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

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

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.

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

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

… 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

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.

Anyone who closely follows the search industry knows that Google loves to pull an April Fools antic each year. And every year, the punters (and often the press) get sucked right in. Here’s the 2006 effort - Google Romance. Not as funny as some other years past IMO, but still nice of them to make

If you’ve ever had a theory on the next big business idea for Google, this article throws up some interesting conjecture.