A blogazine for all things Internet, e-marketing, business, media & software

Pay-Per-Click

Here’s a quick reminder of something that many of us in Internet advertising may have forgotten. Although Google is the king of search advertising, history tells us that the company wasn’t the first to deploy the “paid-ads-next-to-organic-listings” model. This distinction goes to Overture, who in 1998 became the first to charge advertisers to [...]

Mobile Updates

I love being an AT&T customer.  I really do.  But I just had to share this since ecommerce and mobile technology fall within the jurisdiction of the Digital Sapien Blog.  Have a great 4th of July.

e-Commerce

Amazon.com Widgets

Given the current growth of rich media advertisements and wireless enable handheld computing platforms, it is inevitable that rich media will crossover onto the mobile web within the next few years on a continuing widening scale. Mobile computing is just beginning to come of age, and as Internet enabled handheld devices are [...]

Online Education

As a soon to be alumni, I enjoy reading articles about the great goings-on at New York Institute of Technology (NYIT).  Although NYIT it’s a low profile school and a relatively young university (a bit over 50 years old), there’s just so much out-of-the-box thinking taking place around its campuses that the institution is quickly [...]

Industry

You have to appreciate how I used the word "social" twice in the title. 
I heard these two stories on NPR ("On The Media") over the weekend, and they so tied psychology and sociology to interactive buzz marketing that I had to share them here.  Give them a listen, before you read on.

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Media

Rave.  For a certain segment of the in-home entertainment market, myself included, Netflix is reaching cable killer status.  I’ve had a growing dissatisfaction with cable and other such services for some time simply because their offerings do not fit my viewing needs.  In short, I find that cable is plagued by high monthly rates, [...]