Start-Up to Create Market For Trade of Virtual Goods - The Wall Street Journal
Excerpt:
"A start-up plans to help game companies get a grip on the booming illicit market for virtual goods, including everything from currencies to magical swords that help players advance in online games.
Live Gamer Inc. is developing an online marketplace where players of Internet games will be able to safely trade in virtual goods, a business that is often plagued by fraud. In the biggest departure from current methods of trading in virtual goods, Live Gamer says it will only allow trading of items with the blessing of game publishers. Live Gamer is working with Sony Corp.'s Sony Online Entertainment division, Funcom GmbH, Ping0 Interactive Ltd. and other online-game operators to integrate its trading system with their titles."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119785521598432879.html
Monday, December 17, 2007
Friday, December 14, 2007
Google Blog - Udi Manber - Encouraging people to contribute knowledge
Google Blog - Udi Manber - Encouraging people to contribute knowledge
Excerpt:
"The web contains an enormous amount of information, and Google has helped to make that information more easily accessible by providing pretty good search facilities. But not everything is written nor is everything well organized to make it easily discoverable. There are millions of people who possess useful knowledge that they would love to share, and there are billions of people who can benefit from it. We believe that many do not share that knowledge today simply because it is not easy enough to do that. The challenge posed to us by Larry, Sergey and Eric was to find a way to help people share their knowledge. This is our main goal."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html
Excerpt:
"The web contains an enormous amount of information, and Google has helped to make that information more easily accessible by providing pretty good search facilities. But not everything is written nor is everything well organized to make it easily discoverable. There are millions of people who possess useful knowledge that they would love to share, and there are billions of people who can benefit from it. We believe that many do not share that knowledge today simply because it is not easy enough to do that. The challenge posed to us by Larry, Sergey and Eric was to find a way to help people share their knowledge. This is our main goal."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html
Thursday, December 13, 2007
‘Jackass 2.5′ is first online movie premiere backed by big studio
‘Jackass 2.5′ is first online movie premiere backed by big studio
Excerpt:
"Yup, before and after the movie streams, you’ll be subjected to 15- or 30-second ads. Thanks, Paramount!
Casting aside my cynicism for a second, yes, this is fairly significant."
http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/12/13/jackass-25-is-first-online-movie-premiere-backed-by-big-studio/
Excerpt:
"Yup, before and after the movie streams, you’ll be subjected to 15- or 30-second ads. Thanks, Paramount!
Casting aside my cynicism for a second, yes, this is fairly significant."
http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/12/13/jackass-25-is-first-online-movie-premiere-backed-by-big-studio/
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Mahalo Adds The Social Graph To Search
Mahalo Adds The Social Graph To Search
Excerpt:
"Everyone's been talking about how the social graph is the next evolution of search. Search 4.0. The next step forward after Search 3.0's blended and personalized search. Today, Mahalo is taking that next step and adding a social layer to their search results. Jason Calacanis, Mahalo founder, says that the problem of search will be solved by a combination of machines, human curation, and social interaction and with today's launch of Mahalo Social, Mahalo adds the beginning of that elusive social interaction."
http://searchengineland.com/071212-060000.php
Excerpt:
"Everyone's been talking about how the social graph is the next evolution of search. Search 4.0. The next step forward after Search 3.0's blended and personalized search. Today, Mahalo is taking that next step and adding a social layer to their search results. Jason Calacanis, Mahalo founder, says that the problem of search will be solved by a combination of machines, human curation, and social interaction and with today's launch of Mahalo Social, Mahalo adds the beginning of that elusive social interaction."
http://searchengineland.com/071212-060000.php
Monday, December 3, 2007
Software That Organizes Intelligently
Software That Organizes Intelligently - Smart Desktop automatically groups documents and communications by project.
Excerpt:
"The heaps of information piling up virtually on today's computers present a major organizational problem for many people. A soon-to-be-released product called Smart Desktop, from a division of Seattle-based company Pi Corporation, aims to help people sort that information automatically and intelligently."
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19788/?a=f
Excerpt:
"The heaps of information piling up virtually on today's computers present a major organizational problem for many people. A soon-to-be-released product called Smart Desktop, from a division of Seattle-based company Pi Corporation, aims to help people sort that information automatically and intelligently."
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19788/?a=f
Artificial Intelligence Enters Brave New World
Artificial Intelligence Enters Brave New World
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16816185
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16816185
Insightory Wants To Be Wikipedia For Management Knowledge
Insightory Wants To Be Wikipedia For Management Knowledge
Excerpt:
"Woodlands, Texas based startup Insightory is setting its goals high, with the aim to do for management knowledge what Wikipedia has done for general knowledge."
Excerpt:
"Woodlands, Texas based startup Insightory is setting its goals high, with the aim to do for management knowledge what Wikipedia has done for general knowledge."
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
NASDAQ Launches An Internet Index
NASDAQ Launches An Internet Index
Excerpt:
"The new index will track the performance of internet companies across the full spectrum of online activities, including ecommerce companies, ISP’s, search engines, web hosting and web design firms. The index will benchmark the performance of companies in the sector, giving a quick representation of where stocks including Yahoo and Google are heading."
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/27/nasdaq-launches-an-internet-index/
Excerpt:
"The new index will track the performance of internet companies across the full spectrum of online activities, including ecommerce companies, ISP’s, search engines, web hosting and web design firms. The index will benchmark the performance of companies in the sector, giving a quick representation of where stocks including Yahoo and Google are heading."
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/27/nasdaq-launches-an-internet-index/
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Verizon Wireless - Shot Across the Wireless Bow
Excerpt from Verizon Wireless Press Release:
"In early 2008, the company will publish the technical standards the development community will need to design products to interface with the Verizon Wireless network. Any device that meets the minimum technical standard will be activated on the network. Devices will be tested and approved in a $20 million state-of-the-art testing lab which received an additional investment this year to gear up for the anticipated new demand. Any application the customer chooses will be allowed on these devices.
This new option goes beyond just a change in the design, delivery, purchase, and provisioning of wireless devices and applications.
“This is a transformation point in the 20-year history of mass market wireless devices – one which we believe will set the table for the next level of innovation and growth,” said Lowell McAdam, Verizon Wireless president and chief executive officer."
(Verizon Wireless link at end of post)
Alex: For Verizon to use the type of visionary language that they do in this release, that in itself could be one indicator.
I believe that this growing openness for developers could lead to potentially leaps of convergence across devices, applications, even mediums.
When openness becomes embraced by major players it's difficult to tell the limits on what that might ultimately involve.
Or where the responding shot across the bow might come from.
There are a lot of really smart people (and by extension companies) out there. Don't think that others won't piggyback upon and extend a good idea, bringing it to new domains and uses.
It's an exciting time in the world.
Reactions from industry leaders:
Why Verizon Went Open & What It Means - by Om Malik
Verizon Wireless Opens Up It Network. Who’s Next? - TechCrunch
Google Plans Service to Store Users' Data - Wall Street Journal
Verizon Wireless Plans to Open Its Network - PC World
Verizon Press Release Link:
http://news.vzw.com/news/2007/11/pr2007-11-27.html
"In early 2008, the company will publish the technical standards the development community will need to design products to interface with the Verizon Wireless network. Any device that meets the minimum technical standard will be activated on the network. Devices will be tested and approved in a $20 million state-of-the-art testing lab which received an additional investment this year to gear up for the anticipated new demand. Any application the customer chooses will be allowed on these devices.
This new option goes beyond just a change in the design, delivery, purchase, and provisioning of wireless devices and applications.
“This is a transformation point in the 20-year history of mass market wireless devices – one which we believe will set the table for the next level of innovation and growth,” said Lowell McAdam, Verizon Wireless president and chief executive officer."
(Verizon Wireless link at end of post)
Alex: For Verizon to use the type of visionary language that they do in this release, that in itself could be one indicator.
I believe that this growing openness for developers could lead to potentially leaps of convergence across devices, applications, even mediums.
When openness becomes embraced by major players it's difficult to tell the limits on what that might ultimately involve.
Or where the responding shot across the bow might come from.
There are a lot of really smart people (and by extension companies) out there. Don't think that others won't piggyback upon and extend a good idea, bringing it to new domains and uses.
It's an exciting time in the world.
Reactions from industry leaders:
Why Verizon Went Open & What It Means - by Om Malik
Verizon Wireless Opens Up It Network. Who’s Next? - TechCrunch
Google Plans Service to Store Users' Data - Wall Street Journal
Verizon Wireless Plans to Open Its Network - PC World
Verizon Press Release Link:
http://news.vzw.com/news/2007/11/pr2007-11-27.html
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Study: Internet could run out of capacity in two years
Excerpt:
"Consumer and corporate use of the Internet could overload the current capacity and lead to brown-outs in two years unless backbone providers invest billions of dollars in new infrastructure, according to a study released Monday.
A flood of new video and other Web content could overwhelm the Internet by 2010 unless backbone providers invest up to US$137 billion in new capacity, more than double what service providers plan to invest, according to the study, by Nemertes Research Group, an independent analysis firm. In North America alone, backbone investments of $42 billion to $55 billion will be needed in the next three to five years to keep up with demand, Nemertes said."
http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/11/19/internetcapacity/index.php#content
"Consumer and corporate use of the Internet could overload the current capacity and lead to brown-outs in two years unless backbone providers invest billions of dollars in new infrastructure, according to a study released Monday.
A flood of new video and other Web content could overwhelm the Internet by 2010 unless backbone providers invest up to US$137 billion in new capacity, more than double what service providers plan to invest, according to the study, by Nemertes Research Group, an independent analysis firm. In North America alone, backbone investments of $42 billion to $55 billion will be needed in the next three to five years to keep up with demand, Nemertes said."
http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/11/19/internetcapacity/index.php#content
The Future of Internet Immune Systems
The Future of Internet Immune Systems
Excerpt:
"ISPs are loading up their network centers with intrusion detection systems and tripwires that are supposed to stop attacks before they happen. For example, there’s the filter at the hotel I once stayed at in Jacksonville, Fla. Five minutes after I logged in, the network locked me out again. After an hour on the phone with tech support, it transpired that the network had noticed that the videogame I was playing systematically polled the other hosts on the network to check if they were running servers that I could join and play on. The network decided that this was a malicious port-scan and that it had better kick me off before I did anything naughty."
http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=479&doc_id=139358&
Excerpt:
"ISPs are loading up their network centers with intrusion detection systems and tripwires that are supposed to stop attacks before they happen. For example, there’s the filter at the hotel I once stayed at in Jacksonville, Fla. Five minutes after I logged in, the network locked me out again. After an hour on the phone with tech support, it transpired that the network had noticed that the videogame I was playing systematically polled the other hosts on the network to check if they were running servers that I could join and play on. The network decided that this was a malicious port-scan and that it had better kick me off before I did anything naughty."
http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=479&doc_id=139358&
Thursday, November 15, 2007
TechCrunch UK - Stealth-mode app turns InBox 2.0 into Life 2.0
TechCrunch UK - Stealth-mode app turns InBox 2.0 into Life 2.0
Excerpt:
"The interface is pretty interesting. A slider allows you to visually morph these themes over time, so you could literally see how births, deaths, partying, work, marriage and divorce filled your inbox. Click on a word like “important” and you get a tag cloud of people most associated with that word.
Plus, the word and the individual selected are mapped out on a graph, showing a correlation between you, your theme and the individual. A pie chart shows an integration between people in your life and a social network you are a member of, like Facebook. The words are even all drag and drop. What this means is that by analysing your email you can get to the underlying trends and data about your personal or business relations and a host of other trends that are normally buried under a pile of emails."
Alex: Whether Web 2.0 or Web 3.0 it's all about relevance. And increasingly that means integration, personalization and social elements. Take a look at the last sentence especially of that excerpt:
"What this means is that by analysing your email you can get to the underlying trends and data about your personal or business relations and a host of other trends that are normally buried under a pile of emails."
Early adopters, those that recognize the key technologies but also - and this is where business expertise comes in - know how to ascertain, access and then leverage the competitive business advantage of those technologies, in integrated ways, will be able to soar to the front in regard to productivity and business success. Business software intelligence will need to incorporate these aspects, scouting and integrating the newest most productive technologies.
http://uk.techcrunch.com/2007/11/15/stealth-mode-app-turns-inbox-20-into-life-20/
Excerpt:
"The interface is pretty interesting. A slider allows you to visually morph these themes over time, so you could literally see how births, deaths, partying, work, marriage and divorce filled your inbox. Click on a word like “important” and you get a tag cloud of people most associated with that word.
Plus, the word and the individual selected are mapped out on a graph, showing a correlation between you, your theme and the individual. A pie chart shows an integration between people in your life and a social network you are a member of, like Facebook. The words are even all drag and drop. What this means is that by analysing your email you can get to the underlying trends and data about your personal or business relations and a host of other trends that are normally buried under a pile of emails."
Alex: Whether Web 2.0 or Web 3.0 it's all about relevance. And increasingly that means integration, personalization and social elements. Take a look at the last sentence especially of that excerpt:
"What this means is that by analysing your email you can get to the underlying trends and data about your personal or business relations and a host of other trends that are normally buried under a pile of emails."
Early adopters, those that recognize the key technologies but also - and this is where business expertise comes in - know how to ascertain, access and then leverage the competitive business advantage of those technologies, in integrated ways, will be able to soar to the front in regard to productivity and business success. Business software intelligence will need to incorporate these aspects, scouting and integrating the newest most productive technologies.
http://uk.techcrunch.com/2007/11/15/stealth-mode-app-turns-inbox-20-into-life-20/
Saturday, November 10, 2007
'Semantic' website promises to organise your e-life
'Semantic' website promises to organise your e-life
Excerpt:
"Although only available to only about a 100 testers, Twine has caused a stir among web experts because it is one of the first few commercial ventures to try harnessing the semantic web.
Other semantic start-ups include the search engines Powerset and True Knowledge, and a free semantic database service called Freebase.
As a technology that could transform the way websites work, the semantic web is often also associated with the term "Web 3.0".
Twine uses a semantic approach to act as a personal organiser, bookmark service, and a social network combined. A user adds information to Twine by creating a note, forwarding an email, uploading a document, or tagging a web page.
"Twine is a service that helps you de-fragment your digital life," says company founder Nova Spivack. "Today we all have different bits of data in different places, there is no easy way to see all you know, and share and manage it.""
http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn12903-semantic-website-promises-to-organise-your-elife.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
Alex: The semantic web, by making greater sense out of and helping to organize the digital world, will, I believe, be as revolutionary (i.e. on the order of magnitude) as the original Internet to pre-Internet days. I'm not sure how long it will take leading companies in this area to make a strong impact to the masses. Nova is a Facebook friend (Powerset's Barney Pell is as well), and I've heard a lot of very great things about his company.
Excerpt:
"Although only available to only about a 100 testers, Twine has caused a stir among web experts because it is one of the first few commercial ventures to try harnessing the semantic web.
Other semantic start-ups include the search engines Powerset and True Knowledge, and a free semantic database service called Freebase.
As a technology that could transform the way websites work, the semantic web is often also associated with the term "Web 3.0".
Twine uses a semantic approach to act as a personal organiser, bookmark service, and a social network combined. A user adds information to Twine by creating a note, forwarding an email, uploading a document, or tagging a web page.
"Twine is a service that helps you de-fragment your digital life," says company founder Nova Spivack. "Today we all have different bits of data in different places, there is no easy way to see all you know, and share and manage it.""
http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn12903-semantic-website-promises-to-organise-your-elife.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
Alex: The semantic web, by making greater sense out of and helping to organize the digital world, will, I believe, be as revolutionary (i.e. on the order of magnitude) as the original Internet to pre-Internet days. I'm not sure how long it will take leading companies in this area to make a strong impact to the masses. Nova is a Facebook friend (Powerset's Barney Pell is as well), and I've heard a lot of very great things about his company.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Web 3.0 and beyond: the next 20 years of the internet - Silicon Valley has painted a picture of the web in 2030, and it is very powerful – and very sm
Excerpts:
"In a little over a decade, according to the engineers building the internet of tomorrow, the web will be able to connect every aspect of our digital lives - be it a website, an e-mail, or a file on our PC - to every other aspect. It will know, for instance, when you are typing an e-mail, what the subject of the e-mail is, and be able to suggest websites and books as well as documents, photos and videos you have saved that may be relevant to that topic.
It will be achieve this by virtue of the inherent 'intelligence' in the underlying architecture of the internet, they say. In other words, the web is becoming smart."
Alex: The Internet, and the world, is becoming more and more useful. Utilitarian. What the typical person is capable of nowadays (flying around the world, and web searches around the world, as two quick examples), would be unthought of hundreds of years ago. Because the entire curve is shifting up, and all are gaining (collectively, but not equally) it may not appear that we are growing more powerful all the time if we think in comparative terms, because our comparative influence on and with others, may still increase, decrease, or stay the same. When everyone is becoming more powerful, you can still be pretty vulnerable when you are less powerful than most.
and
"Broadly speaking, Mr Spivack says, Web 3.0 refers to the attempt by technologists to overhaul radically the basic platform of the internet so that it 'understands' the near infinite pieces of information that reside on it and draws connections between them.
If Web 2.0 was all about harnessing the collective intelligence of crowds to give information a value - lots of people liked this story so you might too (Digg.com), people who like Madonna also like this artist (last.fm), lots of people linked to this site so that makes it the most relevant (Google's basic PageRank algorithm) - then Web 3.0 is about giving the internet itself a brain."
Alex: Nova Spivack is a smart, smart, smart guy. Like him, I try not to be not where the Internet has been, but where it is going. And he's helping to drive it there.
and
"Some of the world's largest technology companies - Nokia, Apple and MySpace - all made announcements embracing the idea of open platforms, suggesting that the web will become a place where much more mixing and matching of different services will be permitted.
Alongside this will come tmore mature virtual worlds, or what Silicon Valley's faithful - perhaps to get away from connotations of the computer game - have started referring to as 'immersive environments'.
"The web is going to be a much more immersive, a much more multi-dimensional environment," said John Doerr, one of the founding board members at Google and a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which invests heavily in the tech sector.
Mr Doerr's presentation touched on a range of areas that would be affected by the web, in particular green technologies and the energy sector, as well as disease therapy, and he gave stark warning to any firm that was not willing to embrace emerging trends. "In any real revolution there are winners and losers. The internet wasn't some kind of 'kum ba ya' thing," he said."
Alex: John Doerr is (of course) also a genius. There are alot of elements here. For one, I am also focusing on immersive and green elements (some of my Internet endeavors). I believe that thus far the Internet has largely served to inform or sell us. Increasingly, it will also be used as an experience (social networks one precursor) including entertainment (music sites a precursor).
"In a little over a decade, according to the engineers building the internet of tomorrow, the web will be able to connect every aspect of our digital lives - be it a website, an e-mail, or a file on our PC - to every other aspect. It will know, for instance, when you are typing an e-mail, what the subject of the e-mail is, and be able to suggest websites and books as well as documents, photos and videos you have saved that may be relevant to that topic.
It will be achieve this by virtue of the inherent 'intelligence' in the underlying architecture of the internet, they say. In other words, the web is becoming smart."
Alex: The Internet, and the world, is becoming more and more useful. Utilitarian. What the typical person is capable of nowadays (flying around the world, and web searches around the world, as two quick examples), would be unthought of hundreds of years ago. Because the entire curve is shifting up, and all are gaining (collectively, but not equally) it may not appear that we are growing more powerful all the time if we think in comparative terms, because our comparative influence on and with others, may still increase, decrease, or stay the same. When everyone is becoming more powerful, you can still be pretty vulnerable when you are less powerful than most.
and
"Broadly speaking, Mr Spivack says, Web 3.0 refers to the attempt by technologists to overhaul radically the basic platform of the internet so that it 'understands' the near infinite pieces of information that reside on it and draws connections between them.
If Web 2.0 was all about harnessing the collective intelligence of crowds to give information a value - lots of people liked this story so you might too (Digg.com), people who like Madonna also like this artist (last.fm), lots of people linked to this site so that makes it the most relevant (Google's basic PageRank algorithm) - then Web 3.0 is about giving the internet itself a brain."
Alex: Nova Spivack is a smart, smart, smart guy. Like him, I try not to be not where the Internet has been, but where it is going. And he's helping to drive it there.
and
"Some of the world's largest technology companies - Nokia, Apple and MySpace - all made announcements embracing the idea of open platforms, suggesting that the web will become a place where much more mixing and matching of different services will be permitted.
Alongside this will come tmore mature virtual worlds, or what Silicon Valley's faithful - perhaps to get away from connotations of the computer game - have started referring to as 'immersive environments'.
"The web is going to be a much more immersive, a much more multi-dimensional environment," said John Doerr, one of the founding board members at Google and a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which invests heavily in the tech sector.
Mr Doerr's presentation touched on a range of areas that would be affected by the web, in particular green technologies and the energy sector, as well as disease therapy, and he gave stark warning to any firm that was not willing to embrace emerging trends. "In any real revolution there are winners and losers. The internet wasn't some kind of 'kum ba ya' thing," he said."
Alex: John Doerr is (of course) also a genius. There are alot of elements here. For one, I am also focusing on immersive and green elements (some of my Internet endeavors). I believe that thus far the Internet has largely served to inform or sell us. Increasingly, it will also be used as an experience (social networks one precursor) including entertainment (music sites a precursor).
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Stealth Startup Wix To Help Users Build Flash Websites
Stealth Startup Wix To Help Users Build Flash Websites
Excerpt:
"We’ve seen a lot of site design tools that take the need for programming skills out of the picture: Synthasite, Weebly, Jimdo and Google Page Creator. All have limitations, ranging from ease of use to business models (some of them require fees, ads and/or links back to the service). And none of them allow for easy creation of Flash-based content."
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/22/stealth-startup-wix-to-help-users-build-flash-websites/
Alex: Existing Internet functions will become easier and easier over time. Of course new, more complex and combined (and also integrated) functions will also continually appear.
"So easy, even your parents can do it!"
Excerpt:
"We’ve seen a lot of site design tools that take the need for programming skills out of the picture: Synthasite, Weebly, Jimdo and Google Page Creator. All have limitations, ranging from ease of use to business models (some of them require fees, ads and/or links back to the service). And none of them allow for easy creation of Flash-based content."
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/22/stealth-startup-wix-to-help-users-build-flash-websites/
Alex: Existing Internet functions will become easier and easier over time. Of course new, more complex and combined (and also integrated) functions will also continually appear.
"So easy, even your parents can do it!"
MySpace Announces New Gaming Channel
MySpace Announces New Gaming Channel
Excerpt:
"Tomorrow MySpace will announce the upcoming launch of MySpace Games - a new area of the site where MySpace users can play casual interactive games with others. The site will initially be powered by Oberon Media, with other game providers to be added over time. Games will be embeddable into MySpace profiles."
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/22/myspace-announces-new-gaming-channel/
Alex: The Internet will continue developing both its virtual and gaming elements. Star Trek like "holodecks" anyone?
Games also increase stickiness (and length of time on the site). I'm sure News Corp. is very well aware of this!!
Excerpt:
"Tomorrow MySpace will announce the upcoming launch of MySpace Games - a new area of the site where MySpace users can play casual interactive games with others. The site will initially be powered by Oberon Media, with other game providers to be added over time. Games will be embeddable into MySpace profiles."
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/22/myspace-announces-new-gaming-channel/
Alex: The Internet will continue developing both its virtual and gaming elements. Star Trek like "holodecks" anyone?
Games also increase stickiness (and length of time on the site). I'm sure News Corp. is very well aware of this!!
Monday, October 22, 2007
Doerr Wants To Take Down The Telcos (And Save The Planet)
Doerr Wants To Take Down The Telcos (And Save The Planet)
Excerpt:
"Doerr is on the board of Google, which has committed to bid $4.6 billion in the auction, and is an investor in Frontline Wireless, which is also a key player in helping to shape the auction’s rules. Doerr explains why this fight is so important:
This is the last auction. It is the last opportunity in our lifetime (for the United States). Otherwise, there will continue to be a duopoly. A lot is at stake. How will the next Internet be controlled?"
Alex: When the stakes are so high, the players (partcipants) who become involved are from the highest levels!! Wireless is a critical component.
Excerpt:
"Doerr is on the board of Google, which has committed to bid $4.6 billion in the auction, and is an investor in Frontline Wireless, which is also a key player in helping to shape the auction’s rules. Doerr explains why this fight is so important:
This is the last auction. It is the last opportunity in our lifetime (for the United States). Otherwise, there will continue to be a duopoly. A lot is at stake. How will the next Internet be controlled?"
Alex: When the stakes are so high, the players (partcipants) who become involved are from the highest levels!! Wireless is a critical component.
YieldBuild Will Try To Optimize AdSense, Pay You More
YieldBuild Will Try To Optimize AdSense, Pay You More
Excerpt:
"YieldBuild, a new service from the company that launched HubPages, will take a stab at optimizing those ad units for you. It’s similar to the Rubicon Project, a highly rated ad optimization platform in beta that finds the best mix of ad network and demographic data. However, YeildBuild has a focus on layout and design."
Alex: This post (to me) gets to the notion of continuous and discountinuous innovation. I am not familar with these services noted, but wonder in this area (and others) how much progress will involve new processes or technologies vs. how much will be improvements (incremental or otherwise) in existing processes or technologies.
Excerpt:
"YieldBuild, a new service from the company that launched HubPages, will take a stab at optimizing those ad units for you. It’s similar to the Rubicon Project, a highly rated ad optimization platform in beta that finds the best mix of ad network and demographic data. However, YeildBuild has a focus on layout and design."
Alex: This post (to me) gets to the notion of continuous and discountinuous innovation. I am not familar with these services noted, but wonder in this area (and others) how much progress will involve new processes or technologies vs. how much will be improvements (incremental or otherwise) in existing processes or technologies.
Facebook Experiments With Ads Targeting People’s Interests
Facebook Experiments With Ads Targeting People’s Interests
Excerpt:
"The big promise of advertising on social networks has always been the ability to target members by their own self-proclaimed interests and demographics. Facebook, as expected, has quietly taken a step in that direction with its Facebook Flyers ads (these are sidebar advertising widgets that Facebook still controls, as opposed to the majority of ad inventory on Facebook that falls under its deal with Microsoft). In terms of revenues, these Flyers probably don’t amount to much yet, but this is one Faecbook experiment worth keeping an eye on."
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/22/facebook-experiments-with-ads-targeting-peoples-interests/
Alex Hammer: Appropriate (and what is and isn't appropriate will be an ongoing matter) targeted advertising is one of the keys in the future Internet. It is one important element in the area of personalization, that will be increasingly large in its effects. I'll have more to say about this (likely much much more) over time.
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"The big promise of advertising on social networks has always been the ability to target members by their own self-proclaimed interests and demographics. Facebook, as expected, has quietly taken a step in that direction with its Facebook Flyers ads (these are sidebar advertising widgets that Facebook still controls, as opposed to the majority of ad inventory on Facebook that falls under its deal with Microsoft). In terms of revenues, these Flyers probably don’t amount to much yet, but this is one Faecbook experiment worth keeping an eye on."
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/22/facebook-experiments-with-ads-targeting-peoples-interests/
Alex Hammer: Appropriate (and what is and isn't appropriate will be an ongoing matter) targeted advertising is one of the keys in the future Internet. It is one important element in the area of personalization, that will be increasingly large in its effects. I'll have more to say about this (likely much much more) over time.
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