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Archives: New blog :: Jun-Dec 2005 :: Jan-May 2005 
2004
:: 2003/02/01

December 11-30 2004

Asian earthquake/Tsunami - your help is needed
USA leading the way in spam
Beating blog spam
Looking for China ecommerce/marketing resources?
Over 16 billion spent online in holiday shopping
Number of PC's to double within 5 years
Ask Jeeves paying for search visitors
Outsourcing and Big Brother
Small business expecting increased online sales
Affiliate Marketing survey results.
PPC prices - still bargains to be had
Top 10 spyware applications
Men outspending women in online shopping
A new toy from Google - Google Suggest

December 1-10 2004

Digital PhishNet V2 - Phishers beware.
8.8 billion spent in online shopping in November
Minimizing the cost of PPC
Firefox uptake increases, users don't click
Holiday Search Marketing/ECommerce performing better
UK online audience hits 23 million, Europe 100 million
Can spam? yes, indeed
Microsoft launches free blog service
Free MSN Search site submission tool
Netscape testing cross browser compatible browser
Making Ecommerce safer between countries
Lycos sticks it to spammers & gets stuck back

November 21 - 30 2004

Black Friday lucky for Ecommerce
Google processing 301 redirects faster?
Holiday shopping visits up 60%
Phishing on the rise
USA Internet access tax ban update
Holiday purchasing intent survey results
Hackers target banner ad servers
Free email storage wars

November 11-20 2004

Kids leading the way in web page consumption
Fraud - merchants getting savvy
Google's scholarly search
Making money marketing to Moms.
Newspaper loyalists turn increasingly to the web
MSN complements new search with blog
Fear mongering over domain name ownership
New marketing book review

Ad serving trend report highlights
Virus writers faster at exploiting flaws
UK Ecommerce thriving

November 1-10 2004

More on click fraud - free white paper
Microsoft about to release true MSN search
Firefox 1.0 released
Botnet for hire - mercenary hackers
VoIP - taking the plunge
AAF Advertising trends report
Small business wary of online ads
New FrontPage tutorial - FP includes & CSS
Browser wars continued
Ecommerce site owners - start your holiday engines
Ecommerce, gaming and sweatshops

October 21-31 2004

New articles - entrepreneur mindsets and strategies
More domain name extensions?
Sender ID phoenix arises from the ashes
Xmas ecommerce not so cheery?
20% of computers infected with viruses
UK online advertising a decade old and booming
Check clearing for the 21st century
Yahoo shelving PayDirect ecommerce service
Electronics top Xmas wish lists
Alternate browsers - security issues
600,000 Social Security numbers at risk

October 11 -31 2004

Software industry embracing subscription model
Pop up/under ads evading blockers
Email marketing popular with consumers
PPC prices up and varying widely
Low volume keywords = better conversions?
Only 12% of top retail sites use effective SEO.
"New" kinds of fraud sites on the increase
Online research driving offline purchases
Google goes SMS

October 1 -10 2004

Software industry embracing subscription model
New article - PPC fraud strategies
Free ecommerce/marketing/tech magazines
Telstra - incompetence in telecommunications
Xmas and web marketing
Ecommerce giants suffer DDoS attacks
Small business benefiting from ecommerce
Computer security - people still just don't get it
Browser battles - usage statistics
Postini reports 75% of all email is spam
MS adding search to IM

September 22 -30 2004

Search engine business model threatened?
Monitor resolution statistics
Europe online music sales to exceed CD's by 2009
PayPal now fining naughty members
Spam, spim, spit and VoIP
Annenberg Internet survey results released
Internet withdrawals
Microsoft's Sender ID initiative dealt another blow
Internet vs. TV - the gap narrows.
Ecommerce hacking targets up 400%
Online sales expected to reach $144 billion for 2004

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September 16 - 21 2004

Amazon's A9 search engine grabs the spotlight
AOL dumps MS Sender ID, Open Source rebels
2005 online marketing budgets to grow
RSS to cause problems for web hosts?
Password sniffing worms
Selling music? Search engine optimization a must
Virus writers panhandling for security jobs
44% of US Internet users on broadband
Domain name registrations all-time high

September 1 - 15 2004

Internet overlay needed to boost performance
Marketing email open rates declining - or are they?
Taiwan broadband access now at 50% 
Something about bandwidth..
Less than 10% of Fortune 100 optimizing sites
US Hotels gear up for broadband

August 21 - 31 2004

Using blogs in web marketing
Ecommerce merchants - passwords & sensitive files
Wonder where your traffic went? The Olympics!
The life of a bulk emailer
AOL IM (Instant Messaging) survey results
2004 Q2 Ecommerce Site Trends
US Ecommerce sales up 23%
Historical ecommerce sales statistics 99 - 2004

August 11 - 20 2004

Broadband use hits 51%
Jumbled spam emails - the psychology
Microsoft lists XP bug fixes
The Olympics - effect on web site traffic
~ New article - Banners: design tips, sizes & targeting ~
XP SP2 presents challenges for marketing
Happy 10th birthday web ecommerce
"Blaster" teenager pleads guilty
Mobinet data services survey results
FTC jumps on Messenger spammers
European marketing statistics - resources
Google stopping IPO registrations
Korean Internet usage climbs

August 1- 10 2004

Indian software company achieves tops IPO $
Start up tech executives earning less
Company sues over downloading patent
More US shoppers using online information
RSS - time for ecommerce merchants to dive in?
Micro-payments, macro business
Terra Lycos being sold again - for 99% less!
Online ad market to grow to $16 billion by 2009
Microsoft demonstrates new search tools
Google's IPO site opens

Using popups to market popup blocker backfires

July 21 - 31 2004

Marketing email delivery success rates
E-Commerce Site Trend Report
Ad serving trends
Verisign report on ecommerce growth & security
MyDoom virus querying search engines
Telephone & live chat vs. email support 
b2b companies spending more on web marketing.
Hackers paying more attention to SSL
Heat being turned up on SEO companies
Russian web extortionists arrested

July 11 - 20 2004

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High demand for search ads outpaces supply
Microsoft awarded $4 million in spam case
Stealware - hijacking affiliate commissions
Ever wanted to "go IPO"?
Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act made law
The "father of the web" knighted
Broadband users more likely to purchase online.
Will your site work with Windows XP SP2?
Rather go to a dentist than read spam?
Women online - a powerful force
Iraq .iq tld registrar jailed

July 1-10 2004

Women - a powerful force on the web
Mozilla moving in on Internet Explorer?
Yahoo raking it in, investors too damned greedy
Internet cafes still an expensive online experience
Search interfaces and SERPS - less is more
Google steps on Gmail address trading
VoIP and Ecommerce - what and when?
ICANN squeezing registrars
Fruitless searches cost US$31 billion?
Australia, UK and USA to team up against spam
MSN releases preview of new search
ISP's permitted to read client emails
European online sales on the rise

June 2004

Monitor resolution statistics
R. Bemer - inventor of ASCII, passes away
ASTA releases anti-spam recommendations
eBay moves in on India
Bulging inbox battles - MS to offer more space too?
PayPal/eBay settles class action
Ad targeting becoming more refined
eBay providing RSS feeds
FCC releases data on broadband usage
Domain name registrations top 63 million
Ecommerce sales up 28%
Adult sites more popular than Google?
Yahoo testing anti-spyware add-on for toolbar

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May 2004

1 in 6 Brits visit banks online
Google tools - RankPulse
Bill Gates - Monopolist Philanthropist
Browser battles - current statistics
Broadband vs. Narrowband statistics
Internet via TV bandwidth?
Google IPO Overview
Company takes on SpamCop
The price of ID theft
Lawmakers and Spyware
Google tools abound

April 17 - 30 2004

Google IPO - the speculation is over
Outsourcing - Jobs coming back home.
Company sues over JPEG related patent
Phishing increases dramatically
Amazon's new search engine - A9

April 1 -16 2004

Hackers hit big time
Extortionists threaten Ecommerce site owners
Microsoft releases new security patches.
Buy now, pay later - online.
CAN-SPAM, WILL-SPAM
Microsoft and Longhorn - Less new features.
Microsoft - "Active Protection Technologies"?
A lot to Yahoo! about - profits soar
European businesses lacking in virus protection
Altavista goes Yahoo! too..
yourname@google? - free email from Google!
Spam - the solution?

March 2004
Microsoft search - the next challenger
AllTheWeb goes Yahoo!
ICANN fears spark UN discussion
Broadband availability in the USA
Voice operated web browser showcased
AOL reports decrease in Spam(?)
Yahoo Web Rank - observations
New spam laws
Yahoo - a new era, new challenges
Europeans still wary of Ecommerce?

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