Articles of the Day
Widget Industry Struts Its Stuff At 1st WidgetCon - Analysts and agency types gathered in New York to talk up the online world’s latest hot property. Widgets are on the cusp of a boom, said one participant.
Forbes.com: Widgets For A Serious Audience - The financial site has launched eight separate widgets with the help of widget syndication startup WidgetBox. Topics range from “technology” to “lifestyle.”
Microsoft Kicks Off E3 With Storm of Online Gaming Developments - The software giant’s two online gaming networks, Xbox LIVE and Games for Windows-LIVE, sign up Disney and others.
Juniper Router Tracks, Targets, Serves IPTV Ads - Juniper’s new broadband services router can collect and aggregate viewing data and also serve targeted ads to individual IPTV subscribers.
Online Retailers Take Stock - What happens when an online shopper doesn’t find what she wants? Like many retail shoppers, she goes to another store, according to “The Online Inventory Impact Survey.” The survey was commissioned by the e-tailing group and BetweenMarkets and conducted in May 2007. While about half of respondents said they checked for the out-of-stock item at another site, 56% of online shoppers also said they simply checked back later for replenished stock, or signed up to be e-mailed when the item became available.
Is P2P Ready for Sponsored Downloads? - Nearly three-quarters of US Internet users are willing to view ads in exchange for free or discounted downloads, according to the INTENT MediaWorks-sponsored “P2P Usage Survey” conducted in May 2007. The study was fielded by InfoSurv among Internet users ages 16 to 40, all of whom used multiple online services for searching, downloading and sharing music.
Microsoft Offering $6 Billion For Facebook? - Unnamed sources on Tuesday told Internet Outsider Henry Blodgett that Microsoft is eyeing a $6 billion takeover of Facebook–an unconfirmed rumor the former Internet industry analyst says makes sense. He writes: “Steve Ballmer, desperate and furious, sick of sucking wind in the Internet game, sick of losing every Internet in-play company and much of the future to You Know Who … should … scoop up “the hottest company on earth.”
Google Partners For ‘Bourne’ Online Game - Google is taking its second stab at online gaming, announcing on Thursday a partnership with Universal Pictures to heavily feature services like Search, Maps, Images and YouTube in an online game for the upcoming action flick, “The Bourne Ultimatum.” The game is inspired by all three “Bourne” films and launches this Monday in seven countries as part of the film’s massive marketing push, two weeks ahead of its Aug. 3 launch.
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em… Warner Partners With Imeem - Warner Music Group has added imeem to the roster of Web companies it’s partnering with, as opposed to litigating against. The music giant said today it will drop a pending copyright infringement lawsuit against social networking site imeem and, instead, will enter into a revenue-sharing agreement with the company.
