Thursday, December 4th, 2008

Online Ad Forecast Positive for Social Media

Fitch’s outlook for online revenues are stable, expecting single digit increases. That revenue growth picture is in line with other forecasters like eMarketer, which has revised it’s 2009 growth estimates to 8.9%.
In general, CPM growth will cool, though individual segments like online video and social media are likely to continue growing.
Over the long term, Fitch [...]

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

NPR Launches Social Media Initiative

National Public Radio (NPR) has launched the tools to form an online community to link it’s personalities and loyal followers on NPR.Org.
NPR believes that a community already exists that includes people who work there, work at member stations, listen to NPR on the radio, use NPR.Org and those who support NPR. There is an [...]

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Digg On The Move

In a story released today in BusinessWeek, Jay Adelson, Digg’s CEO, says that the popular news aggregation Web site is focusing on profitability. I would bet that Digg will also move to the acquirer role here as well so that it can deploy some of the $28.5 million it raised from from Highland Capital [...]

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Power.com: For Social Networking Power Users

Chances are you use at least two major social networks – 49 million people, for example, visited both MySpace and Facebook in October. Power.Com wants to be the “dashboard” that we use to interface to one or more social networks.
Power.Com has aggregated over 5 million users in the last year with most of these [...]

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

Jeff Bennett Blog November ‘08 Posts

Here is quick review of November posts on Jeff Bennett Blog:
1. Gas @ $1.73/Gallon
2. KindleBoards.Com Emerges As Social Community
3. The Hess Toy Truck Is Back
4. Turkey Day Football Fitchburg Beats Leominster In Overtime
5. Jeff Bennett Blog Adds Groundswell To Recommended Reading
6. Targeted Social Media The Big Opportunity
7. Happy [...]

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

TechCrunch Today Says "Forget eBay Use SwapTree.Com"

TechCrunch reports today: “Forget eBay…Use SwapTree.”

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Sports Blogging @ BleacherReport.Com

BleacherReport.Com is a great community of sports junkies and bloggers and it is where I blog on sports. Why do I like BleacherReport.Com so much? BleacherReport.Com is where the sports bar meets the press box, the place for fan-journalists to create and critique high-quality sports analysis. You won’t find “unbiased” coverage at BleacherReport.Com—and [...]