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New Orleans to Get Free Wi-Fi

On Tuesday, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin revealed the city’s plan to offer a free, city-run Wi-Fi system that will be available to the entire city within a year. It has already begun operating in the city’s French Quarter, New Orleans’ central business district.

Online Ad Revenues Soar To $3.1 billion

Online ad revenues for the third quarter of 2005 rose to a record-setting $3.1 billion. This is a 4.7% increase from the second quarter’s $2.9 billion, and a 33.9% increase over the $2.3 billion in online ad revenues for the third quarter of last year...

Broadband Video Ad Spending to Triple by 2007

Online video advertising spending in the US will nearly triple to $640 million in 2007, surging way past this year’s $225 million mark, according to a report by market research firm, eMarketer. By 2009, video ad spending is expected to reach...

All That’s Fit to Google

In what feels like ages ago, yet in actuality occurred only two months ago, NASA and Google publicly announced their intent to work together. Having already conquered cyberspace, a milestone seemingly capped by Google’s successful hiring of the “father...

The Local Internet

The weekend before Thanksgiving, I moved into a new apartment. Besides marking the first time I have lived outside of downtown Los Angeles, the move also signified another first, my using Craigslist to sell stuff. The results truly speak for themselves...

DM Pimping Cartoon V9

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.

DM Pimping Cartoon V8

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.

Match.com and Yahoo! Have Dates in Court

Earlier this month, on November 10th, a racketeering lawsuit was filed against Match.com, a popular online dating service. Match.com, a division of IAC/Interactive, is being accused of trying to lure customers into renewing their subscriptions...

Google Possibly Courting Riya

There is speculation on the Web that Google is in talks with recently-launched Silicon Valley company Riya to acquire the company for about $40 million. Riya is a Redwood City, California-based startup that allows people to search their digital photos...

Sealed Vs. Open Keyword Auction

If you have ever seen a mortgage lead form, you will know that one of the drop downs deals with the potential borrower’s credit. Not being a mortgage banker or broker, it would seem reasonable to believe that those on the lending side would only want to...