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Michael Jackson, Twitter and TMZ 1 points posted 6 days ago Comment |
Following the tragic death of Michael Jackson last night, UK Internet visits to his homepage increased 17 fold. Yesterday www.michaeljackson.com was the 9th most visited Music website in the UK, and the highest ranked artist homepage. |
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Gas Pump Prices and Cost Sensitivity 1 points posted 6 days ago Comment |
According to a survey fielded by AAA, 37.1 million Americans will be traveling over the July 4th holiday weekend. According to AAA if this prediction proves true, it will represent a 1.9% decrease from the same week in 2008. |
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Amazon Pulls the Plug on NC Associates while Google and Apple Enjoy Sweet State Tax Deals 1 points posted 6 days ago Comment |
This morning, Amazon Associates in North Carolina are awakening to some bitter news. As of today, their accounts are officially closed. This is anticipation - yes, anticipation, not the actual passage - of a state budget that includes a provision requiring companies with affiliate programs to pay an internet sales tax. |
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7 Google Updates for the Week Ending June 26, 2009 1 points posted 6 days ago Comment |
It's been another week of mega Google updates. Several have been noteworthy-enough to get their own post. The leftovers are included below: |
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YouTube Gives New Look to Channels, Launches Trailers Page, and Sees Mobile Upload Increases 1 points posted 6 days ago Comment |
There's a bunch of news coming from YouTube in the past couple of days. First up, they're giving channels a makeover. Users can switch their channels over on their own now, but by July 15th all channels will be switched to the new look. |
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Google Thought Michael Jackson Search Surge Was Malware Attack 1 points posted 5 days ago Comment |
Twitter may have broke the story, but the increase in search traffic at Google Thursday was first seen as a malware attack Google admitted. |
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Aaron Wall Calls Out Google For Allowing Scam Marketing On PPC 1 points posted 5 days ago Comment |
Aaron Wall, author and founder of the SEOBook website, called out Google today for accepting PPC ads promoting bogus Google money making schemes. |
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China Blocks Google, YouTube This Week, Could It Become Permanent 1 points posted 5 days ago Comment |
Seems the Chinese government used the "Great Firewall" to block Google, YouTube and Gmail for a couple of days this week, Fox News reported. |
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Will Jackson Record Visits Change Bartz Attitude To Entertainment Stories? 1 points posted 5 days ago Comment |
During the Yahoo stockholders meeting which included yodelers, Regis Phelbin and a statement from CEO Carol Bartz "If I see another Britney Spears thing, I'm gonna throw up.", Michael Jackson was driving a record number of visitors to the site. |
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Do all those website “pre-surveys” really help? 1 points posted 5 days ago Comment |
Much hoopla has been made in the not-too-distant past about having a free little questionnaire on your site. It hits you when you enter with a question like this one: “After your visit, would you be willing to answer a few questions? |
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Koogle: The Kosher Search Engine 1 points posted 3 days ago Comment |
There is now an Israeli search engine - Koogle, developed for Jewish searchers that keeps kosher - well it shuts down on the Sabbath. |
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Did Email Hacker Bring About Gov. Sanford's Fall? 1 points posted 3 days ago Comment |
Seems the emails from the Argentine mistress of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford were distributed by a hacker, or so Sanford's mistress claims according to a report by FoxNews. |
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Gmail Increases Attachment Size To Entice Signups? 1 points posted 3 days ago Comment |
Last weekend Gmail increased the size of allowable attachments from 20 MG to 25 MG. One has to wonder if this was done mainly to garner more people to sign up for Google email service since they suggest changing from any service that will not accept attachments of that size. |
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What are Western Australian users doing online? Localising content 1 points posted 3 days ago Comment |
Following on from an excellent post by Robin on local Internet data in the UK, I thought I would share an Australian example of our ability to create mini-panels based on users with specific characteristics - in this case users in Western Australia. |
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Google Invites News Partners to Share Video 1 points posted 3 days ago Comment |
Google is inviting the more than 25,000 news sources that partner with them for Google News to share professional news videos to YouTube. They'll be able to host videos on YouTube for free once being approved as a YouTube Partner. |
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Microsoft, Publicis Form Ad Partnership; Is Sale of Razorfish Involved? 1 points posted 3 days ago Comment |
Microsoft and advertising agency Publicis have formed a advertising alliance, according to ClickZ. The partnership involves online advertising as well as a TV ad exchange. This could put a damper on Google's inititave to create a tv ad exchange. Google is also a partner with Publicis, with the companies having staff working out of each other's offices. |
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Google Testing Logo Sizes in Search Results? 1 points posted 2 days ago Comment |
Philip Lenssen over at Google Blogoscoped noticed a variance in the size of Google logos in the search results from browser to browser. |
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CSI, Simpsons Ad Rates Now Higher for Online than TV 1 points posted 2 days ago Comment |
For the first time in history, some television programming is demanding higher ad rates online than it is for tv. Popular shows such as CSI and Simpsons are among those seeing the higher ad rates at such sites as Hulu.com and TV.com, according to Bloomberg. |
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Google Launches Adwords API v2009 1 points posted 2 days ago Comment |
Thanks to Thomas Bindl at Refined Labs for pointing out the launch of a new Adwords API - v2009. Seems they have created an entirely new API that offers some interesting new services. |
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Michael Jackson, Twitter and Misspellings 1 points posted 2 days ago Comment |
It has been widely reported that Michael Jackson's untimely death caused a flurry of online activity last week, downing Twitter, Wikipedia and TMZ and even causing problems for Google News. |
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