According to a “Spam Personality” survey conducted in May by Reflexion Network Solutions, a typical employee spends up to an hour per day deleting spam e-mails. This translates into about 12.5% of lost work time for someone...
The world heeds me not when I extol the virtues of convergence. “Con-what?” It’s the coming together of technologies, don’t you know, the new wave of…And I’ll stop right there. There’s better terminology for convergence as we tangibly...
Business is like a game of poker—a few careless moves will have you trading in your designer clothes for a barrel with suspenders. New business ventures, particularly Internet ones, present thrilling opportunities; we come...
Summer seems to bring with it more than just warmer weather. It also seems to bring with it increased activity in mergers and acquisitions. This time last year, we saw within a sixty day window deals that included Valueclick buying...
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to present, as part of a panel at DM Days, my thoughts on the changing search landscape. My piece focused on CPA search, a topic that fascinates me in no small part due to the arbitrage activity taking
The Entertainment Software Association has filed a lawsuit against the state of Louisiana after the governor signed a new bill that limits the sale of violent video games to minors.
Last year, consumers paid for 382 million downloads of mobile games, and that number is expected to soar to 1.7 billion by 2010, representing a $5.9 billion industry and signaling the industry's rapid growth.
How could I get tired of advertising seminars or conferences? Not only can I count on scoring enough pens, pads, and doo-dads to last me until the next one, but I usually end up learning my field of work, too. The Eyes on the...
Working in online advertising has familiarized me with some of the larger issues that affect our industry and, ultimately, the way we use the Internet. Not the least of which is the subject of net neutrality that’s been in the news...
Almost reminiscent of movie releases where studios carefully plan out their launch dates to maximize their exposure, you can almost imagine the behind the scenes dialogue of this week’s Internet studio blockbuster. Last week...
