBlast…