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Style.com Adds Juice to Apple's iPhone With Couture and More

Invitation to New York Fashion Week get lost in the mail? Ours too. But that doesn’t mean you can’t get your fishtail-train fix. Thanks to Style.com, the Spring ’09 ready-to-wear collections of Charles Nolan, Diane Von Furstenberg, Preen and 14 other designers are now available via an application made exclusively for iPhone and iPod Touch. [...]

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Gemini Division Wants You to Buy Microsoft

It seems NBC just can’t get enough of video streaming, and this past Monday, it launched a web-only TV series called Gemini Division. The sci-fi drama is to be broadcasted via the Internet over a span of 50 five-to-seven minute webisodes. Hollywood starlet Rosario Dawson stars as a cop who investigates the murder of her [...]

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Everybody Needs to Cuil Out

Everyone can learn a marketing lesson from the launch of new search engine, Cuil (pronounced “cool”). A victim of its own hype, Cuil has become the target of a sizeable media backlash, supported by the web everyman, thanks to Youtube comments and blogs galore. Expectations were so high that it was no wonder that many [...]

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News Wrap-Up: Online Media Partnerships, Quarter Reports, and How Much People Love the iPhone

This July, we’re seeing several different web-related trends. First, one of the few things that’s hotter than the weather is the iPhone, and by association, mobile web. Second, at the end of the quarter, some large online/tech companies suffer from disappointing financial reports while others continue flourishing. And lastly, many of these media giants are [...]

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What's in a (Domain) Name?

Nowadays, online shoppers expect companies to invest real time and money into their websites. Businesses must make sure they have covered all the basic features of a trustworthy e-commerce site. To name a few: a good About page, a reliable and easy checkout process, and indications that the company has made efforts to protect customer [...]

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Firefox 3.0 Got the "Colbert Bump"

Back in June, Firefox 3.0 got some free publicity on its release date because Jonathan Zittrain mentioned it during his interview on the show, The Colbert Report. Zittrain is a professor and a researcher of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, which investigates Internet policies. His new book, The Future [...]

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You're Welcome: Here's… Mahalo

Previously, we discussed the helpfulness of directories and shared some tips on how to avoid being labeled a spammer. Now, we show you the first “human-powered” search engine/directory that strives to be spam-free. Mahalo (“thank you” in Hawaiian) arrived in early 2007, and it has been in beta mode since January 2008. Unlike search engines [...]

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How Google's Ad Planner May Affect User Privacy

Hey, remember when a report from comScore caused a dip in Google’s stocks? Well, irony is a cruel maiden. This shouldn’t come as a shock: Google stepping into the web analytics industry is like a fat man flopping into a kiddie pool. OK, all jokes aside, Google’s recent announcement of Ad Planner is an interesting [...]

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Primer on Social Media Marketing (Part 2)

This is Part 2 of our Primer on Social Media Marketing – How to Get Started. With the first step in our primer, we have established what Social Media is, and all the forms it may take on the Internet. Now, we’ll take you through some pointers on how social media marketing is implemented. As [...]

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