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Sony
BMG In Digital Music Trouble
The Allman Brother Band and Cheap Trick have hit Sony BMG with a federal lawsuit
accusing it of cheating the bands out of royalties.
Google
Has Time For AdWords
AdWords accounts have been set to Pacific Time since their debut, but an update
will allow AdWords users to set their accounts to use local time instead.
McClatchy
Will Offer Local SEM
The McClatchy Company newspaper publishers will partner with WebVisible to add
local online search advertising products to the offerings available from its sales
force to advertisers.
Money
Talks: Nokia and Visa Team Up
Visa and Nokia have buddied up in Malaysia to launch "the world's first"
credit card payment system that allows consumers to purchase goods using their
mobile phones.
MySpace
Rumor Mill
Perhaps it's the sudden memetic success of MySpace that has everyone around taking
shots at its founders. Or perhaps it's the sudden multimillion-dollar success
of the site that has turned its founders into seedy party boys with shady associations.
Google
Frees SketchUp For Individuals
The professional version of the 3D modeling program still carries a price tag,
but a new version released by Google can be had for free. A slate of features
that make SketchUp Pro 5 an enticing buy for commercial developers won't appear...
SES
Toronto 2006
Attending a Search Engine Strategies Conference has been likened to having an
encyclopedia downloaded into your mind in two or three intense days of concentrated
information sessions.
VoIP
Arrives From AT&T And Yahoo
Users of AT&T Yahoo's high-speed Internet service can make and receive voice
calls as part of a new set of VoIP services that became available from the companies.
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Shopping, working, and pursuing personal interests have improved greatly as experiences
for the typical Internet user continue to benefit from faster access and new interface
technologies.
Editor's Note: If you're reading this, then you're likely
in the 73 percent of adults using the Internet. Do you think a "killer application"
exists, just waiting to be developed that make the Internet an absolute necessity?
Do you think it's here already? Tell us what it is at WebProWorld.
 The
Pew Internet & American Life Project recently released a report
on Internet usage by adults in the United States. While the report by Pew research
specialist Mary
Madden carries the unfortunate name* "Internet Penetration
and Impact," it does point out how the Internet has continued to draw more people
in to using it, and those users seem to be better for it.
From February 15 through April 6, Pew found in their research 73 percent of adults in the US use the Internet for a variety of tasks. Healthcare information has been one area that benefited Internet users as the quality and depth of that information developed.
In the report, 20 percent of respondents said the Internet has greatly improved the way they get information about healthcare. Respondents also reported they found great improvement in doing their jobs (24 percent), shopping (32 percent), and pursuing interests and hobbies (33 percent) thanks to the Internet.
Men and women found the Internet equally useful for doing their jobs and for shopping; the report said about a third of male and female respondents said the Internet has improved that "a lot." Women found the Internet most useful for finding healthcare information than men did, while more men than women said the Internet improved their personal pursuits.
Those users have increasingly moved to broadband access, which in some markets competes very well with dialup access on price. 42 percent of Americans, about 84 million, have broadband at home, up from 29 percent in January 2005.
Income and education still form a demarcation line when it comes to having Internet access at home or using it. As incomes rise above $30,000, the likelihood of having an Internet connection rises to 80 percent, and increases greatly over $50,000 and over $75,000.
College graduates go online at a 91 percent clip, the report said. Only 40 percent of adults with less than a high school education do so.
*(Madden's last two reports were on 'Romance in America' and 'Online Dating'; we were a little afraid of opening this report at first. Maybe "Internet Usage and Effect would have been a safer title?)
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Can you guess who benefits most from Google's $90 million click fraud settlement?
You get three guesses, first two don't count. That's right! The plaintiffs' attorneys
will receive $30 million. Advertisers opting for the settlement will receive less
than a percent of their total claim in Google advertising credit.
(Counting on my fingers) That leaves $60 million to be divided among advertisers who accept the terms of the still preliminary settlement in the Arkansas case involving Lane's Gifts and Collectibles. David Utter reported on the settlement in March:
This agreement covers all advertisers who claim to have been charged but not reimbursed for invalid clicks dating from 2002 when we launched our "cost per click" advertising program through the date the settlement is approved by the judge.
Under the terms of the agreement, still up for approval by an Arkansas judge, customers will be refunded about one half a percent (0.5 percent). That only affects current and future Google advertisers, says Kabateck Brown Kellner LLP, who represents Adwords customers in AIT v. Google. Former customers will receive nothing.
The firm's Brian Kabateck thinks the settlement is unacceptable. Kabateck balks at Google's corporate tagline, "You can make money without doing evil."
"Amazingly," he said, "Google apparently doesn't see cheating its customers out of billions of dollars as doing evil."
Final approval of the settlement will be decided in July. Kabateck says he plans
to file appeals challenging the settlement in federal court and in state court
in Arkansas.
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RSS Assistance Needed
Adding RSS to a site can help increase its pageviews and/or readership a great
deal and because of this, it's now impossible to count the amount of sites featuring
such syndication. However, not everyone out there is as experienced and so, a
learning curve still remains. With that in mind, I present today's WPW spotlight
post featuring a poster who is experiencing the very dilemma I just described.
If there are some syndication buffs out there, drop by and share some advice.
|| Chris||
Questions
About Adding RSS! PLEASE HELP!
I have read and read about RSS feeds and how they work, and have looked at all the topics and replies below. I understand how RSS coding works.. how it is set up for 2.0 etc... but I am lost in how to get it to the web page.
As far as using an aggregator/reader etc... I am pretty familiar with web design, and am using dream weaver. I know what feeds I want to use, and have the RSS codes, I just need to know how to get them on my page. And I definitely dont want to have to buy a newsreader for the page if it isnt needed, or use one with all kinds of advertisements on it... Also I want the search engines to be able to read the content... Some one PLEASE help!! |
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