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Archive for April, 2006

Is Google getting serious about IP-TV?

April 12th, 2006 Posted by : Found Agency

If so, they may want to place several more Interactive TV job ads on their site, like this one (the first that I’ve heard of). If Google is to take on Apple, Fox and other big TV players in the race to IP-TV and killer internet TV apps then they surely will need a lot

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So… what kind of industries work best with Adwords?

April 11th, 2006 Posted by : Found Agency

I certainly wouldn’t have thought snack foods were one of the leading categories. But then again, after seeing this “Sponsored link” ad alongside a message in my Gmail account, I could be wrong. It’s Adwords for Cheese Rings. Hope they get some extra traffic from this post

Posted in: ppc, sem

EuroLab Research: Large media agencies do not cater sufficiently in "new media" expertise

April 10th, 2006 Posted by : Found Agency

According to a new research study released by EuroLab, less than 28% of marketing managers are “satisified” with the new media “expertise” of traditional big media agencies. The study revealed that while Big Agencies had touted their expertise in internet and mobile phones for several years, their new media service offerings didn’t rate against smaller

Posted in: sem

Could this become Google Dating?

April 9th, 2006 Posted by : Found Agency

If you read my April Fool’s Day post a few days ago, you would’ve heard about Google’s fictitious new dating product, Google Romance. Well, is Google Dating actually fictitious or not?
As of this past weekend, dating personal ads began appearing on Google Base. Believe it this time.

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San Francisco city signs free wireless deal with Google / Earthlink

April 8th, 2006 Posted by : Found Agency

The city of San Francisco has signed a landmark deal to provide free wireless broadband access to its residents. Under the deal, which is provided via Google and ISP provider Earthlink, San Francisco residents will have access to a free, but ad-supported, wireless broadband service. Faster wireless broadband speeds, presumably also ad-free, would be available

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Latest trends in online traffic momentum - it’s about "community"

April 8th, 2006 Posted by : Found Agency

If you read through this Washington Post story you will probably note there is a trend of which types of websites experienced the biggest traffic increases over the past 12 months: community websites.
Of the 50 biggest websites in the world, the biggest movers-and-shakers were sites involving social networking, blogging and or local information (ie, MySpace,

Posted in: news & trends

MySpace cleans out the muck - to attract mainstream ad dollars?

April 7th, 2006 Posted by : Found Agency

MySpace.com continues to evolve down the path to mainstream media culture. According to a recent conference speech by Fox Interactive’s Ross Levinsohn, approximately 200,000 profiles were recently sent to the site’s quarantine bin for having content deemed unsavoury or unsafe. What does “unsavoury” mean? Basically, who know? But I assume it means anything filled with

Posted in: news & trends

While I’m feeling happy…

April 5th, 2006 Posted by : Found Agency

… I thought I’d also give this site a quick shout-out: Squidoo.com. It’s a little bit like a fan site: you choose your topic of interest (eg, scuba diving), then add links to sites that you think other people interested in your topic would like. It’s a little like the link directory style of site

Posted in: random

Nice little free photo site

April 4th, 2006 Posted by : Found Agency

I like simple software. The easier to use, the better. That’s why I’ll give this happy little photo-sharing site a bit of link-love. It isn’t huge like Flickr or Picasa. Instead it’s just a small free service with nice photos to boot. Congrats to those who put it together.

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