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Friday, October 12th, 2007Need more attention seeking elements for your website?
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-Engage site visitors on personal level
-Provide information on your products
-Persuade your visitors to take action
-Stand out from the competition
-The result? Increased time-on-site, message recalls, conversions and sales.
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eBay Hops on Social Network Money Train
Thursday, October 11th, 2007Despite lingering woes from its troubled Skype integration, eBay is again hoping to capitalize on a hot online trend. This time, the target is social networking, with the company today unveiling a new area of its site called eBay Neighborhoods.
Like the auction giant’s earlier purchase of Skype — seen as an attempt to integrate the [...]
Blinkx Launches Another Way for Video Publishers to Make Money
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Blinkx, a video search engine, has launched their advertising program to allow publishers to earn revenue on their uploads. Much like AdSense for YouTube, which was revealed earlier this week, Blinkx’s solution matches ads contextually with videos. Ads are displayed either in a transparent window at the bottom of the video screen, or in a [...]
Google Acquisitions by Year, 2001-2007
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Below, I’ve embedded a table of all the Google acquisitions from 2001-2007 (acquisitions, not investments). It’s essentially Wikipedia’s data on Google acquisitions, with a couple of additions from Stan Schroeder’s big list. Considering that even Wikipedia has missed out a couple, you can see how hard it is to get good data here. But the [...]
Mixaloo: Share Mixtapes and Make Money While Doing It
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Poughkeepsie, NY startup Mixaloo wants to make the experience of purchasing music online more social and rewarding, both emotionally and financially.
The company is taking a phenomenon - the mixtape - that has spanned several decades and media formats - 8 tracks, audio cassettes, CDs, and MP3 players - and bringing it to the web.
As a [...]
Google buys social mobile startup Jaiku
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007BREAKING NEWS: Jaiku, the Twitter (and Pownce)-like service from Finland, has been bought by Google.
Jaiku Founders Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen today posted this on their homepage:
“While it’s too soon to comment on specific plans, we look forward to working with our new friends at Google over the coming months to expand in ways we [...]
Beginning Ajax with PHP: From Novice to Professional
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007While the concept of Ajax contains a handy set of functionality for creating actions on the fly, if you are not making use of its ability to connect to the server, you are really just using basic JavaScript. Not that there is anything truly wrong with that, but the real power [...]
PHP Web 2.0 Mashup Projects Book Released
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Packt publishing recently announced the details of a new book designed to teach users how to create practical mashups in PHP. Written by Shu-Wai Chow, Web 2.0 Mashup Projects teaches users how to create PHP projects that grab and mix data from the likes of Google Maps, Flickr, Amazon, YouTube, MSN Search, Yahoo!, Last.fm, [...]
Facebook to major in foreign languages
Monday, October 8th, 2007So, what’s your major? If you’re Facebook it could soon be Spanish, French or maybe even Chinese. According to a report in AdWeek, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said the social networking site will need to cater to non-English-language markets if it is to keep up its rapid growth rate.
Zuckerberg called global expansion and the [...]
Facebook Music Rumors
Monday, October 8th, 2007AllFacebook is running a rumor that Facebook is prepping an online music store that will see it compete with Apple’s dominant iTunes. A competing story by PaidContent says the new product is to be a music platform for artists and will compete directly with MySpace, not iTunes.According to the posts, Facebook has been searching for [...]
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