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  • 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…

  • The New Arms Race

    Earlier this month, Apple’s iPhone, one of the most anticipated launches in recent memory, turned a year old. Watching the lines form and the micro-economies that formed around early procurement, looked…