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Kevin Eyres, LinkedIn’s managing director for LinkedIn Europe told IDG that LinkedIn has a CPM of $75 for the U.S. and up to $75 for the UK. Like Michael Learmonth, I have a hard time believing this is an average CPM, but I certainly believe that LinkedIn has a much better CPM than the MySpace and FaceBooks out there.
Indeed, LinkedIn users’ average age is 41 and their average income is $110,000! Not too bad… especially compared to the cheap and young users of MySpace.
A new, viral web site conceived by U.S. college students challenges stereotypes about who might be infected with HIV.
The site, www.PosorNot.com, presents viewers with photos of people of different ages, colors and genders, challenging them to guess whether the person has tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS.
Here are some of the hot search queries today on Google.
Is Microsoft Google’s biggest threat? Nope. Is it Yahoo? Think again… Ben Kunz at Business Week wrote a very good article about how Google is actually its own biggest threat.
Google makes money by having ads displayed on your screen, whether when you’re doing a search on Google (these ads at the very top and on the side) but also on “affiliate” websites that use Adsense, Google’s advertising platform for publishers. For those of you who don’t know, publishers can make money from Google when they display Google ads on their site. Some people make really good money! Anyways.
This month’s Internet Trends Report by Morgan Stanley is mainly focused on social applications. The report shows us that 6 out of the 10 top Internet sites are social (youtube, live.com, facebook, hi5, wikipedia, orkut). For the information, none were on the list in 2005! Is email about to die???
Alexa.com has this rating system where they give websites a rank. The traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data from millions of Alexa Toolbar users and data obtained from other, diverse traffic data sources, and is a combined measure of page views and users (reach). While it’s not as relevant as Google Page Rank system, I think it gives a good trend about what’s happening. Alexa also compiles lists of the Top 100 / 500 websites, per country and per language. Looking at the Top 100 websites for the US, I realized that 6 of them are porn sites. We sure like porn in the States…
Yahoo Inc posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Tuesday but failed to do well enough to convince many on Wall Street that Microsoft Corp needs to raise its takeover bid.
“Our board and management team continue to be open to any and all alternatives, including a Microsoft deal. ” Said CEO Jerry Yang.
For the 3rd year in a row, Google has grabbed the top spot in a list of the top most powerful global brands. Its brand value grew 30 percent since last year’s report to surpass $86 billion.
Microsoft, for the record, once again came in third, with a $70.9 billion brand value. (General Electric once again took second place, at $71.4 billion).
After investing $4.4 million in 2007 in 23andMe, a genetic screening company, Google just invested in a new DNA screening startup called Navigenics.