Posts Tagged "msn"

Digsby: IM, Email, Social Networks all-in-one

I had already been hearing a lot of buzz about it, then last week while Tweeting with my friend from NYC, she told me she was switching to Twitter on Digsby…
Yeah, I’m talking about Digsby- with the easy name and funny “beany-head with a funky cap” that makes it hard to miss, is actually the [...]

Happy Halloween! Big brands go trick or treating online

I just couldn’t resist going hunting for these.
Take a look at some of the Halloween logos and spooky themes wandering the Web…if you run into any other, share them with us! :-)

The Yahoo! logo you’ll have to see it live because they went all out with a cool animation showing funky, dead people pulling off [...]

Everything must go… mobile

Recent research by Nokia shows that a large part of tech savvy youngsters are moving their online activities to their mobiles. Where eMarketer is mostly focusing on the fact that user generated content is actively being shared, we are more impressed by the penetration rate [...]

Online shopping growth to slow down

Consumers do still not all trust online shopping, reports

MSNBC.com. 77 alerts marketers that this report should shift the focus of advertising from e-commerce newbies to experienced online buyers. The report says that the people who are not shopping online yet, probably never will. E-Commerce will [...]

Microsoft strikes deal with Nokia as mobile search surges

Microsoft has entered the mobile market, striking a deal with Nokia that secures the Windows Live services to be freely distributed on all Nokia N models. At 77 we think that’s a good move by MS, mostly because the method of social mobile networking (MSN) becomes [...]

Microsoft starts contextual advertising

Microsoft AdCenter has introduced a contextual advertising test model this week. 77 sticks with Google AdWords and Yahoo for now but welcomes competition in the contextual advertising world. The MS beta [...]

Mobile devices more often used for social networks

Users of social networks use their mobile devices more and more to visit or update their pages, mobile media research company M:Metrics reports. According to 77, marketers will have to focus on applications for social networks that can be easily accessed on a mobile device as [...]

European Union privacy lobby now also to investigate Google’s rivals

77Lab reported earlier that Google’s privacy protection and its use of personal data were under revision after the Article 29 Working Group filed complaints at the European Union. Now, logically, also Google’s rivals such as Yahoo and MSN are being investigated, reports InfoWorld.

It is good to know Google is not under any special scrutiny. That [...]

MSN Video Renews Site

Take a look at the beta version of the new MSN Video site here. The Google Video and Yahoo Video competitor is trying to attract more viewers and keep them on the site longer. SeattlePI reports:
“The new design displays more videos higher on the page, in an effort to ‘improve the overall engagement of our [...]

And… We’re Back! News Recap

77Lab is back, with the editing team rested, bronzed and slightly fatter back home from vacation. What happened in the meantime? Not so much, luckily. We kept track of major developments and will often refer to them in future articles, as always. And in a futile attempt to catch two weeks of news in one [...]