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Even the most intensive users of newspapers and magazines spend less time reading these publications than they do online or watching TV. TV and newspaper companies risk losing an entire generation of users unless they immediately start promoting their online products.

Even though I knew my way around Facebook, Twitter terrified me. RT? OH? Hootsuite? Huh? My Twitter-savvy friends attempted to explain what a hashtag was, but, still mystified, I signed up for an online Twitter 101 class. Yes. I'm geeky like that.

Blooks are the hottest new publishing and online trend. So, the newest thing in publishing is the oldest thing: the printed book, reinvented as the blook.

BLOCKBUSTER Online does not throttle. When we say our service offers unlimited rentals, we mean it. We don't prioritize our customers' movie fulfillment based on how often they use our service, and we don't limit the number of movies a subscriber receives each month. We want our customers to get the full entertainment value that comes from a subscription plan, whether that's watching 20-plus movies a month or five.

Black Monday was only the 12th highest online spending day of the 2004 holiday season. Last year, peak sales days actually occurred in mid-December as consumers scrambled to take advantage of late-season discounts and free-shipping offers.

Every online message encourages me and serves as new support for me to do better.

Every day I will see someone new who I have talked to online but I haven't talked to in person, ... It's just like I know them a little bit.

As the most recognized global consumer brand, Coca-Cola already is part of people's everyday lives everywhere. With this exciting new alliance, we will ... create innovative and effective consumer marketing campaigns both online and offline around the world.

As the Internet plays an increasingly important role in automotive sales generation, we are excited to offer new products and services that allow dealers to drive traffic across all aspects of their business. Whether a dealership is looking to the Internet to boost used or new car sales, cars.com is now a single source for all of their online advertising needs.

As the Internet becomes more tightly woven into everyday life, an increasing number of consumers will desire the applications and services it can provide. Current online users want access to services in more locations and situations, while many other consumers desire Internet access without the inherent complexities of PCs.

As it becomes increasingly difficult for banks to differentiate themselves from their competitors, they constantly have to find opportunities to be innovative in attracting the attention of potential customers. Online products and services represent a clear opportunity to do this.

At this point, the state of the online media market is immature enough that they are still a physical goods company and a company that is driven by great engineering and integration. They are still deriving the majority of their revenue from the hardware. I don't think the content is driving the hardware, yet.

At the end of the day, this is about our ability to invest in new music. An online marketplace populated by legitimate services allows us to do just that.

At the end of the day, I think the more online educators there are, I think the better off the whole world is.

Disney will need to have access to the home, through the Web, by buying Yahoo! or investing further in online operations,

Diana's story is fantastic because she worked like crazy to make it happen. Along with her family, she has turned her small business into a true success and, according to her, it has changed their lives forever. We know it's tough for entrepreneurs to make it when they start from the ground up, but our products and services can be a successful tool to help thousands of small businesses establish a meaningful online presence.

Consumers will buy less online when faced with fewer free shipping offers and percentage-off deals,

Consumers spend more time researching sweaters online than they do researching stocks. Your average consumer will buy stocks on recommendation rather than through research, even though there are lots of tools and analysis at their disposal via the Internet.

Consumers show more likelihood to adopt a device recognition solution, and therefore the implementation bodes well for positive ROI and continued use of the online channel.

Conflict: Global Terror expands on the popular Conflict franchise that has sold more than two million units in the United States alone. Conflict: Global Terror provides a compelling gaming experience with an all-new graphics engine and intense online co-op play.

Countries like Iran and China support an Internet Iron Curtain that would censor political dissidents and deny anonymous activity online through mandatory registrations of IP addresses.

Compliance with the Stop Online Piracy Act would require huge overhead spending by Internet companies for staff and technologies dedicated to monitoring users and censoring any infringing material from being posted or transmitted.

Doublespeak is a new medium. It's online radio. It's accessible to everyone. We're getting listeners, viewers, people who access the site access to high-powered people around the country, and we're doing it in a format that's never been done before.

Don't get me wrong: there are aspects of buying music online that I love. Instantly being able to hear a song the moment it crosses your mind? Where's the downside? However, I do feel for those too young to remember the thrill of going record shopping.

Don't say anything online that you wouldn't want your mother to read.

Customers increasingly make assumptions on a company and its brands based on the online experience.

Customers behave a little differently online than in the stores. Shopping in stores is a full sensory experience. So if you're testing something for stores, you'd want to test it in the in-store environment.

Cyber Monday brought a surge of traffic to many online retailers as shoppers returned to work following the holiday weekend ready to tackle their holiday gift lists.

Customers' standards for e-commerce sites continue to rise as the industry matures, and online companies have struggled to keep up with industry leaders and high customer expectations.

Credit unions and smaller banks were actually quicker than most large banks to offer online services because of the relationship they had with vendors and their capability to integrate web operations into their systems at a reasonable sum. A bank like Citibank had to do a huge internal thing to get the system up.

Criticisms have been raised, but we have looked at it ourselves, and we believe the ONS figures do a good job of measuring online sales.

Crime Stoppers has secured the latest technology to make the process of providing tips easier, while at the same time assuring tipsters that their tips cannot be traced back to them. This online e-mail feature is being utilized by Crime Stoppers programs throughout the country and is proven to be an effective tool for both the tipsters and Crime Stoppers.

Crossing the 50-percent threshold on broadband usage, increasing focus of traditional media companies on Internet, and most importantly, the gradual but profound change in consumers' behavior for content consumption is pushing many more advertisers to allocate more dollars online at the expense of traditional media.

And what we saw in 2001 was marketers cut back dramatically in online advertising. There were a number of responses to that, and one of them was pop-ups.

Electronic filing of tax payments has proven to be an easy and cost-efficient solution for Rhode Island business tax payers. Online tax payments and filings have been a priority for the Division of Taxation, and we are pleased to be able to offer such a comprehensive suite of over 50 different tax types payable via the Internet and telephone.

Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample.

Early results confirm that this is going to be another excellent year for online buying.

During this time of the year, our shamrock-shaped Smiley cookies are extremely popular. Additionally, we anticipate online sales of shamrock cookies to be strong. Our online Smiley cookie sales have really exploded in the last two months. We've shipped Smiley cookies to all 50 states. It's a great way to make someone's day.

During this critical stage in the holiday shopping season, online retailers face huge challenges to maintaining high satisfaction. Those who aren't able to meet customer expectations online during the last week or two of the holiday shopping season risk the long-term impact of lessened customer loyalty during the weeks and quarters to come.

Each airline is making a significant investment. What we're trying to do is make sure we're satisfying our customers' online travel needs. We expect by 2003 that 20 percent of bookings will come to us via Internet.

Each airline is making a significant investment, ... What we're trying to do is make sure we're satisfying our customers' online travel needs. We expect by 2003 that 20 percent of bookings will come to us via Internet.

Due to computer problems with the online application, we inadvertently had duplicate applications. Because of this we have received nothing and even though we have repeatedly spoken to the FEMA helpline, there is no answer as to when it will get resolved.

E-Retailers used to be at a disadvantage because customers can't touch and feel their products, but they've figured out that there's a whole lot more they can offer to make up for that. Today's online stores have evolved significantly, offering advances such as 360 degree views of products, customer reviews, side by side product comparisons, and extensive product information and specifications that often exceed what is available in a store or catalogue.

Even at a time when privacy rights are under attack on multiple fronts, the idea that someone can go online and buy your phone records seems unbelievable. But it is happening and it has to stop.

During the past year, we continued to solidify our leadership position in online advertising,

First of all, we're quite proud to bring the 2006 print edition of The National Directory of Children, Youth & Families Services to the marketplace. For nearly 30 years the Directory has been a foundational resource that thousands of professionals across the country have utilized. And now that this same information is available for the first time as a Web-based resource, with all of the advantages the Internet offers, we're quite confident that industry professionals will agree our online version of the Directory is even more useful and beneficial in their daily work.

First Round has an opportunity: to create an entirely new kind of online publication, built for technology entrepreneurs, where they can learn how to build better companies.

Focused on the needs of the Third World, the Rainer Arnold Fellows Program teaches emerging leaders how to translate good ideas into lasting change that goes to scale. Green Array provides an easy- to-use, cost-effective way for us to plan, manage, execute and collaborate on our design projects. Online access to the most current information and status updates enables us to provide help and resources where they are needed the most.

Fans really need to be on high alert if they're going to be purchasing tickets off the street or online anywhere.

Everything we do online we want to be participatory. We don't want to just broadcast GE's messages. We want to involve the consumers in our advertising, particularly the online advertising.

There was a growing online community having conversations about travel and Southwest. We could watch that conversation, or become part of it.

There's still a leap of faith involved for a lot of people when they go into online dating. Although the stigma has mostly gone away, they're still doing something that might feel a little bit uncomfortable, and to be able to take that step within a predefined community can improve the comfort level for certain users.

There's no reason why CBS News can't be an online brand, a Tiffany brand there. But you don't do it by saying the future lies in television.

There's more inventory in general. There is still more supply than there is demand for online advertising.

There's nothing that makes more sense than selling digital content. It completely removes the inventory problem. It completely removes physical handling of goods. That's really the holy grail for online retailers.

The top three auto sites are relatively competitive with each other in terms of the online customer experience and customer conversion. However, Edmunds.com edges out its leading competitors based on strong user perceptions of its site performance. Service levels always play a role in customer perceptions, but we see a particularly heavy influence in the auto sales and information industry.

I started answering questions online and put up a forum. For a year I was answering 20 questions a day and people were happy and kept coming back.

I started doing some demos and got online and bought a refurbished laptop, bought a microphone off of eBay. A lot of folks said you can't really do it that way at a pro level, but I did some vocals that way, turned it into the label and they said, 'Wow, where did you record this? The vocals sound great!'

I signed up for eHarmony once, and it took three hours to fill out that online form - so many personal questions. Then I clicked on submit, and instantaneously they responded and said, 'We are sorry, but there is no one any where in the world that is appropriate for you.' So that was it - I gave up.

I understand there is considerable anxiety about America Online right now, but I want to assure you we're confident about the future. Our goal is to be in the growth mode in the second half of the year, and then get back our real momentum in 2003.

The winning films reflect a mix of timeless classics and new favorites among categories that underscore signature elements of the Princess brand, like balconies and great escapes. The incredible 45,000 responses we received from our online survey of Princess past passengers proves they really enjoy pop culture and movies continue to be a favorite pastime.

The widespread adoption of broadband and the continued advances in personal computing technology are finally making it possible for the collective creation of an online world on a realistic scale.

The world hasn't ended. There is seasonality in online advertising. That's not surprising,

The rising number of cases involving identity theft meant some consumers were losing confidence in online financial services.

These applications are deceptive and unfair to consumers, bad for businesses that rely on efficient networks to do their jobs and bad for online retailers that need consumers to trust and enjoy their online experience.

The schemes perpetrated by these online data brokers are intolerable and our intent is to put an end to these practices. These online data brokers attempt to manipulate our customer service resources and detract from service provided to legitimate customers.

It would be disastrous for the international online industry. It would be the worst thing that could happen. I think it's 20 years out.

It was a legacy of the days when technology wasn't quite as advanced, and when the online schools were perceived as of a lower quality than traditional institutions.

These concerns won't stop online commerce. It will just slow it.

These buyers and their thirst for the information contained in detailed phone billing records resulted in the market and the cash flow that fed and encouraged the online sale of phone records.

These solutions may be appropriate for your main system, but they will do little to protect you when you need to create a new password for an online service.

These small businesses are hungry to both learn about existing technologies and to deploy them in their day-to-day business operations. Because many are start-ups, they see selling products or services online as a way to generate revenue quickly.

The series is not reactive, not angry, not a debate; it's reflective and premeditated. We very deliberately haven't opened any online discussion boards. So many people today listen in attack mode. We want to enforce listening.

These results are a great achievement for Call-a-Car, and indicate that the consumer is becoming more technologically advanced and is starting to rather venture online than physically go to various vehicle dealerships.

These figures have given a much needed fillip to the gaming sector and have gone against the grain in insisting that online poker in particular is still showing signs of growth.

These efforts are consistent with and build upon our long-standing commitment to providing a safer and more secure online experience for consumers.

These direct costs, coupled with an opt-in requirement, could endanger free online content and services that are paid for by targeted advertising and marketing.

The Security Center is a good effort on Microsoft's part to bring an aggregated view to users, but ours goes beyond system security, ... to tell you whether your data or online activities are secure.

The state's abilities in terms of content control online -- through a mixture of methods -- should not be underestimated.

The State Journal still has the broadest local reach of any local media, and it remains a great vehicle for delivering news. But we're enhancing our online news, too, to appeal to a new generation of readers.

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The secret is to find the right person. Online dating can be very advantageous. When you meet someone in a bar, you don't really know anything about that person. At least online - if someone is being honest and looking for the same thing you are - you have a chance to limit your search criteria. You can streamline your focus so you don't meet people that you don't want to. It's a great benefit.

The students in the online program do quite well on their tests.

The strong revenue and earnings performance of Fairfax Digital in Australia, together with today's acquisition of Trade Me in New Zealand, and other online opportunities that we are pursuing, are coming together to give Fairfax a higher growth profile.

The Super Bowl has always been the most bet on sporting event of the year. Now online gambling has significantly expanded the marketplace and that means without a doubt this year's Super Bowl will be the most wagered on event in history.

The success of blackjack has transformed our casino business. Through effective cross-selling to our large customer base, we are well on the way to creating the world's largest online casino.

The sort of the most efficient way for online dating marketplace to evolve and, in fact, any marketplace to evolve is to have one really big market where people can enter and exit as they please, where people have really advanced search, sort, and filtering technology.

The texture of online relationships is totally different,

The text, images and video people have been generating is extraordinary in the manner in which it takes our online audience into the heart and soul of the story.

The thing you can do online that you can't do in the physical world is interactivity and two-way conversation.

The thing that happened with the music business, there are no stores anymore where you can buy music. It's all an online business now, and that's, you know - the bookstore culture is a very vibrant part of the American experience that we're very reluctant to see go away.

I wanted to have the people come here and be able to read some more of their work and allow people the experience of an actual person reading their work instead of seeing it online or seeing it in a frame or something like that.

Thanksgiving weekend spending figures suggest that predictions of another strong online holiday season are on track.

Sony does not have an online position. Microsoft has had four years of practice, and Sony is coming from an absolutely standing start.

Telecommunications will remain very constructive, very hot. Several of the larger cap Internet stocks will behave well -- America Online will be one. The smaller Internet stocks will be the play of the future over the next three to six months.

Teens feel more comfortable online because it is not a physical world to them. While they may be exposed to advances or images they don't like, they don't feel that they will be physically harmed because they know how to block offensive users in chat and they believe it would be hard for predators to track them down.

TechTarget's commitment to accountability and advertiser ROI has made its online properties our preferred media for lead generation, ... When we learned TechTarget was bringing that same commitment to online branding, we were quick to sign up. As a result of our TargetROI: Brand program with TechTarget, we can now demonstrate conclusively that banner advertising with strong creative on a TechTarget site enabled us to achieve dramatic shifts in awareness, consideration, and purchase intent. We believe this will create a climate that will help us convert future leads to sales more quickly.

RSS, as a format and an idea, grew directly out of an internet culture that many people online today know nothing about: Usenet.

Roughly two weeks ago, we had more than 4,000 online transactions.

Roots gift cards provide our customers with a fun, easy-to-select gift for all occasions and for all types of friends and family, and since their arrival last fall they've been flying off the shelves. Not only can the gift card be used in Roots stores, but customers can register their gift card online at roots.com to protect the balance in the event the gift card is lost or stolen, as well as check the remaining balance at any time.