There was an interesting (and grossly underreported) bit of referral traffic data posted by ad network Chitika about a month ago. Chitika looked at referral data for more than 120M impressions across 60,000 sites and concluded that Search remains the...

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The rise of the Horizontal Content Play: a discussion of Wikia, Demand Media, AOL, and more.

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Widget powered commerce is an area that has long interested me - see my posts on Adgregate Markets, ThisNext, Kaboodle, Cartfly, Zazzle / CafePress, Edgeio, MPire, and ThisNext. I just learned that eBay has partnered with Widgetbox to allow eBay...

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I've long considered blog comments to be one of the more fascinating social media startup battlegrounds in terms of the pace of innovation, the importance of the channel for distribution, and the lessons that can be learned by any company...

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My employer, RateItAll, just enabled instant review posting of anything via email. Just send an email to reviews@rateitall.com with the thing you are reviewing in the subject line (e.g. District 9, Negra Modelo, TechCrunch, etc.), and the rating and...

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