News: Websites

TORONTO, Canada -- According to the audio experts at Voices.com, the voice marketplace, Americans new to advertising on the radio are buying broadcast radio commercial slots for the first time via Google's Audio Ads beta testing program. Agencies who used to go through talent agents are already making the transition to finding talent at online marketplaces due greatly in part because of an enormous push and subsequent validation of the market by Google.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- Athletic-Minded Traveler LLC, a Southern California-based active lifestyle media company that operates the largest healthy travel site on the web, www.athleticmindedtraveler.com, released today its 2006 ranking of "The Best Hotel Gyms in the U.S." The Top 11 hotel gyms received the company's recommendation after in-depth research on over 3,000 hotels and anonymous personal tours by the editorial staff.

HOUSTON, Texas -- The movie "Blood Diamond" opened last week, shocking holiday shoppers with explicit violence. Set amidst chaos and civil war in 1990s Africa, it will raise questions about diamonds being purchased this holiday season. One Texas company has answers. Whiteflash.com, an Internet boutique specializing in top quality diamonds, has established a program called Dreams of Africa, where 100 percent of the profit from sales of a conflict-free line of jewelry is going to help victims of conflict diamonds.

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- JamesAllen, one of the leading online jewelry companies has just announced the release of their Signature Ideal Cut "Hearts & Arrows" Collection. This exclusive inventory of perfectly symmetrical diamonds represents the "creme de la creme" of diamond cutting and is available only through the JamesAllen.com website.

DENVER, Colo. -- InnocentEnglish.com, a humor website which collects funny English mistakes from around the world, announces the release of "The Top Ten Bushisms of 2006" as well as the release of a new seamless compilation of Bush misstatements, "Where Wings Take Dream: An Inspirational Speech to the Nation."

ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- Stainless steel roses? How about leather or wood? Roses are the ultimate symbol for love and affection and a new Web site, The Anniversary Rose, offers an array of flowers handmade from materials that follow the traditional anniversary gift list. TheAnniversaryRose.com company has finely-crafted roses in materials that follow the anniversary gift list.

BOSTON, Mass. -- Foodler.com, a leading online service for ordering restaurant take out and delivery meals, today announced the addition of its 130th partner restaurant in the Boston region. A wide selection of cuisines from some of the Hub's most popular restaurants, combined with interactive menus and accurate online ordering, have all contributed to Foodler's 220% growth rate over the past 6 months.

HOUSTON, Texas -- This year's holiday "Cyber-Monday" showed an unprecedented 26% increase over the same day last year as internet shoppers handed over $608 million to internet sellers. The modern shopping boom is accompanied by interest in modern products, at least in one area where a brand new diamond shape is receiving what we should call "X-plosive" attention over its traditional counterparts, say the folks at Whiteflash.com.

YORK, Pa. -- BidTurf.com, providers of one of the newest online trading opportunities, today unveiled its person-to-person, full featured auction service. The online auction will serve as a trading platform for users to easily browse, buy or sell virtually anything online with no listing or final sales fees.

VILLANOVA, Pa. -- What do you do if think you own a million dollar domain name and you want to sell it? The new service - DomainLiquidations.com - will promote and broker the sale of your premium domain name for you. Today's advertisement on page A6 of the Wall Street Journal (think expensive) reflects a major shift in how premium domain names are bought and sold.