Category Archives: Advertising

Microsoft Invests USD$240 Million In Facebook

After a lot of rumours flying around the internet about Facebook looking for investors or buyers and the rumour being continually shot down; today sees an announcement that Microsoft have invested USD$240 million dollars in Facebook. The $240 million dollars … Continue reading

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Streamed Directly From The U.S

Channel Ten are pushing new advertising bandwagon at the moment: Streamed directly from the U.S The television network are promoting this little catch cry for all of the new TV series they are airing at the moment, such as: Life … Continue reading

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Nothing Like Spam To Lower Your Opinion Of A Site

Last year, Seth Godin launched a new service named Squidoo, which aimed to bring the power of recommendation to search. Squidoo has been gaining reasonable momentum since it launched and as a result, it has now become the next haven … Continue reading

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Dashes Versus Underscores, It Doesn’t Matter

One of the common strategies employed during search engine optimisation has involved placing high visibility keywords and phrases into the URL. Using this search engine optimisation technique lead to URL’s which looked like: http://domain.com/mysuperdooperproduct.html http://domain.com/my-super-dooper-product.html http://domain.com/my_super_dooper_product.html For quite some time … Continue reading

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Google Acquires Feedburner

Google have acquired the popular XML feed distribution and advertising platform Feedburner for approximately USD$100 million. There has been rife speculation about the Feedburner deal on various web sites over the last month and the cat is finally out of … Continue reading

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