AIM Group | June 19, 2009 | Real Estate
Byย Christoffel Volschenk Private "sales" of houses and apartments by way of online lotteries (or raffles) continue to hit the headlines in Europe. .. This content...
Brian Blum | June 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
It’s now official. Facebook now has more traffic than MySpace in the U.S. According to Comscore, in May Facebook totaled 70,278,000 unique visitors, up 97...
Brian Blum | June 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
Twitterfeed has relaunched with a rebuilt back-end and a new analytics dashboard. The changes improve the performance and usability of this popular Twitter client...
Brian Blum | June 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
PublicCola, a small local blog in Seattle, has received an undisclosed amount of seed funding from two prominent Seattle personalities: Rajeev Singh, president and...
Brian Blum | June 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has awarded $5.1 million to projects aimed at improving community as a part of its five year, $25 million Knight News...
Brian Blum | June 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
Thinking of hiring a social media manager at your company to watch and post to your Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn pages? How much should you pay? A short report...
Brian Blum | June 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
The U.S. Congress has joined the bash Craigslist fray. A bipartisan letter signed by 26 U.S. Representatives says they are “disturbed by the number of...
Shannon Kinney | June 19, 2009 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment, Marketplaces
In my last post, I talked about the importance of a real needs assessment when working with advertisers to help fully understand their needs. Advertisers are...
AIM Group | June 18, 2009 | Marketplaces
MIH Allegro, the Polish subsidiary of MIH Internet Europe, which belongs to the Cape Town-based media group Naspers, extended a public offer to the shareholders of...
Brian Blum | June 18, 2009 | Automotive
Elise Neel, who served in sales and marketing positions at Cars.com, has been promoted to national sales director for the digital media measurement team at...
Brian Blum | June 18, 2009 | Recruitment
NBC Philadelphia has re-launched its local job portal as a free-to-list site powered byRealMatch.com.PhillyJobMatch.com allows employers to post for free and only...
Brian Blum | June 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
Another sign of the power of Twitter: the U.S. State Department asked the micro-blogging company to delay a network upgrade that was scheduled for Monday night....
Brian Blum | June 18, 2009 | Real Estate
Zillow has updated its iPhone app to take advantage of Applie’s new version 3 phone and operating system. The new app comes less than two months after its...
Brian Blum | June 18, 2009 | Real Estate
ForRent.com has become the sole content provider of apartment rental properties on Homes.com. The move isn’t surprising: both companies are owned by Dominion...
Brian Blum | June 18, 2009 | Recruitment
Twitter recruitment app TweetMyJobs is offering a new service to clients called Smart Tweet (“Smart” standing for for Social Media Applicant...
AIM Group | June 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
Hitwise figures show traffic to U.K. classifieds sites hasย increased by 15 percent over the last 12 months. Hitwiseย analysts attribute the bump to consumers...
ray marcano | June 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
What's Twitter good for? I don't use Twitter much. I got turned off when I got bombarded with tweets about eating breakfast, watching a movie at home,...
AIM Group | June 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
Great blog post by INMA's executive director Earl J. Wilkinson on how Schibsted-owned Finn in Norway breaks tradition with other classified operators -- especially...
AIM Group | June 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
MySpace continues to bleed. Its drop in users compared with Facebook, we’ve already told you about. Now the News Corp.-owned social network is laying off...
AIM Group | June 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
Online video advertising company Mixpo is giving potential customers a present: the ability to create a rich media video ad campaign for free. The promotion is...
AIM Group | June 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
Facebook has quietly begun testing its “Twitter-killer” – a real time search engine that works with Facebook content. The news is from the...
AIM Group | June 17, 2009 | Recruitment
Monster.com has launched a new service called “Monster for publishers” which allows third-party sites to place a Monster widget on their sites. The...
AIM Group | June 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
The Newspaper Consortium has added five new members—Freedom Communications’ California flagship, The Orange County Register as well as The Gazette in...
AIM Group | June 17, 2009 | Recruitment
While there’s still no word on whether new Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is looking to unload the company’s recruitment portal, HotJobs, the PaidContent blog...
Sharon Hill | June 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
Burl Osborne, former publisher of A.H. Belo Corp.'s Dallas Morning News and ex-chairman of the Associated Press, was named interim CEO of Freedom...
Sharon Hill | June 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
Hearst Corporation has named author, speaker and co-founder of iVillage Beth Polish as director of corporate innovation and SVP of Hearst Interactive Media. Polish...
AIM Group | June 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
Yahoo expanded its mobile platform in the Asia-Pacific region and Latin America, the company announced at a trade fair in Singapore. .. This content is available...
AIM Group | June 17, 2009 | Recruitment
Even though social-media platforms seem to struggle for the right business models, that doesn’t mean they don’t create value for the businesses that...
AIM Group | June 17, 2009 | Real Estate
OK, it’s not an important story. Just a quirky story in the Orlando Sentinel about how a 5-bedroom home in Orlando is the most-viewed for-sale listing on...
Shannon Kinney | June 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
In today’s environment, selling advertising has become more challenging. And, it’s not just about the economy although that is a driving factor....
