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  • Don’t Lose Focus

    Last week, after another slight free for all in the stock market, it felt like perhaps we might have hit if not the bottom at least closer to the bottom. Looking again at the stock markets over the past week, that doesn’t seem…

  • Refinance Dot Com Style

    Exclude if you will the whole subprime mortgage mess and think back to a more sane, structured, and controlled lending environment, one without the exuberance and lack of standards. It might be hard, especially if you…

  • LeBron James Plays in Nickelodeon Big Green Game

    NBA star LeBron James is giving an assist to Nickelodeon’s Big Green Help campaign, as a spokesperson and a character in an online mini-game.

  • Beautiful Bovines

    The glorious cows of CowParade, those memorable herds of dozens of colorful and funky fiberglass bovines seen grazing along sidewalks and in plazas in

  • The Young Prefer Mail

    A decade ago, industry soothsayers broadcast grim predictions for the future of direct mail. The Web was booming and e-mail accounts were fast becoming

  • Stacking Up

    When it comes to shoppers returning to the same store time and time again, Wal-Mart is a dominant force across all retail categories. But the discount

  • Dunkin Donuts Teams with Red Sox, Yankees in Instant-Win Game

    Dunkin’ Donuts hopes to score in-store traffic and boost sales with an instant-win game that gets some promotional support from two Major League Baseball pitchers.

  • Google Continues Lead in Search

    According to both comScore qSearch and Nielsen Online, Google has maintained its lead in the U.S. search market in May 2008.

  • Firefox 3 Has a Huge Week

    Mozilla promoted June 17th as “Download Day 2008,” asking supporters to help them set a new Guinness World Record by downloading its new Firefox 3.0 Web browser.

  • Why People Hate Us

    A few years ago, I remember having a conversation with the folks at Reprise Media. It was at a trade show in New York, but a smaller one as opposed to the shoulder to shoulder affair of ad:tech. At this particular…