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Alexa is getting more and more important!

11. May 2008

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And I love it! Alexa recently updated their rankings algorithm and now they finally updated the statistics again. Before this algorithm update alexa was only accurate to websites that had a tech savvy audience, people with the alexa toolbar installed. But now it is getting info out of more sources, which makes the rankings more [...]

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Microsoft sets Yahoo an ultimatum

11. April 2008

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In this letter to Yahoo, Microsoft said: “It has now been more than two months since we made our proposal to acquire Yahoo! If we have not concluded an [...]

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UK online ad spend to overtake TV

10. April 2008

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We came along a very interesting article from Reuters today. Some people think the internet its biggest growth was a couple of years back, but this is not the case as you can read in this article! The Internet will usurp television as the [...]

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Getting a forum active

24. March 2008

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People are complaining all the time how hard it is to get their forums active. This is total crap if you ask us! If you want to succeed with your forum, you are going to succeed. People think they get new sign ups and posts while there is nothing posted yet, or something to discuss. [...]

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ValueClick to pay 2.9 million fine!

18. March 2008

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The FTC (Federal Trade Commision) investigated ValueClick the last couple of months. According to the FTC, Valueclick subsidiary Hi-Speed Media used various deceptive banners, pop-ups and emails to drive visitors to websites. The ads claimed to the visitors that they would get free gifts, like laptops, ipods, gift cards etc. This was not the case [...]

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AOL buys Bebo

16. March 2008

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Internet giant AOL is buying Bebo for 850 million dollar. Bebo has around 40 million users and is very popular in the United Kingdom and New Sealand. Bebo ranks as the UK’s most engaging social network with users spending an average of 33 minutes on the site per usage day. With 40 million users Bebo [...]

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China has most internet users

15. March 2008

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China is the country with the most internet users since February ‘08! With more then 220 million internet users they left the United States behind. China expects to have around 280 million internet users by the end of 2008. Internet is growing faster in China then anywhere in the world. Currently 71% of the US [...]

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