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Web Surfers Flocking to Obama, McCain Sites Releasing its monthly analysis of U.S. consumer activity at the top online properties for September 2008, researcher comScore says that visitation to BarackObama.com and JohnMcCain.com is surging as election nears. The tumultuous financial markets and the upcoming presidential elections were the main drivers of Internet traffic for the month. comScore’s Media Metrix service has ranked top 50 U.S. web properties for last month…Full Article |
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Harris will Work with Google for TV Ads Harris Corporation will integrate its media inventory service with Google TV Ads. The move is aimed to create a new sales channel for broadcasters, cable networks, and cable system operators. The Harris media inventory service provides an automated way for media companies to supplement existing revenue by making inventory available to new advertisers through Google TV Ads. The service is currently available for cable networks using Paradigm traffic and can be adapted to other Harris and third-party systems…Full Article |
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Get Pizza from FacebookThe offer is for pizza-hungry social networkers. Pizza Hut is unveiling a new application for Facebook Platform. It’ll allow you to order delivery of food without leaving the network. Of late, Pizza Hut has introduced several ways to order its pizza through the use of technology, including mobile web, text message, or from your desktop. The new application, named "Pizza Hut Interface," integrates with Facebook's main commerce system. Any Facebook user that becomes a Pizza Hut "fan" will be entered for a chance to win a $50 Pizza Hut gift card…Full Article |
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GoldSpot Offering Cue Zones for Mobile TV GoldSpot Media, which provides interactive advertising solutions for mobile video and broadcast, is offering Cue Zones support in miSpot, an end-to-end solution for interactive ad inventory and campaign management, dynamic spot creation, serving and analytics for mobile TV advertising. The solution aims to enable the mobile TV value-chain with high-value interactive impressions to offset declining ARPU from pure subscription models…Full Article |
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Brightcove Platform for Online Video Publishers Brightcove Inc. is offering Brightcove 3 online video platform, which aims to transform the way video is published and consumed on the Web. The new platform that comes as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) targets website producers who want to manage pervasive video content. Brightcove 3 is an open platform designed to simplify integration with third-party Web technologies…Full Article |
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Tata Comm. and Internet Systems Consortium to Offer
IPv6 Tata Communications, India’s leading communications company, and Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), a non-profit public benefit corporation, have joined hands to provide IPv6-based Domain Name System (DNS) hosting services for both enterprise and service provider customers. The IPv6, which will replace the current IPv4, is designed to allow more Internet addresses. The number of addresses available in the IPv4 framework is expected to meet the upper limit in the next few years…Full Article |
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Google AdSense for Games Google has decided to offer its ad network, AdSense, for online gaming market. It has announced the availability of AdSense for Games, a program that will integrate video advertisements into web-based games, complemented by text and image ads. For the new initiative, Google is working with select game developers and publishers including Konami, Playfish, Zynga, Demand Media, games network Mochi Media, as well as beta advertisers such as Esurance, Sprint, and Sony Pictures…Full Article |
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HP will Take MySpace Online to MySpace Offline The world’s leading social network, MySpace, has decided to add a new dimension to its service by integrating HP printing options across multiple areas on MySpace, including all photo sections. The aim is to enable millions of consumers to print the photo sections, personal profiles, blog entries, comments, and messages stored on their MySpace profiles and share them offline with others…Full Article |
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IBM Helps Boulanger Open 3D Internet Store Boulanger, a French retail company specializing in leisure, multimedia, and households products, has created a new distribution channel using 3D Internet and virtual worlds. It has taken IBM’s help to achieve this. The project, implemented for Englos Boulanger Store (near Lille, north of France), is part of Boulanger's multichannel strategy to develop a 3D universe to complement its stores and Internet site…Full Article |
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Corporate World Embracing Online Communities |
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How Much Can a Name Earn? Believe it or not: $750,000. This is the reserve price set for the domain name: rss.com. Sedo, a leading marketplace for buying and selling Internet domain names and websites, has been appointed by Torex Retail Holdings to oversee the sale of rss.com. With the development of Internet, Really Simple Syndication (RSS) has emerged as the industry standard term, which describes the delivery of automated news feeds over the web. Sedo is an acronym for Search Engine for Domain Offers…Full Article |
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Friendster Befriends Facebook Developer Community Friendster, a leading social network in Asia, has deployed support for the Facebook Platform as part of the Friendster Developer Program. Developers can now introduce the applications and features they've built on the Facebook Platform to Friendster's users – claimed to be 80 million. Friendster is now deploying both the OpenSocial and Facebook standards for the benefit of Friendster users and the developer community…Full Article |
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Baidu, UiTV Decide to Collaborate Baidu.com, Inc., the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, has entered into agreements with UiTV, a leading operator of Internet television platform in China. Under these agreements, Baidu will contribute assets related to the operation of Baidu Internet TV Channel to UiTV in exchange for an 8.3% stake in UiTV and US$15 million. So, Baidu Internet TV Channel will continue to be hosted on movie.baidu.com and it’ll be operated by UiTV. This channel is not related to video.baidu.com, Baidu's video search business…Full Article |
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Google, Bloomberg to Rope in More TV Ad Clients |
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Come2Play Comes with Game Widget Gallery Come2Play, a developer of white-label platform for social multiplayer casual flash games, has released a new game widget gallery for social community sites including news, sports, entertainment, dating, music, kids' portals, IM and forum platforms. While the idea is to help sites increase Web traffic and revenues, the widget galleries can be branded and spread to leading social networking venues like iGoogle, Facebook, MySpace, Orkut, and Google's Open Social partners…Full Article |
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Google, Chinese Search Engine Baidu at Top in AP Google Sites continued to lead the region with 33.5% of the more than 27 billion searches conducted in July. Baidu.com ranked second with 27.4% search share, followed by Yahoo! Sites in the third position with 19.7% share. This is revealed by comScore while releasing its ranking of the top search properties in the Asia-Pacific region based on data from the comScore qSearch 2.0 service. China hosts more searchers than any other country in the region, with 143.5 million searchers conducting 11 billion search queries in July…Full Article |
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Nokia Media Network Ropes in European Biggies Nokia has announced the expansion of the Nokia Media Network, a mobile advertising network that covers 100 million consumers around the globe. Nokia informs that some of the biggest players in media from across Europe have joined its Network. It allows advertisers to target consumers on the pages of mobile internet publishers, operator partners, and Nokia services, with click-through rates on the network averaging 10%...Full Article |
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WebMD to Acquire QualityHealth.com WebMD Health Corp., a leading supplier of health information, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire QualityHealth.com and its owner, Marketing Technology Solutions (MTS). The acquisition will add performance-based marketing programs to WebMD's extensive product portfolio and extend its offerings to the biopharmaceutical and healthcare markets. Using proprietary data analytic technology, QualityHealth.com delivers targeted health information and personalized programs to its consumer members…Full Article |
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Google Buys Korean Tatter Once again Chang-Won Kim, co-CEO of Korean blogging platform company TNC (Tatter and Company) is as excited as he was when his son Issac was born early this year. Now, TNC has been acquired by Google. In Kim’s words that he used on his blog: “We’ve been Googled!” Its blog service Textcube that integrates social networks with blogs, has been among the major factors for Google to pocket it…Full Article |
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Can You Count the Social Networks You Visit? No? AT&T’s "My Communities" can help. It’s a new downloadable application that lets you create and manage multiple social networking accounts through a single dashboard view on your mobile phone. It was developed by Intercasting Corporation, a mobile social networking company. The launch is in response to the fact that majority of social networking users maintain multiple accounts and that a growing number are maintaining their social networks primarily by using wireless handsets…Full Article |
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Mobile Content Goes Open with Thumbplay Thumbplay, a leading mobile entertainment company in the U.S., has rolled out the beta version of Thumbplay Open. It’ll allow independent content owners to upload, manage, and sell digital content to over 230 million mobile consumers in the U.S. While music and visual artists will be able to package and sell their own digital media to mobile customers. site publishers and application developers can sell mobile downloads from any Web site, application, or widget…Full Article |
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Verizon, Yahoo! Present Portal of Preference Verizon Communications and Yahoo! have signed a multiyear agreement to provide an integrated, co-branded Verizon-Yahoo! portal as a preferred starting point for new Verizon broadband subscribers. It’ll be offered as the first portal choice option for all new subscribers to Verizon's FiOS Internet and high-speed Internet services. Users will get Yahoo! Search, and co-branded e-mail, Instant Messenger, and Toolbar applications. It also offers access to Verizon.net and other select Verizon and third-party sites…Full Article |
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Google Chrome to Open Window to the Web Google’s web browser christened Chrome sees the light of day. Google has launched Google Chrome, a new open-source browser that promises better web experience for netizens. The beta version is rolled out in over 40 languages. Google Chrome is claimed to be a new approach to the browser software that combines simple user interface with sophisticated technology. It is being released in beta for Windows in over 100 countries. Mac and Linux versions will be available in the coming months…Full Article |
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Google to Unveil Google Chrome Open-source Browser Close on the heels of Microsoft’s introduction of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, a new version of its web browsing software, rival Google is introducing its browser named Google Chrome. It's scheduled for launch today (September 2). With this launch, the beta version of Google’s open-source browser will be available in over 100 countries. Google aims to usher in an evolution in the browsing technology by allowing users to handle rich media and interactive web applications as easily as they browse text pages on the web…Full Article |
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Russia Leads Europe for Internet Population Growth Russia is the fastest-growing Internet population on the continent, says research firm comScore from its study of the online behavior of European Internet audience. The total number of European Internet users grew 8% during the past year to 241.8 million visitors in June. Russia went up 27% to 17.5 million visitors, followed by France (up 21% to 31.5 million visitors), Spain (up 15% to 16.2 million visitors), and Ireland (up 15% to 1.6 million visitors)…Full Article |
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Ask.com Brings Ask Kids Search Engine Ask.com has announced the upgrade and expansion of its children's and tweens' search engine, Ask Kids (http://www.askkids.com/). The Ask Kids launch is part of Ask.com's strategy of using its core search technology to build vertical search properties such as RushmoreDrive.com, the search engine for the Black community, launched in April…Full Article |
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Widgets to Woo Social Networkers for hi5 Widgetbox, a widget community, has announced that hi5 social network has opened up its App Gallery to widgets created by the Widgetbox community, giving hi5's members access to thousands of widgets for every purpose. hi5 tapped Widgetbox's support for OpenSocial to get access to the increased choice of web widgets Widgetbox provides…Full Article |
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New Dimension for Social Networking Nurien Software, a leading developer and operator of social networking and online gaming services, is showcasing its next-Generation 3D social networking service platform at NVISION 08 happening from August 25 to 27 in San Jose, Calif. It’ll feature interactive pop culture graphics leveraging NVIDIA GeForce GPUs and PhysX technology. The display at NVISION targets American audiences who will get a sneak peak of a 3D social networking service platform coming to the U.S. next year…Full Article |
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Global Search Sites Dominate in India Google Sites ranked as the top search property in India with more than 1 billion searches conducted in June, representing 81% of the market. Yahoo! Sites ranked second with 9.4%, followed by Ask Network (1.9%), and Microsoft Sites (1.7%). Indian Internet portal Rediff.com ranked fifth with 1.5%. The data has come from digital market researcher comScore from its study of the online search market in India…Full Article |
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Local Promise for Online Advertisers Local media sites hold a distinct advantage when it comes to delivering results for advertisers, according to a new report by the U.S.-based Online Publishers Association (OPA). The study finds that consumers trust advertising on local newspaper, magazine, and television Websites, and are very likely to take action after viewing ads on these sites. Newspapers rank first, with 46% of consumers taking action after viewing a local ad…Full Article |
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Friendster Deploys OpenSocial Support Friendster, a leading social network in Asia, has announced that it has deployed the OpenSocial standard application programming interfaces (APIs) as part of the Friendster Developer Program. Companies and individual developers can now use the OpenSocial standard to introduce their applications or features to Friendster's users, which are claimed to be 75 million, around the world…Full Article |
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ITema Releases Sandbox Website Editor ITema, which offers dynamic Websites and online productivity tools for the small business owners, has rolled out ITema's Sandbox, its user-friendly Website editor for modx, as open source under the GNU license. Hosted free through ITema's developer portal at http://www.modxdev.com/, ITema's Sandbox will let modx developers field Websites that end-users can easily maintain…Full Article |
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Top 50 U.S. Web Properties Continuing the summer trends in Web usage observed last month, leisure-oriented categories demonstrated gains in July. They include travel, retail, tickets, and entertainment news. This is revealed by comScore from its monthly analysis of U.S. consumer activity at the top online properties for July 2008 based on data from the comScore Media Metrix service...Full Article |
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Fire Eagle Hovering Over the Web Nothing to get scared. Fire Eagle is, in fact, a new platform from Yahoo! to enable users to update and manage their location information across the Web. It’s an open platform available at http://fireeagle.yahoo.net. It was built at Yahoo! Brickhouse, a home for start-up projects. Since its private beta launch in March of this year, Fire Eagle has been integrated into over 50 live applications…Full Article |
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eCommerce Payment Option for Europe and China Wirecard and International Payment Solutions (Shanghai) have announced a strategic alliance to offer joint payment and risk management services for the European and Chinese eCommerce market. IPS claims to be the first payment company providing international credit card online real time payment processing services in China…Full Article |
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More Networkers for Social Networks As social networking sites are increasing their focus on cultural relevance, they have started attracting more users, says comScore in its study of worldwide usage of social networking sites. It says that Facebook and Hi5 more than doubled their global visitor bases during past year. The total North American audience of social networkers has grown 9% compared to a much larger 25% growth for the world at large…Full Article |
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IPv6 for U.S. Agency Level 3 Communications, an international communications and information services company, has announced that it has enabled the United States General Services Administration (GSA) to be IPv6 compliant as part of the GSA's preparations for the government mandated IPv6 platform. Level 3 says that GSA is the first civilian agency to be in compliance with the Office of Management and Budget mandate to utilize IPv6 network…Full Article |
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Calculate Cost Before You Travel Help is coming from Kayak.com, a Travel 2.0 site, which is offering tools to help consumers calculate the total cost of travel. The tools aim to educate travelers on the hidden costs of travel, enabling them to make more informed decisions about flights and rental car purchases. In response to the rising cost of renting a car, Kayak offers a Miles Per Gallon (MPG) filter and Fuel Cost Calculator…Full Article |
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Don’t Like Ads? Yahoo! Offers Opt-Out Yahoo! says it’ll offer users greater choice in how they manage their privacy online by enabling them to opt-out of customized advertising on Yahoo.com. This new option expands Yahoo!'s existing opt-out program for customized advertising served by Yahoo! on third party networks. The new opt-out option is expected to be available for consumers by the end of the current month, August...Full Article |
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CMP Asia Creates Online Trading Network for Fashion
Market CMP Asia, a trade fair organizer in Asia , has created an online platform -- FashionNetAsia.com. It’ll provide a trading network and marketing facility for global materials and components suppliers, designers, manufacturers, and buyers of the leather and fashion accessories trades. Buyers can look for latest designs and quality suppliers from all over the world and suppliers can hope to promote their companies and products using this channel…Full Article |
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Publicis Groupe to Acquire Performics from Google Digital communications major Publicis Groupe has agreed to acquire the Performics search marketing business from Google. The acquisition will strengthen Publicis’ search capabilities and particularly the VivaKi Nerve Center, which leverages the collective scale of Digitas, Starcom-MediaVest, Denuo, and Zenith-Optimedia to offer marketing platforms to businesses. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the third quarter of 2008…Full Article |
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Facebook Leapfrogs in Japan Facebook visitation more than tripled during the past year, while Mixi.jp was the most visited social networking destination in Japan with 12.7 million visitors in June. This is revealed by comScore, as it released a study of online social networking in Japan based on data from the comScore World Metrix service. Facebook.com recently launched a Japanese language version of the site…Full Article |
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Who’s Big on the Web in U.K.? |
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Your Friendly Neighborhood OnlineBusinesses are increasingly accepting the relevance of online communities to live and grow in today’s always-on marketplace. However, they’re facing an array of challenges while building such communities for competitive gains. So My Techbox Online decided to take expert advice from Ed Moran, director of product innovation, Deloitte Services LP. Here he simplifies the concept of online communities in an exclusive mail interaction with Rakesh Raman…Full Article
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