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Web's New Field of Dreams Emerges in D.C.
New Internet Companies Piggyback on Popularity of Social Networking…
Washington Post, 11-5-2007
Ghouls and Goblins Are Resurrected as Marketers
BLOOD-DROPS on axes and whiskers on witches. Bright copper cauldrons and monsters with twitches. Brown paper packages stuffed with bat wings. These, with apologies to Oscar Hammerstein II, are a few of Madison Avenue’s favorite Halloween things.…
NY Times, 10-29-2007
Social Site Rankings (September, 2007)
Did you know that Imeem is the fastest-growing social site in the U.S (up 1,590 percent in monthly uniques). And that AIM Pages is growing slightly faster than Digg (345 percent growth versus 323 percent)? Well, at least according to comScore.…
techcrunch, 10-24-2007
Widget Marketing: Sure Hype We Get It Right
HERE'S A NUGGET THAT CAME from an Instapoll of the audience during the ANA Masters of Marketing Conference over the weekend: What trend is the most overhyped from the perspective of a major advertiser?…
Online Media Daily, 10-18-2007
Five tips for making a popular (and maybe profitable) Facebook app
1. Target the friends list
One of the biggest draws of developing an application for Facebook is the unprecedented access to the social networking site's massive user base -- its so-called "social graph." Developers can reach a broad audience with very little effort.
"Typically, software developers struggle to get anyone to use their products, regardless of how useful," says Haroon Mokhtarzada, CEO of Freewebs, which created the medieval fantasy game Warbook (requires Facebook registration to view) for Facebook.…
Computerworld, 10-16-2007
If you've never created a website of your own because it seems daunting, or expensive, fret no more. There are a number of services that make it dumb-down easy to build a Web presence and even host it free.…
us news, 10-12-2007
Widget Marketing Metrics That Matter
THIS PAST SUMMER, WHEN COMSCORE launched its Widget Metrix Service, the industry was served notice that widgets are big. One hundred and seventy-seven million big. Widgets aren't just big because comScore is now measuring them, but because 177 million of anything is big…
Online Media Daily, 10-10-2007
With Web applications the maxim of “keep it simple” is always worth remembering because it is hard to go from complex and then simplify to meet the demands of users. The opposite, going from simple to complex is much easier and has an advantage: Simple should be easy to understand.…
networkworld, 10-10-2007
Web hosting provider and development company, Freewebs.com, has been honored by the Web Marketing Association, with an award for Best Portal Website…
HostingTech, 10-8-2007
Sony Widgets its HDNA Campaign
This week Sony added a widget component to the HDNA campaign it launched in August…
ClickZ, 10-3-2007