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Jun 21, 2007
Well, this has probably already been the case for years, but in the past two weeks: Openads, the "free, open source ad server," announced a $5mm funding, in part to become an open advertising platform. Their core products, Openads 2.o (formerly
Jun 11, 2007
My friends at Lotame processed their one billionth ad transaction this weekend and will quickly double that. At the same time, Jeremy Liew writes about content specific ad networks that in effect are creating synthetic ad channels: "Synthetic channels, like the channels
May 31, 2007
Jason Calacanis has a new venture, Mahalo, and I love it. It's not because I think the idea of the "first human-powered search engine" is a necessarily novel or a good one -- I have no idea if this is new
May 21, 2007
Atif Rafiq, in an essay called "In Defense of the Text Web" writes that: "[I]t’s simplistic to believe that anything produced in text today can be better consumed in video. The written word is and will remain the optimal form for
May 14, 2007
This weekend I read about two interesting companies developing advertising platforms for online video providers and publishers. ScanScout's technology scans video content, creates intelligence about the clip and then dynamically matches ads to the content and intelligence it has just created. Adap.tv
Apr 30, 2007
Some comments on Carmun from around the world today: Networking aims beyond facebooks: Boston Globe New Resource Rating and Sharing site: Out of the Jungle Carmun: Helpful Student Tool or Evil Conspiracy -- Connecting the Dots
Apr 26, 2007
"Surely this is exactly what an education institution should want – collaborative learning. They’re always banging on about the collaborative environment of a school, college or university, so why not accelerate this using the very technology that the students use
Apr 24, 2007
Great definition: "Open data is to media what open source is to technology. Open data is an approach to content creation that explicitly recognizes the value of implicit user data. The internet is the first medium to give a voice to
Apr 13, 2007
It's being widely reported that Google's share of the U.S. search market has climbed yet again. This data is consistent with two points I've recently found. On the quantitative side, 6 weeks into the initial launch of Carmun, we' see that