The wildly popular Shazam App, which normally tells you what song you just heard on the radio or TV or at a bar or disco. Today however with the Super Bowl it goes a lot further. I used Shazam last night during the 1st NFL Honors Award show broadcast on NBC last night and instead of getting the name and artist of one of the songs played on the broadcast, I got somthing that looks very much … [Read more...]
Meebo Founder: Apps Will Be Dead In 3-5 Years
There are many who think that Apps will kill domain names. Stories have been written on the topic, Sessions at domain name conferences have been dedicated to the subject and we have written about it on TheDomains.com as well. According to Adweek.com , Seth Sternberg, CEO and founder of Meebo had a completely different point of view saying that: "I think apps are dead in three to five … [Read more...]
PCWorld Names New gTLD’s As One Of “Top 5 Major Changes Facing The Internet”
PCWorld.com just published an article entitled the "Top 5 Major Changes Facing The Internet" in 2012. The article starts off saying: "2012 is poised to go down in Internet history as one of the most significant 12-month periods from both a technical and policy perspective since the late 1990's" Number 3 on the list is the new gTLD program that is opening up shortly on January 12th for … [Read more...]
US Justice Dept Now Said “Not To Oppose Online Gambling Other Than On Sports”
According to a story in the New York Times, citing a memorandum from the US Justice Department issued in September but first made public on Friday, the US in a reversal of a long standing position against online gambling, may not oppose it when it comes to anything other than betting on sports. The memo was in response to requests by New York and Illinois to clarify whether the Wire Act of … [Read more...]
comScore: Record Week In Online US Holiday Shopping History
comScore.com reported today, for the holiday season-to-date, nearly $32 billion has been spent online, a 15% over last year. For the week ending Dec. 18, four days surpassing $1 billion in sales, making for an all-time record of $6.3 billion in online retail spending for a week, up 14% from tthe same week last year. The final shopping weekend before Christmas reached $1.04 billion to rank … [Read more...]
New Study Says PPC Ads Generate Up To 26% More In Offline Sales
According to a story on MediaPost.com today, paid search and display ads also drive activity into brick-and-mortar stores, but the online ad campaigns are not getting credit for the offline sales. The article cites a study from RevTrax, which found that "offline sales benefit most from online paid-search ads. A two-year study ending in August found that for every $1 of ecommerce revenue … [Read more...]
Chrome Overtakes Firefox For The 1st Time.
According to Statcounter.com, Google's Chrome browser has passed Firefox for market share for the 1st time on a global basis in November. ""Chrome took 25.69% of the worldwide market (up from 4.66% in November 2009) compared to Firefox's 25.23%. Microsoft's Internet Explorer still maintains a strong lead globally with 40.63%. "We can look forward to a fascinating battle between Microsoft … [Read more...]