A recent report on social networking examines the spectacular growth and stickiness of the most popular services. Stickiness is a term referring to the ability of a site to retain clients, members or visitors and to have them
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The RSS advertising industry is still very much a fledgling affair, but there’s a few companies around who provide very interesting data that’s well worth keeping an eye on.
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I haunt a lot of research company sites in order to get ideas and reference material for some of what I post on this blog and publish in my articles. Excerpts that these companies provide for free contain really valuable information, but to buy the full reports can cost hundreds, if not thousands of dollars.

On my usual rounds tonight,
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A little off topic, but it always heartens me to see online technology being put to *really* good use instead of things that whirr and spin and go “bing”!

Our family has been involved with World Vision for around 3 years now;
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Most of us know that people who return to our sites convert better, but by how much?

The results of a survey of close to 240 million visits to online retailers during the first three months of this year shows
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Just what the PPC (Pay Per Click) industry needed - first it was incensed advertisers suing over click fraud rates, now it’s a well known security firm stating that sponsored results (PPC ads) contained *more* dangerous sites than organic results.
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The mystery has been solved. As mentioned in my last post on MySpace, I’ve been seeing a stack of referrals to this blog resulting from search engine queries on the term:
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It seems that Google’s antitrust complaint about Internet Explorer 7’s search box defaulting to MSN has fallen on deaf ears at the Justice department.
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ICANN’s Board of Directors voted 9 to 5 against the implementation of a .XXX. Top Level Domain (TLD) a couple of days ago. I’m really scratching my head over this one.
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Google has just released a very handy application - Google Trends. It can be used to gauge historical, current and possibly future usage trends of specific search terms.
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