links for 2005-10-11

Online Media Daily reports: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said that its aggressive online viral campaign targeting trendy teen apparel retailer Wet Seal has led the company to agree not to carry fur this fall. PETA’s initiative, which leveraged the membership of social networking site MySpace, illustrates marketers’ newfound respect for online opinion,…

Today, I am becoming Chief Digital Officer of DCI Group, a Washington, DC public affairs firm.

Reuters.com: “The Wikipedia, which has surged this year to become the most popular reference site on the Web, is fast overtaking several major news sites as the place where people swarm for context on breaking events … Some 350,000 people have contributed to the grassroots publishing phenomenon, which lets any Web user contribute terms, background…

Charlen Li explores an interesting concept: the third page of search. I’ve been noodling around the idea of the "Third Page" of search (credit goes to Perry Evans from LocalMatters for prompting this train of thought). The first page of search is the query page (like www.google.com), the second page is the search results, and…

MarketingVox: Advertisers will flock to TiVo as it gains more subscribers, said TiVO CEO Tom Rogers during the company’s Q2 earnings conference call, writes Adweek (via MediaBuyerPlanner) … TiVo has introduced an ad-tagging feature that allows sponsors to embed an interactive tag into their commercials, allowing viewers to interact with their spots. Ameriquest, E*Trade and…

Slingbox update (tags: Leisure NewProducts) CapitolLink: Sen. Obama Is Blogging, Too (tags: OnlinePolitics Blogs) InfoSpace In Play (tags: MandA Search) MarketingVOX: MTV, Warner Partner on Mobile Content (tags: MobileContent) B.L. Ochman’s weblog – Very Dim Publicist Dooced for “Anonymous” Blog (tags: Blogs EmployeeBlogging PR)