Category Archives: Advertising

A question of eyeballs

The new facebook has been getting its usual level of pushback for its new interface design.  One of the more interesting, if not stark, comments that appeared on my feed was the following:   Is it a coincidence that facebook becomes more like myspace right when google+ becomes available?   The short answer: No.  The [...]
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Ads Gone Mobile

One of the more striking things I have noticed since getting the EVO are how the quality of the ads vary so much.  One would think that with web apps it would be particularly easy; you can definitely datamine to find out about your customers, plus lots of apps fall into neat vehicles that are [...]
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Data Wars

If you haven’t heard the news- Google is getting rid of the ability to get your contacts imported into secondary web applications unless reciprocral data is shared back to Google.  This hurts Facebook the most, as it is the largest user of said data. (Primarily from your email) Some sigifigant points to be made here: 1) Despite [...]
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Did I kill search?

As bizzarre as this sounds, my favorite piece of bcon email are the statistics sent by Comscore (send more please).  Yesterday, they released our favorite montly nunber- core search. Wall Street got it right- Google‘s core search by the number is either flatlining or slowly shrinking. By my watch, I suspect a new paradigm of [...]
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Searching Versus Finding

(Or where we need to go in the future of search) One of the most problematic parts of Google (and in fact, on some very basic level all search engines, including the new Facebook one), is that it’s business model is built on search plus placed advertisments in that search.  At first, this seems very [...]
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Children And Teens In the Media Space

I’m not the one for great political/legal arguments most of the time (Yell at me later about this one), but this one is makes for an interesting opener for the following thought)   At what age does a minor (if at all, and if you believe in such things), get the death penalty? Not such [...]
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On Venture Capital, Aliya, And Israel

Image via Wikipedia One note about this post: Disqus allows me to keep a heavy eye on you all.  I’m not out to have a politics here or politics there talk.  This is not a YAY ISREAL or a BOOO ISRAEL post.  My politics are my politics and they are shaped by my experiences and [...]
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Someone asked me about Second Life

Image by Pathfinder Linden via Flickr I was recently asked, in the comments section of this blog, whether there is potential in buying advertising space in Second Life.  I wanted to answer this question more generally- instead of dealing with just Second Life, is it worthwhile to develop a real life business through a virtual [...]
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