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  • ‘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

  • Hyundai to Star Again in Fox’s ‘24’

    Reprising its role in the two-hour “24: Redemption” season opener, the Hyundai Genesis will ride in the Fox series again as the automaker assumes a larger sponsorship in the action series.

  • Incentive Promotion: Crossing the Chasm

    The rise of the fake blogs (“flogs”) and what has subsequently been called flogvertising has its many supporters, e.g,. those making a killing and the FTC bean counters, as well as its fair share of detractors, e.g., burned…

  • Incentive Promotion: Crossing the Chasm – Part 2

    In the past we’ve written, probably more than any other publication, about various forms of incentivized marketing. It’s an amazing business that has had more comebacks than John Elway, and despite the lickin’, keeps on…

  • 52 Percent of US Internet Users will be Social Network Users by 2013

    Figures released on Monday by eMarketer showed that an estimated 79.5 million Internet users in the U.S. used social networks in 2008, about 41 percent of the entire Internet population in the country.

  • Mobile, Mobile, Mobile

    A recent study released by KPMG LLP, an audit, tax and advisory company, in conjunction with the venture capital new media organization AlwaysOn, highlighted the growing importance of the mobile realm.

  • Resurgence of Facebook Applications

    It could easily be argued that Facebook’s redesign more than six months ago basically threw a blanket over the social network’s applications. While many of the irritating aspects of applications were muted thanks to the new interface, it came at a big cost to Facebook application developers.