After having decided to discontinue print and radio ads earlier this year, Google is now considering the possibility of connecting its TV ads to their video site YouTube, in the hope of enticing advertisers to both these platforms. (more…)
Archive for March, 2009
Google TV Ads Online
Tuesday, 31st March 2009Tags: ad, google, layoff, youtube
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Twitter To The Rescue Of Small Businesses
Friday, 27th March 2009In these days of recession, all possible money saving measures are helpful. As the saying goes, ‘A penny saved is a penny earned’. It has been found that the popular micro-blogging site Twitter is helping small businesses to do just that. (more…)
Tags: o2, Small Businesses, twitter
Posted in marketing | 1 Comment »
Mobile Phones Turn Into Bank Accounts In Africa
Thursday, 26th March 2009As shocking as it may sound, mobile phones are far more common in Africa than bank accounts or other financial services. In an attempt to make banking services more accessible, MTN, the South African mobile operator is launching a banking service for its customers. (more…)
Tags: africa, mobile phones
Posted in mobile | 2 Comments »
Technology And The Law
Wednesday, 25th March 2009For years, jurors in the U.S. have been expressly forbidden from talking about the case they are hearing outside the courtroom. But now, people seem to be finding a way around this rule, thanks to the availability of technology. (more…)
Tags: facebook, Jurors, Lawyers, twitter
Posted in Technology | 1 Comment »
Google Does Its Bit To Save Energy
Tuesday, 24th March 2009Google has always tried to be a socially responsible company, by espousing various causes from time to time. They are now trying to help save energy consumption and thus reduce global warming. (more…)
Tags: energy saving, global warming, google
Posted in google | 1 Comment »
SEO Technology Center For Flash
Friday, 20th March 2009Adobe must be realising, at long last, that they are losing a lot of money by making Flash technology so search engine unfriendly – a fact that probably deters a lot of webmasters from using Flash, resulting in lost revenues for the company. To make ammends they’ve created the SEO Technology Center on the Adobe Developer Connection section of their site. (more…)
Tags: adobe, flash, optimisation, seo
Posted in seo | 2 Comments »
Google Voice Launches Attack On Comms Market
Tuesday, 17th March 2009Google has recently announced the availability of a new voice application that will help users unite their voice communications. The service, called Google Voice, is built on GrandCentral technology that Google acquired back in July 2007. (more…)
Tags: google, google voice, grandcentral, skype
Posted in google, mobile | No Comments »
Google Profiling User Behaviour To Target Advertising
Monday, 16th March 2009It has long been known that Google collects large volumes of data from all interactions users have with its various products, services and networks. They have now launched a new set of ad features, based on all the user data they collect, and are calling it ‘Interest-Based Advertising’. (more…)
Tags: advertising, content-network, display-advertising, google, google adwords, google-adsense, personalised, ppc
Posted in google, marketing, ppc, SEM | 2 Comments »
Microsoft Closes adCenter Analytics
Friday, 13th March 2009Mel Carson, Microsoft adCenter’s Community Manager, announced yesterday that they will close the adCenter Analytics program at the beta stage itself. (more…)
Tags: adcenter, adcenter analytics, google-analytics, microsoft, microsoft-adcenter
Posted in marketing, ppc, search, SEM, seo, Technology | 1 Comment »
YouTube Blocks Music Videos In The UK
Wednesday, 11th March 2009YouTube has failed to reach an agreement, with the Performing Rights Society (PRS) for Music, to renew their license to show music videos in the U.K. As a result of this they have blocked videos in the U.K. (more…)
Tags: google, video, youtube
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Top Information Sources For Bloggers
Tuesday, 10th March 2009Bloggers often link to the sources where they get their information. A study carried out by Technorati found that chief among the non-blog sources linked to by bloggers are the websites of mainstream media companies. (more…)
Tags: bbc, blogs, link-building, links, msn, technorati, youtube
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Konnichiwa Microsft Kumo
Monday, 9th March 2009Microsoft has started internal testing of the upgraded version of their search engine, Live Search. This new incarnation of Live Search has been codenamed Kumo. (more…)
Tags: Kumo, live search, microsoft, seo
Posted in search | No Comments »
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