links for 2005-09-27

• Pingoat - The stable of all pings
  Pingoat is a service that pings or notifies a number of services that keep track of weblogs and publish them.
  (tags: Blogs Tools)
• WSJ.com - Smile, You're on Photobucket
  Upstart Photobucket.com is challenging established photo sites by wooing young digital camera users who are more interested in publishing photos in blogs than in printing a 5x7.
  (tags: Blogs Photos)
• Internet ad revenue climbs 26 percent | CNET News.com
  As of June, advertisers had spent $5.8 billion to place ads online this year, a 26 percent increase compared with the first six months of 2004, according to a new report.
  (tags: Advertising)
• Consumer-Generated Media Exceeds Traditional Advertising for Influencing Purchase Behavior, Finds Intelliseek Study: Financial News - Yahoo!Finance
  "Consumers are 50 percent more likely to be influenced by word-of-mouth recommendations from their peers than by radio/TV ads -- a slightly higher level of influence/trust than found in the 2004 study co-authored by Intelliseek and Forrester."
  (tags: CGM Forrester Intelliseek WOM)
• Blog Relations and The Angel Blog » Survey
  "Eight out of ten PR PROs also think that blogs, if used correctly can be a useful communication tool for businesses."
  (tags: Blogs PR)
• YOGA JOURNAL LIVE at ESTES PARK
  Susan Mernit's helping a yogi (not Berra or Bear) blog. Cool!
  (tags: Blogs)
• SurfWax LookAhead--Dynamic Search Navigation for RSS feeds
  A nice AJAX-based RSS search engine.
  (tags: RSS Search)