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Weekly internet update

with Search Engine Optimisation consultant Pascal Fintoni.

In the news

The first ever North East Digital Awards was recently launched by One NorthEast to celebrate the achievement and highlight the talents of firms in the region using digital technology. The online platform includes online voting and other interactive feature, go online now to submit your entry.

Christmas ads are now everywhere and online Christmas shopping is predicted to be huge with over £13.8 billion to be spent in the UK according to Forrester Research.

70% of website-based marketing campaigns do not get launched on time due to unhelpful internal processed according to a new US survey. Sounds familiar?

According to MarketingVoxNews, Oracle has unveiled a host of Web 2.0 tools at this year’s Oracle OpenWorld conference. Of particular interest was Oracle Mix, a social networking site for customers with idea voting, groups, user profiles, and Q&A capabilities.

Internet rumours suggest both Yahoo and Google are looking into transforming their e-mail systems and personalized home page services (iGoogle and MyYahoo) into social networks.

A Community of Practice for eBusiness was launched recently, using the best of social networking principles it allows businesses to share ideas and best practices when using ebusiness solutions. Could become addictive.

Plug of the week

Worth mentioning again, have you entered the North East Digital Awards?

Story of the week

Marvel Publishing, leader in graphic novels, is going online by digitising its print publications. A new site, Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited, already includes 2,500 archived vintage comics. I wonder who else will follow?

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .