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  • Dell Offers Incentives Via Online World Cup Game

    Consumers in the U.K. could score thanks to a Dell promotion tied to the World Cup Tournament underway in Germany.

  • Ask Unveils Blog Search Feature

    Ask acquired Bloglines in February of 2005, but has so far kept both sites separate. However, with the release of a new blog and feed search function Ask has combined some of the technologies of both sites and is offering the…

  • Facebook: $750 Mil in Hand Worth More than $2 Bil in Sky

    It came up conversationally, but I believe I’m the only person at my company to have firsthand experience as a user of Facebook.com. It was kind of funny to have all these online advertising professionals asking me…

  • General Motors as David: Slaying Goliath’s Smear

    It’s something the Public Relations Team at ICMediaDirect.com continually stresses to clients – a company must avail itself to corporate blogging. The interactive world saw the wisdom of this advice on Thursday, June 1st, when…

  • PenManShipMate

    Perhaps it is the pending summer solstice, sans sassy lass girlfriend of mine that pushed me toward this impromptu penned prose. And no, after months yielding zero creative writing, I still do not have a single standard when it comes to mindless alliteration. I’ll fly to flashy south Florida and alliterate

  • 360Solutions – Hotbar + 180Solutions

    In March of this year Claria, originator and pioneer of the modern adware landscape, made the intriguing announcement that they planned to exit the adware business. They weren’t giving up tracking user behavior and serving…

  • The Funding of Adware

    In several past articles, I have often compared Adware to Email, two highly lucrative areas of Internet marketing whose unfettered growth ultimately led it to the brink of collapse. Similar to the complaints against email marketing…

  • SPOTLIGHT ON… Rick Raddatz from AudioGenerator

    – Meet Rick Raddatz, who put audio on the web for increasing website conversion
    – Find out his partnership strategy
    – Discover how to make software services popular for consumers

  • TicketsNow and StubHub Cleaning up Ticket Resale

    Ticket scalping has been a practice that was never highly regarded and involved many risks for buyers. However, the Internet may play a major role in altering the face of ticket reselling. Two sites offer answers to the problems…

  • Online Advertising Revenue Continues Growth

    According to the most recent report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers, Internet ad revenue climbed to $3.864 billion for the first quarter of 2006. This is a 38% increase from last year’s first…