It has spread to every nook on the internet – Google picked up Doubleclick for a sweet $3.1 billion With it, Google gains access to some big-name clients of DC – brand managers for major companies that have a lot of money. PPC is just a facet of internet advertising – there is also banner [...]
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar. Edward R. Murrow Via digitalghost on The A List – Does ‘A’ Stand For Asinine? If there is one thing we struggle with, it is the amount of misinformation out [...]
Ugh. I just read that VeriSign is increasing the base cost of .com domains 7%, from $6.00 to $6.42. Some background: A while ago, ICANN and VeriSign sued each over. In the settlement (as VeriSign has tons of cash, and ICANN doesn’t), ICANN agreed that VeriSign could continue to be the exclusive provider of .com/.net [...]
We operate a plethora of sites. Some are updated a dozen times a day, some once a year. The sites that generate the most amazing ROI are usually the ones that are most targeted. For example, we have a rarely updated site based loosely on finance. Today it generated a pithy 28 pageviews. The earnings [...]
Vicodin is a common pain killer from Abbott Laboratories. Many people get addicted to it (including a friend of mine), usually during recovery following from surgery (who doesn’t want to be pain-free?) To quote Wikipedia: The hydrocodone component of Vicodin is the reason for its abuse. Hydrocodone is an opioid, so its effects are similar [...]
While I helped facilitate this sale a while ago (and there was a bit of a ‘quiet period’ going on with it), the go ahead to go public with it is here. CSSVault, the venerable CSS directory was sold by BloggyNetwork to HostGator Web Hosting for a smooth $100,000. Revenue and traffic are not going [...]
Is it just me, or is there not a single web 2.0 company that is actually trying to make it work as an independent? You may argue Facebook is trying to go that route (every since their facebook query language I have been a super-fan), but I only see it as posturing. They have reported [...]
American Capital just plunked 160 million into GeoSign. This wasn’t a purchase – it was an investment. GeoSign is one of my favorite companies on the internet. I ran across them roughly two years, but really got to know what they were upto about a year ago. They do domains (owning fantastic domains like GolfCourses.com [...]
I hate affiliate programs. Not the actual concept, or what happens when you make a sale. Oh no – I hate the actual programs. Many of them are setup in a rather sneaky way that do nothing but try to extract money from your traffic without giving up a dime. And then you have the [...]