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What Podcasting Isn't

Monday, May 30, 2005
What Podcasting Isn't
By Shelly Palmer

An old friend of mine sent me an e-mail a few days ago that went something like this... "Maybe you can help me out. I'm looking for sponsors for our podcast show."


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Do You Podcast?

Monday, May 30, 2005
Do You Podcast?
By Cory Treffiletti

Podcasting is starting to get lumped in with blogs as one of the most significant hot new trends online. For those of you who don't know, podcasts are content delivered via the Web to your iPod that allow you to listen at your leisure. If you read the press, you might come to the conclusion that Adam Curry invented podcasting, but then again you might also believe that Al Gore invented the Internet.

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Google Debuts AdSense for RSS Feeds

Sunday, May 29, 2005
Google Debuts AdSense for RSS Feeds
by Shankar Gupta

GOOGLE TUESDAY RELEASED INTO BETA testing "AdSense for Feeds," a version of its program for publishers that allows Web site owners to place AdSense units into their RSS or Atom feeds, which will display the ads of advertisers that have purchased keywords via Google's AdWords system. The RSS ad units represent an additional distribution channel for Google's keyword advertising network, which was previously confined to ads placed on subscribed publishers' Web sites. In late April, Google rolled out a pilot program to test RSS ads, debuting the ad units on several sites, including Longhornblogs.com, a site devoted to information about the upcoming version of Microsoft Windows, code-named Longhorn.

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Google releases desktop search for businesses

Sunday, May 29, 2005
Google releases desktop search for businesses

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) late on Tuesday released a desktop search product for businesses with the aim of helping workers more quickly find information on the Web, in their computer hard drives and e-mail inboxes, as well as on corporate intranets.

Dave Girouard, general manager of Google Enterprise, said the business edition of desktop search is based on Google's consumer product but includes features particularly for business users.

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Firefox Users Monkey With the Web

Saturday, May 28, 2005

Firefox Users Monkey With the Web

By Ryan Singel

In a modern twist on the hot rodders of old, Firefox users are pimping the web, one browser at a time.

They've added a delete button and permanent search folders to Gmail, made their browsers show only print pages of online news stories, reconfigured all the content on a popular music website and removed Reuters stories on the Michael Jackson story from online newsreader Bloglines.

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Getting the Little Guy Online Is Still Tough

Saturday, May 28, 2005
Getting the Little Guy Online Is Still Tough
BY Danny Sullivan

We've written before about how search engines want to tap into local markets and include those small businesses that aren't even online in search results. It's a big challenge I recently saw illustrated firsthand.

My wife does garden design work. Her fencing contractor stopped by to talk about a job. She wasn't home, so I answered the door. While we were chatting, the contractor spotted "Inktomi Web Search" on an old vest I was wearing. He asked, "Oh, do you know about this Web search stuff then?"

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Pew: Bloggers Wield Power By Creating Buzz

Friday, May 27, 2005
Pew: Bloggers Wield Power By Creating Buzz
by Shankar Gupta

POLITICAL BLOGGERS WERE REMARKABLY EFFECTIVE at generating buzz and driving opinion during the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, but mass media still acts as the main information brokers, according to a joint study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project and BuzzMetrics released Monday. The study focused on the impact of major political blogs on the national agenda during the last two months of the presidential race of 2004. Researchers examined blogs such as Instapundit.com, LittleGreenFootballs.com, and Powerline.com on the right and DailyKos.com, OliverWillis.com, and Atrios.Blogspot.com on the left. For the study, researchers tracked conversations in a number of different channels--including political Web logs, the campaign sites of George W. Bush and John Kerry, several Internet forums and chat rooms, and media coverage from major mass media outlets like the New York Times, USA Today, and the Washington Post.

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Consultants: Politicos Coming Around On Online Ads

Friday, May 27, 2005
Consultants: Politicos Coming Around On Online Ads
by Shankar Gupta

POLITICAL CANDIDATES ARE STARTING TO believe that online advertising allows them far greater opportunities to extend reach and target constituents than do traditional ad campaigns, said panelists Monday at a conference in New York City sponsored by Personal Democracy Forum, a Web site dedicated to examining how technology and the Internet are changing American politics. What's more, politicos will continue to spend more online in the next election, predicted the panelists. Michael Bassik, a Democratic political consultant with Malchow Schlackman Hoppey & Cooper Partners, forecast that 2006 will a big year for online advertising in the political sector. "I think '06 is going to be insane," he said. "The amount of work we've done--it's more attention than I've ever seen paid to online."

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Study: Spyware Mystifies Consumers

Thursday, May 26, 2005
Study: Spyware Mystifies Consumers
by Wendy Davis

CONSUMERS WHO SPEND SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS of time online view ad-serving software as both pervasive and problematic, according to new research by The Ponemon Institute scheduled to be unveiled today. Yet, while consumers disliked adware/spyware, they also revealed that they didn't understand ad-serving programs. Many consumers admitted that they didn't know how such programs got on their hard drives; many also acknowledged that they downloaded free programs without reading the end-user license agreement. "It appears that people are just confused," said Larry Ponemon, chairman of the Ponemon Institute. "They don't understand spyware; they don't understand where it's coming from; they probably don't understand how it's being used."

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TV Guide Launches Broadband Shorts

Thursday, May 26, 2005
TV Guide Launches Broadband Shorts
by Gavin O'Malley

TV GUIDE--A PUBLICATION THAT HARKS back to simpler media days--on Monday announced that its Web site had undergone a broadband video makeover with the launch of TV Guide Spot. The on-demand video network features short-form, originally produced content, which is intended to entertain and--true to TV Guide form--help viewers navigate the topsy-turvy land of TV and media. "It was clear that, because over 80 percent of our 4 million users are now connecting over broadband, we had to start delivering richer video applications that our audience desires," Dave Bovenschulte, vice president of TV Guide Online, said.

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CNN To Cease Charging For Online Video

Wednesday, May 25, 2005
CNN To Cease Charging For Online Video
by Gavin O'Malley

IN AN EFFORT TO ATTRACT more online eyeballs, CNN.com today will unveil an initiative to make its video content available at no charge starting June 20. Access to CNN.com's broadband video--which is woven throughout the site on section fronts, special reports, and story pages--has run $4.95 a month since CNN initiated its subscription service in March 2002. The change reflects the background of CNN President Jonathan Klein--who came to the Turner Broadcasting unit from the FeedRoom, a company he founded that builds broadband Web sites and streams online content--although the Web project is being supervised by Susan Grant, executive vice president of CNN News Services.

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Worm, phishing scam hit IM services

Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Worm, phishing scam hit IM services

By Joris Evers
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

A new worm and a phishing scam are targeting members of the America Online and Yahoo instant messaging networks, security companies warned Tuesday.

In both cases, people receive an instant message with an apparent reference to the newly released "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" movie, encouraging them to click on a link, said Jon Sakoda, chief technology officer at IMLogic, an instant messaging security company.

"Both seek to capitalize on momentum and enthusiasm around the 'Star Wars' movie," he said.

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S.F. radio station starts airing podcasts

Wednesday, May 25, 2005

S.F. radio station starts airing podcasts

By Alorie Gilbert
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

San Francisco radio station 1550 KYCY-AM began airing programming on Monday created exclusively by listeners with podcast technology, as new and old media start to collide.

KYOURadio may well be the first station in the nation to adopt an all-podcast format, according to Infinity Broadcasting, the station's owner.

Podcasting emerged last year as an online phenomenon, allowing amateurs to distribute audio programming over the Web. Listeners can subscribe to certain programs, download them and play them later on digital music players such as Apple Computer's iPod.

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Study: Online Threats Still Exasperate Broadband Users

Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Study: Online Threats Still Exasperate Broadband Users
by Gavin O'Malley

COULD ANYONE IMAGINE A BREACH of security more galling than having their car broken into? Most broadband users, apparently, according to an Internet safety and security poll from SBC and Yahoo! released Thursday--which found that 70 percent of more than 12,000 U.S. respondents would rather have their Volvos violated than have their computers hacked or infected. The study highlights a consumer trend of greater awareness of Internet security threats, combined with a continued concern over knowing how to actually prevent security breaches online. Not surprisingly, results showed that 75 percent of respondents said it is extremely important to protect their computer from potential online threats.

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The Complete Podcasting Handbook for Busy Entrepreneurs

Tuesday, May 24, 2005
The Complete Podcasting Handbook for Busy Entrepreneurs

The Complete Podcasting Handbook for Busy Entrepreneurs is a 5 week course that, by its end, will have you recording, editing, mixing music, uploading files to your server, creating your RSS podcast feed, listed in all podcast directories and more. Participants receive:

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Gates sees mobile phones overtaking iPods - paper

Monday, May 23, 2005
Gates sees mobile phones overtaking iPods - paper
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Microsoft founder Bill Gates sees mobile phones overtaking MP3s as the top choice of portable music player, and views the raging popularity of Apple's iPod player as unsustainable, he told a German newspaper.

"As good as Apple may be, I don't believe the success of the iPod is sustainable in the long run," he said in an interview published in Thursday's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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Google Buys Into Ad-Supported Mobile Networking

Monday, May 23, 2005
Google Buys Into Ad-Supported Mobile Networking
By Pamela Parker

Google has acquired mobile social networking firm dodgeball.com in a move that could help the search player deliver location-based advertising on cell phones. Terms of the transaction weren't disclosed.

New York City-based dodgeball.com uses SMS (define) and MMS (define) technology to allow consumers to connect with friends and friends-of-friends at nightspots in 22 U.S. cities. Because users text dodgeball to indicate their locations, the company can use that information to target ad messages to users within a specific geographic area who have opted-in. The company says it can also target by date and time, weather conditions, or by city.

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AOL Debuts Free Web Mail

Sunday, May 22, 2005
AOL Debuts Free Web Mail
by Shankar Gupta
ONE WEEK AFTER RELEASING A beta upgrade to its free Instant Messenger service, America Online Wednesday launched yet another beta version of the service, this time adding free, ad-supported e-mail. The new beta version, which replaces the May 2 beta edition, allows AIM users to sign up for an e-mail address--their screen name at AIM.com--during the installation process. After doing so, users will be able to access their e-mail through the AOL browser window, which appears when an AIM user signs on.

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What's ahead for Net, digital entertainment

Sunday, May 22, 2005
What's ahead for Net, digital entertainment
The Internet and digital technology are changing entertainment at lightning speed. The coming years will scramble concepts of music-making, movies, TV networks and advertising. Last week, USA TODAY's Kevin Maney assembled a panel of some of the industry's most influential players to talk about what's ahead. The discussion took place in San Francisco in front of about 200 members of Silicon Valley's Churchill Club. Maney moderated. Following are excerpts.

Topic: Anyone can create media

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America Online to unveil free e-mail service

Saturday, May 21, 2005
America Online to unveil free e-mail service
By Kenneth Li

NEW YORK (Reuters) - America Online will begin offering a free e-mail service on Wednesday tied to its popular instant messaging service, ahead of a big relaunch of its free AOL.com Web site later this year.

AOL's free Web-based e-mail service is nearly a decade behind Microsoft's Hotmail service and several years behind a Yahoo E-mail offering.

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Firefox Launches Viral Campaign

Saturday, May 21, 2005
Firefox Launches Viral Campaign
by Shankar Gupta

THE FIRST-EVER FIREFOX AD CAMPAIGN launched last week with a set of viral spots created by French viral agency Pozz. The campaign, created for the Mozilla Foundation's European affiliate, was viewed more than 300,000 times over the weekend, according to Tristan Nitot, the co-founder of Mozilla Europe. Firefox, an open source browser available at no cost on Mozilla's Web site, has been edging upwards in market share, stealing users from Internet Explorer, the Web's dominant browser. By mid-April, Firefox had increased its market share to 10.28 percent from 4.23 percent, according to Janco Associates.

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Claria Unveils Plan To Personalize Content Based On Surfing Behavior

Friday, May 20, 2005
Claria Unveils Plan To Personalize Content Based On Surfing Behavior
by Wendy Davis

AD-SERVING COMPANY CLARIA PLANS TODAY to announce a new service that will allow publishers to customize pages for individual consumers based on the other Web sites they have visited. The program, dubbed "PersonalWeb," is based on principles similar to Claria's recently launched behavioral targeting feature, BehaviorLink, which looks at Web-surfing history to classify the 40 million consumers who have downloaded Claria's adware software into marketing buckets.

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Online Ad Budgets Stolen from Traditional

Friday, May 20, 2005
Online Ad Budgets Stolen from Traditional

According to a new five-year forecast from Forrester Research, online marketing and advertising will represent 8 percent of total advertising spending in 2010, rivaling ad spending on cable/satellite TV and radio. In addition, almost half of marketers plan to decrease spending in traditional advertising channels like magazines, direct mail, and newspapers to fund an increase in online ad spending in 2005.

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Final 'Star Wars' film leaked to the Internet

Thursday, May 19, 2005
Final 'Star Wars' film leaked to the Internet
Thu May 19, 2005 11:15 AM ET

By Adam Pasick

LONDON (Reuters) - The final chapter of the Star Wars saga has gone over to the Internet's dark side.

"Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" has been leaked onto a major file-sharing network just hours after opening in theaters, at a time when Hollywood is increasingly concerned about online piracy.

At least two copies of the film, which was first shown in theaters in the early hours of Thursday, have been posted to the BitTorrent file-sharing network -- a new and increasingly popular technology that allows users to download large video files much more quickly than in the past.

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Local TV Web Sites Form National Network

Thursday, May 19, 2005
Local TV Web Sites Form National Network
by Wendy Davis

IN AN EFFORT TO COMPETE with the largest general news sites, 147 online news sites--including 10 owned by ABC--have banded together with WorldNow, which provides technology for media companies' Web sites, to create an online advertising network. WorldNow and ABC will sell inventory for the new initiative, dubbed "Local Media Network," which will include sites owned by other major television networks, said John Watkins, president of national television sales of the ABC-owned stations. He added that the ABC sites in the network will be in different local markets than those owned by the other television networks.

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Google Starts Pilot Program to Serve RSS Ads

Thursday, May 19, 2005
Google Starts Pilot Program to Serve RSS Ads
by Shankar Gupta

GOOGLE THIS WEEK ROLLED OUT a test program to serve ads into RSS feeds, the search giant confirmed Tuesday. The program debuted on Longhornblogs.com, a blog devoted to information about an upcoming version of Microsoft Windows. Robert McLaws, one of the authors at Longhornblogs.com, posted on the blog early Tuesday morning that the sites' RSS feeds were now including ads served via AdSense. Although McLaws said on his blog that he couldn't release many details, he stated that if Google decides to launch this product, AdSense publishers could expect to see a wider-reaching public beta within the next few weeks. On the other hand, McLaws wrote, the ads in the test feeds could be temporarily removed, or may be discontinued altogether. He did not respond to requests for comment from OnlineMediaDaily.

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Yahoo! Beefs Up Video Search

Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Yahoo! Beefs Up Video Search
by Gavin O'Malley

YAHOO! THURSDAY ANNOUNCED NEW PARTNERS for its Video Search, including Buena Vista Pictures, CBS News, CMT, Discovery Communications, MTV, Reuters, Scripps Networks, and VH1. Also, Yahoo! said that it will allow independent video publishers to send links of their content via Really Simple Syndication for inclusion in its database. On Thursday Yahoo! also made Video Search generally available, after five months of beta testing. Jeff Karnes, director of media search at Yahoo!, said the feature was ready for "prime time" because of the comprehensiveness of the content through partnerships Yahoo! has established; technological improvements related to Yahoo!'s media crawler and its ability to extract meta data; and the open standards that it has established by supporting Media RSS, an extension to RSS.

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Big media companies weigh blog strategies

Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Big media companies weigh blog strategies
By Michele Gershberg

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Internet blog Engadget created a stir among digital game lovers when it wrote that Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) will give away thousands of its new Xbox video game consoles in a promotion with soda maker PepsiCo <PEP.N.

While neither company would respond to the report that first appeared in mid-April, dozens of gadget and video game blogs have picked up the item, speculating on everything from Microsoft's marketing strategy to the number of sodas one would need to slurp to win in the bottle-cap contest.

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Microsoft seeks 20 bloggers

Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Microsoft seeks 20 bloggers
By Frank Barnako, MarketWatch

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - The world's largest software company is following the tire tracks of Vespa U.S.A.

Microsoft wants to hire Web loggers to promote its next big thing, the release of the Longhorn operating system. Earlier this week, Vespa announced it wants to hire bloggers to create a buzz about scooters in general, and its products in particular. Microsoft (MSFT: news, chart, profile) wants to do the same thing for software....

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Your E-mail Suddenly FIlled with German Hate Messages? Here's Why

Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Your E-mail Suddenly FIlled with German Hate Messages? Here's Why
By E&P Staff

Published: May 16, 2005 2:30 PM ET

NEW YORK A new variant of the Sober spam worm is being blamed for the deluge of German spam messages carrying right-wing or neo-Nazi messages flooding in-boxes around the world this week. Once the attachment is opened, the worm uses its own e-mail engine to send itself to addresses harvested from the infected computer.

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Internet Attack Called Broad and Long Lasting by Investigators

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Internet Attack Called Broad and Long Lasting by Investigators

By JOHN MARKOFF and LOWELL BERGMAN


SAN FRANCISCO, May 9 - The incident seemed alarming enough: a breach of a Cisco Systems network in which an intruder seized programming instructions for many of the computers that control the flow of the Internet.

Now federal officials and computer security investigators have acknowledged that the Cisco break-in last year was only part of a more extensive operation - involving a single intruder or a small band, apparently based in Europe - in which thousands of computer systems were similarly penetrated.

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Pajamas Media - New Blog Advertising Network

Monday, May 16, 2005

Pajamas Media - New Blog Advertising Network

by Darren Rowse

Roger L. Simon has just posted anOpen Letter to All Bloggers announcing that he and a couple of others ...

... are going to start a corporate advertising service which will sell ads to advertisers ‘en masse' .

There are not too many details but it sounds like an interesting project. He's doing the project with Charles Johnson (of LGF) and Marc Danziger (of Winds of Change). If the email for more information is anything to go by the new projects come under the name of Pajamas Media. He writes:

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Spyware Goes Legit?

Monday, May 16, 2005

Spyware Goes Legit?

By Robert MacMillan
washingtonpost.com Staff Writer

Several high-profile businesses got some free advertising on the Los Angeles Times Web site today, but it's not the kind of exposure they're looking for. Times writer Joseph Menn reported that Mercedes-Benz USA and Yahoo, which build the kinds of engines we like in our garages and for our computers, have relied on spyware to get their brands in front of Internet users. And they're not the only ones.

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Sunday, May 15, 2005


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Illicit downloading is now tantamount to domestic terrorism

Sunday, May 15, 2005
Illicit downloading is now tantamount to domestic terrorism
A little sneaky law-making - and suddenly illicit downloading and file-sharing is a federal crime in the US

John Sutherland
Monday May 2, 2005
The Guardian


Interesting battle lines were drawn with the family entertainment and copyright bill, 2005, signed into law by President Bush last week. American drafters habitually smuggle in tough regulation under the skirts of something beguilingly innocent. On the face of it, the "Family Movie Act" (which the new measure incorporates) is all motherhood and apple pie.

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Are ad networks getting a free pass?

Sunday, May 15, 2005
Are ad networks getting a free pass?
By Bambi Francisco, MarketWatch


SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- I haven't received unsolicited telemarketing calls in months, partly because, I'm on a "Do not call" list.

Existing laws are supposed to protect us in a similar way from noxious advertisements and solicitations on our computers. In effect, they essentially say: "Hands off my computer, unless I consent."

But given the plethora of nonconsensual software applications that appear mysteriously on our computers, it seems obvious that the current laws need to be enforced more aggressively, and updated to keep pace with the advances of technology, and the devious minds that write these evil applications.

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Online ad sellers think local

Saturday, May 14, 2005

Online ad sellers think local

By Stefanie Olsen
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

To many Internet companies, Dwin Ngo represents the future.

The owner of a Los Angeles day spa, Ngo has routinely spent thousands of dollars on print ads, each without concrete results. But recently, she found a better deal with Insider Pages, an online social network and reviewers' guide to services in the L.A. area: Ngo pays only $2 each time someone calls her spa for an appointment from an 800 number set up by the service.

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If You Don't Like Your Results, Change Your Approach!

Saturday, May 14, 2005

If You Don't Like Your Results, Change Your Approach!

by Richard Weberg

If you continue to do what you have always done, you will continue to get what you have always gotten. The question is do you want to be a 95 % -er?....Or a 5 % -er? Statistically 95 out of every 100 typical Americans age 65 are either dead or broke. Only 5 % are financially independent or well off. What did they do different? This is the real question you must ask yourself if you want to be a 5 % -er. Internet Marketing is no different then the outside brick and mortar business or job. The same ugly statistics apply, 95 % of all internet businesses fail. So ask yourself the right questions.

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Internet Ad Spending Soars To $9.6 Billion

Friday, May 13, 2005
Internet Ad Spending Soars To $9.6 Billion
by Wendy Davis

ONLINE ADVERTISING REVENUES FOR THE year climbed to a new record of $9.6 billion--up 33 percent from 2003, and 19 percent from the previous record of $8.1 billion in 2000--according to a report released Thursday by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Web ad revenues for the last three months of the year contributed $2.69 to the annual total, representing a 24 percent increase from the $2.18 online ad spend in the fourth quarter of 2003. Yearly revenues climbed for the major categories of online advertising: search, which grew to $3.9 billion from $2.5 billion in 2003; display and sponsorhip, which climbed to $2.6 billion from $2.3 billion; classifieds, up to $1.7 billion from $1.2 billion; and rich media advertising, weighing in at $963 million, up from $727 million.

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Kickin' It Daily - Motivational Quotes - May 2005

Friday, May 13, 2005


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Tuesday, May 31, 2005
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
Author: Source Unknown

Monday, May 30, 2005
War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.
Author: Walter Bagehot

Sunday, May 29, 2005
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton

Saturday, May 28, 2005
Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.
Author: Geoffrey F. Abert

Friday, May 27, 2005
A person's character is measured by what he does for all creatures, be they animal or human being. Beyond that, when you help those who can do nothing for you in return, then the blessings will come.
Author: Nani Aki Linder

Thursday, May 26, 2005
Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were.
Author: George E. Bergman

Wednesday, May 25, 2005
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Tuesday, May 24, 2005
The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.
Author: Louis A. Allen

Monday, May 23, 2005
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.
Author: Ara Parasheghian

Sunday, May 22, 2005
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement -- and we will make the goal.
Author: Jerome P. Fleishman

Saturday, May 21, 2005
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Author: Elbert Hubbard

Friday, May 20, 2005
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
Author: John Petit-Senn

Thursday, May 19, 2005
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.
Author: Alfred North Whitehead

Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
Author: Elizabeth Harrison

Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Author: Mark Twain

Monday, May 16, 2005
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sunday, May 15, 2005
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.
Author: Booker T. Washington

Saturday, May 14, 2005
A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
Author: Unknown

Friday, May 13, 2005
Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
Author: Wayne Dyer

Thursday, May 12, 2005
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
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Wednesday, May 11, 2005
There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.
Author: George M. Adams

Tuesday, May 10, 2005
I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
Author: Muhammad Ali

Monday, May 09, 2005
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Sunday, May 08, 2005
Lord, Make me an instrument of Your peace.
Author: St. Francis of Assisi

Saturday, May 07, 2005
A man is but what he knows.
Author: Francis Bacon

Friday, May 06, 2005
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it. Author: James Truslow Adams

Thursday, May 05, 2005
Those who trust us educate us.
Author: T.S. Eliot

Wednesday, May 04, 2005
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Author: Mark Twain

Tuesday, May 03, 2005
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Monday, May 02, 2005
Quote: Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.
Author: Elbert Hubbard

Sunday, May 01, 2005
Quote: Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from they hand no noble action done.
Author: Joseph Joubert


 
 
 
 

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Blog and Ping – A Search Engine Traffic Bonanza

Friday, May 13, 2005

Blog and Ping – A Search Engine Traffic Bonanza

by John Jantsch

Everyone is talking about blogs these days as the magic money-making marketing tool. Some of the hype may actually be true, but I suggest you cut through most of what you read about blogs just long enough to understand why every business needs a blog.

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Infinity Radio To Debut Consumer-Generated Content

Thursday, May 12, 2005
Infinity Radio To Debut Consumer-Generated Content
by Gavin O'Malley

INFINITY BROADCASTING WEDNESDAY SAID IT plans to bring podcasting mainstream by launding the first radio station comprised entirely of listener-created podcasts by May 16. The station, KYOURadio, will be available in San Francisco at 1550 KYCY-AM--which until now was devoted to talk-radio--and streamed online at www.kyouradio.com. Both the AM broadcast and the online stream will include ads. Infinity said it is considering the launch of a new ad program within the next year, which will allow marketers to place audio ads in podcasts on the Web. Analgous to Google's keyword-driven search ads, the system would use podcast metatags to match a podcast's audio content to corresponding ads.

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Become a Star: 10 Do-It-Yourself Publicity Techniques to Build Buzz for Your Online Business

Thursday, May 12, 2005

Become a Star: 10 Do-It-Yourself Publicity Techniques to Build Buzz for Your Online Business

by Shannon Cherry

Public relations is popular because it is very cost-effective and it works. If you send out one press release, for example, and it gets into print, it could generate more interest in your product or service.

Businesses that want a leg up on their competition need to focus on boosting their public relations (PR) efforts. This is especially important for online businesses. It keeps them from going under when the economy is weak, and gets them ahead of their competitors when sales start picking up.

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Ads That Know What You Want

Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Ads That Know What You Want

By Joanna Glasner

SAN FRANCISCO -- Picture this: You're shopping online for a new minivan, surfing automaker websites and buying guides. You then head to the homepage of your local paper to check out the headlines, and at the top of the page is an ad for a local car dealer, offering rebates and low financing on new minivans.

If you're like many web users, you probably find it creepy that your local paper knows you're looking for new wheels. Even so, advertisers are betting you're far more likely to click on the car dealer's ad than a random banner for a dating site or DVD rentals.

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Your Niche Is Your Business

Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Your Niche Is Your Business

by Randy Justason

I see it every day on the internet, people joining MLM or affiliate programs, getting really excited, posting a few free ads and building their very own web sites.

Great, it's good to see excitement in home business entrepreneurs. Unfortunately that enthusiasm often fades as quickly as it was acquired. And why is that?

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Co-op World's Virtual Summer Sizzler Expo

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Hello Online Marketers!
I wanted to let you all know that Co-Op*World's Virtual Summer Sizzler Expo will be held on June 3rd, 4th and 5th, and the
Dogs Expo is being held the next weekend, June 10th, 11th and 12th.
These are 2 net events you don't want to miss! Bring your family, friends, business associates and your pets for two fun-filled weekends of Live Seminars, Guest Speakers, Exhibitor Booths, Live Entertainment, Celebrities, and Door Prizes! Stroll through our 3-D Virtual Expo Hall! Admission is Free!!
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Building Community Websites = Success Online

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Building Community Websites = Success Online

by Martin Lemieux

We have conditioned our minds all of our lives to accept advertising billboards, radio ads, newspaper ads, commercials, and all sorts of other advertising materials wherever we go. The same applies on the internet. This 'conditioning' has enabled us to see past all the ads and look directly for the pertinant information that we are seeking.


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Podcasting Killed the Radio Star

Monday, May 09, 2005

Podcasting Killed the Radio Star

By Xeni Jardin

Podcasting will soon break out of the "pod" and onto the public airwaves.

The world's first all-podcast radio station will be launched on May 16 by Infinity Broadcasting, the radio division of Viacom.

Infinity plans to convert San Francisco's 1550 KYCY, an AM station, to listener-submitted content. The station, previously devoted to a talk-radio format, will be renamed KYOURadio.

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Small Business: To Blog or Not To Blog

Monday, May 09, 2005
Small Business: To Blog or Not To Blog
By Michele Schermerhorn

A weblog, or "blog" started out as a personal journal on the Web. They have evolved far beyond that initial concept. Now, weblogs cover as many different topics as there are people writing them. Some blogs are highly influential and have readership which exceeds most traditional newspapers, while others are mainly intended as personal journals to be shared with only family and friends. So, should you consider blogging?
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Yahoo! News Director Foresees Friendly Coexistence With Media Companies

Sunday, May 08, 2005
Yahoo! News Director Foresees Friendly Coexistence With Media Companies
by Gavin O'Malley

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PUBLISHERS, ADVERTISERS, and readers that at one time sustained news companies is now obsolete, according to Neil Budde, the founding editor of The Wall Street Journal Online, who was hired by Yahoo! as its news director in November. Budde spoke to OnlineMediaDaily Thursday about Yahoo!'s revamped news site, and the company's role in the evolving news business. "The days when people bought a self-contained package are starting to erode," said Budde. "And because a lot of the economics of the industry were tied to that packaging, the relationship between publisher, advertiser, and reader will never be the same."

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How To Get Your BLOGS Site Feed Listed In Yahoo! and MSN Within HOURS, Is Easier Then You Think

Sunday, May 08, 2005

How To Get Your BLOGS Site Feed Listed In Yahoo! and MSN Within HOURS, Is Easier Then You Think

by Cory Threlfall

BLOGS... they seem to be the talk of the Internet marketing world these days, and for good reason.

Not only do the Search Engines love them for there Content Rich pages, you also have the ability to plug your Blogs 'Site Feed' into an RSS feed and then have it syndicated to thousands of websites and directories giving your content more exposure to your target audience

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Get Better Search Engine Rankings with RSS

Saturday, May 07, 2005

Get Better Search Engine Rankings with RSS

by Satyajeet Hattangadi

RSS is the latest craze in online publishing. But what exactly is RSS?

RSS or Rich Site Syndication is a file format similar to XML, and is used by publishers to make their content available to others in a format that can be universally understood.

RSS allows publishers to 'syndicate' their content through the distribution of lists of hyperlinks.

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An Early Peek Into the Vlogosphere

Saturday, May 07, 2005
An Early Peek Into the Vlogosphere
BY Mark Kingdon

n January of this year, the first video blogging (or vlogging) conference was held in New York City. But, unsurprisingly, most people attended vloggercon 2005 online.

According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, an estimated 8 million Americans have blogs and 32 million have read a blog, up 58 percent from just 10 months earlier. Technorati, a blog search engine and measurement firm, reports roughly 23,000 new blogs are created every day.

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Netscape pioneers launch free content network

Friday, May 06, 2005

Netscape pioneers launch free content network

By John Borland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Netscape pioneers Mike Homer and Marc Andreessen are back on the start-up scene, launching a TiVo-like online network for distributing and viewing public TV, radio and grassroots media.

The free service, called the Open Media Network, is aimed initially at letting traditional public broadcasters and independent filmmakers distribute their work on the Net. But it will also allow ordinary computer users to publish their files.

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What is RSS - For Marketers

Friday, May 06, 2005

What is RSS - For Marketers

by Rok Hrastnik

RSS is a technology that has the potential of overcoming many of the internet marketing challenges we are facing today and becoming a preferred tool to get 100% of your content delivered to your subscribers, as well as a tool to help you achieve top position search engine rankings.


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Search Battle Heads to Video

Thursday, May 05, 2005

Search Battle Heads to Video

By Joanna Glasner

As millions of broadband subscribers who missed a wardrobe-malfunction moment on TV can attest, the internet can be a convenient resource for finding much-talked-about events on video.

Whether it's Janet Jackson's Super Bowl breast exposure or The Daily Show host Jon Stewart's explosive appearance on a political talk show, video clips of high-profile moments have sent millions of net users scrambling to search engines for footage.

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BLOGS! What They Are... And WHY They're Becoming A POWER TOOL For Internet Marketers

Thursday, May 05, 2005

BLOGS! What They Are... And WHY They're Becoming A POWER TOOL For Internet Marketers

by Cory Threlfall

BLOGS! What a crazy name for the 'NEWEST' Internet marketing trend to hit the Internet.

But, I like it.

It makes this new form of communication kind of mysterious in a way, though, BLOGS have been around for quite some time and only recently have been recognized as a VERY valuable asset to Internet marketers.

Recently, I was visiting some Internet marketing related Forums and noticed many of the threads having similar 'Subjects' saying... 'What the heck are BLOGS?'

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Podcasting: Making Waves

Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Podcasting: Making Waves
Sam Whitmore

Just when we grasped what blogging was all about, along came podcasting, which in some ways is even more disruptive and exciting as blogging.

Being a podcaster myself, I've seen firsthand the business and legal chaos podcasts have created. As you'll see in this column, perhaps they might soon create some political chaos too.

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Astonish your Customers With These Customer Service Tips

Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Astonish your Customers With These Customer Service Tips

by Catherine Franz

Customer service today is getting worse. Win customers over and you build your business for life. Proven by the leader in the industry -- Nordstrom's. Nordstrom's customer service keeps improving and they continue to drive others out of business because of it. Here are six ways you can thrill customers and snatch a larger market share from your competitors.

...Offer to do an extraordinary favor

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Revised Ad Outlook Upgrades Online, Predicts It Will Be Fastest Growing

Tuesday, May 03, 2005
Revised Ad Outlook Upgrades Online, Predicts It Will Be Fastest Growing
by Joe Mandese

ONE OF THE WORLD'S BIGGEST media buyers Monday revised its outlook for U.S. ad spending upward, especially for two of the newest media: online and cinema advertising. Both of those media are now expected to grow at much higher rates than the overall advertising economy through 2007, and much of their growth will come at the expense of traditional media, especially broadcast TV, Publicis' ZenithOptimedia Group predicted in its updated forecast. The agency, which in recent years has tried hard to position itself alongside Interpublic's Universal McCann unit as a leading ad industry forecaster, said its improved outlook for online ad spending reflects its "enhancements as a marketing medium and higher overall confidence in online media in general."

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I Hate Asking for Referrals! – 6 Proven Methods for Getting a Flood of Referrals Without Asking

Tuesday, May 03, 2005

I Hate Asking for Referrals! – 6 Proven Methods for Getting a Flood of Referrals Without Asking

by David Frey

Yes, I admit it - I hate asking for referrals - don’t you? Be honest. Doesn’t your heart start to pump faster and hands start to sweat even thinking about asking a customer for a referral?

If you’re like me, you hate to impose on others. Asking for names of friends or family members almost makes you feel as though you’re selling a multi-level marketing opportunity.

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LinkedIn Launches B2B Local Search

Monday, May 02, 2005
LinkedIn Launches B2B Local Search
by Shankar Gupta

LINKEDIN CORPORATION TODAY IS EXPECTED to announce the launch of a new business-to-business local search offering, "LinkedIn Services," designed to connect its network of 2.4 million professionals and business owners with in-area service providers like lawyers and accountants. "When you're looking for business service providers, in addition to just finding someone on the Internet that looks like they have a nice page, you also look for recommendations," said Konstantin Guericke, LinkedIn's co-founder and vice president of marketing. "In this kind of category, you're not just looking for any recommendations, you're looking for recommendations from people you know and trust."

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10 Tips for Bloggers

Monday, May 02, 2005

10 Tips for Bloggers

by Sharon Housley

There are no hard and fast rules on how to blog. Having said that, bloggers will likely increase their exposure by following some simple blog guidelines.

1.) Stay on topic.
Opinions are generally accepted but the content of the items in the blog should all relate to a general theme. Unless you have an uncanny knack for wit, humor or cynicism, the majority of your readers will be interested in the content that relates to a specific defined theme or loosely defined area of interest. Most readers won't care that you eat Cheerios for breakfast. They may, however, be interested in the fact that vinegar takes out stains and that toilet paper rolls make great wreaths. Define a topic and stick to it. This will ensure that you create a loyal following of interested readers.

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Education in Audio

Sunday, May 01, 2005

Hello Online Marketers! Here is another adventure in audio -we're learning all the time how to fine tune these. Come join us to learn about online technologies as they evolve and how to care for your pets while you're at it!

This week's All God's Creatures Education audio pet care class on Nutrition for Dogs and Cats by Dr. Gardner, DVM. Class starts at 9PM EST on May 5, 2005.

Nutrition for Dogs and Cats


Instructor: Dr Anna Maria Gardner MA Vet.MB MRCVS

Dr Gardner,located in Washington State...via England, Hong Kong, Thailand, Florida and Texas is a holistic veterinarian, certified in Veterinary Homeopathy and Veterinary Acupuncture.
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Yahoo!: Internet Users 'Mesh' Web With Television

Sunday, May 01, 2005
Yahoo!: Internet Users 'Mesh' Web With Television
by Wendy Davis

MANY CONSUMERS WITH BROADBAND ACCESS view the Web as an adjunct to television--a medium that provides detailed information about TV programs, plots and characters, according to a new study commissioned by Yahoo! and Mediaedge:cia. Nearly four out of 10 consumers with broadband access (37 percent) look up Web sites related to TV programming, according to report, "It's a Broadband Life," expected to be unveiled today. For the study, Forrester Research surveyed 3,207 U.S. adult consumers online, and researchers from HeadlightVision conducted in-home interviews in 17 households.

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Building An Online Business Is Like Starting A Garden, You First MUST Plant Your Seeds

Sunday, May 01, 2005

Building An Online Business Is Like Starting A Garden, You First MUST Plant Your Seeds

by Corey Threlfall

I know what your thinking, 'what the heck does starting a garden and planting seeds have to do with building an online business?'

Well... it all depends on how you perceive what I'm about to share with you.

I'm merely using that headline as an analogy to a Powerful marketing strategy that I use to send HIGHLY targeted traffic to my online business... Effortlessly, that almost every website on the Internet is hungry for.

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