AIM Group | February 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
1 billion. That’s the metric for December 2008 when the Internet hit the big 10 digits. The number comes from ComScore. To put it in perspective, MIT’s...
AIM Group | February 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
We’re big Gmail and Facebook users. So when Xoopit launched a new product that marries the two, we were intrigued.Xoopit already has a pretty cool tool that...
AIM Group | February 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
Average monthly unique audience figures for newspaper Web sites grew by nearly 7.3 million in 2008 to 67.3 million visitors. That’s an increase of 12.1...
AIM Group | February 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
By Cristina Costa Portugal Telecom S.A. and five of the leading media groups have started a new online advertising network for contextual advertising to compete...
AIM Group | February 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
InterActiveCorp is selling Match.com's European operations to Meetic for €5 million (about $6.3 million U.S.) and a 27-percent stake in the France-based...
AIM Group | February 19, 2009 | Recruitment
Simply Hired has added another social network to its growing list of customers. The job aggregator will now power Plaxo. This comes on top of recent deals we...
AIM Group | February 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
Five New York/New Jersey area newspapers have formalized their existing content sharing relationships, according to reports today. It’s called the Northeast...
AIM Group | February 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
Tech guru Guy Kawaski has a brief but wide-ranging interview with Media Post's Kory Kredit, mostly about his AllTop venture and Tweeting strategies. Kawasaki...
AIM Group | February 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
ReachLocal has moved beyond its core search engine marketing technology to offer a display advertising product aimed at local businesses. The new product, dubbed...
AIM Group | February 18, 2009 | Real Estate
It’s not huge yet, but traffic to U.K. property site Zoopla.co.uk grew 50 percent in January compared with the previous month. Visits to the site –...
AIM Group | February 18, 2009 | Real Estate
SeLoger, the French property portal, had positive revenue number for 2008 as a whole but went negative in Q4 due to a drop in classified ads in Paris.For the full...
AIM Group | February 18, 2009 | Real Estate
Homes.com traffic for January 2009 was up 33.4 percent over January 2008, to 3.1 million. The good news coincides with the site’s 10th birthday.“Seeing...
AIM Group | February 18, 2009 | Recruitment
What are the most stressful jobs (assuming you still have a job)? Adicio’s CareerCast.com took a look at 200 jobs and came up with the following...
AIM Group | February 18, 2009 | Recruitment
New data from Indeed shows that there are more job openings in IT than those that have been lost in recent months. In the company’s January 2009 report,...
AIM Group | February 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
When Facebook made a small change in its Terms of Service, the social networking company probably didn’t expect the outpouring of criticism directed at it...
AIM Group | February 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
As if we needed more evidence of the power of viral marketing, check out this graph from the Compete blog. For thoseย not familiar with "25 random things about...
AIM Group | February 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
Lately, my wife and I have spent a lot of time getting in touch with old friends via Facebook. It started when I received a friend request from Larry. Larry and I...
AIM Group | February 16, 2009 | Recruitment
Urs Hügli, CEO of Homegate.ch, Switzerland’s biggest real estate portal, and CEO of Swiss media group Tamedia’s job portal division (called...
AIM Group | February 16, 2009 | Real Estate
Traffic at U.K. property portal FindaProperty.com’s has increased by 63.9 per cent since December 2008 and currently stands at a 2.8 million unique visitors,...
AIM Group | February 15, 2009 | Recruitment
The beta version of Jobdaddy.co.uk was launched on January 11. Jobdaddy is a job search engine that aggregates jobs from job boards, agencies and employers across...
AIM Group | February 15, 2009 | Recruitment
Generalist job board Jobsite.co.uk is extending its aggressive TV, print and online advertising campaign from last year with a cover-wrap in the popular newspaper...
AIM Group | February 15, 2009 | Automotive
Bilbasen.dk has developed an iPhone application. The application will help users to quickly get a mobile overview of the vehicle market and simplify their search...
Brian Blum | February 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
By Alessandra Ritondo The business models of user-generated content are currently migrating toward forms of โcrowdsourcing,โ where companies farm out development...
AIM Group | February 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
By Joe Michaud User-generated content seems to be going through a Jekyll-and-Hyde phase lately. On one hand, the number of people creating and consuming โamateurโ...
AIM Group | February 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
Luis Miguel Fernandes is the new CEO of Impresa.com, the company which promotes the online advertisements of the media group Impresa, owner of the Portuguese TV...
AIM Group | February 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
Phillipe Leoni, chairman and CEO of Spir Communication Group, has decided to quit the company to pursue “personal projects,” according to the French...
AIM Group | February 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
JP Morgan’s January 2009 Nothing But Net investment guide includes some salient points about user-generated content as a business proposition:We think...
AIM Group | February 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
By Alessandra Ritondo The business models of user-generated content are currently migrating toward forms of โcrowdsourcing,โ where companies farm out development...
AIM Group | February 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
By Brian Blum Backed by an $837,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, two execs from The Bakersfield Californian are baking up a new software...
AIM Group | February 13, 2009 | Recruitment
Employers and job candidates have a new way to meet: via podcast. The Jobs in Pods Web site posts a new audio interview program every few days. The podcasts...
