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ISPs Inserting Ads In Your Browsing Experience to Cash in on the Internet Ad Boom

Not to be left out of the Internet Ad boom (such as those ubiquitous “Ads by Google” Adsense ads), it has been discovered that ISPs are cashing in on the ad money craze by inserting ads into your browsing experience using a service called NebuAd – that is, as you are browsing from website to website, your ISP may be adding their own contextually matched ads for you to see, overlayed on top of what you are browsing, based on what you are browsing!

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Full GPS Slated for Nokia Cell Phones – Location Based Ads Pushed to Your Cell Phone Just Around the Corner?

Wow, that was fast! It was barely a week ago that we predicted the convergence of GPS and Internet on cell phones and it leading to location-based push advertising to your cell phone, and now Nokia has announced (well, leaked, really) that they plan to have full navigation GPS on all Nokia cell phones.

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GPS Enabled Internet, or Internet Enabled GPS – The Next Advertising Frontier

Here is my prediction: the next big thing from the Internet advertising point of view is going to be this: the convergence of always-on Internet and GPS in one device. Internet and GPS convergence.

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The “This is Spam” Button is Not an Unsubscribe Button! If You Asked for the Email, Don’t Hit “This is Spam”!

The “this is spam” button is not an unsubscribe button! The “this is spam” button is a “whack this sender because they sent me this email without permission” button.

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Starbucks Retracts Free Iced Coffee Email After Offer Spread Across Internet

Starbucks has been forced to retract a coupon offer for free iced coffee for the friends and family of their employees in the southeast region of the United States after the email containing the offer was distributed across the Internet, and the coupon started getting posted on blogs across the nation, and even made it out to Digg.

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Do You Have Web Rage?

Do you have web rage? A new survey has found that disappointed online shoppers are experiencing “web rage” at poorly performing web merchant sites, and going back to in-person shopping.

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“Limited Link Marketing” – New Pixel by Pixel Marketing Takes Internet by Storm

“Limited link marketing”, or “pixel marketing”, all started witih the Million Dollar Homepage created by Alex Tew. Then came the 1000 Word Page, and now we have expert Internet marketers creating the 500 Word page, the 1024 Ad page, and a new software program to allow even a beginner to put up their own limited link or pixel marketing page.

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Email Spam Loses Spam Queen Laura Betterly

Internet Marketing may have a chance to clean up its image, with the retirement of Queen of Spam Laura Betterly. Betterly, who gave work-at-home moms as well as Internet marketers a bad name, says now that spam is bad.

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SpamAssassin 3.10 Released, with ISIPP’s IADB Sender Accreditation Support

SpamAssassin has released version 3.1.0 of their fine spam filter product, and it includes support for the Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy’s wonderful Email Senders Accreditation Program! This means that SpamAssassin will check to see whether a sender is listed with ISIPP’s Email Sender Accreditation program when deciding…

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Utah Opens Child Email Address Registry for Business, All Commercial Mailers Must Comply by August 15th

The Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy (ISIPP) is warning that all commercial email senders are now required to either comply with the child protection email address registries and registry laws of both Michigan and Utah, or risk penalties which can include prison and fines running to the thousands…

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New July 1st Child Email Address Registry Laws a Big Surprise Affecting All Emailers

From Aunty’s friends over at the Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy: NEW JULY 1st CHILD EMAIL ADDRESS REGISTRY LAWS A BIG SURPRISE AFFECTING ALL EMAILERS, WARNS INSTITUTE FOR SPAM AND INTERNET PUBLIC POLICY “Jail Time, Large Penalties, and Private Actions Facing All Commercial Emailers Who Fail to Comply,”…

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Spam King Scott Richter’s Bankrupt Real Big Notice to Creditors

Scott Richter and his OptInRealBig have filed for bankruptcy and must notify all potentially impacted parties by email – but how many of them will actually get the notices, given that spam filters around the world have a special place just for him and his email?

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You’ve Got eWine – Court Says You Can Buy Wine on the Internet

In case you thought it was bad that teenagers can buy tobacco over the Internet, a court – make that the Supreme Court – has just ruled that you can buy alcohol, specifically wine, over the Internet, and that individual states shall not pass laws which forbid buying wine over…

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Federal Trade Commission Seeks Input On CAN-SPAM

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that they are seeking comments on several aspects of CAN-SPAM which they will be clarifying or modifying. According to the FTC, the proposed clarifications or modifications to CAN-SPAM include modifying the definition of “sender” to make it clearer just who is responsible for…

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CAN-SPAM Smack Down for Spammers Hiding Behind Affiliates (Email Marketing)

A little-known but powerful clause in CAN-SPAM ensures that spammers cannot hide behind their affiliates to avoid CAN-SPAM liabilty. Prior to the passage of CAN-SPAM, people selling products which were being advertised by spam were often able to escape liability by saying “Hey, it wasn’t me who sent the email.”…