I’ve written a few times about Kiva – the micro-financing networking service usually associated with assisting entrepreneurs in developing countries. The organization has just announced it will be extending its coverage to entrepreneurs in the USA. (more…)

Microsoft’s new search engine, aka “decision engine” or “results engine” as they now like to call it, is turning out to be an interesting beast. (more…)

According to a recent survey, there’s distinct differences in different parts of the world in relation to unsubscribing from marketing communications and newsletters, with some countries having far more tolerance to unappealing email than others. (more…)

It’s been a while since I last reported on the most popular browsers and monitor resolutions and their market share, so let’s see how things stack up these days. (more…)

Each morning I go through a pile of email that’s come in overnight – newsletters, spam, etc.; the same mix that everyone with an inbox gets. But I also get quite a few partnership approaches or businesses requesting coverage on my sites or projects I’m involved with. (more…)

Where Rupert leads, others often follow. Mr Murdoch’s plans to have Internet users pay for premium online newspaper content among his brands have set others considering the same. (more…)

Apologies to Monty Python fans. Microsoft is revving up the spin machine for it’s new search engine, called Bing. (more…)

The writing is on the wall for direct mail marketing (hallelujah); but the future of email marketing is looking even rosier as a result. (more…)

..that is the question: whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the taunts of blogging peers, or to join in and compete against a sea of other blogs.. (more…)

News of the demise of display ads have been greatly exaggerated if this report is anything to go by. However, how people interact with ads poses some serious challenges for marketers and even more problems for affiliates. (more…)