"Obama Wins 'Rock The Vote' TouchTone Survey
by Gavin O'Malley, Tuesday, May 27, 2008 7:00 AM ET
Among other constituencies, Barack Obama appears to have won over the nation's bar crowd--the majority of which said they'd rather toast a win with Obama as opposed to Hillary Clinton or John McCain, according to the latest Rock the Vote survey."
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Obama Wins 'Rock The Vote' TouchTone Survey - 05/27/2008
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Official Google Blog: Introduction to Google Search Quality
Official Google Blog: Introduction to Google Search Quality: "Search Quality is the name of the team responsible for the ranking of Google search results. Our job is clear: A few hundreds of millions of times a day people will ask Google questions, and within a fraction of a second Google needs to decide which among the billions of pages on the web to show them -- and in what order. Lately, we have been doing other things as well. But more on that later."
Online Pizza Gets Faster, Easier with Widgets
Online Pizza Gets Faster, Easier with Widgets: "Escalating the arms race in the online pizza category, both the Pizza Hut and Papa John’s chains this week rolled out desktop widgets that let users place their online orders without surfing to the companies’ Web sites."
Microsoft Advertising Debuts
The Microsoft Advertising brand, which will be pushed by the company's advertiser and publisher solutions (APS) group, includes the ad serving tool Atlas, the ad exchange AdECN, the ad platform adCenter and the in-game ad firm Massive.
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Google Says It Will Defend Competitive Rationale of a Yahoo
How can Google, the Internet search and advertising giant, contend that teaming up with Yahoo in search ads would not invite an antitrust challenge?
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Microsoft Dangles Rebates for Web Shoppers
Attention shoppers: There may be bargains available at Microsoft's search engine.
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Google's 'Analytics Evangelist' Explains Why Websites 'Suck'
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AdAge.com) -- Avinash Kaushik thinks one of the reasons why so many websites "suck" today is because of the hippo -- as in the "highest paid person's opinion."
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WSJ.com - More Digital Ads Are Produced Offshore
Big marketers are increasingly shipping off the creation of Web ads to little-known businesses in places like Costa Rica and Bulgaria. (NOTE: I know people that can do this.. in Texas)
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Which Came First, or Does It Even Matter?
McDonald’s has just introduced a Southern Style Chicken Sandwich — one that looks suspiciously like the signature sandwich of the Chick-fil-A chain.
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- ummm had one for lunch... chick-fil-a is still better..
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
News unfiltered: YouTube embraces citizen journalism
With an official new channel for reports from people around the world, YouTube hopes to make itself the online home for citizen journalism. Great power for the masses, however, brings great responsibility.
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Monday, May 19, 2008
'Microhoo' is an also-ran to Google
Microsoft is talking with Yahoo again. But so what? A merger will happen eventually and the longer this soap opera goes on, the stronger Google will get.
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Social Network Advertising Lessons
Social wunderkinds like MySpace and Facebook face a dilemma: advertising in these environments is a decidedly hit-and-miss affair. For all their potential, they're tough for advertisers to figure out.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
He Said, She Said In Google v. Facebook
More details on Facebook’s banning of Google Friend Connect from the Facebook API earlier today. Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly and Google’s Director of Engineering David Glazer talk about the banning to get a fuller picture of the conflict.
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Final Can-Spam Regs Define 'Sender,' Preserve 10-Day Opt-Outs - 05/13/2008
MediaPost Publications - Final Can-Spam Regs Define 'Sender,' Preserve 10-Day Opt-Outs - 05/13/2008: "Final Can-Spam Regs Define 'Sender,' Preserve 10-Day Opt-Outs
by Wendy Davis, Tuesday, May 13, 2008 8:00 AM ET
After mulling new rules for e-mail marketers for three years, the Federal Trade Commission Monday issued final Can-Spam regulations that spell out how to determine which marketer is the 'sender' when more than one advertises in the same message."
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Record-Breaking 2 Hour House Event Triggers New National Business Performance Practices
DALLAS, May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Starting a business in today's economy is challenging. Eighty percent of entrepreneurial efforts fail within the first five years, proof that building a business rather than starting one is the true test of a successful entrepreneur. Six Sigma and Malcolm Baldrige programs provided a peek into performance improvement processes adopted by Fortune 1000 type firms. However, 98% of the companies in America are smaller and have yet to embrace the effective but cumbersome (and often cost-prohibitive) services delivered by these two business performance improvement models.
Today, entrepreneurs have an alternative performance enhancement program they can afford, they can understand, and they can easily apply: the 2 Hour House Business Performance Blueprint (BPB), http://www.2hourhouse.com. It delivers a simple, tested approach for building a company by uniting meaning to mission, people to purpose and action to impact, to drive innovation, excellence and speed.
Leaving Las Yahoo: Microsoft's $5 Billion Mistake?
If Microsoft's walkaway from the Yahoo deal is indeed a ploy to save $5 billion, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may have proven himself pennywise and pound foolish. He was prepared to spend billions to finally make Microsoft a serious rival to Google. For a bit more, he may have destroyed Microsoft's chance to get there.
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008
The 75 Skills Every Man Should Master
A man can be expert in nothing, but he must be practiced in many things. Skills. You don't have to master them all at once. You simply have to collect and develop a certain number of skills as the years tick by. People count on you to come through. That's why you need these, to start.
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Man Stabbed While Waiting in Queue to Buy Grand Theft Auto 4
A man was stabbed last night while queueing to buy one of the first copies of controversial new video game Grand Theft Auto 4. Shocked fellow gamers - including young children - initially thought the stabbing was part of a stunt put on by shop bosses to whip up excitement about the title's release.
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Think this is photoshop? Think again.
If you’re thinking this is Photoshop trickery, think again. This is a wire frame model of Toyota Corolla, rendered entirely with wires by Benedict Radcliffe. This work is used on numerous ad-campaigns by Japanese Densu Inc. Unique, creative, and very cool.
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Opt-in Email Best Practices
Re-opt-in campaigns are useful for cleaning old or unengaged subscribers off your list by confirming which subscribers want to continue receiving marketing emails. This results in a healthier list and increased return on investment.
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