Google has announced new functionality for Google Maps – Emdedded maps, which allows blogs and websites to embed the funcionality of Google Maps by simply copying a snippet of html in the same way YouTube does for videos.
“Audible.com was founded an eternity ago, in 1995, and is one of a handful of internet dotcoms to go public during the first bubble, and yet survive. “I started the business too early,” he jokes now.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/17/audible_ceo_interview/
The Silicon Alley insider is reporting
US advertising revenue at 4 big online media companies–Google, Yahoo, AOL, and MSN- grew by $1.3 billion in Q2, or 42%.
While
US advertising revenue at 15 big television, newspaper, magazine, radio, and outdoor companies (Time Warner, Viacom, CBS, News Corp., CBS Radio, Citadel, Disney, Entercom, Clear Channel, Clear Channel Outdoor, Time Inc., New York Times Company, McClatchy, Dow Jones, and Gannett) shrank by $280 million in Q2, or 3%.
The New York Times has an article looking into the marketing campaign for TIAA-CREF.
“A LARGE marketer of financial services is seeking to become the master of a domain name.
“TIAA-CREF’s “Manifesto” Ad The marketer is TIAA-CREF, which is making a significant change in its advertising that plays up its status as a nonprofit organization. The campaign, getting under way this week, signals its intent by focusing on a new Web site, powerof.org.
The auction allowed people at the venue and anyone online to bid real time while also providing high quality and stable video and sound feeds of the auction room. The staff did an excellent job of keeping up with the auctioneer and the bids from bidders both online and in the room.
This meant all the information needed to bid was displayed on a single web page anywhere in the world making it almost as good as being in the auction room and without the cost of getting there.
Other improvements on other auctions included no fee for absentee bidding and the first bid met the reserve, which moved the auction along much quicker and removed the worries of people bidding to just below the reserve to promote their names.
ICANN has opened a public comment period 10th – 30th August on the recent GNSO report in to the Introduction of New Generic Top-Level Domains – Part A
& the Introduction of New Generic Top-Level Domains – Part B
Credicards.com has just filed with the SEC to raise upto $115 million with underwriters Credit Suisse, Citigroup, and Thomas Weisel Partners
24/7 Wall St has more details.
Spending in internet advertising will reach $61.98 billion, and will surpass newspapers to become the nation’s leading ad medium in 2011, projects private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson in its 21st Communications Industry Forecast released today.
“Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS) is the first payments service designed from the ground up specifically for developers. The set of web services APIs allows the movement of money between any two entities, humans or computers. It is built on top of Amazon’s reliable and scalable payment infrastructure.
From the Press release
“Washington, DC, Tuesday, July 31 – GoDaddy.com, Inc. and Afilias USA, Inc., have teamed up to create The Domain Name Alliance Registry, LLC (“Alliance Registry”), a joint venture seeking to assume stewardship of the usTLD, America’s sovereign space on the Internet. Yesterday, Alliance Registry submitted a proposal in response to the request for quotations issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) for a registry operator for the usTLD.
GPM Group 
