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What does Google want out of your Voice?

Posted March 23, 2012 - 11:03 am

Why is managing every single phone call for you so attractive to Google? There’s a cynical guess, a reasonable line you can draw through their previous voice-based initiatives, and then there’s just a question mark the size of a server farm.
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Chicago Cubs win World Series (in video game ad)

Posted March 6, 2012 - 3:59 pm

Cubs Win! Cubs Win! Video game ad highlights reaction to a World Series victory in the Windy City (maybe there's a virtual Harry Caray?)
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How to kill Web trackers dead

Posted February 9, 2012 - 11:55 am

Abine's DoNotTrackPlus browser plug-in stops trackers in their tracks -- and it's free. My new Web mantra: Don't track me, bro.
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How Google's privacy policy changes will affect Android

Posted January 25, 2012 - 10:30 am

What Google is doing with your information, and why it’s really doing so, are up for debate, and Android is at the core of that debate.
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Super Bowl ad blitz hits Web early again

Posted January 19, 2012 - 11:30 am

Volkswagen hits YouTube early again with its Star Wars-themed Super Bowl ad, this time featuring barking dogs.
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$300 million Twitter investment chump change to Saudi prince

Posted December 19, 2011 - 12:37 pm

The wealthiest investor in the Arab world invests $300 million in Twitter, just months after the microblogging service received $800 million from Russian venture fund DST.
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How to track who's tracking you across the Web

Posted November 1, 2011 - 3:23 pm

It's not paranoia -- you really are being followed across the Web. A cool tool called Collusion shows you who's doing it.
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Tim Armstrong pinpoints the problem with AOL: The HR lady

Posted July 26, 2011 - 5:01 pm

AOL undergoes another shake-up in the executive ranks. Good thing it has that booming dial-up business to fall back on!
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Slide shows: Scourge of the Internet?

Posted June 28, 2011 - 12:35 pm

Are Internet slide shows amusing diversions or instruments of torture? Take our poll!
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Scam alert: Beware fake Facebook Pages for iPad 2 Testers

Posted May 9, 2011 - 1:25 pm

You gotta hand it to Facebook scammers. Every time the social network introduces a new way to share your information against your will, some devious slimeball figures out how to game it in order to make money.
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Facebook and your face: Opting out of social ads

Posted March 24, 2011 - 5:20 pm

It isn’t often I get contacted by Facebook about my posts here at TY4NS. But it happened today when I got a call from spokesperson Brandon McCormick.
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Your face: Starring in a Facebook ad near you

Posted March 22, 2011 - 12:51 pm

Remember back in January when Facebook announced its new plan to use your Likes in “sponsored stories”? (See “Facebook ads use your face for free.”) Well, they’re heeeeeerrrre.
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Facebook ads use your face for free

Posted January 25, 2011 - 10:51 am

Want to work for Facebook? Seeking fame (if not fortune) in the exciting world of online advertising? You may have already won.
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Ad invasion of Twitter just beginning

Posted January 24, 2011 - 2:52 pm

Microblogging service Twitter, which is ambitiously trying to grow revenue, is expected by Internet research firm EMarketer to more than triple advertising sales this year to $150 million.
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Demand Media: Worst IPO of the year

Posted January 12, 2011 - 4:48 pm

Like most long-time professional writers, I detest content farms such as Demand Media. They pay writers and other content producers crap to produce crap. They clog up Google's search results with their crap content. And Demand Media uses a crap accounting system to hide the true cost of its crap content.
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Google: YouTube's Promoted Videos tops 500 million views

Posted October 29, 2010 - 8:19 am

Google's YouTube announced Thursday that it now has served 500 million views of its paid Promoted Videos, a service it launched less than two years ago.
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This ad has been brought to you by you, part I

Posted October 28, 2010 - 11:30 pm

Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal took out its paddle and took several well placed whacks at a company few outside the Internet advertising community had ever heard of: Rapleaf.
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Facebook to lose advertising VP; no replacement in works

Posted October 26, 2010 - 5:55 pm

Via Kara Swisher at All Things Digital comes news that a top Facebook advertising exec is leaving the social networking giant.
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California to consider digital ads on license plates

Posted July 5, 2010 - 7:33 am

Cash-strapped California is always looking for new revenue streams, but this may be taking it too far.
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iPad publishing: delivering video and selling ads

Posted March 25, 2010 - 10:51 am

Apparently CBS.com is experimenting with HTML5 for video delivery, and the Wall Street Journal spills the beans on advertising and subscription rates for iPad editions.
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The best (imo) tech-related Superbowl ads

Posted February 8, 2010 - 8:28 am

So the big game has come and gone and it was nice to see the Saints come away with a win. Not that I had a lot riding on which team won; I was tuned in for the commercials. A lot of fuss is being made about the Google ad and in general tech was well represented. I'll share a few of my favorites and invite you to do the same.
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Kicking Off a New "We're Linux" Video Contest

Posted February 5, 2010 - 5:48 pm

The big game this weekend is inspiring the Linux Foundation's second annual video competition. Time to huddle up and execute your cinematic vision of Linux.
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Who watches the baby-sitter?

Posted September 8, 2009 - 5:44 pm

We assume that our security software is there to protect us. Sometimes, though, as in the case of Sentry and FamilySafe kid-filtering software, the software is actually harvesting their information for advertisers.
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Video ad to appear in Entertainment Weekly

Posted August 20, 2009 - 8:27 am

So you're flipping through the pages of the September issue of Entertainment Weekly and suddenly The Big Bang Theory's Sheldon (Jim Parsons) starts talking to you via a small video panel embedded on the page. Are you a) amazed, b) annoyed, c) startled, or d) all of the above?
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American family finds themselves hawking Czech groceries

Posted June 12, 2009 - 2:47 pm

If you post your family photos on Flickr under the Creative Commons license, you never know where they'll end up. But if you're just putting them up on your own blog, shouldn't there be some expectation that they'll stay put?
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