Yellow Pages Ban Proposed In San Francisco The Huffington Post Joanna Zelman 02/ 8/11 05:51 PM The Yellow Pages phone book. It’s been used as packaging material, a dangerous booster seat, fire kindling, and perhaps a box for illicit items if holed-out. But in an increasingly digital age, just how often is the phone book [...]

What the ‘Like’ button means for web traffic By Jolie O’Dell, Mashable September 30, 2010 10:06 a.m. EDT | Filed under: Web Since the button launched, many publishers are reporting large increases in traffic specifically due to this kind of social plugin. Facebook like button is now present on roughly 2 million sites around the [...]

The company is reportedly working with Skype to allow members to call and video chat with each other. Posted by Kim Peterson on Wednesday, September 29, 2010 3:47 PM The battle between Google (GOOG) and Skype just ratcheted up a notch with Facebook’s entry into the fray. Recall that Google recently launched voice calling from [...]

WordCamp Boulder 2010 was my first WordCamp event. As a web designer, SEO, and online strategy consultant, I found the sessions and opportunity to meet others in the industry to share ideas and information very useful. Even though you know much of the material already because you’re in the biz, there are always things you [...]

Why Advertising is Failing on the Internet by Eric Clemons, March 2009 Advertising will fail for three reasons: There are three problems with advertising in any form, whether broadcast or online: Consumers do not trust advertising. Dan Ariely has demonstrated that messages attributed to a commercial source have much lower credibility and much lower impact [...]

Identity theft hits record high Criminals use social networks, online transactions to gather victims’ information. By Elizabeth Strott on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:46 AM http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Dispatch/market-dispatches.aspx?post=1619799&_blg=1,1620847 More people in the United States are falling victim to identity fraud. A study by Javelin Strategy & Research showed that the number of victims jumped by 12% to [...]

SUNDAY, JAN 17, 2010 09:00 EST Smaller Startups to Fuel M&A Fire in Mobile Ads This Year BY COLIN GIBBS The mobile ad space continued to heat up last week with Amobee’s acquisition of RingRing Media, a 2-year-old London-based startup, for an undisclosed sum. The move surely isn’t anywhere near the magnitude of Google’s $750 [...]

Facebook, Twitter users beware: Crooks are a mouse click away By Stephanie Chen CNN (CNN) — If you’re on Facebook, Twitter or any other social networking site, you could be the next victim. That’s because more cyberthieves are targeting increasingly popular social networking sites that provide a gold mine of personal information, according to the [...]

YouTube Monetizing More than 1B Video Views Per Week By Liz Gannes Gigaom Network When will YouTube be profitable? “In the not-too-distant future,” said Google CFO Patrick Pichette on today’s quarterly earnings call, same as he said last quarter. He did offer a “sound bite” to appease investors and industry watchers: “We’re monetizing more than [...]

The wave of Internet advertising that locally focused media companies have been surfing for five years has now peaked, and some media companies are starting to eat sand. For the first time since they began selling online advertising more than a decade ago, sales are in decline for the majority of legacy media companies, but [...]