702.tv is not only launching as a website, but as an actual broadcast Television show by the same name. (702 is the area code for Las Vegas). The site and show is owned by the Greenspun Media Group, which owns the Las Vegas Sun and Las Vegas Weekly The show is launching on a twice-weekly schedule, airing at 10:30 p.m. (PST) Tuesdays and Thursdays on Vegas TV and on  Cox cable. The program … [Read more...]

According to reports over 200K Facebook User names were grabbed in the first 3 minutes and 500,000 were gone in the first 15 minutes. I tried to get "domain" "domains", "domainname" and "domainnames" however, none were available.  Checking this morning none of these are resolving so I'm not sure why they weren't available. I settled on using thedomains, so our facebook page is … [Read more...]

The Silicon Valley Insider published a helpful post today concerning the landrush for Facebook "domains" this weekend. As previously announced At 12:01 a.m. EST,  Saturday morning, Facebook will allow users to register user names and domain names (facebook.com/username) to go with them. If you have a trademark, Facebook has a “Preventing the Registration of a Username” form to prevent someone … [Read more...]

According to Borrell Associates and Clickable,  50% of businesses that buy local search ads directly from Google & other online companies, don't come back the following year. Many online advertising resellers and affiliates, who serve local businesses, churn half their customers within a year. Some lose as many as 90%. The report suggests that missed expectations and a lack of return … [Read more...]

According to the Wall Street Journal, U.S. online ad spending declined 5% in the first quarter, which is the first decline since 2002. """The latest expenditure, $5.5 billion, compares with $5.8 billion during the first quarter of 2008, when online-ad spending surged 18% from a year earlier. It comes after U.S. online ad spending grew 11% in 2008, the slowest rate since 2002."" The good … [Read more...]

The Wall Street Journal today published an article entitled, Entrepreneurs Pack Up and Go Home, which talks about a trend of small businesses abandoning their brick and mortar businesses, unable to afford the rent and overhead, and going online. One such person is quoted as saying in support of closing its store and moving it online: "You don't have overhead, you don't have to manage … [Read more...]

According to TechCrunch,  Facebook will announce later this week that they will allow users to claim a vanity URL pointing to their regular profile page. At a date and time, to be announced, the landrush will begin and users will be able to grab a vanity URL of their choice. The Landrush rules will prohibit trademark infringement and a lots of words will be blacklisted, such as generic … [Read more...]