'Net Features : feature

State of the Application Nation

Mobile World : feature — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:15:00 GMT

Distimo, an app store analytics company, has released their latest Distimo Report, covering the full year of 2010. Included in the report are findings taken from analysis of Apple App Store for iPad, the Apple App Store for iPhone, BlackBerry App World...(read more)

Illinois To Get Hit With "Amazon Tax"?

Affiliate Insider : feature — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:54:00 GMT

Illinois Amazon affiliates received an unwelcome email last night. Illinois, it seems, is positioned to pass the so-called "Amazon Tax." And Amazon is holding nothing back in voicing its opinion on the matter. The email begins: We regret to...(read more)

FB.WALL - jQuery for Facebook Lovers

Design & Development Digest : feature — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:00:00 GMT

Wouldn't it be nice if you could display the activity occurring on your Facebook wall directly to your website visitors? Now you can with a great jQuery plugin called FB.WALL . The jQuery plugin, which uses Facebook's Graph API, allows designers...(read more)

Five First-Tier Travel Affiliate Programs to Consider

Affiliate Insider : feature — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:50:00 GMT

Few Website Magazine readers will be launching their own travel related services in the coming year but as the economy continues to rebound and as consumers are becoming increasingly likely to spend their discretionary income hitting the road perhaps...(read more)

Web Users Will Pay for Digital Content

E-Commerce Express : feature — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:42:00 GMT

The days of "free" are seemingly coming to a rapid end according to survey results released last week by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Nearly two-thirds of internet users (65%) have paid to download or access some kind of online...(read more)

AT&T, Bazaarvoice Offer Ratings and Reviews on Facebook

Administrator — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 09:35:00 GMT

AT&T has joined forces with Bazaarvoice to enable its customers to read, share and submit product reviews directly on the company's Facebook fan page. AT&T, which has offered product ratings and reviews on its own site since 2008, is the first in the telecommunications industry to bring customer ratings and reviews onto Facebook to help consumers with their purchase decisions and connect more closely with its brand through their peers.

The Bazaarvoice ratings and reviews system allows AT&T customers to share their feedback on devices and accessories. Featured within a ratings tab on AT&T’s Facebook brand page, visitors can review a wide variety of different products by using a five-star scale to measure overall satisfaction.

Users can also view recent reviews that were posted directly onto Facebook or the brand site, and they can browse reviews of featured, top or popular products. Additionally, visitors can take advantage of the “buy it now” functionality, which links directly to the specific product page on att.com to complete their purchase and drive the Facebook-to-website conversion cycle.

Bazaarvoice’s social commerce solutions have served more than 165 billion pieces of customer-generated content on more than 1,000 brand websites such as Best Buy, Costco, Dell and Macy’s. The company connects organizations with influencers through a network that reaches hundreds of millions of consumers around the globe.

iAds for Everyone with iAd Producer

Mobile World : feature — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:24:00 GMT

Apple, with unusually little fanfare, has released iAd Producer, a self-service development tool for Apple's mobile advertising space. Ad agencies can now create their own ads for use with the iPhone, iPod touch and, soon enough, the iPad. This should...(read more)

Facebook Overtakes Yahoo as World's Third Largest Site

Social Media Mavens : feature — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 10:44:00 GMT

Facebook will head into the New Year as the world’s third largest website after passing Yahoo in the most recent traffic rankings released from comScore. The research firm’s November 2010 report credits Facebook with an estimated 648 million...(read more)

Groupon at the Bottom of This Holiday List

E-Commerce Express : feature — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 10:20:00 GMT

A website and application performance monitoring firm tested 11 leading social shopping and daily deals sites for availability and performance during the height of the 2010 holiday shopping season. The companies tested by Watchmouse from November 22 through...(read more)

Online Holiday Spending Climbs Past $28 Billion

E-Commerce Express : feature — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 09:57:00 GMT

Christmas came a little early for many online retailers this year, as the final shopping weekend of the holiday season pushed e-commerce sales past $28 billion for the first time ever. Research firm comScore reports that consumers increased their spending...(read more)

AdKeeper Allows Users to Save Ads for Later

Internet Advertising : feature — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:22:00 GMT

A new service is being tested that would allow Web users to click on an ad to save it so they can interact with it later. The company behind it is startup AdKeeper, whose CEO Scott Kurnit founded the Web property that became About.com. The idea behind...(read more)

Online Media Market's Strong Outlook

Agency Style : feature — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:02:00 GMT

The economic recovery might be slow but at least one sector is adding jobs at a respectable rate. Internet media companies and Web portals have added 14,300 jobs since the recession began, according to Ad Age DataCenter's analysis of Bureau of Labor...(read more)

Nearly 1 in 3 Consumers Surveyed Like Targeted Ads

Internet Advertising : feature — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:33:00 GMT

With the Federal Trade Commission recommending stronger regulations for online advertising, the future of behavioral Web marketing practices is somewhat uncertain right now. The FTC argues that consumers overwhelmingly consider these targeted ads intrusive...(read more)

LinkShare Reports Record Growth During Cyber Week

Affiliate Insider : feature — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:53:00 GMT

Performance marketing leader LinkShare has reported record year-over-year growth during the Thanksgiving holiday shopping period with same store sales increasing more than 50 percent on Black Friday and more than 45 percent on Cyber Monday. Strong growth...(read more)

Adobe Search&Promote Arrives in Style

Software Everywhere : feature — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:30:00 GMT

This week the site search market got a new player as Adobe has introduced Adobe Search&Promote. The site search and merchandising application aims to help marketers anticipate visitor search intent and promote the most relevant products and content...(read more)