Monthly archive for July 2008

Facebook Revamped

Tuesday, den 22. July 2008

If you’re a Facebook user you may have noticed messages from Facebook regarding a new design and asking for your feedback. Well the new design is now live and its quite a big change, the overall layout of the site has been completely revamped along with better placements for advertisers. Below is a snippet from […]

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Microsoft Announce Advertising Pilot Program

Monday, den 21. July 2008

From the MSN Ad Center Community:
“We frequently get questions in the adCenter Community about our plans for a publisher program. We started a private pilot program earlier this year and are now inviting more publishers.
Microsoft’s self-serve advertising offering for publishers is still under development and is currently in a private pilot phase, being tested by […]

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Google Announce Acquisition of Begun

Friday, den 18. July 2008

Today Google announced the acquisition of Russian contextual ad company, Begun. So clearly Google are moving into the Russian search market and looking to gain dominance over its competitors. Read more at Marketing Pilgrim.

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Adwords: Use Keywords and Placements Together

Thursday, den 17. July 2008

From the Google Blog:
When you use keywords in your ad groups to contextually target your ads, we match them to relevant pages across the hundreds of thousands of sites on the Google content network. But have you ever wanted to bid more (or less) for a specific content network site you’re contextually targeting? Or write customized ad text for a […]

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Twitter Announces Acquisition of Summize

Wednesday, den 16. July 2008

Twitter have announced that they have acquired Summize, which is a search tool that looks through Twitters database of users and brings back relevant search results. This means that they have moved the service to their own website at Search.Twitter.com. See below for the official press release:
“We’re excited to announce that Twitter has acquired Summize—an […]

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Scour Social Search Engine Released

Tuesday, den 15. July 2008

A new Search Engine was released a few days ago called “Scour” below is a video by the companies CEO outlining the new search engines features and why he thinks you should use it, Let us know your thoughts by posting a comment.

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GPhone Back On The Cards?

Tuesday, den 15. July 2008

The iPhone has already created a stir, managing to keep most punters satisfied with the latest in mobile phone gadgets, until now. There has been speculation for nearly a year now but Google’s own mobile device brand - known simply as the gPhone - is currently back on the table as a possible venture, with […]

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Sony Signs With Double Fusion

Tuesday, den 15. July 2008

Days after Sony finalised their in-game advertising strategy, Sony have announced their partnership with content network Double Fusion to support its in-game ad sales for both the US and Europe. In-Game advertising is growing fast with companies such as Yahoo and MSN (Xbox 360/Live) doing their own in-game ads, will we see Google doing in-game […]

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Have You Got “NoMo Phobia”???

Monday, den 14. July 2008

A study conducted by the PostOffice in the UK has looked at the stress that can be caused by being out of mobile phone contact, and has coined a new term for it: “NoMo Phobia”. Read more at MobiAD.

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Yahoo Release BOSS

Monday, den 14. July 2008

A new application from Yahoo was released a few days ago called BOSS, this is another step from Yahoo to the new Open Search platform. Read below for more information (taken from the Yahoo Blog):
“BOSS is a new, open platform that offers programmatic access to the entire Yahoo! Search index via an API. BOSS allows […]

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