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Month: June 2006

  • Text Links Tips

    Text links are loved by some and hated by others, but regardless of what your personal stance on the issue is text links are tools that should be, at the very least, understood…

  • Facebook: $750 Mil in Hand Worth More than $2 Bil in Sky

    It came up conversationally, but I believe I’m the only person at my company to have firsthand experience as a user of Facebook.com. It was kind of funny to have all these online advertising professionals asking me…

  • Ask Unveils Blog Search Feature

    Ask acquired Bloglines in February of 2005, but has so far kept both sites separate. However, with the release of a new blog and feed search function Ask has combined some of the technologies of both sites and is offering the…

  • The Funding of Adware

    In several past articles, I have often compared Adware to Email, two highly lucrative areas of Internet marketing whose unfettered growth ultimately led it to the brink of collapse. Similar to the complaints against email marketing…

  • 360Solutions – Hotbar + 180Solutions

    In March of this year Claria, originator and pioneer of the modern adware landscape, made the intriguing announcement that they planned to exit the adware business. They weren’t giving up tracking user behavior and serving…

  • PenManShipMate

    Perhaps it is the pending summer solstice, sans sassy lass girlfriend of mine that pushed me toward this impromptu penned prose. And no, after months yielding zero creative writing, I still do not have a single standard when it comes to mindless alliteration. I’ll fly to flashy south Florida and alliterate

  • General Motors as David: Slaying Goliath’s Smear

    It’s something the Public Relations Team at ICMediaDirect.com continually stresses to clients – a company must avail itself to corporate blogging. The interactive world saw the wisdom of this advice on Thursday, June 1st, when…

  • Agencies

    Man Settles Spyware Case for $2,000

    A New Hampshire man has reportedly settled charges by Microsoft and Washington State

  • ValueClick COO Resigns, New President Appointed

    Jeffrey A. Pullen has resigned as chief operating officer of online marketing firm ValueClick Inc., effective June 30. Separately, Tom A. Vadnais was named president of ValueClick U.S, effective immediately. Vadnais will report to chairman and CEO Jim Zarley.

  • Agencies

    J. Crew’s Income, Sales Increase

    J.Crew Group Inc. reported net income of $8 million for the first quarter, up from $5 million last year.