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WSJ free feature: Blogs for Shoppers, From Fashion to Food, Sites, Track Deals and Offer Ideas For Stumped Gift Givers See also Kathy Biehl’s After Hours columns on LLRX.com, which include her 2006 Holiday Gift Guide
Pew Internet & American Life Project: “For Americans on the move, the Internet is becoming an increasingly important resource for researching housing options. The number of online house hunters has increased by two thirds since March 2000. On average, more than three million Internet users are online on any given day searching for a new …
Press release: Among the predicitions, is the following – “Blogging and community contributors will peak in the first half of 2007. Given the trend in the average life span of a blogger and the current growth rate of blogs, there are already more than 200 million ex-bloggers. Consequently, the peak number of bloggers will be …
The 12-1-2006 issue of Forbes includes a Special Report, simply titled, Books. The report includes a series of articles on endurance of books, and the role technology has and will play, in their evolving future role. Custom-Built Libraries, By Brandy Slagle Publish And Perish, By Elisabeth Eaves. “Books crumble. Discs degrade. Is the age-old quest …
“The Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School has been tracking a representative sample of the American population for over six years watching as people move on-line and then move from modems to broadband.” Highlights of the 2007 Digital Future Report “This year’s report contains a large module looking at on-line communities …
Follow up to September 18, 2006 – posting Belgian Court Rules Against Google in Copyright Dispute: Google defends against Belgian newspaper copyright case – Launches spirited defense of caching, summarizing, fair use Google reaches deal with two Belgian press groups – They objected to how it indexes and displays their content on Google News
E-government websites offer useful holiday shopping advice to consumers via the following: FTC Consumer Alert – Holiday Shopping? How To Be On Guard When Youre Online and Consumer Action Buying tips: “Before you head out to the mall or shop online for that perfect present, take a few moments to read these tips to help …
Federal Trade Commission Public Hearings on Protecting Consumers in the Next Tech-ade, November 6 – 8, 2006. Links to presentations (in formats that include html, PDF, and video), on the following topics: Key Changes Predicted in the Next Tech-ade; The Changing Internet; How Will We Communicate in the Next Tech-ade?; Social Networking – Trends and …
From Wired Magazine: “TV advertising is broken, putting $67 billion up for grabs. Which explains why google spent a billion and change on an online video startup.”
Wall Street Journal free feature: YouTube Finds Signing Rights Deals Complex, Frustrating Financial Times: Google in bid to halt YouTube legal threat Related news: eWeek.com Google Watch blog: “Universal Tube and Rollform Equipment Corporation, an industrial manufacturing and sales firm, filed suit this week against YouTube in Ohio federal district court, arguing they’ve incurred dramatic …
Press release, November 1, 2006: “The Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG), two of the leading public-interest advocacy groups working on behalf of a more diverse and competitive online environment, filed a complaint today with the Federal Trade Commission, calling on the commission to undertake an immediate, …
October 26, 2006 press release: – “Today, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) filed a consumer protection complaint to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleging Internet financial services and real estate provider Zillow.com is misleading consumers, real estate professionals and financial service providers in on-line home valuations.” Zillow’s response to the complaint, posted on the …
