Articles Archive for October 2008
Facebook Connect Wordpress Plugin
SixJumps developed a plugin for Wordpress that allows direct integration of blogs developed with Wordpress and facebook using Facebook Connect. A first test you can see in this blog. This is an easy and quick …
Layoffs: Crisis on Tech Startups
This has been a brutal month or so for tech layoffs. According to our Layoff Tracker, there have been 19,683 job eliminations at tech companies announced since mid-September, and we’re not even counting the 24,600 …
SEO: can help resolve online PR crises
Planning for the possibility of negative online press through search engine optimisation (SEO) can do much to minimize the potential damage caused by such as scenario.
This is according to experts speaking to Revolution, who explained …
U.K. E-commerce trends
One-half of UK Internet users ages 16 and older surveyed by the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) said they went online to buy goods or services in 2007. By 2008, an even greater proportion …
Pay per click: Click Fraud affecting advertising
Pay per click fraud rate is holding steady at about 16% for the quarter; that is a slight decrease (roughly 0.2%) from Q2 2008 as well as year over year. “For the past two quarters …
Pay Per Click: Advertising to P2P networks
Brand Asset Digital announces the public beta of the world’s first and only Pay Per Click Search Engine Marketing platform for P2P Search called P2Pwords™. The platform, which is the first pay per click for …
Facebook layout: How is affecting Social Games?
While we’ve been tracking the impact of the Facebook layout redesign on the application economy closely, we turn our attention now to social games. How has the Facebook layout redesign affected the top game developers …
Social Desktop Aggregator Sobees Launches Beta
Switzerland-based deskNET is debuting the public beta version of Sobees today, an application that aims to bring the web to a personalized desktop environment. We first came across Sobees when they presented their project in …
Facebook Speeddate buys Oregon Trail
Earlier this summer, Facebook application developer SpeedDate was temporarily suspended from the Facebook Platform. The reason? Allegedly the company bought several Facebook applications with large user bases and holistically replaced them with a copy of …
US Internet User Update
The Internet has long been a mass medium in the US, but it just got a little more massive.
eMarketer estimates that 63.4% of the US population uses the Web at least once per month, and …
Social Network Marketing
Internet users, aged between 18 and 34, are more likely to be influenced by email messages and direct mail than they are marketing on social networks, found the joint research.
“It is too easy to assume …
Online Advertising Clicks: Who click my ad?
Age, income and visit frequency are closely related to US Internet users’ likelihood to click on ads, according to an August 2008 study by iPerceptions.
Four out of 10 US Internet users surveyed who were likely …
