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06-25-2008 Facebook Ahead of MySpace in Worldwide Visitors
Facebook has surpassed MySpace in worldwide monthly visitors, according to a report in the Washington...
06-25-2008 Surfing the Airwaves
As part of its ongoing attempts to retain customers (while emptying the change out of their pockets), American Airlines may soon be offering its...
06-24-2008 Bon Appetit Keeps a Clean Kitchen
The natural tendency of the Web is towards excess, no small amount of chaos, and (let's face it) ugliness. After all, we advertised the Internet from the beginning as an infinite source of information. In the end, it is a database...
06-17-2008 Newest Betty is Not "Ugly"
The first thing you have to ask about the new women's site BETTYCONFIDENTIAL.COM is the name. "It was based on focus groups," says Palo Alto, Calif.-headquartered co...
06-09-2008 Games Online Magazine People Play
Gaming is one of the most popular online entertainment activities across most demographics. Don't believe me? Check out the "Leisure" section at AARP.ORG where you can play simple arcade games like Eggz or colorful versions of Hangman or Klondike...
06-02-2008 RD is Web Savvy
Only the 20-something Silicon Valley dweebs really believe that the Web invented anything radically new in publishing. Aggregating the...
05-27-2008 Hoops Watchers Dribble Past b2bs
Office-bound eyeballs must have been dodging in and out of online college hoops coverage in March, since performance among the business information sites was mixed at best. Many sites dipped down or up by single digits, despite coming off of the short...
05-23-2008 Golfdigest.com Tops March Consumer Digital Boxscores
Golfdigest.com hit a hole in one in March and landed on top of the consumer digital boxscore list with an increase of nearly 60% from Feb.  But classic magazine-style content drove traffic to American Express Publishing's Travelandleisure.com, where...
05-23-2008 Chem. Mag Sites Take Over b2b's Top 5 For March
The chemical industry seemed to get a lot of unexplained activity in March, as Access Intelligence publication, Che.com (Chemical Engineering's site) saw its beaker bubble over: an UV increase of 46% from Feb. to March. But the top increase goes to...
05-23-2008 Basketball and Politics are "Primary Colors" 
min's Top Digital Boxscores in March vs. February Double-digit gains visited many consumer sites in March, amid good news from the Magazine Publishers of America that the cumulative magazine Web site audience in first-quarter 2008 was +11.9% versus the same...
05-20-2008 HEALTH.COM Maps New Journey
What is a publisher to do in a category that is monstrously cluttered, thoroughly commoditized by me-too material, and dominated by such portal-sized Web brands as MAYOCLINIC.COM, HEALTHLINE.COM, and WEBMD.COM? Well, you can always resort to good old...
05-20-2008 Why Did CBS Buy CNet? Surely Not For the Geeks.
Tech Publisher's Online Reach Attracts Broadcast Titan CBS CBS' unexpected move to buy the technology information brand CNET Networks is likely as much a reach play as a synergy play. The legendary...
05-13-2008 Mobile's "Tip-Off" Point
In a recent two-day conference about mobile commerce and marketing in Washington, the Federal Trade Commission started its due diligence of the cellular channel as a media platform. Its job was to start investigating what impact mobile was having on consumers...
05-13-2008 Programming to the Pods
Who really knows how many of us consume podcasts in any given month? The basic format and distribution mechanism of podcasting (RSS feeds) is designed to decentralize the format and make it easy for us to grab the content from multiple sources when we like...
05-13-2008 People News: Sweeney Takes on Internet Evolution
WashPo and Crain's contributor Terry Sweeney takes over the newly created...
05-12-2008 Advanstar, Texterity Pros Talk Digital
Media industry professionals enjoyed a hearty digital breakfast last week at the ABM Spring Meeting in Palm Springs. Steve Morris, EVP of Advanstar and Cimarron Buser, SVP of Texterity shared their take on generating revenue using video and other digital...
05-04-2008 Come on Down: Forbes.com Gives Users Their Props
The first thing we noticed about the new, redesigned Forbes.com home page is that the famously clever, irreverent editorial voice of the brand now shares the stage with other shout-outs. For instance, prominently featured on the new front page, reader...
05-04-2008 Digital "Spring Cleaning": Airing Out Some Good Ideas
Tis the season for more site relaunches and new products than any Web maven can track. But in making the rounds recently I happened upon some content ideas that deserve special shout-outs. THE ONION AD FORMATS The uproarious THEONION.COM humor site moved from...
04-27-2008 Adidas and Complex Finding Rising Superstars
By Creating a Complex Relationship, Adidas and Complex Find Rising Superstars Publishers often like to "talk the talk" of true cross-media integration and working collaboratively with brand advertisers, but it is not always easy to see them...
04-22-2008 Best of the Web: b2b Gets More Usable
This year's min's Best of the Web entries demonstrated how quickly many b2bs have closed the design and content gap with their more evolved consumer-side brethren. One of the best consequences of producing the Best of the Web...
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