Archive for November, 2008

25Nov

Online Holiday Spending Set For Flat Growth

features

ComScore has released its tracking of holiday season retail ecommerce spending for the first 23 days of the November – December 2008 holiday season along with its spending forecast for the season.

So far this holiday season $8.2 billion has been spent online, representing a 4 percent decrease compared to the same period last year.
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12Nov

BlogCatalog.com Launches Blog Search Widget

Blogging

Start-up BlogCatalog.com, a social network for bloggers and a blog search engine, has launched BC 360, an embeddable tool that allows blog readers to do custom searches on their favorite blogs.
“With the BC 360 widget, bloggers can now help their readers search across all of their posts and social networks,” says Antony Berkman, president of [...]

07Nov

Akamai Rolls Out Ad Service For Online Publishers

Ad Networks

Akamai Technologies has introduced its Insight for Publishers service that helps online publishers develop new ad strategies in order to better monetize their advertising inventory.
Insight for Publishers allows online content provider to identify in real-time and sell their most valuable audiences across their owned and operated properties.
“Akamai is helping our customers act on valuable audience [...]