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  • MEDIAWHIZ APPOINTS JONATHAN SHAPIRO AS CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    NEW YORK, NY, April 18, 2007 – MediaWhiz Holdings, Inc. (MediaWhiz), a leading provider of performance-based online marketing services, today announced it has appointed Jonathan Shapiro as its Chief Executive Officer.

  • Ad:Tech SF Party Map 2007

    It’s that time of year again. Time to wear your shoes out, lose your voice, and fill your head full of information. Sessions? Exhibit Hall? No, it’s P-A-R-T-“Why” because it’s Ad:Tech time. When it comes to parties, San Francisco rarely…

  • Done Deal. In the Wake of GOOG DCLK.

    Two weeks ago, when it seemed that Microsoft might actually acquire DoubleClick, we wrote, upon learning of Google’s interest in the billion dollar ad serving company, that DoubleClick would go to Google. A press release by…

  • Search Engine Strategies New York 2007

    As this was my first time attending a Search Engine Strategies conference I was very excited flying into New York. The last two conferences I’ve covered were the Affiliate Summit (2007) and Webmaster World PubCon (2006), both…

  • Dealing With Negative Web Publicity

    In comparison to the way things were even five years ago, it’s amazing the relative ease with which one can put up a website or a blog these days. This is true communication democracy. The cost to entry is low and so everyone with…

  • Are You Measuring Your Business Accurately?

    Back in the late 1800’s John D Rockefeller knew a lot about how Standard Oil operated. Rockefeller was trained as a bookkeeper, so monitoring numbers came easily to him. One of the more famous stories from Rockefeller is about…

  • Firefox Is Popular In Europe

    According to recent data released by French research firm XiTi, 24.1% of Web users in Europe browsed on a Firefox browser during the week ending March 11, 2007. This is a large jump from the week ending April 14, 2006, when…

  • Asian Sites Get Most Visits Per Visitor

    Data recently released by comScore Networks revealed the top worldwide Web sites in terms of visits per visitor in February 2007, and neither Google, Yahoo!, nor Microsoft were in the top three.

  • Microsoft Leads the Grumbling

    As expected, Microsoft wasted little time voicing its opinion of Google’s latest monster $3.1 billion acquisition of advertising network DoubleClick. However, they are not alone.

  • Dodgeball Founders Quit Google

    Back in 2005, Google acquired Dodgeball, a mobile social networking service that allows users to send messages to the service containing their whereabouts, which are then relayed to selected friends to let them know…