Breaking eBusiness and Search News Advertise | Newsletter | Sitemap | News Feeds   Part of the iEntry network   Being Mean Is Against GMail Rules... This is a little odd. I was reading the Gmail Program Policies and noticed this in the large list of things that users may not do. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-28 Furor Over Google AutoLink Overblown It's one thing for Microsoft to do it in typical Microsoft fashion, but it's another thing entirely for Google to do it, Google-style. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-28 Kanoodle Ready To Launch RSS Ads for Blogs After months of testing, Kanoodle is today ready to launch their RSS ads solution, according to CNET. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-28 British Search Engine Users More Savvy? Netimperative offers details of a survey conducted by Agence Virtuelle that claims British search engine users are smarter than Americans. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-28 Search Engine Strategies New York Begins On Monday morning I'll be heading to New York for the Search Engine Strategies conference. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-28 Apple Inventor Passes Jeff Raskin, the Apple developer responsible for the Macintosh computers, has passed away at age 61. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-28 Kanoodle to Target Smaller Players for RSS Ads Kanoodle are to open up their BrightAds RSS advertising product to smaller publishers according to the Pamela Parker in a Clickz story. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-28 Jeremy Allaire Launches BrightCove I found a real gem in my inbox from Jeremy Allaire this morning. He just launched BrightCove, a company he's been working on in secrecy over the past year. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-28 IBM’s Approach To Enterprise Search Developing effective search tools for enterprise-level businesses is not the same as developing search for web-based documents. Websites and other web-related documents contain an inherent structure due to the nature of web links. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-28 Placeshifting Walmart One of the buzzwords of late is Placeshifting. Seems natural, as we have been bound by space and time, then we have Tivo and now we want that concept everywhere. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-28 Podcasting's Challenges The Boston Globe takes a look at podcasting's challenges as a new emerging medium. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-28 What To Think Of Napster To Go? As many of you are aware, Napster, the name that launched a thousand lawsuits, targeted an advertised-laden attack at Apple's ultra-successful iTunes music service. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-28 AMD Snubbed By Dell Again Recently, Advanced Micro Devices, chief competitor to Intel regarding microprocessors, has been in talks with Dell recently to start selling PCs featuring AMD processors. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-28 Reactions To Microsoft’s Security Initiative Recently, Bill Gates announced his intention to improve the quality of security services offered by Microsoft. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-28 Firefox Growth Slowing An analysis done by WebSideStory found that since its meteoric rise, the Firefox browser's growth has slowed recently. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-28 International Space Station Expecting New Cargo Ship An unmanned Russian cargo ship is preparing to launch so that it can make the journey to re-supply the International Space Station. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-28 Webmasterworld Members Suspect a Google Mole Deep into wmw's anti Autolink thread we see ThatAdamGuy, aka Adam Lasnik getting a kickin' for being a Google spy. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-28 Blogger FUD Jon Friedman at MarketWatch says bloggers frighten him... He says ... Now that bloggers have gained a measure of credibility ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-28 Search, Spelling and the Long Tail A post at passing notes, threadlinked above, brings up the somewhat famous, and apparently, quite mythical Cambridge University study that showed, that provided the first and last letters of a word were correct, people can read it just fine. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-28 Nooked Launches Searchable Directory of Corporate RSS Feeds Nooked, the creator of an online RSS service for publishing and measuring corporate news in RSS feeds, launched the beta version of a searchable directory of corporate RSS feeds on Friday. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-28 Online Media Changes Traditional Demographics The latest entrant to the world of blogs by mainstream media made its debut yesterday ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-28 Xbox To Get Sakaguchi RPGs Last week, Microsoft announced a partnership with video game developer and legend, Hironobu Sakaguchi. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-28 Opera Release Browser Update, Addresses Phishing Alternate browser developer Opera introduced an updated beta version browser of their next browser on Friday. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-28 Microsoft Issues SP2 Reminder A notice on Microsoft's TechNet page reminds users, specifically Windows XP users, that the grace period for delaying the download of Service Pack 2 expires on April 12, 2005. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-28 Day One At Search Engine Strategies When Search Engine Lowdown first launched back in the summer of 2003, we became the first web site to blog the sessions of a Search Engine Strategies conference, as they happened. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-28 SES: Search Behavior I love looking at the various surveys and studies that float around in the search space. So you can imagine the drool running down my chin, at the thought of the "Search Behavior" session. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-28 Search Engine Strategies Round-up I spoke at the Search Engine Strategies conference today on a panel called Blogs, Boards, and Posts: Capturing Consumer Buzz Online. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-28 Bloggers and Reporters Partying Together Today during Search Engine Strategies I talked about how many bloggers are becoming reporter's assistants. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-28 Digg Marries Folksonomies and News I just stumbled on a new site called Digg - a technology news website that gives editorial control back to "the community. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-27 Bloggers Invented the Internet A while back i wrote a small rant on how bloggers think they invented the internet - Now i'd like to add a little more ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-27 Feedview Makes RSS 'Purty' Anyone who follows RSS closely has probably drooled over Apple's planned feed integration in Tiger, the next major version of Mac OS X. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-27 Audio -- Dan Rosenzweig and Marc Andressen at Web 2.0 Great session hosted by John Battelle at the Web 2.0 conference last year featuring Yahoo COO Dan Rosenzweig and Netscape founder Mark Andressen. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-27 Monster Chiller Click Fraud Horror Theater The click fraud legend grows, and my clients couldn't be happier. All of a sudden, our competitors are paying closer attention to the traffic they're bidding on. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-27 Blog Posting Frequency: How Often? Blog posting frequency is one of the most frequently asked blog questions. How often should a blogger post to a blog is a question that has an ambiguous answer. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-27 Is Google AutoLink Really Evil? Google released their new tool bar this week that has raised the ire of savvy Web surfers and bloggers. The toolbar includes a feature that adds links to various words and phrases. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-27 Rip, Mix, Burn, Autolink Remember Apple's ad campaign during the heyday of Napster ... It was Rip, Mix, Burn. The message was clear - clip and mix your music your way. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-27 USAToday.com Offers Classified Advertising Feeds I am not sure if this is new or not, but it's sure news to me. USAToday.com has launched feeds that deliver classified advertisements via RSS. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-26 Teoma Founder Speaks... at Length Run, don't walk, to check out Mike Grehan's interview with Apostolos Gerasoulis, the chief scientist for Ask Jeeves (and founder of Teoma, the search engine company acquired by Jeeves), and Jim Lanzone, Senior VP, Search Properties. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-26 Culling Feeds - OR - Killing a few Friends Im aware that this is a strange analogy, I really do think of RSS feeds as friends in many ways though ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-25 CEO Defends His Stock via Blog Jupitermedia CEO Alan Meckler continues to innovate. Last night he used his blog to defend his company against an organization called CFRA that offers a subscription service that focuses on ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-25 CheapTickets.com Pulls Gawker Media Sponsorship PR Week: Cheaptickets.com has confirmed it has canceled its sponsorship of Gawker Media travel blog Gridskipper less than one month after the deal went live. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-25 Tracking Links Important To Our Conversation Blog Herald asks "Is tracking links dead?". I hope not. I have wished for better tools to track conversation before, but we're still stuck with Technorati, Feedster or PubSub. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-25 Thinking Outside the Media Box One of the more interesting developments in online news over the past year has been the rapid adoption of conversational media tools - e.g. blogs, RSS and podcasting - by the traditional mainstream media. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-25 Internal Blogs And Wikis At The BBC BBC is not only trying blogs and podcasting as tools in their core business - publishing - they're also way ahead of most companies when it comes to internal uses of social media. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-25 A Mobile Device Wish List Reuters via eWeek: Sony Corp. said on Wednesday it would stop making personal digital assistants for Japan in July... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-25 Final Fantasy Creator Joins Xbox Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of the ultra-successful Final Fantasy video game, has joined Microsoft's Xbox with promises of developing role-playing (RPG) games for the console. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-25 Pick A Niche and Own It Had a one-day branding session with a client yesterday. Small company, lots of potential. They wisely selected a niche market to target initially, because they're in a crowded space. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-25 Attack-Mode PR For shame ... Via Profnet yesterday, I received this query... 10. PUBLIC RELATIONS: PR-Themed Reality Show ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-25 Citizen Broadcasting Demonstrated Jeff Jarvis has a great illustration on how easy it is for anyone to participate in broadcast communication ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-25 CeBIT Offers International Wi-Fi Roaming A new wireless network roaming service will be available to visitors attending the annual CeBIT technology trade show in Hanover, Germany, from 10-16 March. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-25 Microsoft Launches Expanded SQL Server 2005 Microsoft is upgrading their line of SQL servers with an offering of four new products highlighting the company's newfound approach to security and reliability. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-25 BlowSearch Hires Joe Holcomb To Lead Marketing Efforts For a search engine like BlowSearch, making inroads into the ultra competitive search engine market is no easy task. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-25 Oscar Producer Blogs the Academy Awards Academy Awards producer Gil Cates is blogging the Oscars on the official ABC Web site. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-25 Vertical Search Prediction Challenged Tom Evslin says that Jupiters prediction that Search will go the same way as TV did ... from several major channels to 100's of specialized ones ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-25 The SEO Game is Getting Harder Aaron Wall has an interesting article detailing how his SEOBook and SEOGuy websites have been dumped in the recent Google update. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-25 Conversation With Robin Hopper Of iUpload I honestly can't remember if it was Tuesday or Wednesday of this week but I had a great conversation with Robin Hopper, the CEO of iUpload. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-25 Seagate Unveils 6Gb One-Inch Hard Drive Seagate is shipping the industry's highest capacity 1-inch hard drive, a new 6GB model of its popular 1-inch ST1 Series hard drive for handheld applications. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-25 Google's Statements on Toolbar Autolink Danny Sullivan rounds up the issues raised over the last week on the Google Autolink functionality in the new Toolbar. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-25 Google and Yahoo Shares Drop After Analyst Comments Shares of Google and Yahoo went down after an analyst cut his price targets on each of them. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-25 IBM Releasing Serrano Enterprise Search eWeek reveals IBM is developing a new version of its WebSphere Information Integrator. The release, code-named Serrano and already in a restricted beta, is due for a public beta later this release and a general release in the fourth quarter. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-25 Dan Gillmor Blogs About Google AutoLink Dan Gillmor chatted with Google's Marissa Mayer about the controversial "AutoLink" feature in the new Google toolbar. He shares his thoughts on the subject. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-25 Final Fantasy Creator Develops For Xbox Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi has joined Microsoft's Xbox team and will develop RPG games for the console. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-25 Mozilla Releases Firefox Update Yesterday, Mozilla released an update for their Firefox browser, which mainly addresses security issues that have come to light since its initial launch. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-25 Barnako Bashes Business Blog Awards MarketWatch's Frank Barnako bashes the Business Blogging Awards and also says I should have won. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-25 The BBC, Blogs, Forums and Wiki's Not the usual TW fayre, but i have an enormous respect for the BBC - One of the oldest and most repected communications firms in the world. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-25 The Seven Habits of Effective Blog PR Nick Wreden has a fantastic post on the seven habits of highly effective PR professionals who work with bloggers ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-25 Apple Lowers iPod Prices Aside from introducing four new iPod models, Apple is lowering prices on other models its popular music player. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-24 AMD's Dual-Core Athlon 64 AMD has demonstrated its dual core Athlon 64 processor as a reminder that the company already has a 64-bit processor range. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-24 America Online Launches Local Search AOL Search launched Local Search with local information available to help searchers find answers where they live, work and travel throughout the country. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-24 The World Could Really Use Google Calendar There's been a lot of speculation about Google Calendar recently. And you know what ... I sure as hell hope they do it. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-24 Golden Palace Gets Publicity ... But Does It Translate Into Membership? According to today's Mediapost's Out to Launch, the publicity hounds/eBay fanatics at ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-24 Search Verticals Gaining Traction Matt Hicks has a great article on the rise of vertical search engines and the recent launch of Become.com. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-24 Rumor: Yahoo Purchased Flickr It had to, or will have to, happen sooner or later. Last year, rumours were flying that maybe Google would buy Flickr ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-24 MSN Search Viral Marketing Via Fake Blogs Mediapost has details of the new viral campaign, MSN hopes will help its newly launched MSN Search gain street credibility. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-24 Google Announces Movie Showtime Search Feature While they haven't dominated the discussion like they did last year, Google is quietly making improvements and offering new features to their search presence. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-24 Barnes & Noble Moves To Thwart Google AutoLink Danny Sullivan reports that Barnes & Noble have linked all of the ISBN's on their pages - Almost certainly an attempt to Thwart the much hated new Google AutoLink feature. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-24 More Media Moves Into RSS Following recent news that the Financial Times and The Economist now offer RSS feeds comes more news on other media developments with RSS. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-24 Blogger Blogs Can Spread Spyware Can this really be true - blogs hosted by Blogger can spread spyware ... Yes, according to a ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-24 UK Government Launches Virus Warning Site Yesterday, the government for the United Kingdom launched a web site designed to offer computer virus/security-related news and information for anyone who would like to access the site. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-24 Fake FBI Email Contains Virus A fake email claiming to be from the Federal Bureau of Investigations containing an attached virus is making the rounds through various email inboxes. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-24 Hitachi, Seagate Introduce 1-Inch, 6 Gigabyte Drives Escalating what some call the "mini-drive war," competitors Seagate and Hitachi separately introduced new 1-inch drives, both of which boast higher capacities. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-24 Copernic Updates Desktop Search Utility Copernic, considered one of the pioneers of desktop search, has announced an update to their utility, taking CDS up to version 1.5. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-24 Steve Rubel Speaks About Blogs and PR Here's where you can catch me speaking about blogs and PR over the next few weeks ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-24 Google AdWords Advertisers Impacted By Impression Spam ClickZ is tracking a developing trend that is starting to worry advertisers on Google ... impression spam. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-24 Ignore The Blogs At Your Client's Peril... That's my new favorite motto, something that I thought of during my presentation at the NewComm Forum. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-23 A JavaScript That Kills Google AutoLink Links Chris and Gurtie at Search Guild have published a working script that webmasters can insert into their webpages that kills Google AutoLink links. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-23 Google Toolbar AutoLink Feature Raises Eyebrows Recently, Google updated their search toolbar, and in doing so, added a new feature that has generated a range of reactions. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-23 UK Newspaper Launches Blog The Observer newspaper in the UK will launch a blog this coming Sunday. Journalist, writer and ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-23 Yahoo! Image Database Increases to 1.5 Billion Images Yahoo! has just indicated that they now index more than 1.5 billion images in their Images Search Engine. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-23 MSN Search - Flop with Search Community I'm pretty certain that it's not just me that has noticed that MSN Search is just not cutting it within the Search community, or even the wider tech/media blogging circles. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-23 Blogger Jason Kottke Asking For Contributions Famous (though lord knows why..) blogger Jason kottke has given up his day job and is now holding out his hand for Kottke.org fans to feed him. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-23 Blogs And Wikis Change The Dynamics Of Business Tom Foremski, publisher of Silicon Valley Watcher and ex-FT correspondent, writes a terrific piece ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-23 Life Without Google Steve Bass proves that there is life without Google. He has a brief list and summary of some alternative ways to find information online. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-23 Lycos Launches A New Dating Search Engine Lycos today announces a new search engine for dating sites. From Lycos ... We did research last year and it revealed that ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-23 VOIP and IVR Enterprise Blog Solution Voxeo Corporation provides standards based, hosted and customer premise IVR solutions. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-23 Apple Introduces Four New iPod Models Presenting a cutting edge and staying on it seems to be Apple's method of operation these days. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-23 MSN Search a Flop? Not so Fast! If you read threadwatch, you must be prepared to accept the fact that you will often not agree with the posts ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-23 PR Blogosphere Tops 100 Exciting news from Constantin Basturea. The known universe of active PR bloggers has surpassed 100. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-23 Oneupweb Study points out Patently Bloody Obvious What is it that makes the Search industry press go all gooey eyed and giggly over a study that only points out what has been both patently obvious ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-23 Bloggers as Enemy of the Third Estate The BBC reports that with the abrupt resignation of CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan, the American media are struggling with how to respond to bloggers. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-23 Lycos Dating Search Engine - Huge Mistake! I can't even begin to tell you how many things are wrong with Lycos' dating search engine business model. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-23 NY Times Editor: "We're Under Attack" Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times, was the keynote speaker at Columbia University's Blue Pencil Dinner last Friday night. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-23 Fun and Games with Search Patents I see that A9 are looking to patent behavioural search - where the algorithm attempts to hone your search results based on your prior searches. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-23 Google Changed the Toolbar Checksum Algorithm... Again! Olivier Duffez takes a look at Google's changing of its Toolbar Checksum Algorithm. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-23 AccuWeather's Faceless Blog AccuWeather has a blog that I am not crazy about to say the least. Now I need to be careful about what I say about our friends at Accuweather ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-23 Winer says Google's AutoLink is Adware Dave Winer, who I'm not usually a huge fan of, has a wonderful summation of the arguments against Googles ham fisted attempt to resurrect Smart Tags - among many other great points he says it's adware. I agree. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-23 Microsoft Puts up a Fight Against HIV Microsoft software typically used to analyze databases and complex digital images, or to separate spam from legitimate e-mail, can apparently be used to combat HIV. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-23 Scottie Claiborne on Informercials and Web Copy This piece by Scottie Claiborne, her of the highrankings modship, comes via chris and, once you get past the intro, is pretty cool. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-23 Google Movies - New Movie Search Operator Nice - Pop movie ... before a famous line from a film, an actors name or pretty much anything movie related and Google will try to fetch you something relevant - and it didn't do a bad job at all with the few quick searches i tried. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-23 AOL Search Predicting The American Idol Winner AOL is certainly doing a better job of promoting their search engine recently. They're coming up with all kinds of quirky information, revealed from search requests. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-23 Google Maps Pushing the Boundaries of Web Development For the more technically inclined, John Udell has a nice introduction to the technology used to create ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-23 Citizen Craig Craig Newmark of Craig's List fame is not waiting around to merge his company with eBay ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-23 AP Launches RSS Feeds Welcome news from Susan Mernit - the Associated Press has launched RSS feeds. This is the first time ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-23 Switching To a Mac Isn't For Everyone Ever think about dumping your Windows-based PC and buying a Mac ... Perhaps one of those gorgeous-looking G4 PowerBooks ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-22 The Spy Who Monopolized Me We've looked hard at the nature of this problem, and made a decision that this anti-spyware capability will become something that's available at no additional charge for Windows users ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-22 Cabir Virus Appearing On U.S. Mobile Phones The Cabir virus, which is believed to have originated in the Philippines, has been slowly making its way across the globe. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-22 Firefox Browser Reaches 25 Million Downloads The popularity levels for Mozilla's Firefox browser have done nothing but increase since it was officially launched last October. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-22 MSN Search Partners with Picsearch for Image Index Picsearch announced today that it has entered into an agreement to supply the new MSN Search service with image search services. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-22 Hilton and Pals' Personal Info Posted On Internet Paris Hilton's Sidekick phone has been hacked into and the contents of her address book have been posted on the internet. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-22 Magazine Publishing Portal Launching Magazine Launch, a new resource dedicated to new magazine publishing Magazine Launch publisher resource site. entrepreneurs has been 'launched' by infoswell. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-22 French Not Happy with Google Book Plans According to Reuters, France's national library has raised a "war cry" over plans by Google to put books from some of the world's great libraries on the Internet and wants to ensure the project does not lead to a domination of American ideas. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-22 64-bit Processors Launched By Intel The dominant microprocessor development company, Intel, has introduced 5 64-bit desktop-level processors, which are now available to consumers. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-22 IPTV - Microsoft and Alcatel in Global Deal And as if you needed any more convincing that Microsoft wants to own your home ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-22 Nokia Denies Firefox Switch Reports about Nokia conducting a massive changeover to the Mozilla Firefox browser at their headquarters in Sweden have been denied. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-22 The 10 Minute RSS Primer - Getting Up To Speed with Bloglines Okay, so i've become increasingly aware that many of the Threadwatch boys and girls, and Search marketing crowd in general don't know much about RSS ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-22 Amazon Seeks Personal Search History Patent The Slashdot folks are reporting on a recent Amazon A9 patent for personal search which allows for ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-22 Code for Fighting Google AutoLink This thread is now in it's 3rd update ... Thanks to Chris and Gurtie at Search Guild we now have a working script that webmasters can insert into their webpages that kills Google AutoLinks. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-22 First U.S. Spim Arrest Made Spimming, or the act of spamming someone using instant messaging clients, is beginning to make its way to the forefront as method carrying out false ad campaigns. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-22 Google Toolbar Controversy Continues to Stir As a PR person it feels strange to be smack in the middle of the latest citizen journalistic movement, but at the same time highly educational. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-22 Michael Yang of Become On MarketWatch Michael Yang of Become.com emailed me a few minutes ago to let me know he was interviewed by MarketWatch this afternoon. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-22 Blogger Jason Kotkke Turns Pro Congrats to Jason Kottke, a popular blogger who today decided to make blogging his full-time gig. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-22 A Wish List for NYT's About.com In the wake of the Times acquiring About.com, I thought it might be nice to imagine a reinvented About.com under new management. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-22 Web Analytics Association Was Way Overdue From the "what took them so long" department, leading makers of web analytics software have joined together to form the Web Analytics Association ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-22 Standard Naming Convention Would Speed RSS Adoption Recently there was some chatter from Dave Winer, founder of RSS, about the difficulty of RSS in penetrating the public's attention. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-22 Hitchiker's Guide to the Blog Universe On Thursday of this week, I'll be one of four panelists speaking at a lunchtime meeting ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-22 TiVo + Flickr = Cool Okay, I'm starting to wonder if I shouldn't have sold my TiVo last year. If nothing else , this ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-21 Microsoft Press Releases via RSS For the past couple of years, I've subscribed to the Microsoft PressPass email newsletter which lets me know on a regular basis the top stories published in the press area of Microsoft's website. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-21 Podcasting Service Providers Arrive New proof that podcasting is here to stay - services are popping up to assist podcasters. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-21 Craigslist is a Community, Not an Application A few days ago, I read of Rohit's speculation about an "open source" craigslist. At the time I wanted to shake my head and write something about how he's completely missing the point. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-21 Outed By The Bloggers The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central is a great example of stand-up comedy on the web at its very best. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-21 Cabir Virus Targets Mobile Phones A mobile phone virus originating from the Philippines is spreading to multiple countries, which to some, officially signifies the beginning of the mobile virus era. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-21 Insights Into The World Of Start-Ups Insights into the world of start-ups from Michael Moritz, a partner at Sequioa Capital, one of the most successful venture capital firms in the world. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-21 Northern Voice Posts On PR Wiki Constantin Basturea has put together an excellent resources page on The New PR Wiki listing posts about the Northern Voice Canadian blogging conference that took place in Vancouver at the weekend. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-21 Paris Hilton's Address Book Exposed Someone has figured out the password to Paris Hilton's Sidekick phone and posted her number and those from her address book on the internet. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-21 Intel Preparing 64-bit Chips Intel's new, dual-core, 64-bit processors appearing in personal computers are expected to go on sale today. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-21 Rumors Inflate Bloglines Acquisition Price A confidential source told me last week Ask Jeeves didn't pay anywhere near the $50 million dollars some speculate they did. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-21 Google Yourself the Correct Way David Grimes manages to make a who column out of the practice of "Googling yourself". Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-21 Taking the Wrapper Off Google Maps Speaking of Jason Dowdell, he'd be all over this news story from InfoWorld (yes Jason, you are a search geek...it's OK, embrace it). Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-21 SHA-1 Encryption Algorithm Cracked SHA-1, a nine-year old, secure online communications encryption algorithm has been hacked by a group of three Chinese researchers. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-21 Reflections on the Etail Conference Stephen Spencer also attended eTail last week and he gives his thoughts on the event. I actually enjoyed the content of the event, more than I thought. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-21 Pandia Search Engine Awards 2004 Per and the team have announced their favorite search engines and search engine marketing sites of 2004. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-21 Search Engine Strategies NYC - February 28-March 3 Search Engine Strategies is next Monday... you needed a reminder, didn't you ... As the show is being held in New York, the theme is going to focus a little more on the "marketing" aspects of SEM ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-21 Jeff Ganon May Sue Bloggers - Newsweek Newsweek reports that Jeff Gannon is considering suing liberal bloggers, among others, for a "political assassination" that drove him from his job as a reporter for a conservative news outfit called Talon News. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-21 Yahoo Japan Prepares Music Download Service Electronics conglomerate Sony has struck an agreement with Yahoo.com, through a Sony affiliate, to offer a music download service targeted at Japan. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-21 Lead Generation Modality Map For Complex Sales I asked InTouch client, Cheryl Hatlevig of Adesso Systems, to share her philosophy on doing lead generation for the complex sale. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-21 GM Talks Blogs, Podcasting and RSS Editors Note: Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz conducted an interview with General Motors' Michael Wiley and kindly transcribed the contents for us. The basis for the interview was to discuss the future impact of blogs, RSS feeds, and podcasting (the medium used for the interview). Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-21 Bigger Budgets For Marketers Who Measure Lead Generation Effectiveness Peter DeLegge's article on MarketingToday.com has a great headline: Senior Execs Say Marketing Budgets Will Rise 20%, Jump 27% for Companies that Measure Effectiveness. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-21 Blogs and Ethics JD Lasica has an in-depth article on shilling, influence and blog ethics at Online Journalism Review. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-20 Smart Tag Creator Behind Google's New Autolink Feature Robert Scoble left a comment on my last post that Jeff Reynar at Google is behind the Google Toolbar's controversial ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-20 Good versus Bad Guerilla Marketing I'm really into guerilla marketing. I think gorillas are cute, and Che Guvera always struck me as a fashionable type of guy. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-20 Find, Listen, Engage and Empower At CooperKatz, our new Micro Persuasion agency practice has four basic philosophies. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-20 The Value of Advertising On Blogs Here is a very simple way to think about the value of advertising on blogs. About.com was Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-20 Does Ask Jeeves Understand Bloggers? Very funny cartoon in this week's eWeek magazine, on the topic of Ask Jeeves buying Bloglines. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-20 Friends, Romans, Googleans, Lend Us Your Ears The tree-shaking that I started earlier this week (with a visible push from Dave Winer) over Google Toolbar's ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-19 Blog Talk: Transparency Leads To Genuine Debate A thoughtful view on what the role of a blog sponsored and supported by the World Economic Forum should be and how the blog should develop ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-19 New Google Toolbar Stealing Traffic? A CNet report suggests that some are not happy with the new AutoLink feature offered by the latest version of the Google Toolbar. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-19 Newspapers Using Blogs To Engage Readers Earlier this week, I wrote about what some French newspapers are doing with blogs, commenting on Le Monde, Libération and Le Figaro. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-19 Google Buying 30 Acres In Oregon ... Hmm According to the Business Journal, Google is planning to pay $1.87 million for 30 acres of industrial land within the Port of The Dalles' Chenoweth Creek Industrial Subdivision. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-18 Web Spam Summit CFP As Dave Sifry notes, there's going to be a Web Spam Squashing Summit next week: Thursday, February 24th. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-18 Lexus Talks to a Blog to Squash Virus Rumors ZDNet reports that car maker Lexus denied that the Cabir wireless worm poses a risk to the Bluetooth-capable navigation systems featured in some of its vehicles ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-18 Only Open Blogs Work It was quite an eye opener to read this comment by Steve O'Keefe to Elizabeth Albrycht's post on Monday that kicked-off this week-long IAOC blog fest ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-18 Holy Podcasters Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba - of the Church of the Customer blog and two of my favorite people - have started a podcast. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-18 Crisis Blogs - Plan Them Well Don't think you can start a blog when the crisis hits you. Even though Oliver S. Schmidt, Managing Partner of C4CS, has "...yet to walk into a crisis situation that wouldn't have the client partner benefit from utilizing blogs". Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-18 Anti-trust Concerns Join Microsoft’s Security Push With the RSA Security Conference going strong this week, a number of high-profile security companies used this venue to highlight upcoming strategies and utilities. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-18 IBM Investing In Linux IBM's affection for the open-source community and Linux continues to grow. Recently they allowed the community access to numerous IBM software patents with goals of quality improvement. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-18 Is Apple losing its cool? PSFK suggests that Apple's losing its cool. Interesting, I just had a conversation about this a few weeks ago. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-18 Market Wire - The Plot Thickens .... According to O'Dwyer Website today, Michael Shuler - formerly of Market Wire - has now shown up at eNR Services. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-18 Generic Searches Lead to Online Purchases A joint study by DoubleClick and comScore Networks suggests that many consumers conduct product-related searches weeks in advance of purchase and they prefer generic, non-branded, search terms. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-18 ATI Ships New Mobile Chipset Shipping of ATI's mobile version of the Radeon Xpress 200 chipset which was launched for AMD Athlon 64 and Sempron-based desktop systems last year. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-18 Xbox Cords Replaced Because Of Fire Hazard Microsoft has issued a recall and replace announcement for 14 million Xbox power cords, citing potentially hazardous conditions. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-18 AOL Search Predicting Oscar Winners If searches on AOL Search are any indication of who'll be collecting an Oscar on February 27, then online consumers have cast their votes for Johnny Depp (Best Actor), Hilary Swank (Best Actress) and Million Dollar Baby (Best Picture) to win trophies in their respective categories. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-18 Intel Builds First Continuous Silicon Laser Developers at Intel have reportedly created the world's first continuous-wave laser using silicon that goes in processor chips. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-17 Bill Gates: Microsoft To Give Google Some Competition ABC's Peter Jennings tonight interviewed Microsoft founder, Bill Gates. Gates offers his thoughts on a number of topics, including the challenges it faces trying to compete with Google. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-17 Samsung Debuts First DDR3 Memory Chip South Korean electronics giant Samsung has introduced a prototype DDR3 DRAM memory module, which will be twice as fast as the current DDR2 architecture. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-17 Lessons from the Mark Jen Episode John Foley at InformationWeek interviewed fired Google blogger Mark Jen and summed up the episode into five takeaways for corporate bloggers... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-17 Blogs: The Explosion of Free Speech Pithy commentary in Business Week on the fall from grace of CNN news head Eason Jordan over his remarks that US troops target journalists in Iraq ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-17 VNU Business Media and Google Sign Deal for Targeted Advertising VNU Business Media to show relevant Google AdWords ads across its network of business publications. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-17 Scoble's Law of Five As usual, Scoble gives great advice on how to get a product noticed by bloggers - find five bloggers and mention their names in posts to play to their egos. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-17 Balancing Personalization My post on Personalization and Socialization rustled a few feathers, as intended. Susan Mernit captured the key point: customized personalization-- smart, self-adjusting, filtered system--limits discovery. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-17 FT and The Economist Offer RSS Feeds As a long-time subscriber to the Financial Times online edition, I've wished they would offer RSS feeds instead of email alerts and newsletters. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-17 Google Update, Ask Jeeves and Yahoo Live TV Google is conducting a house cleaning stemming from what appears to be an algorithm update. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-17 Microsoft AntiSpyware To Remain Free With the RSA Security Conference is going full-steam ahead, a number of announcements and declarations have been made by the numerous sponsors and keynotes appearing there. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-17 Microsoft Replaces Xbox Power Cords A recall of Xbox power cords has been issued by Microsoft, developer of the gaming system. The recall is being conducted for what Microsoft calls "safety reasons." Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-17 Prices For PSP Movies Announced With anticipation growing for the Western hemisphere release of the Sony PSP growing exponentially, prices for the UMD movie that are playable in the device were announced. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-17 Firefox Hits 25 Million Downloads - Extended Coverage I know I'm late on this but I honestly didn't haveDownload Firefox Now! time to post it yesterday at all. I wanted to post the email I received from SpreadFirefox's Blake Ross regarding the good news Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-17 Noonan: Blogging Has Changed Journalism Everyone's talking about this today, so why not me? Peggy Noonan wrote a brilliant column in the Journal on how bloggers have truly changed the media. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-17 Researchers Working On New Protection Methods The way you type when working at a computer may be the foundation for a new password system being tested by researchers from 2 major universities. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-17 Search Engine Marketing Survey in France On February 2005 Zdnet (Cnet) France and Imitiki organized a search engine marketing survey. This survey was targeted to... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-17 Cisco Practices Self-Defense With what is considered the next phase of their Self-Defending Network, yesterday, Cisco Systems announced the development of the Adaptive Threat Defense (ATD). Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-17 Robots Learning To Walk A trio of robots that were shown off at the American Association for the Advancement of Science are demonstrating an ability to walk, as well as the ability to learn and improve its way of walking. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-17 MyDoom Variant Uses Search Engines A variant of the MyDoom worm has been using search engines to propagate itself by harvesting email addresses found in various search results pages. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-17 Potty Blog Nothing proves the value of a corporate blog perhaps more than one dedicated to creating transparency for a toilet. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-17 RipGuard Versus DVD Copiers Yesterday, Macrovision announced the release of RipGuard, an anti-DVD ripping software that "plugs the hole" left by the DeCSS crack. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-16 Audible to Get on the Podcasting Train On its investor conference call tonight, Audible teased some big plans to empower members with social media tools. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-16 Should We Focus On Relationships To Form Them? Ok, let's be slightly theoretical for a while. In a discussion about personalization, socialization, information and relations Bud and Ross disagrees. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-16 Yet More Signs For Podcasting Growth BBC News: One in 10 adult Americans - equivalent to 22 million people - owns an MP3 player, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-16 Can Bloggers Be Sued for Libel? Fellow PR blogger Jeremy Pepper interviewed David E. McCraw, Counsel for The New York Times Co., to offer some insight on bloggers' potential libel liability... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-16 IE 7 To Address Security Issues Yesterday, Microsoft announced the upcoming update of their web browser, Internet Explorer, which will be updated to 7. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-16 Microsoft Announces Internet Explorer 7.0 Susan Kuchinskas takes a look at the recent announcement by Microsoft, that they will be launching IE 7.0 soon. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-16 Accessibility Branding Strategy Lately I've been thinking about css based layouts and how everyone and their brother are jumping on the css bandwagon. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-16 Cityfeeds Linking To Local Blog Content Cityfeeds is rolling up available local news/blog feeds and republishing the content online in a running real-time local news site and RSS feed. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-16 Yahoo Opens Euro-Quarters In Dublin According to FT.com, Yahoo, attracted by Ireland's low corporate tax rate of 12.5 per cent and availability of data centers, has set up European operations in Dublin. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-16 United Nations Foundation Starts a Blog The United Nations Foundation started a blog last week: UN Dispatch is a blog intended to promote thoughtful discussion about the UN, and to provide an outlet for important news and views on the UN. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-16 Motorola Unveils 3 New Mobile Phone Units Showcasing the company's Seamless Mobility solutions, yesterday, Motorola debuted three mobile units at 3GSM, two of which received "Best of" honors. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-16 TV Anchor Says Citizen Journalism Killing Newspapers Jason Salas, a newsanchor with KUAM in Guam, writes that newspapers are on their last legs thanks to the rise of blogging and citizen journalism. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-16 Intel COO Blogs With Employees While some big companies have already taken a step into the public blogosphere with executive blogs, Intel isn't one. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-16 Novell To Harden Linux for Mission-Critical Operations Novell is releasing a range of Linux offerings for the enterprise to harden Linux for mission-critical operations. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-16 Googlepedia is a Good Move News flash: John Dvorak has a conspiracy column that makes no sense. He suggests that Google's support of Wikipedia ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-16 No Internet Explorer 7 For Windows 2000 With the Internet universe buzzing about the upcoming Internet Explorer 7 update, there may be news that can dampen the spirit. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-16 Mobile Music Front And Center At 3GSM At this year's 3GSM conference, where the growth of mobile communication is highlighted, the majority of the discussion focuses on the ability for mobile phones to play digital music. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-15 AMD Launches Updated Opteron Processors Advanced Micro Devices, chief competitor to Intel, yesterday announced the release of new Opteron processor chips, designed to be used in server environments. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-15 Phishing Scammers Targeted By E-commerce Giants A who's who of corporate giants have teamed up to combat phishing scams. The members of the group have also been the subject of previous phishing scams. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-15 How Not to Pitch a Blogger One ancillary benefit I receive from writing this blog is that I every day I get a taste for how journalists have to contend with sometimes less-than-perfect PR pitches. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-15 MSN Search For Pizza In Redmond Seattle PI reports about an advertisement MSN Search ran on a vehicle that showed the phrase "pizza in Redmond" in search box. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-15 Business Risks With Blogging: A Conversation How much can you say in your corporate blog ... A reader contacted me to get my view on this question. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-15 Blogs' Impact Still Unfolding Several articles are showing us some of blogging's deeper business implications: Pete Blackshaw looks at the impact of push-button publishing ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-15 Internet Explorer 7 Announced It may be simply an idea whose time has come. It may be that Firefox is making enough noise to raise some eyebrows in Redmond. Either way, it looks like IE7 is on its way. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-15 Oracle Creates Linux Test Lab Oracle announced the creation of a dedicated Linux Test Lab, providing a rigorous test environment to further the quality, stability and supportability of the operating system. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-15 IBM Takes on Linux IBM is launching a program to make Linux applications available across its whole line of hardware. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-15 Macrovision Targets DVD Piracy With RipGuard Content and software management solution company Macrovision is doing their part to try and curb DVD piracy with the release of RipGuard. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-15 Blogging and RSS Make The Event Ian Betteridge, Technovia: Demo is getting a vast amount of attention because [there] are a vast number of bloggers there, all pouring what must amount to thousands of words onto the Internet about it. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-15 Microsoft Announces Affordable Smart Phone Microsoft continued their embrace of the mobile technology with the announcement of the Peabody mobile phone system. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-14 Intel Announces 64-bit Upgrades As AMD and Intel continue their struggle for processor supremacy, industry leader Intel has added some more ammunition to their cause. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-14 Nokia Introduces Flash, Announces Microsoft Features Finnish mobile phone goliath Nokia is doing their part to ensure mobile technology stays on the cutting edge, while offering users as many services as possible. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-14 Monster Buys French Online Recruiter Monster Worldwide has bought French online recruiter Emailjob.com from trade show organizer Reed Expositions France. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-14 Atari To Enter The Matrix Video game eternalists Atari are planning on giving gamers a chance to return to The Matrix during the upcoming holiday season. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-14 Yellow Pages Association Expands Local Search Guide As local search gains momentum and local ad growth soars, the Yellow Pages Association (YPA) today announced an expansion of the Local Search Guide. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-14 WebTrends Study Finds Blue Nile Atop Search Engines WebTrends, the web analytics market share leader and a business unit of NetIQ Corporation, today unveiled results from its WebPosition Search Ranking... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-14 Use VoIP and Go To Jail Last week, I posted commentary on problems using SkypeOut, the paid-for service offered by the Skype internet phone service. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-14 Ask Jeeves Starts TV Advertising According to ClickZ, Ask Jeeves responds to recent MSN Search TV ads, with their own ramped-up effort. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-14 Google Stock Stays High "Everyone knew that the lock-up period is over and more shares were available to come to the market. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-14 Amazon Prime Rocks When I read Nelson's Amazon Prime post, I realized that he said pretty much everything I was going to, including ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-13 Leadership Comes In Many Guises When you think of the word 'leadership' and how you'd define it, you're spoiled for choice if you look up that word in a dictionary on the net. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-13 Plain Speaking Blog Comment Policy Here's a plain-speaking description of a blog commenting policy that no one could possibly misunderstand ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-12 Are You An Email Filer or Piler? For me, managing email is one of life's little chores that I never seem able to really keep up with. Outlook is my email program, but what I use as an indispensable tool to really manage it all ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-12 Emerging Tech Dinner at Yahoo A couple days ago, I was leaving work and was really surprised to run into Scott Rafer (Feedster CEO), Rich Skrenta (Topix.net co-founder), Ross Mayfield (Socialtext CEO) and a few others. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-12 Six Apart May Be Acquisition Target A speculative story in InternetNews.com discusses the future of Six Apart, asking whether it's a prime target for Yahoo to add to its portfolio of offerings. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-12 PR Industry Trys To Adjust To Blogging The New York Times today has a lengthy article on the many challenges the PR industry is facing. Blogging was cited as one... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-12 Wiki repository of PR and related knowledge I had the great pleasure of meeting Constantin Basturea at the New Communications Forum 2005 conference in California last month. Constantin writes PR Meets the WWW ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-11 Newspapers as RSS Aggregators Reuters UK: An increasingly popular technology called RSS is changing the way consumers get their news online, spurring several newspapers to launch their own customized software in an attempt to stay ahead of the curve. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-11 A Snapshot of Google Yesterday's Wall Street Journal reports on Google's meeting with financial analysts on Wednesday, the first such meeting since the company's initial public offering last August. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-11 Dit-It Hires Former Ask Jeeves Exec As CEO This is an interesting development. Did-it has hired former Ask Jeeves, MaxOnline & DoubleClick executive to be the new CEO. Kevin Lee will step aside and become Executive Chairman. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-11 Microsoft, Pfizer Target Viagra Spam A joint effort being conducted by Microsoft and Pfizer are attempting to put a stop, or at least a dent, in the enormous amounts of Viagra-based spam mailings. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-11 InfoSearch Media Generates Significant Growth Leading online marketing firm InfoSearch Media announced today that it continues to generate strong revenue growth as a result of growing adoption of its content-based internet marketing solutions. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-11 Microsoft Continues AntiSpyware Investigation A Trojan attack that partially targeted Microsoft's new anti-spyware has caused the company to respond. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-11 Become's Got Talent I was really surprised when Michael told about a couple new hires they've recently brought aboard. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-11 InfoUSA Wants Digital Impact Digital Impact, the company that acquired MarketLeap in an effort to diversify their offering, is now an acquisition target itself. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-11 Pay-Per-Click Costing More BusinessWeek Online takes a look at the increasing cost of PPC and how some advertisers are becoming more targeted with their keyword buys... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-11 Blogs, Law and Ethics Wow, is it me, or is that headline a snoozer for a Friday ... Well, law and ethics are becoming very relevant topics in the blogsphere. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-11 Google to Host Some Wikimedia Projects? According to Wikimedia, Google has made a proposal to host some of the content of the Wikimedia projects. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-11 Beauty is in the Eye of the Blog Reader Greg Edwards, Chief Technical Officer, for Eyetools, Inc., has launched a fascinating new blog that discusses his work in analyzing how readers interact with blog sites. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-11 Emerging Artists Turn to MP3 Blogs for Marketing Independent musicians are looking to blogs as a powerful avenue for music promotion, top-40charts.com reports. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-11 GM Experiments With Podcasting Not only is General Motors still at the leading edge with executive blogging by a Fortune 100 company, with their GM Fastlane Blog, but they're also out in front in trying out other new communication channels. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-11 PR Becomes More Valuable With Blogging The Economist.com asks: Does Robert Scoble, a celebrity blogger on Microsoft's payroll, herald the death of traditional public relations ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-11 How To Be A Cutting Edge Journalist Microsoft Geek Blogger Robert Scoble spoke to some journalism students at San Jose State and had some interesting advice. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-11 Yahoo May Have RSS Feed Search in the Works Yahoo may be planning an enhanced news search site that also incorporates RSS feeds, a la Feedster, Technorati, Topix.net and PubSub. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-11 Bloggers Look At Firefox Yahoo Toolbar Yesterday, Yahoo released a beta version of their companion toolbar designed specifically for the Firefox browser. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-11 Blog Exposure Gets CNN News Exec Fired An average guy named Rony who made a blog post at a Switzerland conference about a CNN executive who lied caused an eruption in the blogosphere which led to this news man's unemployment Friday. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-11 Google Struggles To Hire Foreigners Google co-founder Sergey Brin told financial analysts yesterday that it has been unable to hire foreign computer engineers as fast as it would like. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-10 Google Blogger Firing Highlights Why Guidelines Are Essential News yesterday that Mark Jen, a Google employee, had been fired for blogging serves to add yet more focus to a matter that has become increasingly important to companies and employees alike ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-10 Using Blogs for Project Management Project blogs integrated into an intranet will, I believe, prove to be one of the most valuable types of corporate blogging. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-10 Google: We Are Not That Unconventional At Google headquarters yesterday, Google execs went out of their way to assure financial analysts that the company operated with traditional financial controls. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-10 End of the Yahoo Directory? Few hours ago, Agent Web Ranking Search Engine Research Center received an alert about Yahoo IT. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-10 New Viruses Target Wireless Communication In what is being termed as a "potential epidemic," virus writers are planning on targeting attacks at mobile communication devices. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-10 Microsoft Investigating AntiSpyware Trojan Yesterday, news broke of a malicious Trojan virus, called Troj/BankAsh-A, which targets Microsoft's AntiSpyware beta tool. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-10 Mark Jen Blogs Again Although he was recently fired by Google for comments he made in his ninetyninezeros blog, Mark Jen has started making entries into his blog again. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-10 Interchange To Acquire Search Technology Company Interchange Corporation (NASDAQ: INCX), a leading provider of local and national paid-search services, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Inspire Infrastructure 2i AB... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-10 Founder of Salon .com Stepping Down David Talbot, the founder of web-based Salon magazine, announced he is stepping down from his position as editor in chief and CEO. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-10 All News Sites Will Become Aggregators RSS pioneer Dave Winer comments on CNET's Newsburst ... Other news organizations should be thinking seriously about following suit, and upping the ante. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-10 Firefox Users Welcome Yahoo Toolbar At 12 am Pacific time today (02/10/05), Yahoo released the Yahoo Toolbar designed for the Firefox browser and the reaction as been quite positive. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-10 Sybari Acquisition Creates Industry Stir Recently, Microsoft acquired Sybari Software, an anti-virus tool designed for the business-level user. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-10 Podcasting Continues to Gather Momentum FeedBurner today manages 1,750 podcasts via SmartCast. That is a significant increase from 750 at the end of 2004. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-10 GM is Podcasting More innovation from General Motors. This time they have launched a podcast on its Fastlane leadership blog. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-10 AOL Releases Browser Beta Test AOL made their new Web browser available for download. It is based on Internet Explorer but with a few more features. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-09 Intel Announces 600-series Pentium 4 Signifying their first foray into the 64-bit processing realm for desktop computing, Intel has announced their plans to introduce the 600-series Pentium 4 microprocessors. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-09 When Will Search Engines Integrate Acquisitions? Gary Stein asks a valid question. When will the search engines start integrating all of their acquisitions with their search engine ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-09 Micro Persuasion Blog Name Becomes PR Brand I am very pleased to announce that today I became an "intrapraneur." CooperKatz & Company, my employer, is launching a new practice that will carry the Micro Persuasion brand. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-09 A Chat with Mark Jen (Blogger Fired by Google) John Battelle asked some good questions about the Mark Jen controversy. Believe it or not, I met Mark tonight (err, "last night" to most of you at this point) and had a chance to chat with him about his brief time at Google and various other things. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-09 Uses For The Upcoming Cell Chip The joint-developed cell chip, designed by Sony, Toshiba and IBM, created a great deal of buzz when it was announced. But what uses will cell processors have? Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-09 80 Percent Of Mobile Phones Received Spam Computer users aren't the only ones having to worry about spam mailings flooding their inboxes anymore. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-09 Microsoft Reveals Further Details About Indigo First unveiled in 2003, yesterday Microsoft released additional details about their upcoming Indigo web technology. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-09 Microsoft Releases 12 Security Patches A group of security patches for Windows has been released from the labs at Redmond, with the majority receiving "critical" status. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-09 Fear Leads Companies to Attack Gripe Sites The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that companies are increasingly engaging in legal dogfights with consumer gripe sites. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-09 Fake Blogs Should Sponsor Real Blogs My traffic logs tell me that fake blogs are top of mind in the review of SuperBowl marketing efforts. Our list currently includes Mazda, McD and Ogilvy's "get buzz quick" scheme. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-09 Trojan Targets Microsoft AntiSpyware Tool Every time Microsoft attempts to secure a product, another one seems to come under attack. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-09 Managers Enable Happiness and Productivity Among the latest batch of new manifestos available yesterday from ChangeThis is this great one ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-09 Podcasting Gets Star Treatment in USA Today USA Today ran two articles on podcasting today. One in the Money section focuses on podcasting as a disruptive force that will impact the media and technology industries. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-09 PR Blogger Steve Rubel Podcast Interview My buddies down under at the G'Day World podcast recently had the kindness to interview me about blogging, PR, CooperKatz and even doing the laundry. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-09 MSNBC .com Launches "Blog This" Feature MSNBC.com introduced a new feature called "Blog This" that is designed to help readers write blog posts related to specific news stories. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-09 Levis to Put Bloggers in an Ad Gawker reports that Levi's wants to cast bloggers for an advertising campaign ... A tipster sent Gawker the following email. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-09 CNET to Launch Web-Based RSS Reader As far as I know this is an exclusive. CNET News.com is launching a Web-based RSS news aggregator called Newsburst. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-09 PR Blogger Jeremy Pepper Comments On Micro Persuasion Plan Well known Arizona PR blogger Jeremy Pepper had some interesting musings on Steve Rubel's announcement today. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-09 Yahoo Releases Firefox Toolbar Yahoo has announced a beta release of the Yahoo! Toolbar for the Mozilla Firefox web browser. According to Yahoo, the Yahoo! Toolbar Beta will enable Firefox users to fully customize their Internet experience. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-09 It's Official: Ask Jeeves Buys Bloglines Susan Mernit has more hard details on Ask Jeeves' aquisition of Bloglines, including this quote from an Ask exec... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-08 Goodbye Mapquest I believe you've met your match. More on this later--unless 50,000 other folks have written about it when I wake up. Then I won't bother. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-08 White Paper On Word Of Mouth Marketing Highly recommended reading: The new womma whitepaper Word of Mouth 101 -- An Introduction to Word of Mouth Marketing (pdf). Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-08 EU Anti-Spam Measures Face Uphill Struggle Thirteen European Union countries have agreed to boost cooperation to tackle unsolicited commercial email, aka junk email and spam. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-08 About.com Is For Sale - Yahoo, Google, AOL, Ask Jeeves Interested The NY Times reports that Primedia Inc has put About.com up for sale and final bids for the web site are due on Tuesday. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-08 Bloggers Send a Warning to Corporate America The Financial Times this morning has a story that underscores the need to listen, engage and embrace bloggers as a force to be reckoned with. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-08 Firefox NYT Ad Poster Delays As one of the contributors to the ground-breaking Firefox double-page ad in the New York Times in December, I ordered the poster version ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-08 Controversial Google Blogger Mark Jen Fired? Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped is reporting that Google blogger Mark Jen is no longer working at Google. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-08 Press Clip Quotes from Sun CTO's New Blog Jim Griziano notes that Greg Papadopoulos, Sun's CTO, is now blogging. Already eWeek is picking up quotes directly off Greg's blog. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-08 Confirmed: AskJeeves Acquired Bloglines The owner/founder of Bloglines [Mark Fletcher] confirms the acquisition rumors on his blog this morning. Here's the post from Mark's blog. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-08 How to Spread a Meme Bud Gibson explains how to propagate a meme (definition) through Technorati and del.ico.us. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-08 PubSub Monitoring Quakes PubSub is one of those companies looking to be at the cutting-edge of search, blog feeds and information monitoring (they continuously scan over 8 million blogs and over 50,000 newsgroups). Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-08 Microsoft Beefs Up on Security Microsoft is buying anti-virus maker Sybari Software in an effort to stiffen competition with Symantec and McAfee in the security market. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-08 IBM, Sony, and Toshiba Make With Cell Details IBM, Sony, and Toshiba released details on the Cell microprocessor, which has been developed by the three companies together. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-08 Google Releases Google Maps Beta Google has launched the beta site for its new map service, Google Maps which includes maps, driving directions and local business search. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-08 GoDaddy Super Bowl Ad Controversy No, this isn't an article about how bad the GoDaddy ad was ... because I saw nothing wrong with it or the one Fox and the NFL pulled. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-08 Skype Has a Problem With SkypeOut My wife is a big user of SkypeOut, the paid-for part of the Skype internet phone service. Using SkypeOut for making international calls to normal phones saves a small fortune on our phone bill. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-08 Amazon Invests in 43 Things Folksonomy Project Amazon.com has invested in the start-up behind folksonomy project 43 Things. Another company, called 37 Signals ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-08 GoDaddy CEO Fights Super Bowl Ad Ban via Blog Robert Scoble and Shel Israel point to another example of how corporate communication is changing on their Red Couch book blog. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-07 Google Hoarding the Pie? Om Malik looked up some of Google's SEC filings and found the following information ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-07 McDonald's Fake Lincolnfry Blog I'm not lovin' it. McDonald's sent up the whole "Virgin Mary on a grilled cheese sandwich was sold on e-Bay" saga in their Super Bowl ad called Lincolnfry. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-07 Yoo Hoo Amazon, You Have a Bug Mike Elgan notes that Amazon is selling a $99,999 Apple Powerbook. Oh, but it has free shipping and lots of Amazon reward points. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-07 Superbowl Advertising Is The Hot Conversation So the Superbowl happened yesterday. In scanning my RSS feeds this morning, I see that sporting event has ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-07 Y!Q on my blog... I've just updated the template for my individual post pages to include Y!Q, which I wrote about on the Yahoo Search blog. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-07 Ask Jeeves Acquires BlogLines - What Others Are Saying Supposedly the bloglines acquistion by Ask Jeeves rumor is true but it wasn't going to be announced until Monday or Tuesday. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-07 Blogs Usurped Super Bowl Ads This year, the game was better than the ads. Again. You want to know why? There will never be an ad as good as 1984 again because there are no more secrets (that remain secret) before being told only once. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-07 Developers Show Off PS3 Chip Developers of the Sony PlayStation 3's microchip are unveiling the product in San Francisco at a technology conference. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-07 Bloggers Are Overconfident Entrepreneurs? There are risks in blogging. The risk of being fired is evident from several examples. There's also been talk about the possibility of legal actions against bloggers that say too much publicly (in relation to for example disclosure rules). Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-07 TippingPoint Starts VOIP Security Alliance TippingPoint has established a VOIP Security Alliance in conjunction with VoIP vendors, providers, security researchers, and thought leaders to discover and reduce VoIP security risks. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-07 Marketplace: Podcasting Is the Next Big Thing Marketplace Radio interviewed me (Steve Rubel) recently about podcasting and podvertising ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-07 Technorati Search Outage The popular Technorati blog search engine is having technical difficulties according to a posting on their website. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-07 Google Allegra Update Word has it Google's dancin again and the latest Google update is dubbed Allegra. I don't follow how / why these updates are given their names but so far it's looking decent. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-07 Search Engine To Buy Bloglines Search engine Ask Jeeves is rumoured to be buying Bloglines, the online service for searching, subscribing, creating and sharing RSS feeds and blogs. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-07 Attack of the Spammers Spammers are taking over people's copmuters and using them as anonymous proxies to send email through their ISPs. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-07 Ask Jeeves, Bloglines Story Broke By Blogs MarketWatch has an interesting article by Frank Barnako on how blogs have changed the news business. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-07 The Hobson and Holtz Report - Podcast #6 Welcome to our weekly podcast, a 46:41-minute conversation recorded live via Skype from Concord, California, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-07 Search Is A Great Business For Microsoft Todd Bishop of seattlepi.com wrote a good article explaining that the launch of MSN Search was the official beginning of Microsoft's bid to topple Google and Yahoo. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-07 Good Bloggers Keep Secrets Scoble says bloggers can and do keep secrets and I whole heartedly agree. He was responding to a claim by Frank Barnako ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-07 Google Includes Images With Search Results Google is now including images with certain search results in an effort to promote its image search feature. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-06 Does the Press Work Weekends Anymore? Have you noticed that lately when major industry news breaks over the weekend it gets a tremendous amount of buzz on blogs, but it doesn't hit the press with any gusto until Monday morning - even online ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-06 Firefox: Bigger Than AOL? Firefox is the energizer bunny of web browsers. I just keeps going and going and going. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-06 Tablet PCs at Yahoo First it was Powerbooks. I was seeing them more and more around campus. But today I was in a meeting where two of our execs appeared, both sporting Table PCs. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-05 When Local TV Personalities Blog Terry Heaton says that local television personalities and staffers are beginning to get serious in the blogosphere, and he thinks that's a good thing. I do too. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-05 Bill Gates Talks Office Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates spoke at the Office Developer Conference yesterday held at Microsoft's Redmond, Washington headquarters. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-05 Upstart Weblog Ad Network Profiled InternetWeek profiles Jim Kukral, owner and sole employee of BlogKits BlogMatch Network. He's building out an ad network that matches up influential bloggers and advertisers. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-05 Google Backlinks Update (Not Really a Google Dance) Google is updating the backlinks reported by the link URL command. This is not really a Google Dance ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-05 ThreadWatch, WebmasterWorld Catfight? This was too funny to pass up. According to the Search Engine Roundtable WebmasterWorld has purchased the .net version of the ThreadWatch.org domain. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-05 LA Times Launches RSS Aggregator The LA Times has launched a branded RSS news aggregator in partnership with Consenda. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-05 Trademark Battle, Google's Achilles' Heel? Could recent trademark disputes be the only thing to prevent Google from continuing its incredible growth ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-05 Russell Becoming a Full-Fledged Yahoo Excellent news. I ran into Russell at URL's (the cafeteria) on Friday and he told me the news: he's going to become a full-time Yahoo soon. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-05 API Business Model You already know API's are taking off but here's some more proof from someone other than myself. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-05 Talking PSP Big news for gamers ... Sony said Thursday it will release the PlayStation Portable in North America on March 24. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-05 How the New Technorati Tags Work One thing I've had some difficulty in fully understanding is how the new Technorati tags work. For instance, I'd regard this post as to do with weblogs. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-05 Ask Jeeves Acquires Bloglines This rumor had been kicking around for awhile. I emailed Bloglines CEO Mark Fletcher about it last week ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-05 Ask Jeeves Can't Match Google's Pace I'm guessing that the execs at Ask Jeeves wish they had announced their Q4 numbers before Google and not after. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-04 Fast Company Searches for the "Best Business Blogs" The Fast Company team has initiated a search for the best business blogs. This month, they're asking for submissions for the best advertising-related blogs. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-04 Crack Google AdWords Get 100 Million Dollars So some billionaire has offered $100 million to the first person that can crack the Google AdWords algorithm... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-04 SMA-UK Faces Scrutiny Think we don't report on the criticism SMA-UK is getting ... Think again -- It's unfortunate that, because of the major failure ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-04 Online Conference On Social Networking Via Elizabeth Albrycht ... news of an event that's just made for anyone involved in communicating or collaborating online ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-04 Is Google Preparing Gmail For General Rollout? Today I noticed that I have this little box in my Gmail account saying that I've now got 50 Gmail invitations. When I looked yesterday, I still had the link saying I had 3. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-04 Blog Overkill - And More I'm buried in work at the moment, and can't find time to blog about all the things I want to. But maybe that's a good thing ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-04 Coffee Table Blogs Just when you think you've seen everything, here's a new service called BlogBinders that turns your blog into a bound printed book. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-04 Openness, Not Secrecy, is the New Face of PR Today's quote of the day from Chris Shipley's essay on how openness, not secrecy, is the new face of public relations... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-04 Blogs and Magazines - Friends or Foes? Folio has a piece on the potential threats/opportunities in blogs for the magazine industry. Jedi Master Rex is quoted. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-04 Europe To Miss March Sony PSP Launch Date Because of chip shortages, Europe will not be getting the Sony PSP until the second quarter of 2005. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-04 How The Bropia Worm Attacks Currently, MSN Messenger users are under attack from a medium intensity threat called the Bropia F worm. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-04 Foote, Cone and Belding Blogs in Germany One of the largest advertising agencies in the world is now blogging, at least in Germany. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-04 Paid Search Rivals Super Bowl Commercials The New York Times provides a good comparison of paid search with other big advertising favorites, such as the Super Bowl. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-04 The Genius of Apple Coolness I had my first true iPod experience today. You know, the feeling of coolness as you're out and about in public with those little white buds sticking in your ears with the white cables dangling down that disappear under your jacket. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-04 GuruNet Sees Stock Growth from Answers.com Publicity Haaretz reports on Jerusalem-based GuruNet's good fortunes, since going public in October. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-04 Interview:Thunderstone VP Doran Howitt A few weeks ago I put up a post about the Google Small Business Search Appliance. I listed it's pros and cons and thought Google had come up with a pretty decent product. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-04 Search Revenue to Reach $23 Billion by 2010 Gord Hotchkiss breaks down the recent predictions given by Piper Jaffray analyst Safa Rashtchy. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-04 Bill Gates Touts Interoperability, XML In an executive email appearing on Microsoft's site, Bill Gates talked about his vision for future software interaction and some of the methods he wants to use to arrive there. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-04 Email Warning Comes Under Fire A warning issued by anti-spam company Spamhaus about a collapse of email delivery systems has received a great deal of criticism. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-04 The Terabyte Disks Are Coming While certain companies fight over high definition DVD recording, another type of disk storage is preparing to make matters awfully interesting. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-04 Upholding PR Standards Starts With the Small Things Will you join with me and other PR bloggers in a grassroots blogging campaign to help raise the perception of the public relations industry ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-04 UK's Yell.com Understands Slang The UK's online yellow pages, Yell.com, is reported to now understand different slang words. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-04 Exploring the World of Photoblogs Shutterbug magazine reports that photoblogs growing like a field of mushrooms with the proliferation of inexpensive compact digital cameras, widespread adoption of broadband Internet connections, and the advent of cell phones with digital cameras built-in. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-04 Mamma.com Adds Auction to Pay-Per-Click Offering DMNews reports meta-search engine Mamma.com has added an auction-based pricing tool to its Mamma Classifieds flat-rate pay-per-click search product. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-04 Tech Analyst Giants Group Blog Did you know that stalwart tech analysts Rob Enderle, Richard Doherty and Tim Bajarin have a group blog ... I didn't. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-04 Napster Is A Cool Cat Apple is cool. The iPod is cool. iTunes is cool. Now Napster has joined that crowd. So what does that make Napster ... well ... cool, of course. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-04 Napster To Go Napster has launched what it bills as the world's first portable music service. The service is called Napster To Go. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-03 Yahoo Introduces Y!Q Beta Yahoo is making a foray into the area of contextual search with the launch of their new utility Y!Q. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-03 Mobiles Continue To Gain Handheld Market Share Handheld telephones are seemingly becoming a thing of the past. For the fourth successive quarter, handheld systems continued their year-over-year decline. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-03 Sony PSP Set For US Launch In March As Sony and Nintendo plan to square off for handheld gaming supremacy, Sony is preparing for the stateside launch of their PSP gaming device. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-03 Ask Jeeves Starts Blogging The Ask Jeeves search engine has started a corporate style blog. It appears to be aimed at Ask Jeeves employees, customers and search industry insiders. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-03 MSN Search Still Carries Flaws According to a tech report in the USA Today, MSN Search is welcomed competition but just doesn't quite match up to the standards of the other search engines. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-03 Firefox MarketShare Still Increasing I received an email from NetApplications this am with a blurb about the browser wars. Firefox is contiuing to gain marketshare on IE. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-03 A Peek at Disney's Blog and RSS Plans Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman and Mike Pusateri from the Walt Disney Company will be giving ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-03 MSN Messenger Faces Bropia Worm Threat A variant of the Bropia worm is targeting MSN Messenger, disguising itself as photo of a roasted chicken with a bikini tan line. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-03 Google Adds Local Tab To Homepage So Google changed their homepage again, they added the "Local" tab to the search interface. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-03 International Search Engine Usage Trend In another story from HitsLink...International Search Engine Referrals Out Pace Domestic. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-03 Napster Versus iTunes Napster, once the most recognizable names in music downloading, is preparing to challenge the current music download king Apple's iTunes. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-03 Reactions To The MSN Search Debut On Tuesday, Microsoft officially entered the search engine industry with their official launch of MSN Search. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-03 Google Targets Internet Domain Registration Matt Hicks takes a closer look at why Google has signed contracts with ICANN, to become a domain name registrar. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-02 Laptop Use Increased While Watching TV Well, I don't have a study to that proves my theory [more people are using their laptops while watching tv] but I know it's true in my house. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-02 The Numbers Game In Marketing Is Middle Management Work Every PR practitioner struggles with questions about ROI. When we're talking about blogging that same question is present - and I think it should be. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-02 HP Claims Breakthrough In Transistor Replacement An announcement by Hewlett-Packard concerning a technological breakthrough may have ramifications in the way computers are built. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-02 Google Looks to International Dominance I'm not going to bore you by linking to every Google Q4 revenue article that's out there. But I will highlight any that have an interesting angle. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-02 Blog Gets Thumbs Up from Good Housekeeping Ken Leebow's great blog on blogs has been honored by the grande dame of magazines, Good Housekeeping. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-02 Blinkx Looks for Search Partners In a sea of Google and MSN news, it's almost impossible to find news on any other company, so please bare with us. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-02 Weinberger Tells PR Pros to Accept the Unfiltered Message Blogging God Dr. David Weinberger, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto and a well-known blogger himself ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-02 What Are Gateway Technologies? Gateway technologies entice curious onlookers who are afraid of the ramifications of using or purchasing new technology because of the possible side effects of doing so [just like gateway drugs]. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-02 Marketing Conference Mashup You'd think they'd realize their target audiences can't be in 3 places at the same time, haha, event planners... gotta love em. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-02 Australian Search Engine Marketing Conference How come I never get invited to speak at far-off places like Australia? Oh right, I'd never be allowed to go. ;-) Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-02 Reporter Asks Bloggers for Story Assistance Again here's more evidence that reporters and bloggers are collaborating on stories. Rick Broida posted a request ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-02 Dell Introduces Latitude Notebooks Yesterday, computer giant Dell introduced their new Latitude line of notebook computers, which targets the business sector from small businesses up to the State and Local government level. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-02 Google in The Onion Thanks to Dan London for pointing out that Google makes it into the Onion with this satirical look at their future plans. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-02 Good Model For a Leadership Blog The GM FastLane Blog is attracting quite a lot of commentary and opinion, with varying views being expressed on how effective it is as a means of engaging with GM's customers. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-02 Take the Search Engine Taste Test Dig down through Forbes recap of recent search engine announcements and you'll find an online poll asking ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-02 Torvalds Calls Out Software Patents At Open-Source Summit At the OSDL Linux Summit, Linux founder Linus Torvalds discussed his thoughts towards software patents and whether or not they have actual use. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-02 Micropersuasion and Blogvertising How do you know when a meme grows up and becomes simply part of the vox populi ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-02 New Communications Forum - Photos I've just uploaded 39 photos I took at the New Communications Forum 2005 conference last week in Napa, California ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-02 The Blog's Role in the Tsunami Aftermath BlogPulse just published an analysis of the role of the blog in the aftermath of the tsunami. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-02 Bloggers Hacked Well, my primary box was cracked by a dipshit going after the recent awstats.pl bug. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-02 Marketplace Radio: "PR Goes Blogging" Marketplace Radio today featured a segment on the application of blogs in PR. The piece starts ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-02 A-List Bloggers Hacked InternetNews.com: A bug in a popular log file analysis program has been exploited by attackers ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-02 MSN Search Is the Talk of the Town The MSN Search story has exploded with over 526 articles about it in Google News. However, much more interesting to me are the comments of the bloggers. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-02 The Power of Corporate Blogging From time to time I like to pull out emails from my gmail box and answer them here in hopes that other folks will benefit from the discussion ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-01 Hewitt's Blog Book: A Helpful Resource For Business While I was away at the New Communications Forum 2005 last week, a package arrived from Amazon with my copy of Hugh Hewitt's new book on blogging, published on 13 January. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-01 Folksonomies Are A Boon For Marketers Wired: A growing number of websites with user-created content are relying on user-generated tags, also known as folksonomies, to let people know what's available. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-01 We Are "Go" For The Launch of MSN Search Microsoft announces the official launch of MSN Search today, an event so important to the company ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-01 Google Is Now A Domain Registrar According to Netcraft, Google is now an ICANN-accredited registrar of domain names, providing it with yet another potential line of expansion. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-01 Retailers Embracing Search Engine Advertising ClickZ has a report from the receing Shop.org conference and reviews retailers online advertising habits in 2004 and what they have planned for '05. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-01 Studying Paid Search Growth eMarketer has some interesting stats on paid search. Some of it, is eMarketers usual "take someone elses work and re-publish it" stuff, but there are some new views on old data. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-01 Ford Sold 210,000 Cars Via The Web Last Year According to InternetRetailer -- Ford, Lincoln and Mercury dealers sold more than 210,000 vehicles from FordDirect Internet referrals last year. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-01 Making Tablet PC Evangelism Wholly Transparent Having bloggers evangelize Microsoft's Tablet PC is what Steve Rubel suggests as an answer to Robert Scoble's vexation on the seeming invisibilty of the Tablet PC ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-01 BlowSearch Launches Secured Unified Messenger BlowSearch, a leading provider of Internet search tools, has launched the BlowSearch Secured Messenger, a Windows-based messaging program that encrypts information for secure online conversations. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-01 No G5 For New Apple PowerBooks Yesterday, Apple announced the release of their revamped PowerBook line. However, something was noticeably absent from the new line: a G5-equipped PowerBook. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-01 Firefox Delays 1.1 Update, Discusses 2.0 Mozilla's increasingly popular Firefox browser has been making quite a few waves since its official launch. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-01 Skype Launched For Linux, Mac Voice over IP is officially upon us. The ability to use your Internet connection to make free phone calls to other computers is quickly making its way into the mainstream. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-01 Does Can-Spam Stop Spam? Is the Can-Spam act doing what it was enacted to do? Is it making a dent in the amount of spam people receive? According to recent numbers, the answer is a resounding "no". Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-01 Microsoft has Massive Ad Campaign Planned for MSN Search More details are starting to come out about the immense advertising plans Microsoft has for MSN Search. According to Online Media Daily... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-01 Apple Vaults To The Top In Brand Recognition A survey of almost 2000 people has revealed Apple as the top, most recognizable brand name, replacing search engine Google. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-01 MSN: The Future of Search? Yesterday Microsoft announced the release version of its new MSN Search tool, and, as reported by CNet ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-01 Massive Ad Campaign Planned for MSN Search More details are starting to come out about the immense advertising plans Microsoft has for MSN Search. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-01 Search Engine Strategies New York You've got less than a month to sign-up for Search Engine Strategies New York Feb 28 - March 3. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-01 Googlegate Rumbles Around the Blogosphere The Inside Google weblog is speculating that when Google employee Mark Jen's blog was temporarily shut down last ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-01 Google Q4 Profit Jumps More Than Sevenfold The numbers are out ... According to Bloomberg, Google said fourth-quarter profit rose sevenfold as it sold more advertising. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-01 FT Columnist Says He Scans Blogs for Scoops James Altucher, a columnist from the Financial Times, writes that every day he reads several blogs ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-01 Google Founders' Award Worth Millions Google has begun giving out an award that could be worth millions of dollars to employees who work on outstanding projects. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-02-01 Advertisement TOP NEWS WebProBlog The official blog of WebProNews. 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