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  • The Battle Over Display

    A reader commenting on our, or at least my, non-stop obsession with flogs, quipped that we should change the name from DMConfidential to FlogConfidential. It’s true. Q1 2009 has ushered in the year of the flogs…

  • Get ‘er Done

    In less than a week, we set off to Vegas once again, this time for the second installment of online lead generation trade show, LeadsCon. Last year, in its inaugural year, the planners hoped that they would attract 350…

  • Google Starts 2009 Right Where it Left Off

    Nielsen Online and comScore qSearch agree that Google was the top search engine in January, and they nearly agreed on exactly how much market share the search giant claimed during the first month of 2009.

  • JetBlue Offers Refunds to Jobless Customers

    JetBlue Corp. is offering down-on-their-luck customers a helping hand: a refund on booked flights.

  • Hyundai Enhances Consumer Protection Initiative

    Hyundai Motor America is expanding the parameters of its innovative consumer protection plan with a variation on the theme that enables a 90-day payment relief benefit if a Hyundai purchaser loses a job involuntarily.

  • Kraft Singles Launches Yearlong “Smiles” Campaign

    Kraft Singles is kicking off its new, yearlong “Smiles Under a Single” campaign and is supporting the effort with free grilled cheese sandwiches.

  • ‘Lost,’ ‘SNL’ Most Popular Streamed Entertainment TV Programs

    A recent report released by the Nielsen Company shows that “Lost” on ABC.com lured the most unique viewers in December, making the show the top among all online broadcast television network entertainment programs streamed from tagged Web sites and embedded network video players.

  • The Flogging of the Flog

    While we doubt that Merriam-Webster will update their definition for “flog” to encompass the fake blogs, it turns out that the current meaning of the word applies much more appropriately than expected, and that is “to force…

  • Anatomy of a Flog

    While we’ve written no shortage of articles about flogs, one thing we haven’t done is taken a more in depth look at what makes a flog a flog. Their success has taken almost everyone by surprise, and in a what’s old…

  • SynthaSite Secures $20 Million in Series B Funding from Reinet Fund

    Reinet Invests in SynthaSite’s Vision to Bring Professional Web Site Builder to Small Businesses and Individuals Worldwide