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

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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Press Contact: Charles Michael
Company Name: Ezilon.com
Email: email protected from spam bots
Phone: 281-7544855
Website: http://search.ezilon.com/

Directory Offers New Audio And Video Media Services

 

Free Business National Directory, Off site Data Storage, Sex Offender Listings

Searching has never been easier. Clicksus.com offers audio and video media services, anyone can place a 30 second to a 10-minute video clip about their business to clicksus. Clicksus.com offers on line encrypted data storage.

(PRWEB) April 20, 2006 -- Searching has never been easier. No typing necessary. Just point and click on a state, then county. Select what category of business to search for and click again. Clicksus.com provides free basic publication listing to most businesses.

Clicksus.com was designed keeping the end user in mind for simpler direct searching. Question? How many pages of garbage have to be searched through to locate the correct target? It takes valuable time to locate the correct Web site. With clicksus.com just click on the state, then click on the county, and then click on the business category. Clicksus.com invites all businesses within the Untied States to list their business for free.

At this time, most school districts, County / State police agencies and hospitals within the United States are published in the clicksus directory. In addition, clicksus went beyond the call of duty and listed all sex offenders within the U.S. This service has been linked to every law enforcement agency that provides up to date information of those offenders. Clicksus.com provides valuable information and is structured to draw the attention of the consumer in many different areas. Clicksus.com offers educational facts of each County & State. Search neighborhoods for sex offenders. Even more intriguing, clicksus.com offers precise easier searching.

In addition, Clicksus.com offers an audio and video media service, anyone can place a 30 second to a 10-minute video clip about their business to clicksus.com. By placing an existing video clip or commercial to clicksus media platform, the video can be seen from just about anyone at anytime. By creating an audio video clip about a business, it will provide a strong visual presence to an audience.

Some businesses may want to provide a demonstration of their products or even give a presentation. Demonstrate a new piece of equipment. Provide a video installation or trouble shooting guide about their products. Eliminate user guides or unnecessary phone calls. The possibilities are endless. A hyper link can be issued. This link can be applied to an out going e-mail or a Web site. This link will be directed back to the video clip at Clicksus.com when activated. End users are able to review video at normal DSL & Cable speeds with out interruption to Internet services.
    
Off site data storage:
On a daily basis valuable personal data is either stolen or loss due to hardware failure. Clicksus.com offers on line encrypted data storage. Your data can be stored to Clicksus on line servers for easy access anytime anywhere. Never worry again about loss or stolen files.
Clicksus.com is constantly reviewing new ideas to make the experience with the Internet simpler.    

CEO
Kim Diemer

Software Engineer
Matt Lintz

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Press Contact: Kim Diemer
Company Name: SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS INC.
Email: email protected from spam bots
Phone: 5038844866
Website: http://www.clicksus.com

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)

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

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.

For more information about the conference, contact Brett Tabke at 512-231-8107 or brett at webmasterworld.com.

In the UK, contact Neil Marshall Tel: (+44) 118 988 0288 or engine at webmasterworld.com.

For more details about sponsorship and exhibition opportunities contact Strategic Marketing Director Joseph Morin at 512-497-6856 or joe at webmasterworld.com

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Press Contact: Neil Marshall
Company Name: WEBMASTERWORLD
Email: email protected from spam bots
Phone: 0118 988 0288
Website: http://www.pubcon.com

Death Of Search: Sorry, No Results Found...

Socially Searching For The Watercooler

 

by David Berkowitz, Tuesday, April 11, 2006
LONG LIVE PERSONALIZED SEARCH; PERSONALIZED search is dead. The same can be said of social search and vertical search. All three are melding, and a search giant has an opportunity to bring this hybrid technology to the masses.

 

Let's start with the personalization corner of the triangle. I use all the major portals' personalization services, and I'm toying around with some new entrants into the space, such as Findory for personalized news, Windows Live, and Claria's PersonalWeb. These sites almost always direct me to content I would not have found otherwise. Personalization is thus an always-on complement to word of mouth marketing. The technology becomes a more efficient and perhaps even smarter version of that friend or nephew of yours who keeps sending you all the best links.

 

All of this makes me wonder about the prospects for social search. Here, that nephew and a number of your peers are connected through some network, and all of your search results are affected by what others in the network search for. Thus, networks of fishing buddies, jazz musicians, beer aficionados, and shoe lovers will all find different search results coming up for the query "bass."

 

Yahoo has integrated social search components into its My Web 2.0, a tagging and bookmarking tool. My Web users conducting searches will often find links atop the natural results to relevant pages that other My Web users bookmarked. While this may allow some lower-ranking pages to rise to the top, the results aren't necessarily more relevant this way. The people who are doing all this tagging don't necessarily have anything to do with you and your interests.

 

Eurekster has refined its version of social search into the concept of "swickis," in which a blogger or site owner can offer a topic-specific search engine that matches its results to the site content and other searches. The value proposition, however, is strongest for the publisher, as consumers, in the short term, are still conditioned to turn to actual search engines for their searches.

 

To share one final example, Friendster, powered by Eurekster and Yahoo Search, allows users to see what people in their networks are searching for. Yet this is confined to searches within Friendster, and Friendster isn't a search engine. At most, you use Friendster to search for your friends. As for my friends, they're desperate. Three of the top four searches in my network are "true love quiz," "handsome men," and "how to win an ex back." The other one? "Halloween costume." Either my friends really hate paying retail, or Friendster gave up on updating this six months ago. So who's in the best position to do social search right? Social search will go mainstream when it's incorporated into a top-tier search engine's main results. Consider how it would play out with Google, as an example.

 

For Google, social search would involve tying a few pieces together of what it's already doing. Google already personalizes results for registered users based on their previous searches. It could further personalize search results based on groups of registered users-- namely, those on a user's Google Talk list. Now, following this line of logic, assume that this group of registered users is clustered largely around one or two common themes, such as technologists in the Pacific Northwest or Bible Belt NASCAR fans or Binghamton University college students. With personalized search results based on a presumably like-minded community of users, it all starts to resemble vertical search, a concept Eurekster acknowledges about its swickis.

 

To recap, personalized search becomes social search. Social search becomes vertical search. All of this with the goal of making search results more relevant.

 

Yet how much relevance will users be able to stomach? How much will users crave hyper-targeted media at the expense of the communal experience? As personal as the technology gets, the watercooler effect isn't going away. However, people may redefine the watercooler. Instead of caring what 30 million people are reading or watching or listening to, people will start caring about, say, the 150 people in their first degree and the few thousand others one degree further out.

 

If this environment takes hold, with the watercooler evolving into the nexus of who you're in contact with and are likely to come in contact with, then the stage is set perfectly for the emergence of personal-social-vertical search. The biggest question that remains is whether the technology will arise to support the cultural shift, or whether the shift will occur thanks entirely to the technology making it possible.

 

David Berkowitz is director of strategic planning at 360i. You can reach him at dberkowitz@360i.com.

 

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Consumers Declare Listing Is Relevant

Relevant Segmentation of Consumer Search: Part One

 

by Chris Copeland, Wednesday, April 12, 2006
FOR TEN YEARS THE SEARCH industry has been built on the concept of keywords. What began in organic search has multiplied many times over in paid search. To many, this means no list of terms is ever too long, and no word ever irrelevant. Why? Because the advertiser only pays when someone clicks, and by clicking, consumers declare that a listing is relevant to their query.

 

But what if their click was not a guarantee of relevancy? What if the consumer had declared marginal interest through the lure of minimal text listings, and not a burning desire to become a brand customer and loyalist? What if the notion of search being a free lunch with costs tied only to interested clickers was, in fact, a myth perpetuated by the engines to bolster revenues?

 

A new study from France notes that Google and Yahoo score virtually the same in the all- important metric of relevance. The study further states the relevancy of search today isn't very good.

 

Google built its reputation on the simplicity and relevancy of its results. Users of search are constantly seeking more relevant information in a faster delivery model. For a study to show that as the market continues to grow in size, the quality of its return product is not increasingly better, is reason alone to give pause.

 

What if the problem wasn't at all related to search algorithms, page rank or the pecking order of placement, but rather to the way we think about search programs?

 

Search marketers espouse the value of "the tail" ad nauseam. They contend the bigger the keyword list--20,000 terms, 100,000 terms or 1 million terms--the more success brands are likely to have.

 

But what if this is a fallacy perpetuated by bid engines and bid tool makers alike? What if the tail in and of itself was not the be-all or the end-all?

 

What if, in fact, the answer to relevant search results lies in the searcher? Instead of a search term being a billboard for a company, it becomes a conduit between user intent and advertiser content. If so, then a new world of behavioral learnings begins to emerge, whereby keyword searches begin to classify users and the suddenly not-so-random way people behave in their searching.

 

What if it was from consumers' behavior that learnings could be derived, segmentation established, and keyword and content generated in order to be successful?

 

What if?

 

Chris Copeland is senior partner/managing director for Outrider, a search marketing firm based in St. Louis and a division of Mediaedge:cia.

 

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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.

PQ Media is the world’s leading provider of alternative advertising and marketing research. The firm also delivers exclusive data and information on traditional media, including advertising, marketing services, consumer and business media, and media usage. Founded in 2002, PQ Media has two major practice areas through which we provide custom and syndicated research to brand marketers, media buyers, media companies and financial institutions. PQ Media is located at Two Stamford Landing, Suite 100, Stamford, CT 06902. Phone is 203-921-0368; Fax, 203- 921-0367; E-mail, email protected from spam bots.

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New Trends Often Miss The Point, At First

Teenage Search Angst

 

by Sara Holoubek, Monday, April 10, 2006
IN THE LATE 90S, I was working on a campaign to make Compaq hip. The firm attempted to buy itself coolness by sponsoring Sting's world tour and setting up a flashy set of interactive functionality on www.Sting.compaq.com (If you're curious, I'm sure that WaybackMachine has some version or another.)

 

Just about every month, a higher-up would bring the collective team into a conference room and say, "So what have you come up with for broadband? We need to pitch a broadband initiative." Excited by the promise of what big pipes could allow, we would develop some very cool ideas, and then eventually, every time, conclude that, uh, no one really had broadband access yet.

 

This is the same teenage angst we are feeling in the search engine marketing industry today, where the technology that's available is far ahead of consumer adoption. We are stuck in the awkward period between proposing a revolutionary idea and doing what is right for the brand.

 

Rebel without a cause. Tired of addressing clicks and spiders, media coverage has shifted focus to mobile and video search, despite the slow consumer adoption rate. One SEM employee told me, "Everyone writes about it, but no clients are paying for it." And who blames them? It is somewhat unfair to expect a brand to underwrite a particular agency's R&D.

 

For the record, I believe that search will expand far beyond the interface we know today. I am so anxious to see wireless and video become reality that I just can't stand it. That being said, it is tiring to hear about fabulous new teams and technologies without any real client case studies. I would be much happier if firms said, "We have just launched an R&D team to explore, with some of our forward-thinking clients, how new search applications will evolve over time."

 

Unfortunately, the press releases inevitably focus on who is the first, the biggest, the flashiest, the jazziest in mobile and video search.

 

Just be yourself. Friend and techie colleague Keith Marran made it clear that being first was not always best when he told me, "Good applications are never about the technology, they are about filling a need in peoples' lives." This sentiment was echoed by usability guru Mark Hurst at last week's NYC Tech Meetup. Hurst reminded the technologically advanced audience to wield the craft wisely, to build useful products, as opposed to whiz-bang flashy thingies. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. "Technology is supposed to make our lives easier," he said.

 

One rule of thumb is to examine your own tech behavior. For example, one SEM sales rep said, "I look at my own mobile habits, and advertising does not fit in well." Knowing that you are in the upper 1 percent of the online population, if you or your kids are not early adopters, you can bet that 99 percent of the online world is not there yet.

 

It just takes time. Technology is fast, and we love that. Yet speed can kill when you are responsible for a brand's marketing dollars. We need to find a balance as the technology, the agencies and the brands come together and commit dollars to building the future.

 

Bryan Carlton Byrd, of New Breed Wireless, has an admirably soft sell. He told me calmly a few years back, "If you are not part of the wireless New Breed today, that's OK. Someday you will be, and that may take time." He was right.

 

Sara Holoubek is a free agent serving the interactive advertising industry and its investors. She can be reached at saraholoubek@gmail.com.

 

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[Editor's comments: It's often scary how newsletters come in and address things that I just happen to be working with, looking for, or thinking about...! In this case, it's wireless, or specificly, WAP. Just yesterday I was doing some research, because I realized that if a client's project could be adapted to WAP, it would be a pretty killer user of their content. In looking for information, I found quite a bit, but it seems that in the US at least, WAP's been whupped. It just has not caught on from what I can see, but I admit I only own a fake cel phone so I can use it in emergencies. Yes, it's fake. The emergency would be if I'm in public and everyone has a phone. I can pull my fake one out and not look like a real unwired freak...!. Yup, and there are more of us than you think. You know those cel phone vocal blasters everyone hates? Most of them are like me (but not me). They over compansate, not just by having a fake phone, but also letting everyone know how important they really are that they have one just like everyone else.

 

Anyway, I just realized that wap could really catch on big-time if it were widely adopted and here's why: Since you can't have bloated pages, you have to distill down to the important information and simple menu choces. There are times that if I had a choice to regular browsing and WAP browsing that I would love to have the little simple menus and concise screens of information that I think WAP must have (No phone, remember...?).

 

Anyway, I went to wap.google.com and then fired up a WAP browser on my PC and captured what the page looks like. Talk about making things more simple....! True, this format may be a little too simple for general use, but you can see what is attractive about this, It loads quick and there is little room for any ads to be displaced, although I would not expect to be free of them forever. (hris ]

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.

To purchase any of these domain names via secure escrow service, please visit http://www.BRANDomains.com.

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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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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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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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Hosting Provider Chosen for 2006 Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss Teen USA Competitions

 

RIS Technology Selected by Miss Universe Organization to Host Website for 2006 Miss Universe®, Miss USA® and Miss Teen USA® Competitions

RIS Technology, Inc., a growing Los Angeles-based Internet hosting company, announced today that they have signed a multi-year agreement with the Miss Universe Organization, producers of the Miss Universe®, Miss USA® and Miss Teen USA® Competitions.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) April 5, 2006 -- RIS Technology, Inc., a growing Los Angeles-based Internet hosting company, announced today that they have signed a multi-year agreement with the Miss Universe Organization, producers of the Miss Universe®, Miss USA® and Miss Teen USA® Competitions.

“We found that the combination of RIS’ expertise and experience in hosting large scale media events and their excellent customer service very attractive.” said Paula M. Shugart, President of the Miss Universe Organization. “We were impressed by RIS’ reliable infrastructure, and are confident that we won’t have to worry about scalability and performance during our upcoming telecasts.”

RIS provides the Miss Universe Organization a managed event hosting solution that combines the RIS’ high-availability hosting platform with dynamic server capacity and global content distribution. All of the components in the solution are fully redundant and performance optimized, from the enterprise quality servers to the fully meshed network, load balancers, and security devices.

“We have lots of experience hosting websites for large scale media events where flash traffic would cripple normal hosting configurations.” says Nate Johnson, RIS’ Chief Technology Officer. “We combine our high availability network with dynamic server capacity and global content distribution to allow organizations to handle 300 to 400 times the amount of traffic they might see on a normal day.”

RIS’ has become a leading event web hosting provider, servicing high profile clients such as the Hollywood Foreign Press (Golden Globes) and The Recording Academy (Grammy’s). By utilizing multiple, dynamically scaled web-servers and a world-wide content distribution service, RIS ensures that their customers sites perform optimally throughout the telecasts. Additionally, RIS’ active traffic reporting system will allow the Miss Universe Organization to monitor the site performance in real time and to verify world wide availability.

About RIS Technology Inc.
RIS (Reliable Internet Systems) Technology provides high-quality custom hosting solutions through a robust, redundant network infrastructure and top of the line equipment. This base provides for a scalable, secure, and reliable Internet application hosting environment. Their personal approach is really what differentiates RIS from other hosting companies. RIS’ attention to detail, ability to customize, and the desire to understand their clients’ business and presence on the Internet continues to build on the company’s success.


About Miss Universe Organization
The Miss Universe Organization, producers of the Miss Universe®, Miss USA® and Miss Teen USA® Pageants, are a Donald J. Trump and National Broadcasting Company, Inc. (NBC) partnership.

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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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Marketing and Online Advertising?

Online Advertising & Marketing
 
Press Release by: Philro Webdesign 
04-03-2006 - (openPR) - Besteedt u veel tijd aan het proberen te begrijpen van de bijzonderheden van
online reclame en handel. Philro Webdesign kan het het u gemakkelijker maken. Werk met ons samen om uw succesvolle campagnes om te zetten naar een 'virtuele' versie. Weten wat wel én wat niet werkt op internet. Dat is onze kracht. Naast vormgeving speelt techniek hierbij een belangrijke rol. Beide specialismen zijn wij eigen.

Het naar uw wensen vervaardigen van een optimale internetpresentatie, rekening houdend met de ongeschreven regels van het internet.

Wij adviseren u omtrent de HTML - en ontwerp mogelijkheden.

Daarnaast zijn wij in staat uw huisstijl perfect te laten terugkomen in uw website, waardoor u over een uitstekend marketinginstrument beschikt, volledig afgestemd op uw doelgroep(en).

Bent u niet bekend met de mogelijkheden van internet? Wij vertellen u graag tot in detail wat het allemaal inhoudt.
Philro Webdesign richt zich voornamelijk op het ontwerpen en 'surf-klaar' maken van internetpresentaties en webhosting.

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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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