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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?
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
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
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. CLICK HERE to continue reading....
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. CLICK HERE to continue reading....
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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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
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 |
| 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. CLICK HERE to continue reading....
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.... CLICK HERE to continue...
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.
CLICK HERE to continue reading....
Internet Attack Called Broad and Long Lasting by Investigators
By JOHN MARKOFF and LOWELL BERGMAN
 AN 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. CLICK HERE to continue reading....
Pajamas Media - New Blog Advertising Networkby 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?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. CLICK HERE to continue reading....
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Illicit downloading is now tantamount to domestic terrorismA 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
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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. CLICK HERE to continue reading....
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. CLICK HERE to continue reading....
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
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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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.
Author: Leo Buscaglia
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
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Sunday, May 01, 2005
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views from they hand no noble action done.
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Blog and Ping – A Search Engine Traffic Bonanzaby 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
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 Businessby 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
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 Businessby 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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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 Onlineby 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
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
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
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 Thinkby 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 RSSby 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
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. CLICK HERE to continue reading....
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. CLICK HERE to continue reading....
What is RSS - For Marketersby 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
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 Marketersby 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
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 Tipsby 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
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 Askingby 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
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 Bloggersby 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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 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
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 Seedsby 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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