via marketingcharts.com I like rankings and lists. This particular chart from Hitwise tracks only one metric — share of visits. In some ways that is more interesting than the more common “unique visitors” reports, which can easily be inflated by successful marketing ... ... Read more

Good thing Gmail is out of beta. It is now the third largest Web mail service in the U.S. In July, Gmail nudged past AOL Email with 37 million unique visitors compared to 36.4 million for AOL, according to comScore estimates. (Gmail is the orange line in the chart below). That puts Gmail within s ... Read more

How much would you pay to be able to run an instant poll where you get responses to any question from 1,000 diverse people within about an hour? If you are an entrepreneur or marketer or business owner, you know that knowing what prospective customers think and need and want is essential. You n ... Read more

I've been asked recently about Friday's court ruling in favor of Experian's claim that Lifelock's practice of setting fraud alerts on behalf of its subscribers is an unfair competitive practice in California. In 2003 Congress legislated that credit bureaus must apply fraud alerts at the consumer ... Read more

John Doerr famously said that the internet was the “largest legal creation of wealth in the history of the planet.” But that creation of wealth is dwarfed by the similarly legal creation of wealth we see through the unregulated trading of derivatives. Bloomberg reported this morning ... R ... Read more

If you had predicted 18 months ago that I’d one day perform Russian a capella music in the czars’ palaces to sold out audiences, I’d have thought you were nuts. But that’s what I did this week! Late last year I joined Voices in Harmony, a championship a capella chorus that was invited ... Read more

I am running a survey tonight on We’re Related (a family-oriented Facebook application with 17 million monthly users) to find out if people know the love songs their parents loved. Given our modern obsession with music, I find it interesting that only 7% of the respondents say they do. (S ... Read more

The primary purpose of this blog since Nov 2003 has been to discuss topics related to being an internet entrepreneur. But my own personal role has changed several times during these past 6 years, as I’ve been CEO of an internet marketing company (which was sold in June 05), head of an intern ... Read more

Terry, I want to add my sincere apology to Nathan’s. We have made more than one mistake in the 8 days since GenealogyWise debuted. Censoring your comment was completely inappropriate, and the moment I heard about it (I was in a meeting with FamilySearch in Salt Lake City at the time) I said, w ... Read more

Last year, as FamilyLink.com’s product strategy and business model were becoming more clear, we realized again that in many ways, the family is the center of the economic universe. So many consumer purchases are really made within families. Think about the mortgage, the car payment, educatio ... Read more