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Neilsen Plans New Audience Measurement System After Error
[2009-06-15] Nielsen retooled its online audience measurement system to try to more accurately measure and reflect web usage at large by including RSS measures. However, something went terribly wrong, and Nielsen overreported the audience reach for several sites that seriously don't want to see any further "correction":

Walmart Ends Their Long Running DRM Service
[2009-06-01] Walmart.com's music download store went DRM free in February of 2008; and now the retail giant is telling customers that they'll no longer support the DRM laden downloads that they sold them prior to the transition.

Chat Catcher Makes Social Connection With Your Blog
[2009-05-18] One of the most useful WordPress plugins I have installed on my blogs is Chat Catcher by Shannon Whitley. What it does is connect comments made on Twitter that reference content in your blog, and links those comments to your content by placing a reference to a particular tweet in a post it mentions, as indicated in the screenshot.

Make Your WordPress Blog More Social With Automattic
[2009-05-04] Late last week the parent company of WordPress, Automattic, unveiled BuddyPress which is designed to build social networks around WordPress sites reports paidcontent.org.

Facebook Goes Democratic On Changes
[2009-04-20] As we discussed a little while back, Facebook is going for the democratic (not the party) approach of putting the proposed changes to their terms of service to a vote. The polls opened yesterday and the idea is that with the users of Facebook ‘making the call' there can no longer be an uproar over Facebook making changes unilaterally.

How Do You Do Things That Get You Noticed
[2009-04-06] We recently did the first-ever sponsored Tweet-a-thon for one of our clients, NCM Fathom Events, and their event A Powerful Noise. It was the first time just sending a tweet generated a donation from a third party, and it went extremely well, with more than 2,800 Tweets rolling out in 4 days.

Citysearch Updates Usability With Facebook Connections
[2009-03-23] Local search is an interesting animal to say the least. There are seemingly a million different directories and citysearch-logoresources to help bring search to the street level but it is so scattered that it frustrates more often than is helps. Citysearch has been around the scene virtually since the beginning of the commercial Internet. In fact, it's hard to do a local search without seeing a Citysearch result come up.

More Interaction for Facebook Users
[2009-03-09] This week Facebook hosted a blogstar-studded event to introduce a more people-focused platform for interacting around your Facebook statusphere in "Twitter time."

Pirate Bay Enters It's Fifth Day In Court
[2009-02-23] The prosecution again tries to enter new evidence into the trial resulting in a quick break, a smack down, and the prosecution having to share everything or stop trying to do American style legal proceedings. Peter asks if this is to be a political trial, more fun and games in the court room.

Can Google Survive A Real-Time Web?
[2009-02-09] Is the Real-Time Web a threat to Google? Rackspace executive Lew Moorman sure thinks so. He's right. Fewer and fewer of my search behaviors have been on Google lately.

More Internet Prediction Trends for 2009
[2009-01-26] Following the New Year, it started to feel like we were the only blog not making predictions about the year ahead. Rather than continuing to feel so alone I figured, better late than never.

Facebook Finally Reaches User Levels With MySpace
[2009-01-14] Two statistics that caught my eye this week were the increases in traffic to Facebook and Twitter. According to Mashable, and the graph they ran on Compete, Facebook is now running neck and neck with MySpace.

Origins and Implementation of Social Media
[2008-12-22] When I was thirteen I got into video games at my local arcade. Games like Centipede and Phoenix were amazing - different and fairly deep (yes, there were strategies, especially on Phoenix with the hidden 200,000 point bonus). From there, I moved into home videogaming, particularly with the release of the Sega MegaDrive (the European version of the Genesis).

Be Aware of Copyright Laws For Internet Content
[2008-12-08] One topic I've written about before in this blog is copyright, prompted in particular by my continuing puzzlement about why we continue to use laws that are based on geography in an age where intellectual property is increasingly digital and largely not based on geography.

Has Google Ended Paid Linking?
[2008-11-24] Jim Boykin recently claimed to have kicked the paid links habit: So, the best thing for my company to do, if we want to stay out of the fire, is to make sure that We Build Pages adheres to the Google Guidelines, and that means we won't be getting any more paid links for manipulating search engines.

SEO Guide For Beginners Reviewed
[2008-11-17] So, Google has finally released an SEO guide for the beginners! It has been a while now…

Will Facebook Survive its Projected Financial Woes?
[2008-11-03] TechCrunch today has no treats-and no joy, no, not even Almond Joy-for Facebook in reporting about its projected financial woes. For a company once valued at $15 billion, things are looking grim as the cash supplies may dwindle long before Facebook is ready or willing to go to IPO.

The Community and Communications Professionals Social Tools
[2008-10-20] Twitter is nothing short of a phenomenon. At the very least, it connects people to each other through a rich and active exchange of ideas, thoughts, observations, and vision in one, highly conducive ecosystem (known as the Twitterverse). The social fibers that weave together this unique micromedia network is strengthened by the expertise, respect, trust, admiration, and commonalities. These fabrics bind the people who breathe life and personality into the global community as well as fueling the disparate micro communities that ultimately extend across the Long Tail.

Retailers Turn to Social Networks When Their Sites Fail
[2008-10-06] It's been a while since I've pulled in e-Marketer data into this blog, but they often have great information.

MySpace Music a Future Antitrust Lawsuit?
[2008-09-22] MySpace music is now scheduled to launch this week, but an antitrust lawsuit may be in the making as indie labels in the EU and US complain they are being excluded.

Chrome Already Setting A Record!
[2008-09-08] The latest Economic Times story, tracking the response that Google's 4-day old browser, Google Chrome is receiving, must have sent a chill down the spines of the existing web browser companies in the virtual market already.

Finding Expert Interview Sources Online
[2008-08-25] I've heard from a lot of people - including you, Dave - that interviews are a great way to add high-value content to your blogging efforts, and while I have a pretty good idea how to interview someone, I don't know how to find people to interview. Do you have any suggestions?

An Easy Way to Opt-out of Ad Targeting
[2008-08-11] Online tracking and advertising based on users' online behavior have got a lot of heat and scrutiny from privacy advocates and lawmakers.

Should Internet Access Principles Apply To Comcast?
[2008-07-28] While we go about our daily mission of trying to make sense out of internet marketing-and make a few bucks while we are at it-there are some things happening in the background that we should keep an eye on.

Google Lively Could Be The Future of Virtual Business
[2008-07-14] Have you jumped on board the virtual world juggernaut?