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A recent article in Slate magazine talked about some of the recent moves by companies like NebuAd and Charter Communications around moves towards behavioral targetting of web ads. The basic idea is for your ISP or a third party site that sees a lot of your traffic like Google, to keep extensive records of your web activity, theoretically anonymized, and
Do you know how you can tell when your product has “made it” It is when other products that are similar are called your products name. For instance when most people ask for a tissue they are just as likely to say “Kleenex” as anything else. Of course when people are talking about an mp3 player they will call it
How much did High Def help NBC’s ratings for the Olympics? I would say it boosted them a great deal. While I did not think NBC’s High Def Quality was as good as I have seen, it was much better than past Olympics in Standard Definition. Mainstream sports don’t necessarily need HD to thrive but obscure sports are helped tremendously
Ning is a Social Media community. Kinda like Blogspot, except they cater to making it feel more like a Social Network rather than a Blog Network. You can sign up, create your community and invite all your friends to enter pictures, forum posts and lots more. WidgetLaboratory is a site that offers Products that are free and site licenses priced
Why do people go to a bank? To get cash, apply for a loan, or deposit checks? Well if you work for a decent sized company you likely get direct deposit. If you need a loan you can apply online. But what if you run a small business? I happen to run one myself and I don’t have the luxury
We will get started today at 4pm Eastern 1pm Pacific The team is going to spend a hour talking about the recently concluded New Media Expo that a number of us attended in Las Vegas This will be a truly open discussion about the event and what the future holds. If you are not a TechPodcasts.com member, but attended the
We all have seen those cameras at red light intersections. We all have slammed on our brakes when we do see one if fear of Big Brother mailing us a bill for our "transgression". At intersections with no camera we usually just go on through a yellow light, safely I might add. Basically the cameras which we are told are
Announcing the August Tech Podcasts Round TableSaturday August 23rd4pm Eastern 1pm PacificThis month’s Tech Podcast Round Table is going to be a little different. The team at TechPodcasts.com is going to spend a hour talking about the recently concluded New Media Expo that a number of us attended in Las VegasThis will be a truly open discussion about the event
I don't know a lot about FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, but right now, I like the way he talks. To him, the availability of broadband should be considered as critical as copper lines were when telephone service began criss-crossing the country in the last century. At the time, telephones became the preferred and required way of communicating, and the Internet
Have you shot any video of your kids lately and had some music on? Did you know that if you posted that video to YouTube that companies like Universal would often have that video removed for copyright violation.
I am sure given the audience of this blog that many of you are already forcing Gmail to use SSL, especially if you are on a public computer or wifi network. At the recent DefCon conference a "reverse engineer" Mike Perry presented a tool to hack into unsecured gmail communications on the same network. He plans to release this tool
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