Posted in business strategy, economics, media, online advertising, traffic, vertical media, tagged advertising spend 2007, distribution, economics, google, newspaper advertising, online ad, print, yahoo on March 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Situation
A few weeks ago I covered the negative economic reality of video based advertising and the conflict between TV ads and Internet video ads. To clarify, it is negative for the major networks and those that benefit from aggregated audience, distribution and ad spending. For individuals and small companies it remains positive (e.g. a [...]
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How convenient! Slashdot had a lead post about Google ad patents and these patents are all about behavioral targeting.
19. The computer-implemented method of claim 18 wherein actions of the user monitored are selected from a group of user actions consisting of (a) cursor positioning, (b) cursor dwell time, (c) document item selection, (d) user eye [...]
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This is a mobile product enabling you to get information real time about sounds and sights in your environment. I’ve been quietly prototyping and testing this concept. So far it’s not primetime at all, but the concept and function is useful.
How many times have you been somewhere and just needed instant access to [...]
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Yeah, yeah, by now you have the news. Microsoft wants to spend $44bn to buy Yahoo!
Personally, I want this to happen. Professionally, I think it will drive search, online media, and social networking to new vistas (hahahaha, good pun!).
I’m not going to talk about the business case for this. Everyone and their mother will do [...]
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I’m a bit behind some of the other early movers…
3tera. Taking grid and virtualization in a different direction. They provide services for entire virtual clusters, virtual data centers, and more.
If implementing massive super computers and data centers becomes little more than filling in a sales web form, watch out hardware, hosting, and desktop sellers.
Perhaps google [...]
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Google Talk now does on the fly language translation.
This is huge.
It makes my bluetooth Googler Intelligence adapter that much cooler. Yup. I’ve been working on a bluetooth ear piece, clothing clip on that will listen to ambient talk around you and do look ups on anything it hears or you can set it to respond [...]
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Posted in data mining, grid computing, tagged google, amazon, yahoo, grid computing, cloud computing, gwt, hadoop, nxt, analysis on December 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Grid is here and it’s a game changer. Not today, maybe not totally in 08, but certainly in the nearish future.
What is grid computing (cloud computing), you ask? well, it’s lots of things. Generally it refers to the idea that you can rent N number of cpu cycles to compute whatever you need. Run websites, [...]
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There’s just more and more analysis and speculation about how critical it is to be fast.
Slashdot linked to this fairly decent NYtimes article about Google and Microsoft. One of the key points, which I actually agree with, is that GRID COMPUTING IS AT THE CENTER OF ALL FAST INNOVATION IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE.
I have [...]
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Others are following up on similar points I made.
Follow the discussion at slashdot…
No such thing as privacy in such a connected world.
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