Phones Get Their Own Domain

First Internet Address for Mobile Phones - dotMobi - Announced at CTIA

 

Supported by Leading Industry Organizations, dotMobi Will Begin Registering Names in Late May

 

LAS VEGAS, April 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Mobile Top Level Domain (mTLD) announced the availability of the first and only Internet address created for mobile phones: ".mobi".

 

"The dotMobi Internet address, which is set for launch on May 22nd, brings the ease of accessing the Internet from the PC to mobile phones everywhere, and clearly indicates Internet sites and applications that are designed for consumers on the go," said Neil Edwards, CEO, mTLD Ltd. "dotMobi is the Internet made mobile."

 

"More people have access to an Internet-ready phone than to a PC with Internet access," said Edwards. By 2008, researchers expect 1.3 billion people to be connected to the Internet through mobile devices.

 

However, accessing the Internet on a mobile phone can be frustrating. Downloading content to mobile devices can be expensive, slow, exceed screen size, and difficult to navigate.

 

"Many existing Internet sites are grounded in desktop PC-oriented services and were not designed with a mobile phone in mind, which has led to less than ideal performance for consumers," said Edwards. "The dotMobi sites are tailor-made for browsing and navigating on the mobile phone, making a far better experience."

 

To make creating Web sites for mobile Internet functional and reliable, mTLD has developed rules and best practices, all based on open standards, for content developers and service providers. This ensures that their Web sites can be viewed and navigated by any mobile phone.

 

The consultative dotMobi Switch On! Web Browsing Guide may be found at mtld.mobi. A guide for mobile messaging will be launched later this year. These guides are based on best practices specified by the World Wide Web Consortium's Mobile Web Initiative (MWI).

 

mTLD has already issued temporary domain names to Newbay, Nokia, TIM, Vodafone and Weather Channel, among others, to demonstrate the improved reliability of downloading dotMobi Web content on mobile devices.

 

"Many Americans will experience broadband for the very first time through wireless technology and research shows that consumers would like to access the Internet and other data services using their mobile devices," said Steve Largent, President and CEO of CTIA. "Ensuring predictable and reliable Internet access from any device on any network is important to CTIA -- The Wireless Association(R). CTIA is proud to announce that our members will be eligible for early Sunrise Period registration for dotMobi domains beginning May 22."

 

To see hands-on demonstrations of dotMobi Web sites on mobile phones at CTIA Wireless 2006, visit the "family room" at the CTIA Wireless Home and booth #2615.

 

mTLD Backed by Industry
Backed by many of the world's leading mobile operators, handset manufacturers and software developers, mTLD has been designated the official worldwide registry for the dotMobi domain.

 

Leading mobile industry associations including the GSM Association (an mTLD founding investor), CTIA -- The Wireless Association(R), and the Mobile Marketing Association have lined up to support an early dotMobi launch for their members May 22-29, 2006. Referred to as the sunrise period, this launch offers the mobile industry a week-long advance period to register their trade and service marks.

 

mTLD is working closely with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), registrars, copyright bodies and site owners to ensure that trademarks are properly protected during the sunrise period.
For more information on the dotMobi sunrise program, visit mtld.mobi.

 

About mobile Top Level Domain, Ltd.
mobile Top Level Domain Ltd (mTLD), a joint venture company based in Dublin, Ireland, is leading the development of Internet usage from mobile devices by switching on the dotmobi domain name. Unique among domain name providers, mTLD ensures that services and sites developed around dotmobi are optimized for use by mobile devices. Consumers on the go can have confidence that the Internet site or service will work from their mobile device when using the dotmobi address.

 

The company gained approval from ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) for the '.mobi' Sponsored Top level Domain (TLD) in the second half of 2005. mTLD is backed by leading mobile operators, network and device manufacturers, and Internet content providers. Investors in mTLD include Ericsson, GSM Association, Hutchison 3, Microsoft, Nokia, Orascom Telecom, Samsung Electronics, Syniverse, T-Mobile, Telefonica Moviles, TIM and Vodafone. mTLD is also a sponsor of W3C's Mobile Web Initiative.

 

CONTACT:
 Danielle Siemon
 Edelman Public Relations
 +1-650-429-2739
 danielle.siemon@edelman.com

 

 Vance Hedderel
 mobile Top Level Domain, Ltd.
 +1-703-485-5563
 vhedderel@mtld.mobi

Affiliate Site Bestows 5-Star Rating on Domain Registrar

GoDaddy.com® Domain Registration Receives 5-Star Rating

 

Service & Extras Earn World's #1 Domain Registrar Review Place's Highest Status

 

[ClickPress, Tue Apr 25 2006] Review Place recently awarded a five-star rating to GoDaddy.com, the world's leading registrar of domain names.

 

GoDaddy.com is the “on-ramp” to the Internet for individuals and businesses worldwide, providing a one-stop shop for acquiring, creating and safeguarding a unique online identity. GoDaddy.com offers a comprehensive line of Internet products and services. Every domain name comes with an email account, blog hosting, a starter web page and other free extras.

 

“GoDaddy.com is committed to providing our customers with superior service and industry-leading low prices for all of our products and services, from domain registration to web hosting to secure certificates and e-commerce tools,” said Bob Parsons, GoDaddy.com founder & CEO. “We're very pleased to receive Review Place's top rating, because it reflects our dedication to listening to the needs of our customers."

 

GoDaddy.com is the perfect choice for users who are new to creating a website, as the service features website-building software and a free guide to designing a website. With all of these features offered free of charge, GoDaddy.com provides the best domain registration service package - and at a bargain price. GoDaddy.com beat out iPower, eNom and Dotster in earning the five-star rating.

 

“The packages that GoDaddy.com offers include services for which other hosting companies charge extra,” said Andy West, Review Place press relations representative. “Because of their combination of great service and great value, our reviewers feel that GoDaddy.com is among the best.”

 

One of the leading consumer-driven online communities, Review Place provides reviews on thousands of products and services. Review Place categories include home based businesses, employment services, relationship advice and many more. The site is dedicated to saving consumers time and money by providing quality information on the issues that impact their lives. To see the complete list of categories, visit www.ReviewPlace.com.

 

To find out more about GoDaddy.com and other related services, including descriptions, testimonials and product reviews, please visit Review Place's Domain Name Registration category at www.reviewplace.com/cat-371-InternetBusinessTools--Domain-Name-Registration.html.

 

About Review Place
One of the largest consumer-driven communities on the Web, Review Place publishes reviews on thousands of products and services. From weight loss programs to financial services to online dating sites, Review Place has the information you need! The goal is simple: to save you time and money by providing quality information on the products and services you seek. For more information, visit www.ReviewPlace.com.

 

Company: Review Place
Contact Name: Andy West
Contact Email: support@reviewplace.com
Contact Phone: 602-476-1889

ICmediaDirect.com Sponsoring 2006 Domain Roundtable

 

Press Release by: ICMediaDirect.com 

 

(openPR) - New York, NY April 17, 2006 – New York City based online advertising agency ICMediaDirect.com is sponsoring the prestigious 2006 Domain Roundtable Conference in Bellevue, Washington – the premier conference in the booming Internet Domain business today.

 

Building on the success of last year’s inaugural convention, the 2006 Domain Roundtable Conference will be held at the Bellevue Westin Hotel, in Bellevue, Washington from April 19th to the 21st. The purpose of the event is to give participants the opportunity to learn more about current industry trends, as well as to provide networking opportunities.

 

Like many other entities attending the Domain Roundtable, ICMediaDirect.com has boosted their efforts in a domain business that’s been enjoying a period of impressive growth. This event boasts four distinguished keynote speakers and a wide selection of seminars that cover all aspects of today’s domain business. Additionally, there will be displays, receptions, and networking to meet any interest.

 

Domain Roundtable Conference goers will join the Domain Entrepreneurs, Technical Administrators, Domain Registrars and Resellers, Affiliate Program Managers, Industry Insiders, Search Engine Operators, Intellectual Property Community, Domain Brand Portfolio Managers, Press and Media, Venture Capitalists and brand marketers who share an interest in what’s going on in the domain arena and what tomorrow may bring.

 

For information on registration or any other questions about the Domain Roundtable Conference, April-19-21, 2006, in Bellevue, Washington, please call 206.838.9035.ext8 or visit www.DomainRoundtable.com.

 

ICMediaDirect.com has two locations, in Washington DC (email: ICMDdc@icmediadirect.com, phone: 202.277.6617) and New York, NY (ICMDny@icmediadirect.com, 212.563.6455 and was formed in 2001, with web design and web development divisions added in 2003.

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Best Buy Becomes Boring, Bland, and Badgering

I was just in Best Buy this past weekend. I had a holiday gift card that had some value left over and I wanted to find something to use it up on. I decided on a 256MB Flash Memory thingy, because I had just bought a computer for $19 and it had no floppy drive, no hard drive, and no CDROM. I figured I would put some kind of OS on the Flash Fob and use that.

 

Anyway, I was struck by the subtle changes that I saw at the Big Best Buy in Richfield, Minnesota, about a BB gunshot away from the Best Buy corporate headquarters. The first thing I noticed is that every time I moved into a different area and there was a sales person there, they came up to me and asked me if I needed help. I started to wish that there was a thing like "human cookies" so the staff could read whether or not I had been asked this already. I was in about four areas and was asked each time. I though about going around to all the different areas so I would have more to write about, but didn't have the time. Note to Best Buy staff: Look for sustained eye contact before approaching customers unless they have one of those white canes...!

 

The second thing is that all the computer books are gone. Well, almost all. Guess they were not a money-maker? Gee, what a surprise. I love computer books, but who can afford $20-50 to buy all the things you love (not need)? I love the clearance book racks and they did not even have that. Note to Best Buy: Sell electronic versions. You can charge just a little and make very good margin. People can read them on their computer or print them out if they want. This will also drive sales of your DUPLEX laser printers and paper.

 

And the third thing was that the product lines seemed to be much more refined and boring. There's much less difference between them and Circuit City, which I used to dislike quite a bit. It's less "computer store" and more "consumer electronics" these days. Which I think I warned Schultz about many, many years ago... oh well, I still have CompUSA and Midwest Electronics. THEY know how to treat a geek!!!

 

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Enhanced Regional Based Directories Hatched By Ezilon.com Directory

 

Ezilon.com Launches Enhanced Regional Based Directories

Ezilon Directory has rolled out its improved regional directories, a targeted search service focused to assist business and online users to access information within specific regions.

Houston, TX (PRWEB) April 24, 2006 -- Ezilon Directory has rolled out its improved regional directories, a targeted search service focused to assist business and online users to access information within specific regions.

Ezilon.com, part of Mbrasilla Corporation, is a directory with search engine founded with the purpose of providing individuals and companies around the world with easy-to-access information on different continental regions that include: North America, Europe, Asia and Oceania.

Ezilon.com increases its market share in the Internet industry by sticking to its fundamental marketing niche (localizing directory search). "As the size of the Internet increases, so does the emphasis on niche contents and searches," says Charles Michael. Ezilon.com provides easy solutions to web based search issues. Often times Internet users would like to search for business or person(s) or just plain information within a certain area but until now this had not been an option. Users would need to sift through pages of results in order to find an appropriate listing. Ezilon.com simplifies this process by allowing users to search only for region specific information. Each region has its own individual website for each searching and all sites can be accessed from the individual search sites. Ezilon.com therefore provides that option for business and Internet public.

We also offer the same variety of search capabilities as major search engines, as well as free classified ads, headline news, soccer/football, country briefs and marketplace section providing information for interesting and relevant contents.

Any business or general website wishing to be included in Ezilon.com directory may submit their website for review and inclusion. Ezilon.com only accepts website submissions from around the world with information pertaining to regions interest. You are therefore encouraged to list your websites while the present offers last.

Our goal is to provide targeted localized quality information to the visitors seeking information pertaining to regions covered by Ezilon.com network of directories and search.

For more information please visit Ezilon.com

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Click Fraud Exists, Click Fraud Exists, Click Fraud Exists. What I tell you three times is true.

Fighting Fraud In The Dark

 

by Mikhail Ledvich, Friday, April 21, 2006
RECENTLY, GOOGLE'S STAND ON CLICK fraud went from "it does not exist" to "we have settled a class-action lawsuit for $90 million," to "Believe us, as computer scientists, we have the ability to detect the invalid clicks before they reach advertisers," (as the company's CEO was quoted in a recent Bloomberg article.)

 

Unfortunately for advertisers and publishers, Google has tried to minimize the click fraud problem instead of solving it.

 

How can advertisers trust Google's CEO if the company flip-flopped its position from "there is no fraud" to giving back $90 million to advertisers? In that same Bloomberg piece, Google's CEO downplayed fraud's reach, while others estimate the problem to be 20 or 30 percent of all paid clicks. But think about this: if Google settled with fraud-affected advertisers for $90 million, that number was probably lower than whatever litigation may have uncovered within Google's network.

 

Yahoo, which has been more stoic in its defense of its own pay-per-click system, has maintained the party line when it comes to filtering fraudulent clicks. Also named as a defendant in the same lawsuit as Google, Yahoo refused to settle, claiming it sufficiently protects its advertisers from fraud.

 

However, a Harvard researcher just penned a report which details how Yahoo's Pay Per Click (PPC) affiliate network is being gamed by unscrupulous affiliates who use spyware and adware to commit click fraud. Andrew Beckman, President of SearchAdnetwork, confirms that various companies have approached him to syndicate his Yahoo Search Feed, pitching the fact that "they get a better revenue share due to the large click volume they can produce." He now worries that "Yahoo could not be monitoring all of these actions, and the repercussions are starting to take shape." Previously Yahoo had suspended guilty affiliates' accounts, and, with this research out in the open, hopefully Yahoo will terminate these accounts as well.

 

While all advertising networks should devote a greater effort to eliminating fraud, the problem exists at a level deep enough to make it difficult to combat the problem. None of the major advertising networks release any kind of information that can help advertisers. There is zero transparency and accountability in regard to the performance of their affiliate networks. In short, advertisers simply do not know where their ads are being shown. Many don't care so long as the ROI is good, but those worried about brand image wouldn't want their ads to appear on pages with questionable content, and even fewer advertisers want to be associated with adware, spyware and pop-ups.

 

It's surprising that advertisers have not banded together to demand more information from the networks.

 

Imagine if the networks provided a full disclosure statistics page? It might take the shape of an advertising 'dashboard' that details the exact amount of clicks the advertiser received--say 100, of which 20 were questionable. The dashboard would let the advertiser know it was only being charged for 80 clicks. This would show a good-faith effort on behalf of the network in combating the click fraud problem. This isn't to say the networks aren't trying to crush fraud now, but without admitting the problem, it will be hard for them to announce that they have found a solution.

 

If Yahoo and Google continue to keep their most profitable customers in the dark, they'll risk losing ads from the affiliate networks and high-paying clients will only advertise on search, where there is less incentive for fraud. That would significantly impact Google, Yahoo and the other major advertising network platforms.

 

Advertisers are not the only ones harmed by click fraud; publishers lose out as well. As advertisers begin to scale back their Google and Yahoo campaigns from affiliate networks, publishers who rely on Google's AdSense and Yahoo's upcoming YPN network to monetize their traffic will see a drop in well targeted, high paying ads. Fewer ads lead to lower per-click prices and less-relevantly targeted ads. And, just as advertisers lose money, publishers find themselves no longer able to command premium prices for their inventory. Unlike advertisers who can pull, edit and otherwise control their ads individually, publishers suffer as a whole; a collective punishment of sorts.

 

As long as there remains a financial incentive for people to commit fraud, the click fraud problem will not fully disappear. But, full disclosure by adverting networks can alleviate advertiser and publisher angst as well as allow others to help Yahoo and Google combat the quickly escalating fraud problem. How much data should the advertising networks provide without disclosing trade secrets, their "secret sauce"? That's an important question, but these secrets may soon lead to not having much performance data to hide.

 

By giving advertisers more data, advertisers will be more than happy to help networks stamp out fraud. But right now, everyone is operating in the dark.

 

Mikhail Ledvich is Chief Strategy Officer, Click Facts.
 
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Automatic Link Exchange Serivce Offered At No Cost

 

Free Link Exchange Service - Automatic Link Exchange

We offer a free automatic link exchange service designed to provide your web site with hundreds of link exchange partners.

(PRWEB) April 20, 2006 -- http://www.linktradeexchange.com is a free service that allow it's customers a easy and fast way to find the best links for their site. The goal of this service is to create directories on users sites where members can select to receive inbound links from other web sites quickly, easily, and FREE.

By helping us establish a quality member base you will grow with us and not be banned for getting too many links at once, plus once our link exchange service grows into the thousands you will have full control over how many links are added to your link directory each day thus keeping you safe from link spamming.

With our automatic service you could instantly have links pointing to your website from every other members website (or just the ones you choose). With our link exchange service the 'Approved' function in 'Manage My Partners' area you can set to automatic and allow a few links to your site per week as multiple links at a time will attract Search Engine attention to your site as being spammy and will not index those links.

Unlike other automatic programs that are just link farms with pages full of links, our service is a fully searchable, categorized directory that is maintained by human editors. Links that contain inappropriate content are deleted immediately. Plus our automatic service removes any dead links.

We realize that some members will have no idea how to get set up but don't worry after you register and confirm your free link exchange account contact us and we can help or even set it up for you.

Register free at: http://www.linktradeexchange.com.

Press Contact: Blake Hendrickson
Company Name: Link Trade Exchange.com
Phone: 406-891-0502
Website: http://www.linktradeexchange.com  

 

SAS To Get SAP To Support And Secure Search

SAS and Google to Deliver Expanded Search Capabilities for Business Intelligence; New Technology from SAS and Google Will Enable Organizations to Improve Search Results by Providing Relevant Context around Everyday Business Queries

 

CARY, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 2006--SAS, the leader in business intelligence, today announced new technology with Google that will allow joint clients to perform contextually relevant searches through the popular Google search interface to surface information, analysis and reports from SAS(R) business intelligence (BI) software beginning this summer. The combination of the Google Search Appliance with the SAS(R) Enterprise Intelligence Platform will give users more information than what ordinary keyword searches would return from an initial query, enabling them to think and act more strategically on their business intelligence knowledge.

 

Google OneBox for Enterprise uses the same technology that provides information on stock tickers or weather information on Google.com. In the same way that SAS has expanded access to BI information by creating targeted user interfaces for its software that match the skill levels of individual users, SAS and Google will provide joint customers who activate the OneBox for Enterprise feature of the new Google Search Appliance - announced by Google today - with a familiar, secure way to search for real-time information delivered by SAS BI software.

 

Google OneBox for Enterprise combined with SAS enterprise business intelligence delivers relevant search results for business users in the same way it does for any visitor to the Google website looking for information about local news, weather or restaurants. For example, when a SAS customer types a phrase such as "fourth quarter 2005 sales" into a Google-powered intranet search engine, it will return a snapshot of relevant information including reports, data, and analysis along with links to other results that could consist of the top selling products, top salespersons or top 10 customers for that time period. In this way, the powerful combination of Google search technology and the SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform now understands more than just what the user means and returns more than what they expect, making it easier and more accurate to make effective management decisions. All search results are filtered through existing enterprise security protocols, delivering intelligence tailored to each user's individual access rights.

 

"Google is excited to work with SAS to deliver business intelligence information and help employees spot trends right from their Google search box," said Dave Girouard, Vice President and General Manager of Google Enterprise. "We're aiming to make enterprise search as comprehensive and useful as web search and our partnership with SAS is a big step forward in that direction."

 

"SAS is committed to delivering the best business intelligence in the industry by enabling organizations to get access to relevant information when they need it," said Keith Collins, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of SAS. "The combination of SAS' business intelligence and Google's search expertise allows customers to quickly access and understand critical information by exposing associated data, analysis and reports to even more business users, broadening the value and impact of business intelligence and helping companies improve their own enterprise BI strategies."

 

This is the first of many technology initiatives that SAS and Google will spearhead to help organizations eliminate information silos by sharing relevant knowledge across business units. For more information, please visit www.sas.com/google.

 

About SAS
SAS is the leader in business intelligence software and services. Customers at 40,000 sites use SAS software to manage and gain insights from vast amounts of data, resulting in faster, more accurate business decisions, more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers, compliance with governmental regulations, research breakthroughs and better products. Only SAS offers leading data integration, intelligence storage, advanced analytics and traditional business intelligence applications within a comprehensive enterprise intelligence platform. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers around the world The Power to Know(R).

 

SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. (R) indicates USA registration. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies.

 

Contacts
SAS
Bob Chase, 919-531-4327; bob.chase@sas.com

 

SAS
Source: via Business Wire
Updated  04/10/2006  by company 
Headquarters: Cary, NC
Website: http://www.sas.com
CEO: Dr. James(Jim) Goodnight
Employees: 10,000
Organization: Private
Revenues: $1.68 billion (2005)

Detection Tool For Click Fraud

 

Click Fraud Detection Tool

Click Fraud Detection Tools increase ROI for pay per click clients.

Pottsville, PA (PRWEB) April 18, 2006 -- Click Fraud is a serious matter, in fact many pay per click clients actually factor in a fraud rate of 20% when allocating their budget. We know this because in some industries this horrific click fraud rate is the norm.

It makes it even more unacceptible when we request a refund when we know it's click fraud by the simple fact that that a click every 12 min and 30 seconds each 12 min and 30 seconds is not a 'normal human click pattern'.

We decided to fight back, but not using the normal pattern of complaining, we decided to find hard evidence.

Internally we built a BETA click fraud detection tool located at ( http://www.tabooclick.com ) and ran some of our clients though the system. The system detects click fraud using several methods. The first and most simple is just by detecting multiple clicks from the same computer, however the tool does not stop there. Tabooclick also does a series of browser checks and other type of pattern checks to see if it's a real human clicking on the ad, or just a spam click fraud bot.

Generally click fraud can be broken down into three distinct groups.

The type of click fraud that an individual clicks on a competitors ad then clears cache and does it again and again. Though this can be a problem, it's by no means the worst.

Automated Click Fraud is the real problem. It's when someone sets up a script that starts clicking on competitors ads to drive down the ROI for pay per click clients. This is a problem when it's your competitor driving down your ROI.

The worst of them all is similar to the automated click fraud, but this could be considered 'click fraud for profit'. It's when a criminal signs up to place pay per click ads on their site and the runs this script though their site. This is the worst of the worst for the fact that not only are they driving up your Pay per click charges, but they are getting paid to do such.

Tabooclick.com does catch the vast majority of this type of fraud, however the system does not stop fraud from taking place, instead it provides you with a report that gives you hard physical evidence to back up your claims to the search engines when requesting a refund. We are actually somewhat shocked that a small firm in Pottsville, Pa figured out how to detect click fraud for the most part, but the search engines didn't.

When we setup the tool for our clients we had to keep refining the process to catch click fraud while keeping legit visitors from having any problems.

We are confident enough to allow others to test the product as long as everyone understands that this product is in BETA meaning that there still are some bugs in the system that could theoretically wipe out any pay per click that is run though the system. So we STRONGLY suggest that use this only for keywords that are rife with fraud and with a budget that you can afford to lose. We are working to refine the product and we need feedback, but we don't need lawsuits so please take heed to the warning that the system is in VERY extreme BETA and please expect some issues to pop up while using the product.

If successful, the report provided should force the search engines to issue you a refund or at least raise red flags for you to see.

As it stands now, tabooclick.com can detect automated click fraud and multiple clicks.

The service is 100% free during the testing period and it owned by Yooter InterActive Marketing ( http://www.yooter.com )

Press Contact: Roger Wehbe
Company Name: YOOTER INTERACTIVE MARKETING
Phone: 570-622-9121
Website: http://www.tabooclick.com

Pixel Website Real Estate Agent Prolongs The Fad

 

Real Estate Agent Pixel Website Similar To Million Dollar Home Page

Take your pick -- Haute Living Magazine is now offering limited spots on one of the ‘haute-st’ new web sites for real estate agents and property seekers called Pickyourrealestateagent.com

Miami, FL  - April 17, 2006 -- Take your pick -- Haute Living Magazine is now offering limited spots on one of the ‘haute-st’ new web sites for real estate agents and property seekers called Pickyourrealestateagent.com

With more than $47,000 pixels sold already in fewer than 90 days, Haute Living’s ‘Pick Your Real Estate Agent” venture is picking off the nation’s finest real estate agents for prominent advertising on what will be the premier site for home seekers nationwide.

“While most other websites are growing in popularity by eliminating the real estate agent from the home search and buying process entirely, Pickyourrealestateagent.com is building relationships with the best real estate agents in the country to actively promote them by specialized regions,” said Seth Semilof, successful co-publisher of Haute Living magazine and Pickyourrealestateagent.com co- creator.

Real estate agents who get in on the action now at Pickyourrealestateagent.com secure their spot on the site indefinitely and spots are limited by region forever. Traffic to the site is growing as word spreads on this unique site that promotes real estate agents nationwide prominently and by state. Visit the site to see what how other realtors in 25 states have already ‘picked off’ their region and secured their spot on the newest site for property seekers looking for the best real estate agent by region. www.pickyourrealestateagent.com.

“Eliminating the real estate agent from the buying and selling process is the latest trend in real estate on the Internet. Sites like Google, Zillow and Craigslist are gearing up to compete for online buyers and are growing in popularity. Pickyourrealestateagent.com celebrates the value of the real estate agent and offers immediate access to specialized realtors all over the U.S.,” said entrepreneurial Haute Living co-publisher Kamal Hotchandani and co-creator of Pickyourrealestateagent.com

As the site grows in popularity and secures real estate agents nationwide, full scale advertising and marketing will begin on the site, growing its daily hits by consumers and spreading the word on the newest place in cyberspace for property seekers from all over the U.S. Real Estate Agents who have already secured spots on the site are investing in the next generation of the home and property purchase process -- a 24/7 meeting place that links realtors to their customers based on their specialty and needs.

Picking off the Competition (About www.pickyourrealestateagent.com) While competitors seek to eliminate real estate agents from the home buying process one by one, www.pickyourrealestateagent.com celebrates and promotes them by offering pixel purchase advertising on its website based on regional specialties. Successful Haute Living magazine publisher’s Kamal Hotchandani and Seth Semilof created this innovative web page to benefit real estate agents Nationwide and property purchasers nationwide by bringing them together by state of specialty/need, but limits advertising by state to eliminate excessive competition and organization. Pick your own region before it’s sold out at: Pickyourrealestateagent.com

Press Contact: Seth Semilof
Company Name: HAUTE LIVING INC.
Phone: 305.961.9956
Website: www.pickyourrealestateagent.com

Crime Not Virtual On The Web

Just An Online Minute... Web Crime Continues To Climb

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 by Wendy Davis
 
Even after all this time, the so-called "Nigerian letter" scam last year managed to bilk the marks who fell for it to the tune of $5,000, on average, according to a new report from the Internet Crime Complaint Center.

 

Of course, it shouldn't be surprising that people continue to fall for fraud schemes. After all, spammers wouldn't continue unless they were turning profits, despite all the well-publicized warnings that e-mails from Nigeria promising money to those who pay an "advance fee" are not legitimate.

 

Overall, complaints about online crime were up last year. The Internet Crime Complaint Center received more than 231,000 complaints last year--up 12 percent from 2004. The center referred almost half--around 97,000--to law enforcement authorities; almost all of the referrals concerned fraud.

 

The report also found that the cost of fraud appears to be rising. Last year, the total reached over $183 million--almost triple 2004's $68 million in losses.

 

The most commonly reported fraud stemmed from Web auctions, which accounted for 63 percent of complaints. Non-delivered merchandise and/or payment represented 16 percent of complaints, while credit card and debit card fraud accounted for 7 percent.

 

The Internet Crime Complaint Center also reported that most perpetrators--75 percent--and victims--64 percent--were men. Additionally, men lost far more money than women ($1.86 dollars lost by men for every $1 dollar lost by women).

 

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Make More Money By Not Charging

How To Make More Money By Not Charging For Video Ads

 

by Ari Rosenberg, Thursday, April 13, 2006
WARNER WOLF COINED THE PHRASE "Let's go to the videotape" in the late '70s. He was a sportscaster on ABC television in New York, and that phrase would send us into a state of frenzy. For many in the region, Warner was the gatekeeper to sports video highlights each night. What made him unique--the impetus behind his catchphrase--was that he showed highlights from teams outside the New York market. I still recall that sinking feeling those times we abruptly broke from dinner only to tune in and see weatherman Frank Fields, which meant we had missed our serving of video highlights.

 

Today, Warner Wolf works in radio, sports is on twenty-four hours a day, and video is available anywhere you like it, including online. But is online where we really want our video served, or is this a case of the advertising tail wagging the content dog? I have been told on occasion not to throw the baby out with the bathwater, so let's see how we can put the horse back in front of this cart.

 

Just a reminder: the consumer is the horse. Consumers set the pace through their consumption. The lack of supply widely reported in this segment of online advertising is one sign that the horse is not eating what it is being fed. I spoke to a sales director at a major portal who validated this lack of appetite. The portal had a big content cross-promotion on its site late last year that involved streaming video, and yet the revenue tied to the pre-roll advertising (video ads that run prior to the video content) was minimal. "There just were so few streams relative to the promotion of the content, we hardly made any money," he told me.

 

This lack of consumption, however, has not stopped companies from pushing the cart right past the horse. This includes Klipmart, who profits from the creation and placement of video advertising online, without any responsibility for the development of the content the consumer grazes. Klipmart announced last week its executives are having conversations with media buyers regarding a simulated upfront for online video ad inventory. "Broadband video has become a must-have companion to TV advertising" said a Klipmart sales executive, "so it makes sense that it should be planned in the same way and at the same time as the traditional TV and cable upfront."

 

So Klipmart, here are a few questions for you: Will you be showing two- to four-minute clips of the video content you represent to give buyers a sense of the programming quality? Will you have the actors and directors on hand to further define the content's voice and what kind of person is apt to listen? Will you be presenting projected rating points by demo for each program, or will you just be talking about how many more "televisions were purchased last quarter versus the quarter before," and saying that inventory is really tight?

 

Sorry to pick on the very bright folks at Klipmart, but instead of a premature promotion of a simulated upfront, maybe they can lead the online video advertising market discussion down a path with less resistance from the horse they are riding.

 

This market subset has their eye on the right issues, such as content quality controls and better technical user experiences, for example. However, the irony is that companies involved in the production, purchase and sale of online video advertising produce and place the very barrier that prevents the horse from keeping pace.

 

Pre-roll ads are not the only kind of video advertising sold, but they are the most popular. However, unlike television, where viewers are conditioned to let a commercial have its day in court before we hit the clicker, the experience on the Web centers on greater control and even greater speed. Users who choose to engage with video content are easily frustrated by the 10 to 15 (or in some cases, 30) seconds of a pre-roll ad message. Try holding your mouse steady right now for 10 to 15 seconds and tell me how much you needed to fend off the urge to move or click.

 

David Verklin of Carat weighed in on this issue when he commented, "Commercials on the Web in broadband have to be 10 seconds, not 30 seconds like television." CBSMarketwatch has dedicated an entire ad campaign to convincing advertisers (and buyers) to run no more than 10-second pre-roll spots, all in an effort to improve the drop-off ratio they know occurs with readers who do not stick around to consume the content when met with a lengthy pre-roll ad. Both ideas are on the right track, but are not the solution that best serves the horse.

 

To ensure more video content gets consumed, publishers need to make the content easier to swallow by not selling pre-roll ads at all. Instead, sell two-and-a-half second "sponsored introductions" (just the advertiser's logo). When the video content the consumer requested is over, run post-roll ad spots where advertisers can share their creative wisdom, with the hope it earns the attention of the viewer instead of kidnapping it.

 

Inventory should stay the same, but you have given consumers fewer excuses to bail on content they are not used to digesting yet. Drop-off rates (which are never publicly discussed) should diminish, which means volume should grow. As for pricing the post-rolls and sponsored introductions, I encourage publishers not to charge for them at all. That is the biggest mistake publishers are making today. By assigning a high CPM value to one of their limited supply products, they are lowering the perceived value of the inventory they have the most of to sell (this issue does not, however, apply to video-only Web sites like Youtube.com or Maniatv.com.).

 

Instead, online publishers should use this high-demand, low-supply product as a zero-priced, added-value hook to induce purchases of larger allotments of their impression-based ad inventory at higher CPM's (slightly similar to how network television stations force advertiser to spend money on other dayparts in order to buy prime time).

 

Sometimes the best way to sell a premium product is not to charge for it at all. As for the carts, if they all keep applying the right pressure, but stay behind the horse, they will get to where they want to go faster than they think.

 

Ari Rosenberg is a media sales consultant. Prior to starting his company, he was the vice president of sales at IGN.com. He can be reached at ari@performancepricing.com.

 

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When Webmasters Swarm

 

WebmasterWorld's PubCon Las Vegas Conference Dates Announced for November 14 – 17, Las Vegas Convention Center, USA

WebmasterWorld's Search Engine & Internet Marketing Conference, PubCon, has announced the dates for its Las Vegas Conference, November 14 – 17, 2006. The event is supported by the Industry's leading businesses as speakers, exhibitors, and sponsors.

Austin, TX (PRWEB) April 13, 2006 -- WebmasterWorld's Search Engine & Internet Marketing Conference, PubCon, has announced the dates for its Las Vegas Conference, November 14 – 17, 2006. The event is supported by the Industry's leading businesses as speakers, exhibitors, and sponsors.

Brett Tabke, CEO of WebmasterWorld said, "With so many high-interest topics we'll be returning to our three-day conference format, along with the classic PubCon networking event. It's great to bring together the leading industry speakers and sponsors from the top tier search engines, affiliate managers, SEO and SEM agencies, and related businesses to connect with attendees and to help them develop business relationships. And to do that in Las Vegas, too, fantastic!"

WebmasterWorld's conferences and sessions are for anyone involved in the Search Engine Industry, the Online Advertising Industry, Affiliates, Webmasters, and any business with an Internet presence.

Registration opens from June 2006: http://www.pubcon.com

About WebmasterWorld:
WebmasterWorld is the leading source for Search Engine and Internet marketing news, best practices and educational events. Founded by Brett Tabke, an early '80s innovator in running BBS (Bulletin Board Systems), the WebmasterWorld Forum began in 1996 and is now the largest community of online marketing professionals with more than 2 million posts and more than 100 discussion topics. WebmasterWorld Conference and PubCon events are for thought leaders in search engine and Internet marketing professionals to gather to share best practices in the, design, development, promotion and marketing of their businesses and brands.

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Vendor Invites Interactive Marketing Industry to AdTech

 

Susan Bratton and Rovion Invite Interactive Marketing Industry to AdTech

Converging broadcast and broadband, online video spokesperson technology enables AdTech Content Chair to personally invite visitors to attend the conference.

Owings Mills, MD (PRWEB) April 12, 2006 -- Rovion Inc., the original creator and leading provider of online video spokespersons, has partnered with dmg world media’s ad:tech expositions to promote the company’s upcoming San Francisco conference by using Rovion’s proprietary inPerson technology.

inPerson videos starring ad:tech Executive Chair Susan Bratton will be running on the AdTech website, where Ms. Bratton informs visitors of the upcoming conference, and invites them to register for the two and a half day conference or as an expo only attendee. ad:tech will host its largest exposition to-date centered on the new theme “Connecting Globally: Markets in Motion” April 26 - 28, 2006 at San Francisco’s Moscone Center North.

“People come to ad:tech to learn about new technologies and trends in interactive marketing, so it makes perfect sense for us to partner with this innovative group on this promotion,” said Rovion CEO Len Ostroff. “A personal invitation from the conference’s organizer is hard to beat in terms of adding a personal touch to a website. We think this added layer of interactivity will boost ad:tech’s already unbeatable attendance.”

“We were quite impressed with the Rovion technology and it is a great fit for the ad:tech website,” said Paul Beckley, Show Director. “The inPerson videos are effective without being intrusive and we’re excited to be using this new technology to attract attendees to yet another great conference.”

This promotion follows a successful trial of the Rovion technology by ad:tech sister company iMedia Communications, which employed inPerson to promote the company’s editorial offerings and upcoming conferences earlier this year. During that promotion, 49% of iMedia site visitors watched the entire inPerson video, 3.07 clicked through for more information or to sign up and an astounding 35.74% interacted with the ad. Rovion’s inPerson product suite is a proprietary technology that operates much like the “green screen” technology used for special effects in both motion pictures and television, including virtually every TV weathercast in the US. Rovion brings this magical sensation to life on the Web, enabling its clients to present this unique, innovative and engaging technology directly to their existing and potential customers.

About Rovion
Rovion Inc., headquartered in Owings Mills, MD, is the leading provider of borderless video streaming solutions for web publishers, media organizations, advertisers, and marketers. Rovion's patent-pending inPerson™ technology has revolutionized the relationship between broadcast and broadband, enabling websites to “come alive” with compelling ”out of the box” video messages leading to increased response rates, recognition, retention and revenues.

Rovion’s inPerson™ clients include hundreds of organizations including 1-800-Flowers.com, Arts & Entertainment Television, Barnes and Noble, Best Western Hotels, Comcast, Discovery Store, HBO, Hickory Farms, LasVegas.com, NASCAR.com, NBA, Quicken Loans, Reynolds and Reynolds, Roush Racing, Sears, TV Guide and the WWE. Radio and Broadcast clients include ABC, Clear Channel, Emmis, Granite, Gray, Infinity, RadioOne, Raycom, Scripps, Sinclair, Susquehanna, and Young.

About ad:tech
ad:tech expositions, LLC is the leading organizer of conferences and exhibitions for the interactive marketing community worldwide. ad:tech produces the world’s largest interactive marketing events held in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, London, Shanghai, Sydney and Paris. ad:tech is produced by dmg world media; based out of the company’s headquarters in Larkspur, California. For listings of exhibitors, speakers, events and upcoming conference offerings, visit www.ad-tech.com.

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Undercover Marketing Tactics

 

Advertisers Draw Fire for Using Undercover Marketing Tactics

As advertising has become advertising ad nauseam, and we are forever being pitched to, marketed to, and appealed to by someone trying to sell us something more advertisers are looking at new ways to deliver their message to you. This has resulted in a mix of marketing tactics that are drawing fire. Some are new versions of old techniques and some are very new. Consider that many advertisers are already paying your friends or in some cases even hiring actors to strategically engage you in their product- with or without your knowledge.

(PRWEB) December 4, 2005 -- As advertising has become advertising ad nauseam, and we are forever being pitched to, marketed to, and appealed to by someone trying to sell us something more advertisers are looking at new ways to deliver their message to you. This has resulted in a mix of marketing tactics that are drawing fire. Some are new versions of old techniques and some are very new. Consider that many advertisers are already paying your friends or in some cases even hiring actors to strategically engage you in their product- with or without your knowledge.

If the current trends hold true it’s almost certain that you’ll be the target of “undercover” or “referral marketing” as more companies use undercover marketing and more of your friends will start trying to make a few extra bucks referring people to the products that offer them commissions for making those referrals.

Undercover Marketing

Whether you like it or not, undercover marketing is here to stay. Whether you know it or not, it may already be a part of your life.

Consider this. The last time a friendly tourist asked you to take their picture with an impressive new camera or an attractive woman at the bar said you could buy her a drink; they both may have been “working”. These are examples of what is being called Undercover Marketing. In these examples the company paid people to pose as tourists or bar patrons respectively. The “tourists” job was to show as many people as possible all the features of a new camera that Sony coming out with. The models were paid to look good of course, but you won’t see them holding anything but a Sky Vodka. Not when their “working” anyway.

One of the larger companies in this industry is Big Phat Promotions. They’ve drawn both protest and attention for their unique marketing practices that they now employ in 30 cities across the United States and Canada. The company defends their tactics as "spontaneous" and "virile" approaches to product promotion. Critics however, argue that paying actors to target consumers in these settings is unethical.

Even over seas the New South Wales government has enacted legislation preventing tobacco companies from using similar undercover marketing practices.

Adam Salacuse, CEO and President of Alt Terrain, LLC, a Boston-based agency specializing in alternative promotion services, stresses undercover campaigns should only be used in conjunction with larger, more traditional advertising campaigns. "It is always best to be honest with people and if used properly, alternative marketing can be a unique and relevant experience that the consumer will always remember."

Gary McCarron, Asst. Communications Professor at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, says the public is already immune to most mainstream advertising and new research indicates that advertising that doesn't seem like advertising, is the new way to reach our jaded minds.

McCarron warns that if advertising becomes so sneaky that it is unrecognizable from the everyday experiences of defenseless consumers, it will damage corporate credibility and the resulting state of distrust could have an extremely negative effect on social interaction.

Referral or Network Marketing
Do the words MLM, Network Marketing or multi-level-marketing ring a bell? These words all describe companies that pay you commissions for referring people to their products.

MLM or Network Marketing is back. The MLM Direct Selling Associate now reports that nearly 75% of all Americans have now used or been presented with a product from a Network Marketing company. The most well known, International, Network Marketing Companies are Amway (now Quixtar), Mary Kay and Life Force International.

The allure of Network Marketing or MLM to consumers is the massive amounts of money that some in the industry claim to make. These companies pay you a commission on all the products you sell. They also pay you commissions on the products that anyone you refer to the company, sells. If the people you refer refer others, you earn commissions on the purchases of those people too.

Sound like a pyramid? There’s a difference. Really. Network Marketing has exploded in the last 20 years since Amway fought their landmark case making and distinguishing the MLM or multi-level commission structure as legal and separate from a illegal pyramid structures.

MLM or Network Marketing companies offer you and your friends of course, commissions for referring people to their products. These companies now sell every kind of product you can imagine.

Marketing expert Chris Tinney is the founder of Best MLM Business (www.BestMLMBusiness.com) and MLM Forums (www.MLMForums.com) and eBusiness Bonanza (http://ebusinessbonanza.com) says many in his industry used undercover marketing in the past but have found parts of it turned the public off, “Too many people have memories of going somewhere with a friend only to be surprised to find themselves front and center at an opportunity meeting for some kind of home based business.”

He says Network Marketing still teaches people to go into social settings to pitch their products, however, they’ve learned it works much better if you’re up front about whom you are and what you’re doing. Tinney claims that if a marketer has to lie they’ve already made a mistake in choosing the social setting. He says this is the most important step. Once in that setting he says to be upfront about the product you represent.

Tinney claims that by being in places where people are predisposed to want your products and being “upfront” about it, that they'll approach the marketer and initiate the interaction. He claims this is much different than what the public perceives as undercover marketing.

As competition to reach consumers increase undercover and referral based marketing is sure to become more and more a part of our lives. The challenge will be for marketers to use these tactics in such a way that the don’t alienate the very consumers they’re hoping to win over.

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Trend Hunter Tries To Trap Todays Trends

 

Trend Hunter Launches Trend Candy - Free Trend Newsletter, TrendHunter.com

TREND HUNTER™ is pleased to announce the launch of its free trend newsletter, at: www.TrendHunter.com. The newsletter features a weekly update of all the hottest new trends in Gadgets, Electronics, Pop Culture, Marketing Strategy, Modern Art, Design, and Fashion. Sign-up FREE at www.TrendHunter.com.

TORONTO, Canada – TREND HUNTER™ is pleased to announce the launch of its free trend newsletter, at: www.TrendHunter.com. The newsletter features a weekly update of all the hottest new trends in Gadgets, Electronics, Pop Culture, Marketing Strategy, Modern Art, Design, and Fashion. Sign-up FREE at www.TrendHunter.com.

Innovation and strategic advantage hinge on the ability to anticipate trends. By tracking the evolution of cool, Trend Hunters generate ideas, stimulate creativity, and ultimately shape our cultural context. Trend Hunter is a multi channel explosion of cool that caters to social leaders, industry professionals, and insatiably curious individuals.

Trend Candy is a delicious free trend newsletter with all the hottest new trends, gadgets, innovation, pop culture and marketing strategy. Trend Candy is the official newsletter of Trend Hunter Magazine (www.trendhunter.com). Visit Trend Hunter for more hot new trends

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Companies Empty Pockets For Blog, Podcast, RSS Advertising

 

New PQ Media Research: Blog, Podcast, RSS Advertising Grow Fastest Among Alternative Media, Surging 198% in 2005, and Forecast to Grow 145% in 2006 Study Finds Podcast Advertising Will Be Larger Than Blog Market by 2010

Combined U.S. spending on blog, podcast and RSS advertising bolted 198.4% to $20.4 million in 2005, and is expected to grow another 144.9% to $49.8 million in 2006, according to exclusive research released today by PQ Media, a custom media research firm.

Stamford, Conn., April 11, 2006 – Combined spending on blog, podcast and RSS advertising bolted 198.4% to $20.4 million in 2005, and is expected to grow another 144.9% to $49.8 million in 2006, according to exclusive research released today by PQ Media, a custom media research firm. But podcast advertising, nonexistent until 2004, is expected to be a larger market than blog advertising by 2010, according to Blog, Podcast and RSS Advertising Outlook, the first of five installments in PQ Media’s Alternative Media Research series. This groundbreaking series, the culmination of more than six months of primary research, is the first source to define, size and structure the burgeoning alternative media sector.

Blog advertising accounted for 81.4%, or $16.6 million, of total 2005 spending on blog, podcast and RSS advertising, collectively known as user-generated online media. But the blog segment will comprise only 39.7%, or $300.4 million, of overall expenditures in 2010. Podcast advertising, meanwhile, reached $3.1 million in 2005, and is projected to grow at a compound annual rate of 154.4% to $327.0 million in 2010, when it will be a larger market than blog advertising. RSS advertising, non-existent until mid-2005, generated $650,000 in 2005.

“Blog, podcast and RSS advertising are being driven by some of the same factors boosting the growth of the overall alternative media sector: continued audience fragmentation, the perceived ineffectiveness of traditional advertising, and the elusive but coveted 18-to-34-year-old demographic,” said Patrick Quinn, president of PQ Media. “Blog, podcast and RSS advertising have demonstrated an ability to reach younger demographics as well as influentials, and the media tend to be highly engaging. These are attractive trends to brand marketers that are focused on return on investment.”

The relatively small size of these markets is an indication of the newness of the media, the lack of standard metrics and various technology issues, Quinn added. “As advertising networks become more effective, user engagement escalates, and the industry works through its technology and measurement challenges, we expect user-generated media to grow at triple-digit rates over the next five years,” said Quinn.

Technology, auto and media brands are the most active in user-generated media advertising, accounting for more than half of total advertising spending in 2005, with the food & beverage and apparel categories rounding out the top five. The technology, auto and media categories will continue to generate more than half of all advertising in 2010.

Total spending on user-generated online media is forecast to grow at a compound annual rate of 106.1% from 2005 to 2010, reaching $757.0 million in 2010, according to Blog, Podcast and RSS Advertising Outlook. By comparison, the overall alternative media industry including, among others, markets such as branded entertainment, digital out-of-home advertising, mobile marketing and video-on-demand marketing, is projected to grow at a compound annual rate of 14.8% in the five-year period to $253.7 billion in 2010.

PQ Media’s Alternative Media Research Series will also include reports covering the overall alternative advertising and marketing industry, including all 22 alternative media segments, and the first report to size and forecast the global market for branded entertainment, among others. These publications are available solely through PQ Media’s website at www.pqmedia.com. An executive summary of Blog, Podcast and RSS Advertising Outlook is available online at http://www.pqmedia.com/blog-podcast-rss-advertising.html.

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New Version of Content Syndication Tools for Webmasters and Bloggers

 

Business Corp. Launched a New Version of StepWebZ.com, the Online Premier Provider of Content Syndication Tools for Webmasters and Bloggers

StepWebz provide Webmasters and Bloggers with a full range of fully-customizable, easy-to-use but yet professional Web tools (The StepTools) that let them improve their website and blog content, interactivity and stickiness in just a few minutes.

(PRWEB) April 10, 2006 -- Coldbrook Business Corp. launched a new version of StepWebZ.com, the online premier provider of content syndication tools for webmasters and bloggers.

StepWebz provide Webmasters and Bloggers with a full range of fully-customizable, easy-to-use but yet professional Web tools (The StepTools) that let them improve their website and blog content, interactivity and stickiness in just a few minutes.

The new version of StepWebZ.com can be summed up in four words: Get more for less.

“Our aim has not changed. We still want to provide professional, user-friendly and innovative Web tools that Webmasters and Bloggers can use to bring their site or blog to life and improve the online experience of their audience but we have changed our approach and added a crucial element: Webmasters and Bloggers can now earn money using our tools.” say StepWebZ directors.

Webmasters and Bloggers can now monetize their traffic thanks to StepWebZ sophisticated contextual advertising solution: the Orange LinkZ. The latter display dynamic advertising inside the StepWebZ tools by combining information from content news sources with advertisements from Google and Amazon. Visit http://www.stepwebz.com/orange_linkz.asp for more information on the Orange Linkz.

StepWebZ visitors can now read real-time aggregated content from thousands of the most reliable news sources directly on the StepWebZ site and then syndicate news, blogs, fun stuff, and shopping guides on their own site or blog using a wide array of fully customizable tools including news tickers, news boxes, news links and news patches. Other tools such as forums, rating boxes, polls, surveys and RSS tools are also available.

StepWebZ also allows Web publishers to monetize their content. Content providers can distribute and monetize their content with StepWebZ white label content syndication solutions. Blogging platforms and site builders can propose StepWebZ tools to their members and earn high commissions. Bloggers can use StepWebZ buttons to syndicate and monetize their RSS feeds. Visit http://www.stepwebz.com/solutions.asp for more information about our solutions.    

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FW: 100 Keyword Dot-Com Domain Names to Sell for $100 Each

 

100 Keyword Dot-Com Domain Names to Sell for $100 Each

Domain name liquidator BRANDomains announces new sale.

Sacramento, Calif.  - April 10, 2006 -- Domain name liquidator BRANDomains.com announces a special domain name liquidation sale. The portfolio includes over 100 dot-com domain names and other domain name extensions, including several one-word dot-com domain names. All domain names are offered for $100 each via BRANDomains.com.

The rich portfolio includes many popular domain name and search keyword categories, including IPO, stock, investment, movie, photo, book, auto, weather, music, search, ticket, job, sports, fitness, poker, New York and employment domain names.

Sports
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adventure sports guide
arena sports bar
football pulse
sports fan gear
supreme sports picks

Fitness
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body energized
fitness toolbox

New York
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experience new york
nyc job hunt

Poker
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pokermania
poker visors

IPO
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IPO contact
IPO hunters
IPO prices

Stock and Investment
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Stock User
Quote Lines
Quote trax
Stock Fest
TradEquity

Movie
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Relic Movie
Movie Types

Photo
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Photo Hound
Photo EZ

Book
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Nu Book
Financing Books
Barter Book
Book Upload
New Age Book

Auto
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On Time Auto
Acme Autos
Tire Lookup
Parts Truck
Tire Vendor

Beef
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Nebraska Prime
Nebraska Steaks

Weather
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Map Weather
Weather Models

Music
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Reno Music
Music Lair

Search
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Electro Search
Secondary Search
Find Topic

Job and Employment
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Hire Ideals
Hire Revenue
Skill Indicator
NYC Job Hunt

The portfolio includes several one-word, dot-com domain names, including: Caribi, Parthians, Piraque, Polycentrism, Spiralling, Stirk, Beverageous, Cargaecia, Mononym, Matronym, Tetralogy, Recockulous.

In addition, there are many popular “brandable” and two-word domain names, including: Greek Services, Dine Detroit, Gear Tips, Lawn Quote, Notebook Light, Searing Hot, Xtra Xtra, Author DVD, Facial Imagery, Active Interest.

Finally, the portfolio includes many domain name industry related terms.

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 Actual list of domains with some possible site ideas:

acmeautos.com
activeinterest.org
adswop.com                        - Italian advertising
adventuresportsguide.com   
agencyrep.com
alternaticket.com
arenasportsbar.com
authordvd.com
barterasp.com
barterbook.com
barterlogic.com
beanscoffeestop.com
beverageous.com
bluebeaches.com
bodyenergized.com
bookupload.com
cardsorama.com   
cargaecia.com
caribi.com
cryospheric.com
dinedetroit.com
electrosearch.com
empireworldtowers.com
environomical.com
eventmixers.com
experiencenewyork.com
facialimagery.com
faxnewsletter.com
financingbooks.com
findtopic.com
fitnesstoolbox.com
footballpulse.com
gardenname.com
getamex.com            - Hispanic employment agency
giftcertifichecks.com
greekservices.com
hireideals.com
hirerevenue.com
ideaaddict.com
illegalop.com
imagename.com
imagesque.com
industryip.com
ipocontact.com
ipohunters.com
ipoprices.com
joydown.com
lawnquote.com
maptimes.com
marketadviser.com
matronym.com
meiran.org
memosearch.com
mononym.com
movietypes.com
musiclair.com
nebraskaprime.com
nebraskasteaks.com
netbranded.com
newagebook.com
notebooklight.com
nubook.com
nycjobhunt.com
oneweekwebsite.com
ontimeauto.com
outsideparty.com
parthians.com
partstruck.com    - Personal injury site
photoez.com
photohound.com
piraque.com
pokerbookstore.org
pokermania.org
pokervisors.com
polycentrism.com
quotetrax.com
reapplication.com
relicmovie.com
renomusic.com
scientificpricing.com
searinghot.com
secondarysearch.com
secondbusiness.com
secondhandbrands.com
shoephile.com
simulationnews.com
skillindicator.com
spiralling.com
sportsfangear.com
stirk.com
stockfest.com
stockuser.com
supremesportspicks.com
sushiparties.com
swissarmygear.com
synchromic.com
tahoetrails.com
tetralogy.com
tirelookup.com
tirevendor.com
tradequity.com
trafficstarter.com
treepicker.com
webhotelrooms.com
webpowermarketing.com
workndog.com
xtraxtra.com

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MySpace Web Sites Offered At Insane Prices

 

MySpace Editor Surge: Rich Young Webmasters

The MySpace phenomenon has allowed Webmasters to net over $1,000,000 per year in less than four months.

(PRWEB) April 7, 2006 -- MySpace, a social networking phenomenon, has opened up many opportunities for Webmasters as young as 18 years old. Alexa, a Web site traffic analyzer has consistently ranked MySpace in the top ten worldwide ranking. This volume has caused the demand for MySpace profile editor Web sites to explode.

Young Webmasters have taken this opportunity to monetize that traffic and open up revenue channels on a whole new level. Zobbler.com, a Web site of only three months of age, is up for sale on BuySellWebsite.com for $785,000. MySpaceSupport.com, six months old, was previously listed for over $1,000,000. These Web sites earn money through advertising mediums such as Google Adsense and Yahoo Publisher Network each time a user clicks on an ad.

While it seems like these sites are popping up left and right, the amount of users seeking such resources is much greater and can yield high traffic and revenue income for Web masters. "I had my site up for just a few days and I was already receiving thousands of hits. It's simply a way for me to make some extra cash, but the money coming in is much more than I expected" says MySpaceGrill.com owner - 21 years old.

Todays young Webmasters are tomorrow's innovators. Something as simple as a profile editor Web site has allowed these youngsters a solid income flow that can be used for future Web sites and ventures, but how long will this last? It is only time before MySpace itself offers such a service which could cause the ultimate demise to the hundreds of MySpace profile editor sites.

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Hot Banana Puzzled Why Email Marketing Efforts Not Effective

 

Hot Banana Adds Landing Page Manager, A/B Testing, Thumbnail Image Viewer, Advanced Group Workflow, and Salesforce.com Integration

New marketing functionality gives marketing departments a single technology platform for all their Web site and eMarketing needs.

Barrie, ON (PRWEB) April 6, 2006 -- Hot Banana Software Inc., a leader in Web Content Management software for marketing, today announced the availability of Hot Banana Version 5.4. The upgrade is focused on new and advanced Web Content Management functionality and the further integration of multiple eMarketing modules to help give marketing users a single, easy-to-use platform from which to manage their Web site content and eMarketing campaigns. All the marketing enhancements in this release are designed to better standardize and improve the efficiency and performance of the marketing campaign process and to implement best practices for setting up, tracking and measuring campaigns, to maximize the ROI.

“Hot Banana Version 5.4 is focused on delivering high-value and integrated Web Content Management and eMarketing solutions to marketing departments,” says Krista Lariviere, CEO, Hot Banana Software Inc. “Marketing is a rapidly changing discipline and eMarketing is becoming much more important, as Web sites are at the hub of all eMarketing activities. Hot Banana is now able to provide our clients with a world class Web Content Management solution, focused on Web site management and optimization best practices, and an Active Marketing solution, that contains everything needed for marketing professionals -- including affiliate tracking, Web analytics, CRM integration, A/B split testing, PR, email marketing and event management, to name a few.“

Web Content Management with Integrated eMarketing
Hot Banana V5.4 is helping to overcome marketers' challenges by consolidating many of the tasks and functions that are related to the Web site and eMarketing. By integrating both of these functions, Web Content Management software can become a core platform technology, and can play a significant role in providing an organization with a consistent interface, work environment, process and metrics framework. The clear benefit to this approach is the improved customer Web site experience, better executed and tracked eMarketing campaigns, best practices and a consistent view of ROI across the entire Web site.

Hot Banana’s Active Marketing Web Content Management Suite offers a complete solution to meet all the needs of an eMarketer. The following are the major features and benefits of the Hot Banana V5.4 upgrade. Dozens of smaller improvements have been made and added to improve overall Web site performance, functionality, security and workflow.

Hot Banana Web Content Management Upgrades

Advanced Group Workflow -- Administrators can now assign and manage tasks to groups of users to specific sections of the Web site, and the workflow can now be configured and managed more closely to the organizations’ business processes.
    
Design Template Integration -- Agencies and organizations managing multiple Web sites are able to apply and manage multiple design templates across multiple Web properties.

Thumbnail Image Viewer -- The Digital Asset Manager can be opened in either a file or thumbnail viewer, this combined with enhanced file folder and sub-directory management of digital assets now offers a robust and more simplistic Digital Asset Management process for non-technical users. Additionally, multiple assets can be mass uploaded and advanced search can be conducted on all assets.

Hot Banana Active Marketing Upgrades

Landing Page Manager -- All aspects of Landing Page creation and management is looked after by Hot Banana. Landing Pages have built-in lead tracking from multiple lead sources (search engines, affiliates, email campaigns etc.), A/B testing with click and conversion stats, multi-step form builder for conversion best practices, Web analytics, scenarios, report integration, and design template management.

Salesforce.com Form Integration -- eMarketing campaigns can now be taken to the next level by capturing Landing Page form data and passing it directly into salesforce.com.

Web Page Personalization -- data from multiple sources can be passed directly to a Web page to auto-populate and personalize Landing Page forms so personal information can be delivered to unique Web page visitors.

Event Management -- Hot Banana now has a complete end-to-end event registration process available. The event management process includes, custom event landing page, multi-step registration form builder, email confirmation, registrant database, attendee name labels, email event reminders, billing, invoicing, and management reporting.

Flash Video Management -- Flash media can be easily stored in .FLV format in the Digital Asset Manager and added to a Web page as a container and played directly by the Web page visitor.

“One of the most exciting things about Hot Banana V5.4 is that many of the new features are now adding considerable value and cross-functionality to other existing Hot Banana modules, making the overall Web Content Management and eMarketing capabilities of Hot Banana even more powerful and compelling than before.” added Krista. “For example, our Hot Banana email engine and Communicator are now linked to the Landing Page Manager, our affiliate tracking and search engine conversion tools can now be linked to any Web site page. And now, top quality Micro Marketing Sites can be built using Flash, containing streaming Flash videos and using Hot Banana Web Content Management and Landing Page technologies. Additionally by integrating more cross-functional eMarketing technologies, Hot Banana V5.4 has also added value to our partner relationships with WebTrends, ExactTarget and PRWeb.”

Availability

Hot Banana Version 5.4 is available immediately as licensed software, or, as an On Demand Software as a Service (SaaS) solution.

About Hot Banana Software, Inc.

Founded in 1999, Hot Banana Software powers Corporate Web sites, Intranets, Extranets, Micro Marketing Sites and Landing Pages for more than 200 companies worldwide in more than 16 languages. Designed for non-technical users, Hot Banana’s core technology is an easy-to-use, fully-loaded Web Content Management Suite designed to manage a Web site's content creation, publishing and optimization process.

Hot Banana’s Active Marketing Solution is an ideal eMarketing platform for corporate communications, branding, sales lead generation, lead conversion, email and retention programs. Hot Banana For Agencies, is the company’s latest initiative to help marketing agencies manage and publish Forms, Landing Pages and Micro Marketing Sites.

Hot Banana is available directly, or from 20 Channel Partners Worldwide, either On-Demand (SaaS), or Licensed. Clients include: InsureMe, Hondros College, General Board of Global Ministries -- UMC, Algoma Steel, Bell Industries, Parents Action for Children, Archdiocese of New York, Ansell Healthcare Europe, World Vision, Beaver Machine, Los Alamos School Board (New Mexico), Law Society of Upper Canada, Expertech, and The County of Simcoe. Hot Banana Software Inc. is profitable and privately held. For more information, visit www.HotBanana.com, or call 866-296-1803.

Hot Banana, Active Marketing and Active Marketing Web Content Management Suite are trademarks or registered trademarks of Hot Banana Software Inc. All other trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

Media Contact for Hot Banana

David Terry,
VP Sales and Marketing,
Hot Banana Software Inc.
705-792-3880 ext. 222

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Zoom Information, People Search Engine Finds COO

 

ZoomInfo Names New Chief Operating Officer: Bryan Burdick, Former Monster CMO and Lyos SVP

Job board and Internet search veteran provides new insight as ZoomInfo accelerates growth.

Waltham, MA (PRWEB) April 6, 2006 -- Zoom Information, Inc., the search engine for discovering people, companies and relationships, today announced the appointment of Bryan Burdick (www.zoominfo.com/bryanburdick), online recruiting and Internet search veteran, as its new chief operating officer. Burdick will lead the sales, marketing and product departments at ZoomInfo, reporting directly into Jonathan Stern, founder and CEO.

“ZoomInfo has grown remarkably in the last five years, and our growth is accelerating. ZoomInfo is now recognized as the leading source of passive candidates for recruiting, the leading search engine for business people search and continues to be a well-respected innovator of contextual search technologies,” said Jonathan Stern, founder and CEO of Zoom Information. “Bryan Burdick is a proven leader in our key focus areas, and will provide inestimable value helping us grow from a single vertical search engine into a broad multi-channel search and advertising vehicle.”

“Job boards and the entire search landscape are undergoing an upheaval that is transforming the way content is generated and monetized, and I believe ZoomInfo is positioned to gain in existing markets and expand into many new ones as a result,” said Bryan Burdick, COO of Zoom Information. “I have tremendous respect for what Jonathan and his team have accomplished and am thrilled to be able to contribute to ZoomInfo’s future success.”

Burdick comes to Zoom Information from three years at Monster Worldwide where he held positions including CMO of Monster’s TMP AdComms Division and senior vice president of Monster.com core segments. At Monster Burdick launched several new products, and helped deliver 40% annual growth in key business segments. Prior to Monster, Burdick was SVP at Lycos, leading the Global Portal Services unit responsible for all Internet search, content management and ad serving businesses. At Lycos Burdick launched eight new subscription businesses and grew revenue and realized double digit net operating margin growth each year. Burdick has also held senior leadership positions at InfoSpace and Reuters America. He is a summa cum laude graduate of the Wharton School of Business.

“ZoomInfo has a unique ability to mine the Web to create real business value for its customers and users; they are one of the very few examples of a pioneering company that is already making money with thousands of happy customers,” said Burdick. “The opportunity is unlimited, and I’m excited to be a part of this team.”

About Zoom Information, Inc.

Zoom Information Inc.'s core search product, ZoomInfo, is a summarization search engine that creates individual summaries of people including work history, education, current position and other business affiliations. It features summaries of more than more than 29 million people and two million companies. ZoomInfo finds, understands, extracts and saves actionable information about people on the Web. The patented search technology continually scans millions of Web sites, press releases, electronic news services, SEC filings and other online sources. Then, it intelligently compiles concise summaries about individuals and companies.

ZoomInfo helps streamline recruiting efforts, compile sales leads, enhance competitive intelligence efforts, and more for hundreds of companies. Its customers range from small firms to nearly 30% of the Fortune 100, including Blockbuster, Microsoft, Oracle, PepsiAmericas, Pfizer, Raytheon, Staples and Yahoo!.

Zoom Information is privately held and based in Waltham, Massachusetts. For more information, visit http://about.zoominfo.com or call toll-free: 1-866-904-ZOOM (9666)

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New Online Community Could Coalesce Or Create Complete Chaos

 

Looking for More Depth? OpinionParking.com may be Your Space

In mid-April, Altruistic Ventures will introduce OpinionParking.com; an online community where every member’s voice may be heard then supported or disputed. OpinionParking.com is a global network of intellectuals, creative-types, freethinkers, experts, politicos, as well as social and environmental advocates. Members have the opportunity to rate the postings of others. The affiliate garnering the highest rating for the week, positive or negative, will be afforded the opportunity to co-facilitate web conferences and chats. The opinion leader will be paired with an expert on the topic for the online round-table.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (PRWEB) April 5, 2006 -- Does the intellectual stimulation of debating an opinion or volleying ideas back and forth excite you? If so, you will soon find an entire online community of people who welcome the same sort of mental jousting or jiving, depending on individual points of view.

In mid-April, Altruistic Ventures will introduce OpinionParking.com; an online community where every member’s voice may be heard then supported or disputed.

Martin McCrea, CEO of Altruistic Ventures saw an untapped market; people who desire to communicate deeply and share views realizing that their opinions can shape the world and reality. The idea for OpinionParking.com grew out of frustration with the existing online communities. McCrea explains, “I recognized there was a market for deeper communication and sharing. The existing sites, offer no real communication. Everything is short replies. Most communication is kept at a surface level. I wanted to develop a site that is a magnet for seekers.”

OpinionParking.com is a global network of intellectuals, creative-types, freethinkers, experts, politicos, as well as social and environmental advocates. The site encourages freedom of expression, the exchange of ideas, perspectives and alternative thought. Members build peer networks that provide critical feedback and rate contributions on multiple criteria.

McCrea’s brainchild allows members to personalize their space to reflect their personality and core attitudes. But make no mistake; it is not your kid’s online community.

Through self-expression, members have the power to influence their world on issues from the mundane to the complex. OpinionParking.com gives people the means to showcase their opinions on a global and supported scale. The site provides tools for video uploads, forums, blogs, web-conferences, chats and more.

Members have the opportunity to rate the postings of others. The affiliate garnering the highest rating for the week, positive or negative, will be afforded the opportunity to co-facilitate web conferences and chats. The opinion leader will be paired with an expert on the topic for the online round-table.

There is no charge for basic membership to OpinionParking.com. However, associates may choose to upgrade to a paid subscription. Each level of membership will provide extended benefits to the subscriber.

Because the premise behind OpinionParking.com is to allow people an equal opportunity to make their attitudes and ideas known, the level of membership has no bearing on the selection of co-facilitators.
With the power of the Internet, OpinionParking.com gives every individual his or her chance at that moment of greatness we all hope to experience one day.

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Online Legal Service Provider Caves To NP Complaint About Keyword Marketing

 

LegalMatch and Pine Tree Legal Assistance Amicably Agree to Settlement

LegalMatch, a national provider of online legal services, and Pine Tree Legal Assistance, a nonprofit company that provides legal services for Maine's poor, have reached an amicable settlement in a legal dispute that LegalMatch calls, “More of a misunderstanding than a lawsuit.”

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) April 5, 2006 -- LegalMatch, a national provider of online legal services, and Pine Tree Legal Assistance, a nonprofit company that provides legal services for Maine's poor, have reached an amicable settlement in a legal dispute that LegalMatch calls, “More of a misunderstanding than a lawsuit.”

According to the original suit, (US District Court, District of Maine, Case # 06-CV-45-P-H), advertisements from California-based LegalMatch appeared when a computer user typed "Pine Tree Legal Assistance" into Web search engines including Yahoo!, MSN, and Google. The suit, filed on February 28, 2006 in U.S. District Court on behalf of Pine Tree Legal Assistance, has now been settled with no monies changing hands.

According to Don Keane, Vice President of Marketing for LegalMatch, “We [LegalMatch are working with the nation’s major search engines, including Google, Yahoo, and MSN, to make sure non-profits are not part of our multi-million dollar search engine marketing program. We have the greatest respect for non-profit agencies that service people’s legal needs,” says Keane. LegalMatch is a free online legal matching service based in San Francisco, California, and Pine Tree Legal Assistance is a non-profit provider of free legal services to people in need and serving the State of Maine.

About LegalMatch
Established in 1999, with a formal site-launch in 2000, LegalMatch is a leading national provider of online legal services. Corporate offices are located in San Francisco and Los Angeles. For more information regarding the company, please contact Don Keane, Vice-President of Marketing at (415) 946-0855.

About Pine Tree Legal Assistance Service
Pine Tree Legal Assistance is a nonprofit corporation with 501(c)(3) status established in 1966 by private attorneys in Maine to meet the need for legal assistance by low-income residents. Over the past 35 years, Pine Tree has become a recognized part of the justice system in Maine, providing help to over 350,000 Maine people since its doors first opened.

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Saddam Hussein Sued For Copyright Infringement

Kim Jong-il sues Saddam Hussein for copyright infringement
 
Press Release by: PriorMart AG 

 

(openPR) - PriorMart - 2006-04-01 - Kim Jong-il, "the dear leader" of impoverished North Korea, seems to have discovered a new option for improving the national income. While North Korea must defend itself against charges of producing counterfeit notes, the dictator strikes back.

 

On the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB), the international court of the World Trade Organization in Geneva/Switzerland, the dictators attorney, French star lawyer Jacques Vergés, placed charges for the infringements of copyrights in accordance with TRIPS, the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights from 1994, in more than 200 cases. Kim Jong-il consideres several national campaigns, that Hussein run between 1997 and 2001 for the improvement of optimism of the 26 million Iraqi, as its intellectual property. Further he claims, Husseins strategy of gaining international attention by presenting himself as the No. 1 enemy of the U.S. was a product of the PR-advisors of his father, Kim Il Sung. Also the planned development of weapons of mass-destruction has been prepared already in the 80's in a strategic paper of his father, his lawyer declared. He considers it as a proof that North Korea was far ahead in the development by the year 2001.

 

Kim Jong-il appoints numerous former Iraqi government officials, who confirm that Hussein plagiarized from his dictator colleague. He demands a 250 billion US dollar penalty and expects the State of Iraq to be liable as the successor of the fortune and the debts of Saddam Hussein. Proceedings were instituted on March 31st 2006. Hussein has not commented.

 

About
PriorMart AG with offices in Potsdam and Brandenburg a.d.H., both Germany, is a technology company and a supplier of services simplifying proof in copyright protection. The company was founded in May 2005 and is privately held.

 

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Domain Investors Feel Frenzy Fed By Registrars

.eu, biggest deal for Domain Investors
 
Press Release by: EuroDNS S.A. 

 

04-03-2006 - (openPR) - EuroDNS expect already on 7th April (the start of landrush) more then 1 Million applied .eu Domains. This would make the .eu the fastest growing Top Level Domain world wide. One of the reasons is that domain investors and speculators are trying to protect since the sunrise in December good names. But this underlines only the high value of .eu. In addition to EuroDNS a lot of experts are sure that .eu will beat .net already this year. This is the result of the demand for .eu in the last 4 month during the sunrise compared with .biz and .info.

 

On 7th April 2006 starts the landrush, with this date all restrictions for European Citizen to register .eu Domains are falling, there is no need any more to have a Trademark or a Company to register a Domains. So if you want to register the domain www.I-like-my-car.eu you can do so, if it is not registered already. You need only an address inside the European Union.

 

You should not wait longer to register your preferred Domain Names, if you register your .eu-names now the Registrar will submit them on the 7th April for you to the Registry. All Domains that can not be registered will be credited back into your Account. You can use this credit for another .eu names or completely other domains at EuroDNS.

 

The Registration costs are 18,- Euro per year.

 

EuroDNS ( http://www.eurodns.com ) is a European-wide Domain Name Registrar, specializing in Country Code domain names registrations for the expanded, 25-country European Union.

 

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Secrets to Getting A Thinner Wallet

 

Secrets to Getting Targeted Traffic To Your Website

John Reese – a veteran marketer who had generated more than 1.57 Billion Web Site Visitors to his sites since he started marketing online, now shares all secrets with actual results.

Orlando, Florida (PRWEB) November 9, 2005 -- After six months of implementing what the new Marketing Course “Traffic Secrets” has taught, owners entrepreneurs from 52 countries now gathered to show the world real Proofs.

They now shared detailed information about how the course changed their business forever – many include screenshots of their web site traffic logs and even merchant account statements to give you Proof of what they accomplished. Altogether, there were over 100 fully documented success stories.

For more success stories and information, Go to : http://www.alotcash.com/

“Traffic Secrets” covers these following:

How to build and geometrically grow the number of highly targeted leads and prospects coming to your website that translate into cash and profits...

How to leverage your lead generation to gain more consistency in the number of prospects you get, and create more stability and growth in your business...

How to build so much momentum in the flow of visitors coming to your business that taking your website down is the only way to stop it...

How to easily discover which sources of leads are really making you money (and quickly trash the ones that are sucking your time and profits)...

How to get as much as 4-5 times more leads for the same advertising dollars, and squeeze every ounce of profit out of every visitor you generate...

How to tap many "hidden," super-abundant sources of good quality leads (as many as several hundreds of thousands) for absolutely 100% zero cost...

How to dump, once and for all, all the dumb, costly and ineffective methods that only create one-time spurts of junk traffic that will never buy from you...

How to create and follow a complete "attack plan," especially if you're currently relying on only 1-2 sources for generating your leads — because they can change and dry up overnight (they often do)...

How to get your hands on proven, time-tested lead generation strategies that really WORK — and not "sounds good" regurgitated "theory" that everyone and their dog has seen, read or heard before...

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1) If this person knows so much and makes so much money, why are they selling what they know to you? If this stuff really works, then they don't need to sell it and must be trying to help out the little guy also make a lot of money. They want to help us, right?

2) If what they say works and they want to help us, why are they charging almost $1,000 for it? I think it's so we will take the offer "more seriously", I mean, if they are charging that much it must be worth it, right?

My advice is not to fall of this or any other "long form" type of offer unless you really do your homework and check them out, ask for references, and make sure you understand what you are getting.

By the way, the above link is just an re-direction affiliate link. If you are really interested in what is offered, go directly to the site here: http://www.trafficsecrets.com. But I would not bother! (hris ]

Internet Marketing Firm Sees Spending Explosion, Still Has Time To Issue Press Release

 

MindComet Reports Record Sales in Q1, Sees Explosion of Spending on Online Advertising and Interactive Services

Demand for email marketing, SEO, eWareness and Internet marketing services at record levels for MindComet as marketers recognize the value of a strong Internet presence.

ORLANDO, FL (PRWEB) April 4, 2006 –- MindComet, The Relationship Agency, announced record sales growth of nearly 100 percent over Q1 of the previous year. The increase has been fueled by the acquisition of new clients as well as increased spending by current client partners. MindComet has already booked sales throughout 2006 equivalent to the revenue generated in all of 2005.

The company has formed relationships with several new clients in recent months including GMC, White Castle, USA Mobility, TNT and Armstrong. In addition to new clients, MindComet has also expanded its engagements with current clients such as StudentCity.com, FOX, Speed Channel, Tyco Healthcare and Living Independently.

“Business is booming,” states MindComet President and Chief Executive Officer Ted Murphy. "Demand for interactive services wasn't this strong in the dotcom era. We have had to double the size of our interactive strategy team twice in the past 12 months to keep up with the market for our services. Companies are realizing the value Internet marketing can provide when coupled with a strong strategy."

Sales of strategic consulting and managed services have been particularly strong in Q1. "The interest in our Managed Email Communications ('MEC') service has been phenomenal," said Murphy. MEC now accounts for nearly 15 percent of MindComet's revenue, up from 8 percent in 2005. Quarterly sales of other managed services including eWareness, Media Management and SEO are up over 50 percent.

“The need for an effective Internet strategy is stronger than ever,” stated MindComet Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing Paul Lewis. “Marketing managers have come to realize just how important the Internet is and the unique opportunity it provides. If our double- to triple-digit growth every quarter for the past seven years is any indicator of the market space’s future, I believe spending on online advertising and interactive services will continue to trend upward at a significant rate.”

About MindComet
MindComet is the premier provider of Internet marketing and email marketing solutions, assisting clients in optimizing their customer relationships. Headquartered in Orlando Florida, the company operates offices in New York, Atlanta and Los Angeles serving many Fortune 1000 clients. Their global client base includes General Motors, Tyco, Electronic Arts, Earthlink, FOX and other clients that understand the importance of a strong Internet presence. For more information, visit MindComet’s Web site at http://www.mindcomet.com or subscribe to the corporate Internet marketing podcast at http://www.internetmarketingvoodoo.com.

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Press Contact: Nicole Caplinger
Company Name: MINDCOMET CORPORATION
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Phone: 407.838.1010-352
Website: http://www.mindcomet.com

Software"Watermarks Protect Text Content

 

SECRETLY PROTECT WEBSITE TEXT WITH HIDDEN WATERMARKS

Melbourne, Australia – October 18, 2005 - DataMystic announces Web Copyrighter 1.0, its first-of-a-kind application for invisibly watermarking web text.

Digital watermarking for IMAGES has been around for some time, but until now, no solution had been available for TEXT.

Web Copyrighter embeds hidden information into any web page, Blog, RSS feed, XML file or Unicode text. The hidden text can only be revealed using the software, and is invaluable in proving the rightful owner of any published work, including magazines, newspapers, company reports, case studies and more.

Every minute of every day, web site authors, journalists and publishing houses risk losing attribution and compensation for their online work, as automated bots scan the web for popular content and copy it to new sites. The reason? Google AdWords revenue.

"Online Copyright theft is on the rise." says Simon Carter, CEO of DataMystic. "Popular sites like MarketingSherpa.com have to battle constantly to protect the intellectual property their sites are based on. With Web Copyrighter, an author can quickly prove their ownership of copyrighted material and take action against the offender."

Web Copyrighter provides encoding tools, a reveal tool, and a wizard to apply the codes to your website.

About DataMystic

Founded in 1990, DataMystic has its headquarters in Melbourne, Australia, and has over 2000 customers in 62 countries. Its charter is to provide IT professionals with time saving data analysis tools. In addition to TextPipe, DataMystic offers:

• DataPipe, a utility that makes it easy to search and replace information in live databases;
• ResumePipe; a utility that saves Human Resources professionals time and money while processing applicants' resumes;
• WordPipe, an application that lets you search and replace data across multiple Word documents in a single operation;
• DetachPipe, a program to detach and delete attachments from large email accounts;
• DirSize, a program that helps you identify the programs that are using an inordinate amount of disk space;
• and other productivity software for Windows.

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Direct download link: http://www.datamystic.com/webcopyrighter-pr.exe
Product page: http://www.datamystic.com/webcopyrighter.html