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Newsletter Archive: 2007



European Internet Marketing Statistics
I doubt anyone who works in the Internet industry needs any evidence of the huge surge in activity over the past year. Virtually everyone I speak to these days is reaping rewards. European Online Marketing Spend 2008. We all need figures to back up our assumptions and budget proposals.

Date: 2007-12-26


PubCon: Treading Lightly On Link Buying
The dominant search engine, Google, doesn't have a problem with nofollowed paid links, but few webmasters want to pay for something that brings minimal value to their sites.

Date: 2007-12-05


MyKinda Blog Network Launches In Eastern Europe
Quite a few blog networks have sprung up in the past year or so. The granddaddy of them all is Weblogs Inc, the early pioneer among English-language blog networks, with a broad offering of content covering a very wide range of topics.

Date: 2007-11-07


EU Settles With Microsoft, Delays Google
The long-running battle over antitrust concerns and Microsoft should come to an end in Europe, but Google and DoubleClick will have to wait until November for European Union approval of their deal.

Date: 2007-10-22


The Future of Web Apps London
Well it’s been a busy and crazy week but I’ve finally got some time to tell you all about my 3 Days in London attending The mashup* demo event and of course the awesome Future of Web Apps Conference and Expo which included the Live Filming of Episode 118 of Diggnation and the Carsonified Relaunch Party!

Date: 2007-10-10


Won't We Ever Learn?
Microsoft and global PR agency Burson-Marsteller are in hot water over a tactic that flies in the face of what we know about the nature of business and transparency in the era of social computing."

Date: 2007-09-26


Mobile Services Popular Among European Youth
Use of mobile services is popular with young people with 47 percent of 15 to 18 year olds adopting them compared to only 17 percent of 35 to 44 year olds, according to a new report from JupiterResearch, "European Mobile Youth Consumer Survey, 2007: Targeting Digital Natives and Keeping Them Loyal."

Date: 2007-09-12


Is The UK SEO Industry In A Mess?
This is a little bit of a rant about the state of the SEO industry (specifically the UK SEO industry) - we're plagued with dodgy agencies and consultants dragging our collective name through the mud - do we do something about it or just wade through and mind our business?

Date: 2007-08-29


Google Seeks Edge In Voice Traffic Talks
As part of Google's ongoing efforts to broaden its network, the company has been actively seeking strategic negotiators for submarine networks, and for IP transit services.

Date: 2007-08-08


Broadening The Measures Of Online Influence
Some people think measuring someone's online influence is simply a matter of Googling a name, seeing what Technorati says about them, what Alexa might show and perhaps a look at how many subscribers there are to their FeedBurner RSS feed. .

Date: 2007-07-18


Brian Retkin Speaks On Google Suit
The man behind the lawsuit against Google for defamation said he and his firm would really prefer to put their conflict with Google behind them. Retkin contacted me from the U.K. to follow up on our earlier observation of his running battle with Google over their links to posts about his registrar firm, Dotworlds.

Date: 2007-07-02


The European Communication Summit
One of the things I love about conferences is meeting new and interesting people. One of the other things is connecting with people I know (as I mentioned the other day).

Date: 2007-06-13


New Version of FeedDemon Released
FeedDemon  is the Windows desktop RSS application I’ve been using for the past few years. And for the past few months, I’ve been testing the various betas of the upcoming new version 2.5.

Date: 2007-05-30


The Digg Friends You Never Knew You Had
You can easily discover 10s, maybe even 100s of existing friends on Digg, if you only knew how and where to look. Experienced users of social news sites such as Digg will probably find most of this content familiar, but I know many that will appreciate an important reminder.

Date: 2007-05-16


Lessons From Foreign Press
Every year, the Press Club of California has an event touting the best and the worst PR departments to work with in the Valley. The Press Club is a group of foreign press / reporters that are based in the Bay Area, and it is always interesting that there are PR people that just don't like to work with reporters.

Date: 2007-05-02


Atari To Develop Its Own Virtual World
Second Life has inspired numerous other start-ups looking to take advantage of the hype surrounding the user-generated virtual world phenomenon. While many companies are looking to make a name for themselves with such aspirations, Atari just wants to reclaim its piece of the video gaming pie.

Date: 2007-04-18


Confusing Search Engine Bots?
There are two primary factors to getting a page ranked - discovery and relevancy. By and large, search engines are clever creatures, but the very best webmasters will always send out the right signals to gently guide the search engines, and in return receive great rankings for their content.

Date: 2007-04-04


Blogspot and SEO
Well it never just rains. It has to pour. I made an offer of some free SEO reviews a while back and a nasty confluence of happenings has upset my apple cart. But I’m going to try and get some advice out to a few more people now.

Date: 2007-03-21


Search Marketing World (Full Disclosure About Site Clinics Required)
Search Marketing World is a new Search Marketing conference scheduled for March 21 next here in Dublin Ireland. Organised by Interactive Return, the event promises to be Ireland's premier search marketing event.

Date: 2007-03-13


Join Us: Close Deals Faster: Web Enabled Sales
In a high-touch sales model, sales representatives are constantly traveling from meeting to meeting. With a Web-touch approach, a significant number of high quality sales interactions can be done online, eliminating unproductive time while reserving onsite visits for those meetings that really count.

Date: 2007-02-28


Yahoo, Eurosport To Create New "Powerhouse"
According to Yahoo and Eurosport, a new agreement between the companies will create “Europe’s leading online sports news and community sport site.”

Date: 2007-02-26


Belgian Newspapers Score Victory Against Google
In a court ruling early Tuesday, a judge ruled in favor of Belgian newspapers in their dispute with Google, citing that the Internet company was guilty of copyright infringement.

Date: 2007-02-14


Online payment solutions without monthly and set up costs
CHRONOPAY is the most effective new gear in the engine of global e-commerce. With a state-of-the-art processing infrastructure, the most effective anti-fraud system and unmatched commitment to Client and Customer Service, CHRONOPAY is your total solution for online credit card payment processing.

Date:
2007-02-13


Social Network For The Tourism Industry
The United Nations World Tourism Organization and WISekey have joined together to expand the use of traveler identification and authentication technologies. The collaboration builds on the Public Private Partnership agreement signed by UNWTO and Microsoft in 2006.

Date: 2007-02-07


Germany, France Join Crusade Against ITunes
Consumer groups from France and Germany have joined a European coalition aimed at forcing Apple to make files downloaded from its iTunes music store compatible with digital music players manufactured by competing companies.

Date:
2007-01-24


Open Source Second Life's Next Steps
Monday's announcement by Linden Lab that the software you run on your computer to interact with Second Life will be opened up to anyone who wants to contribute to its future development generated wide-ranging commentary in the media and among bloggers.

Date:
2007-01-10


Second Life Resources Wiki
Linda Zimmer, the driving force behind the Business Communicators of Second Life group, has launched the SL Business Communicators Wiki: [...] The wiki is intended to be a resource for members of the in-world group as well as interested business communicators and marketers. It is in its infancy, makes no claims of comprehensiveness and is very much a work in progress, as time allows.

Date:
2007-01-03


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