Posts from August 06, 2008

John Lovett | August 06, 2008, 04:59 PM
Measuring the Olympics
As the world prepares to watch the games of the XXIX Olympiad, NBC is preparing to watch the world. The research team at NBC Universal is well aware that TV’s, laptops and cell phones across the globe will be tuned into Olympics news and coverage and their intention is to...( more )

Emily Riley | August 06, 2008, 03:42 PM
Fox on a decent track with MySpace
Fox CFO David DeVoe noted on yesterday's quarterly earnings call that interactive properties earned $225 million. They saw a 23 percent increase from the same quarter last year and that half of that was from search results, primarily on MySpace. This shows that they are still very reliant on their...( more )

IanFogg | August 06, 2008, 11:25 AM
One Web, Not the Mobile Web
The W3 argues in their new Mobile Web Best Practices that the mobile web should be integrated in with the full [PC] web. This is their "One Web" position. I agree. It's quite unlike the .mobi approach. Ideally, the w3 believes all of the same content should be available to...( more )

David Card | August 06, 2008, 08:52 AM
Q2 Online Advertising Scoreboard
For those of you keeping score, a roundup of Q2 online ad revenues: - Google. Own sites up 42% to $3.5 billion. Network up 22% to $1.7 billion. International outgrew US and is over half of Google's total for the first time. - Yahoo. Own sites up 14% to $1...( more )

Mark Mulligan | August 06, 2008, 07:23 AM
Three Flavour of 7 Digital
You have to hand it to 7 Digital, they innovate hard and are ceaseless in their efforts to raise their profile and to carve out market share. Their latest initiative is a series of digital music service solutions for ISPs, split into three key tiers that appear aimed to address...( more )