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  • Google Presently on the Attack While Mobile Foes Loom

    In the midst of all its other morsels of juicy happenings, Google has inadvertently (or cunningly) reminded the Web of its seemingly inevitable dive into the office productivity suite realm. This time it’s a presentation product…

  • Jessica Simpson Sold Me a Pizza

    It’s true. Jessica Simpson sold me a pizza. She didn’t deliver it, unfortunately, but the gorgeous and occasionally photogenic star got me thinking about Pizza Hut’s Cheesy Bites Pizza – you know, the one with the “pull-apart outer crust…

  • Fair Weathered Pixel Practices

    If it didn’t make me sound both old and/or worse behind the times, I would have begun this piece with “Back in my day.” But, really, back when my job involved, for lack of a better word, squeezing out the highest value per user…

  • Stop & Shop Tailors Ads to Consumers as they Shop

    Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. is testing a mix of in-store TV and radio with on-cart devices that tailor ads to shoppers while they browse the aisles.

  • Nintendo, Southwest Reward Fliers with Free Game Systems

    Southwest Airlines has found a new way to reward frequent fliers—video games.

  • Online News Beats Out Newspapers in Classrooms

    The Carnegie-Knight Task Force released a report on the Future of Journalism Education on Monday, which indicated that 57% of teachers use online news sources with some frequency.

  • MySpace Helps Out

    MySpace’s huge popularity and fame has not come without a cost. As the social networking site has swelled to enormous numbers, high-profile problems involving young users have led to complaints that the company has…

  • YouTube Will Share the Wealth

    In a mildly surprising statement over the weekend, YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley indicated that the video sharing site would begin to share revenues produced by its videos with their creators “in the coming months.”

  • MySpace Top Term in 2006

    Hitwise recently released their “Top US Search Lists of 2006.” This list gives us a different perspective compared to other lists concerning what Web users were interested about last year.

  • DMEF ANNOUNCES NEW RISING

    New York, NY, January 31, 2007 – As part of a new initiative to honor individual and corporate “Rising Stars” in the direct marketing community, the Direct Marketing Educational Foundation (DMEF) announces…