30 November 2005 | EVENT
Langham Hotel, Auckland, NZ
Jon Ostler the founder of First Rate will be speaking at the Facilitate Digital Online Media Workshop, 30 November.
This two day workshop is a ‘must attend’ event for all agencies & publishers who are serious about the future of advertising. Note limited places available.
Sourced From CNN
November 9, 2005
The chairman of Microsoft is predicting a “sea change” for his industry and is urging his managers to act decisively to stay ahead of the competition, according to a leaked company e-mail.
WHEN I BOUGHT MY GYM membership, I paid a hefty sign-up fee and agreed to pay a regular monthly fee. When I spoke to the salesperson, I definitely didn’t think, “Here’s my money, and I will never see you or this gym ever again.” I had every intention of going to the gym several times a week and getting in fantastic shape.
However, as with many good intentions, life and its many priorities happen, and those plans fall to the wayside–not intentionally, but nevertheless they become less important.
Sourced From SearchDay
By Danny Sullivan
Google has dropped from its home page the famous count of pages in its index while simultaneously claiming it has the most comprehensive collection of web documents available to searchers.
Sourced From SearchDay
By Chris Sherman
Most people turn to the web as a primary information source these days, but there’s a lot of great stuff in traditional forums and bulletin board systems—if you know where to look.
You may be familiar with our Search Engine Watch forums, our community of people interested in discussing search engines and search marketing with one another. There are literally thousands of other online forums dedicated to specialized topics, ranging the gamut from astronomy to zymurgy.
Sourced From Emarketer
Published: October 31, 2005
A new J.D. Power and Associates survey shows continued growth for online travel booking.
The “2005 Independent Hotel Web Site Study” found that 41% of hotel reservations were booked online in 2005, up from 36% last year.
Sourced From SearchDay
By Chris Sherman
New research from Yahoo and Ipsos suggests that although blogs and feeds are trendy among the technorati, awareness of RSS remains quite low among most U.S. based internet users.
The study found that only 12% of all users were aware of RSS, and just 4% had knowingly used the technology for reading feeds from blogs, news sources and other regularly updated content sources on the web (if you’re unfamiliar with RSS, see the SearchDay series, What is RSS, and Why Should You Care?).
Sourced From Search Engine Watch
Google Base, which some people got an early glimpse at last month, is now live (or supposed to be) for anyone to play with (though it has been down a few times, and already had one security threat patched). So what’s in it, and what’s it all mean?