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December 11 - 20 2005

New TTB blog and RSS feed
Over 5 billion searches/ AJ the dark horse?
40% won't buy from smaller ecommerce merchants
Black hat vs. White hat and search engines
Youth - the online marketing dream
Internet advertising spending to double by 2010

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December 1 - 10 2005

Online security survey findings
Increased Hispanic marketing budgets for 06
Podcasts gaining popularity
Online holiday shopping sales up 24%
Email marketing report results
18% of buyers drive 46% of online spending
Streaming video/audio and the mature market

November 21 - 30 2005

Content theft on the rise?
59 million to shop online.... today!
Browser battles - statistics
Cyber Monday - biggest online shopping day?
52% of online households to pay bills online
Updated article - chromeless popup windows
$19 billion online shopping bonanza
The British love affair with online travel 
41% use a search engine every day

November 11 - 20 2005

Over 80% to shop online for holiday gifts
Windows - 20 years old
Broadband use explodes, but don't forget dialup
Google Analytics launched
100 billion + searches in 2006
Grey power - blogging and seniors
Small ecommerce merchants winning against fraud
Google rolls out personalized search
Cookie deletion/blocking on the rise
PPC prices stabilizing
Email - highest open/click days

November 1 - 10 2005

Replacing large blocks of text/code on pages
Spending on online content up by over 15%
Google and Yahoo updates
Kids, risk-taking and online business
$18 billion in online sales these holidays
Toxic blogging and nasty reviews
LookSmart goes vertical

October 21 - 31 2005 

Over 680 million email users 
Ecommerce involvement skyrocketed by 16x from 97 - 03
Microsoft sets zombie trap
Cautious consumers cutting online purchases?
Marketing execs interest in RSS ads growing
New article - Search engine monitoring tips
Please, help the people of Pakistan
Shipping charges & shopping cart abandonment
100 oldest domain names
Steve, chairs, MSN and Google.

October 11 - 20 2005

Noon - prime time for online advertising
Online coupons - growing popular with consumers
Free tell a friend script - version 2
Affiliate marketing - merchant survey results
Video streaming consumption increasing
Online shopping, offline purchasing
Microsoft and Yahoo join forces in IM
Google philanthropy
Gmail/Hotmail false positive filtering increases
Holiday season shopping forecast
Google releases NewsReader

October 1 - 10 2005

PPC - Click prices rising
The "submit your site to X thousand engines" rort
Over 30% of Americans still not online
A great idea - temporary credit card numbers
Blogs, RSS gaining popularity - slowly
China surpasses 100 million Internet users
New article - email delivery issues
2 out of 5 Americans have broadband access
Internet control - US vs. EU and the world?

September 21 - 30 2005

A bumper holiday season for online shopping?
Media devices - the most time consuming  activity
Search engines - market share
Advertising/marketing executives email peeves
Email marketing metrics report findings
Purchase returns statistics & ecommerce
Corporate VoIP adoption gaining
RSS user statistics
Marketing to women - the Dove example
Lunchtime and Primetime best for conversions

September 11 - 20 2005

Online advertising ignoring older users?
New URL shortening redirection service
Password hacking - disturbing developments
New article - Open Source software
Online ad spending projections
Google blog search
VoIP - do you want ice with that?
Top 10 annoyances of site visitors
Browser usage statistics for August
September 11 .... looking back/thoughts

September 1 - 10 2005

Kids and teens online
Sponsored search links - top 5 industries
Loyalty programs - online retailer statistics
Digital music downloads too restrictive?
Paypal reduces micropayment fees
New article - Web marketing and senior citizens
Small/medium biz email response times survey
Online shoppers want personalized content, but..
The web helps and hinders in Katrina aftermath
2nd quarter ecommerce sales up 26%

August 21 - 31 2005

Online seniors hit the dating sites
eBusiness customer satisfaction   improves
Internet traffic growth slowing
Online music subscriptions - lower prices needed
Google, MSN, AOL, Yahoo, Skype - it's all talk
80% of US households with broadband by 2010?
Online marketing plans for holiday promotions
Browser usage statistics
The Internet's role in modern purchasing
Current search engine market share
New article - Creating, submitting RSS web feeds

August 11 - 20 2005

Get inside AdSense
Search engines - does size count?
Firefox vs. IE - what's the buzz?
India - more on this growing online market
Using free stuff as a lure in marketing
Want a piece of the online China market?
Internet Retailer Conference 2005
ValueClick acquires FastClick
Online travel purchases increasing

August 1 - 10 2005

Internet Explorer 7 For XP Beta 1 review
Paid search to overtake banner spending by 2010
Web sites and gender bias
Online real estate advertising to grow 55%
80% of execs state email writing skills important
PPC keyword prices drop during July
2.2 million+ people generating income from eBay
Yahoo releases Shopping Web Services API
Search engine/marketing resources big guns sold
Blogs, RSS - how many are reading them?
2/3 of Australian kids online daily
Ask Jeeves to offer PPC?
Google Ig RSS feed feature

July 21 - 31 2005

New article - Search engine relationships
Marketing to teens - more stats
Russian spammer murdered
New article - buying text link advertising
Search engine growth Q1 - Q2 2005
Browser battles - current statistics
Community sites lead in online ad revenue growth
The dangers of jargon in marketing

July 11 - 20 2005

Spam still a profitable strategy - unfortunately
New article - tips for faster page loading
More on marketing to teens
Pakistan isolated - undersea cable damaged
Wasting work time online
.mobi domain extension for 2006
Online marketing to teens
Currency converter from Google

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July 1 - 10 2005

Sasser creator convicted, but..
Updated article - Web site file base structure
TTB's RSS feed re-introduced!
Venture capital for RSS projects
India - 100 million online by 2007
US online users wising up?
More consumer electronics being purchased online
Search nostalgia
Online gambling - the human cost
Phishing on the rise, viruses decreasing
US to retain control over root servers
Christmas marketing - yes, that's right

June 21 - 30 2005

Browser battles statistics update
Unique (free) online business promotion opportunity
Search engine statistics
Fraud making consumers wary of ecommerce
Microsoft enforcing sender ID
Online travel purchasing trends
The death of dialup and Michael's dummy spit.

June 11 - 20 2005

40 million credit cards compromised - merchants beware
Google to offer payment processing services?
Broadband over power lines
Google the choice of professionals
Email marketing and Moms
False positives impacting email marketing
Updated article - credit card fraud strategies
Current online boom, will it bust?
Overrated security threats?

June 1 - 10 2005

Tabbed browsing available for IE 6
Internet marketing pioneer dies in car crash
Online ad spend of $2.8 billion in Q1 2005
VoIP revenue to pass $1 billion during 2005
Email support for online customers still poor.
Consumer attitudes/awareness of cookies
Virus infected email increases 300+ percent
New Google tool for webmasters to improve coverage
Broadband to dominate by 2010
US online shoppers - confusion
Four-fold increase in third-party cookie rejections

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