July 20th, 2006
MySpace is the most popular site for people who have a lot of time. But it is also very popular for making money
It is not only that MySpace is most popular social-networking site in the USA (79.9$ of the market), but it is also the most popular Web site in America (4.46% of all Internet traffic).
But they sat even such popularity is not enough to make social-networking sites real business models.
Steve Mansfield, CEO of social search engine PreFound.com, has been watching MySpace and the rest of the social-networking market.
Banner adsense does not make a Web site as much money as a sponsored link on a search results page.
Sponsored links go directly to the Web site and banner advertisers only make an impression on a visitor.
In addition to the problem is the fact that MySpace doesn’t even get the lucrative blue-chip brand advertisers to buy those banner ads despite the fact that its member demographic is the young and malleable crowd after which marketers lust.
To read the full article GO HERE
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July 19th, 2006
U.S. moved against one of the world’s largest Internet gambling operations. They charged 11 individuals and 4 corporations with different counts of racketeering, conspiracy and fraud.
Public was informed on Tuesday when Carruthers was arrested and delivered in Fort Worth, Texas.
Carruthers, who is 49, was on his way from England to Costa Rica, where BetonSports has extensive operations. Kaplan is in Costa Rica, hiding from charges.
Catherine L. Hanaway, US offifical Attorney said: “Illegal commercial gambling across state and international borders is a crime. This indictment is but one step in a series of actions designed to punish and seize the profits of individuals who disregard federal and state laws”.
Beside charges, the U.S. accusers are looking for forfeiture of $4.5 billion from Kaplan and his co-defendants.
The Department of Justice also claimed a civil complaint to obtain an order requiring BetonSports to return money held in betting accounts to U.S. account holders.
The FBI sent letters to four U.S. telephone companies ordering them to stop providing service to all the Internet sports online casinos operated by BetonSports.
For the full article GO HERE
[tag] U.S.A. Government, BetonSports, FBI, The Depertment of Justice [/tag]
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July 19th, 2006
The new Yahoo homepage unveils in the US on Monday and will be open to other regions in July. The new page utilizes “Web 2.0″ functionality such as Ajax, personalization, collaborative filtering.
New versions are available in Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, UK & Ireland and Vietnam.
In July Yahoo! is running a homemade video competition to celebrate the event. They arranged for students from leading film schools to create video shorts, based on a series of scripts about Yahoo! changing. Anyone who wants to participate can make their own videos – using the Yahoo logo. You can submit their videos to a “New Yahoo! Campaign“. The best of these videos will be run in ads across the web.
Yahoo commented on the new homepage claiming it is “the most significant re-design of its flagship destination since the site first launched in 1994″. Yahoo is the biggest Web property having 500 000 000 users worldwide.
To see the full article go HERE
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