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	Internet advertising has 41.3% year on year growth in the first half of 2007 taking the sector to a half-year high of £1,334.3 million IAB (members only) 2 Oct For the full report, visit the IAB website (members area)

	Web 3.0 and beyond: the next 20 years of the internet Times online 24 Oct

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Online advertising

Blocking ads can be fun and downright dangerous

Not to recommend it, but so that you are aware; there is a plug-in available - a small program that adds some specified capability to an internet browser. Its purpose is to strip out all the ads that today litter many web pages. Is this the end of IAB as we know it?!

23 Sept
For more on ad blocking software, visit the Observer

Search

Search giants upgrade

Yahoo and Microsoft have announced upgrades to their search engines. The makeovers will include features that allow users to refine searches as well as offering links to photos, music and video on the results page.
2 Oct

For more on the latest search features, visit BBC News  

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Ecommerce

Microsoft goes shopping by comparison

Microsoft has acquired Jellyfish, a shopping comparison site which offers cashback on purchases for users, and ranks retailers according to the amount they agree to lower their prices.

3 Oct
For more on Microsoft's purchase of Jellyfish, visit econsultancy

Web TV

Joost video on demand goes live

Now you can download Joost to enjoy a ballooning selection of comedy, music videos, documentaries, movies and the latest hits from some of your favorite media brands, including CBS, Major League Baseball, MTV, Turner, Comedy Central and more - over 15,000 shows to date.
2 Oct

For more on Joost and to sign-up, why not visit Joost themselves

Google moves to turn YouTube clips into advertising cash
Google has begun allowing advertisers to "embed" clips from YouTube into their promotional messages, a sign of the search company's strategy to make money from its video streaming arm.
10 Oct
For more on YouTube's in-stream advertising, visit Guardian Unlimited (free registration required) 

Web 2.0 / social networking

450,000 to 6,500,000 users in less than a year - Facebook overtakes MySpace

Facebook has overtaken MySpace site as the highest-traffic UK social networking site with 6.5m unique users last month, according to data published by Nielsen//NetRatings.
25 Sept

For more on Facebook audience, visit Guardian Unlimited (free registration required)

Mobile

Yahoo! agrees O2 deal
Yahoo! has announced a deal with Telefonica, the owner of O2, to provide internet search facilities for the Spanish mobile phone operator in an agreement that could reach more than 100m customers across the globe.
2 Oct
For more information on mobile search provided by Yahoo!, visit the Telegraph

Study: Consumers don't go mobile with Web 2.0
According to a study on BizReport consumers love web 2.0 but so far haven't begun incorporating it into their online mobile habits enough to make advertising Web 2.0 on mobiles effective.
4 Oct
For the full report, visit BizReport

Internet technology

Portable internet devices already available, and being used

An increasing number of portable devices, such as Apple's iTouch and Sony's PSP, offer simple to use, intuitive web access through wi-fi connections and people are using them to check RSS feeds, websites and email. Are you already thinking mobile with your campaigns? If not, you should bear it in mind.
10 Oct

Read more about the most popular mobile internet devices on BBC technology

Broadband

Bill looms for Broadband Britain says Ofcom
Broadband cables need upgrading for the UK to remain at the same pace as the rest of the world, but someone's got to foot the bill. Ofcom raises awareness but it's still up in the air as to who will pay the tab.
25 Sept
For more on the need for faster Broadband, visit Guardian Unlimited (free registration required)

O2 seeks 1 million customers with launch of home broadband
O2 again, the mobile phone giant, will finally launch its residential broadband service this month as it tries to attract the first wave of customers who signed up for "free" broadband services with rivals such as TalkTalk and Orange and are coming to the end of their contracts.ces.
4 Oct
For more information on O2's broadband offering, visit Guardian Unlimited (free registration required)

Affiliates

Affiliate marketers out in force as investment surges

2 Oct
The thriving nature of UK affiliate marketing was very much in evidence recently, with a combination of events including Ad:tech's affiliate summit and new market data adding to the feeling that the industry's star is very much in the ascendancy.
For more information on affiliates thriving, visit e-consultancy

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