Need your fix? Waiting with baited breath to get the inside scoop? Well, wait no longer. Here are this week’s Found Agency favourites. Interesting sites, sites that taught us something, stole our attention, sites we loved (or passionately hated) or sites we got stuck on.  We see a lot of sites in

I recently received an invitation to take part in the Beta test of Joost. If you haven’t heard the hype yet, Joost is essentially TV on demand on your computer, in fullscreen! First off, a big thank you to celebrity chef Benjamin Christie for the invitation. I’ve been trying to get one for the last

We spend our lives on the Web: client websites, their competitors’ websites, SEO peer discussion sites, other industry sites. And when the working day is done we spend a chunk of our playtime there as well… Are you curious about what has tickled our fancy? Here are some of the Found Agency

(Note: this Article was re-published in Marketing Magazine’s Digital Survival Guide 2007)
Successful marketing engages the right audience and engaging someone is often as simple as providing them with relevant information when they want it. Search marketing has proven the success of this extremely simple idea by delivering targeted text-based advertising to search engine results pages

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,

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

A stunning 74% of Orkut’s 14 million users say they are from Brazil, according to a Reuters news story. Unfortunately for Google, which started the free social networking service, an alarming amount of child pornography has surfaced on the site, and Brazilian authorities have asked Google Brazil to intervene to prevent the use of the

I don’t care how big you are - this kind of lawsuit has got to hurt: Blackberry has reportedly just settled a patent lawsuit for a cool US $612.5 million.
Owch.

Lovers of over-regulated, ultra-encumbered bureaucracy may like to consider a sea-change move to Italy - especially if you work in the online gambling field. News just out in the Roman empire: the Italian Government is about to place the onus on local ISPs to prevent local users from accessing online gambling sites.
In Australia and many

Not the biggest news in the search-o-sphere but it’s still a step toward search engines really going mobile: Vodafone is about to get Google search capabilities on its 3G mobile phone. Will be interesting to see how user friendly the device+search will be.