Archives: May 2006

To get your natural search engine rankings up, you’ve got to increase the number of sites that link to your website. If you’re new to an industry or a # 2 behind a bigger player, it helps to know whose…more

Entertainment Weekly’s picks for the 25 Best Music Websites. Dusty Groove gets my vote….more

Apple opens a new store in New York City and people travel across country and wait in line for 48 hours to get in. This isn’t a retail store event, it’s a Grateful Dead show when Jerry was in the…more

The number of visitors to the top 10 social-networking sites soared in April, attracting nearly half of all Web users, Nielsen/NetRatings said. The top 10 sites collectively grew 47 percent in the United States from the same month a year…more

Do you know the mystery cab driver who is the BBC’s latest star - a cab driver who a leading presenter believed was a world expert on the Internet music business? See his interview here when he was mistakenly interviewed…more

I went to AIGA LA’s business series, Shop Talks, on Tuesday at the Water Garden in the Haworth Showroom in Santa Monica. The Shop Talk was on The Art of Email Marketing. It was moderated by Annie Kinnaird, Director of…more

Here’s a link to Ian Rogers from Yahoo Music’s presentation at BarCamp this Spring on Media 2.0 Economics, or Physics The Blockbuster vs. The Snowball Why Running A Hit-Driven Business Becomes Very Hard For Big Companies Why Yahoo! Isn’t In…more

Philips Norelco’s new Bodygroom shaver, sounds like it’s for a man. Or, more exactly, a man that shaves his body hair. A man like the Cad in Norelco’s new guy-funny web campaign. This spot is hilariously viral, perfect for the…more

Apple Computer launched its new ad campaign on TV and its Web site yesterday. The ads feature The Daily Show’s John Hodgman, who represents “PCs,” and Justin Long (Dodgeball, Herbie Fully Loaded), who represents a “Mac.” Here’s the “Viruses” TV…more

Bill Tancer of Hitwise, an online measurement company, talks about how MySpace video passes YouTube to become the No. 1 of video sites in just four days….more