business of the web
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Weblogs, Inc. network now serving ads within RSS feeds
Reading through my RSS inbox today, I noticed that Tom Biro’s excellent AdJab– a member of the Weblogs, Inc. network- is sporting Google’s all-new AdSense-In-RSS feature. A quick check at Jason Calacanis’ (Weblogs, Inc. founder) blog revealed that the entire Weblogs, Inc. network- more than 70 blogs- is now one of the earliest adopters of…
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A sneek peak at Odeo
Jason Calacanis sat in on a presentation and gives a long, interesting report on the new Odeo “podcasting portal” (my phrase) coming soon from Blogger co-creator Evan Williams and others. Update: Much more on the del.icio.us tag ‘odeo’. Another update: Make magazine has photos, including some screens from the Odeo site/app.
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Do online ad numbers seem almost too good?
Whoah…According to this item on AdJab, AOL has “clarified” an earlier statement it made regarding its estimates for ad revenue this year. Still, rather than planning to exceed industry growth, they now say all they’ll do is meet growth. Not bad considering current industry estimates predict that online ad rev will grow 20-25% in 2005!
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BlogPulse reports on Election 2004
BlogPulse has posted a fascinating study examining the effects of the blogosphere on the mainstream media during the 2004 Presidential election.
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Online ad rev on the comeback
Editor and Publisher reports that online ad revenue jumped last year. Things should look even better this year.
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NY Post keeps highly unpopular IntelliTXT service afloat
AdJab’s Tom Biro (subject of an NL Interview last week) is reporting that the New York Post is the latest publisher to adopt the highly unpopular “contextual” adversiting service IntelliTXT. In its extremely questionable push to mix advertising and editorial content, IntelliTXT links certain keywords in an article with related advertising that displays in a…
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Firefox developer joins Google
Steve Rubel, one of this blogs’ favorite bloggers, reports that Firefox lead developer Ben Goodger has joined Google, as Goodger wrote on his blog: As of January 10, 2005, my source of income changed from The Mozilla Foundation to Google, Inc. of Mountain View, California. My role with Firefox and the Mozilla project will remain…
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woot
Woot.com is a new discount electronics store which sells one item per day.