Say what you want about tracking cookies and retargeting techniques but this story has nothing to do with spam. They seem to have patented a way to server advertising to users across many social networks which could then expose those adds to friends and friends of friends of the user who first sees the ad.
This isn't much different than all of your friends seeing that you have "liked" a page on facebook. Marketers bank on the hope that some of the people who see what you have just "liked" will follow the link and possibly connect with their page as well. It's voluntary and opt-in and pretty unobtrusive.
I don't see what about this Google concept is different from that.
Oh yes, nothing spells stable like a nearly instant service pack!
Instant? It's nearly three months since Win 7 was released and we're discussing hints of an SP1 here. By the time an actual SP1 is released it will be far from instant.
So you never dropped fifty cents for your local daily because of those adds too?
And you're comparing a weekly to the instantaneous web? Good luck staying informed.
At least you can stay up on tech news by not reading the articles posted here.
Nuclear POWERED, not nuclear ARMED.
If you read the source and not the blog refering to the source you'd know this already.
"Defense Department officials declined to speculate on which weapons might be aboard the two submarines."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/world/05patrol.html
"A revolution (from Late Latin revolution which means "a turn around") is a significant change that usually occurs in a relatively short period of time." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution
I work in ad sales.
Nielsen is offering Live, Live +same day, Live +1, +3, and +7 feeds.
They also are releasing a beta of Commercial Minute Ratings where they measure every minute of every hour and can therefore tell advertisers how many eyeballs were actually watching their spots.
The DVR feeds have been in beta for over a year and advertising agencies and tv nets all contributed feedback to get it to a place they were content with.
All that said, a lot of advertisers won't accept a network telling them that ratings were higher three days later. Movie Studios and Retailers advertise date specific, usually heavier on Thursdays to drive weekend sales. The extra viewers of these spots 3 days later is wasted and the advertisers won't pay more for them. It's an ongoing battle in the industry.
I'd venture that's because everyone on MySpace seems to host their pictures on Photobucket. All those millions of MySpace page views are gonna generates millions and millions more hits for Photbucket.
My guess is Photobucket lags way behind in actual page views and unique visits.
One university no matter how large may not be able to thwart the dep pockets of the RIAA directly, but there is a huge PR battle being fought here. The RIAA itself says it uses these lawsuits against individuals to scare off potential "violators" which is a PR tactic. One lawsuit isn't enough to stop file-sharing but it may scare off a lot of other file sharers.
In the same fashion University of Nebrasking suing the RIAA won't stop them but it will put other individuals and institutions on notice that they don't have to bend over and take it from the RIAA.
No matter how deep the RIAA pockets are - there is no money they can spend to prevent that from happening.
There appears to be a bit of bias in your post.
When you leave out half of the truth you're being a little biased yourself - hopefully you're just ignorant.
He's a technology writer and he writes about what's current. Leave the bias accusations behind.
The promise of Cable television was a clear signal. It was developed in Western PA where the rolling hills blocked the over the air tv. The acronym we know for cable, CATV, originally stood for Community Antenna Television. That's what you were paying for.
Embargo is a common term in the media industry for holding back stories. Often information is distributed in advance witha request that the reporting entities respect an embargo until a certain time.
In the US, NBC enforces an embargo on highlights of the olympics until after the event airs on the West Coast, even if it happened live 12 hours earlier.
Actualy, Men 18-34 is one of the most coveted target demographics in media. Why? Because that group watches the least amount of television so when you have program that attracts that group, like sports, advertisers will pay a lot for those eyeballs.
I live in NYC and last year the MTA, the group that operates the subways, revealed video to the new of it's planned security system and it does exactly that. Every object that is moving in the video frame is "boxed" like a military targeting computer.
In their demonstration, any time one of those moving boxes stops for more than a second or two the box turns red and alerts are sent to whoever is programmed to receive them. In the video a person walks into a subway station with a briefcase (which is separately targeted) and then puts it down and walks away, the briefcase stays targeted and triggers an alert. This was a crowded NYC subway station so it was pretty impressive. I'm sure it's not infallible but it can at least trigger authorities to look up and look at situations like this they may not normally see and certainly not while walking the beat.
I am NOT defending RIAA - I think this suit is a joke, but here is the answer to your question...
Digital recording makes a perfect copy which in theory could be redistributed in direct competition with the artists. Casettes result in loss of quality so even if mass produced the quality was bad enough to discourage mass piracy.
I still think this suit is crap.
"The Firefox and Opera browsers come with Google set as the default, but Mayer said Google would support unfettered choice on those as well."
All they are saying is don't preselect the search tool - allow the end user the choice at initial launch of the product.
Google is protecting it's search business from Microsoft unfairly leveraging the widespread distribution of it's browser. They are not being hypocritical. Microsoft will benefit financially by driving more search traffic to their site. Firefox does not benefit financially from Google search traffic. This is apples and oranges.
"This latest incident occurs about 2 months after Yahoo testified, under oath in front of Congress, that the company regrets being 'forced' to help Beijing."
Latest incident? If by latest incident they mean the revelation of Yahoo's involvement then it did happen 2 months after they appeared before congress. If one reads the article they will see the verdict was handed down in 2003.
Doesn't excuse Yahoo and a lot of what is said in front of congress is fluff, but finding out about a years old verdict doesn't change their current statement of regret, the only thing new here is the revelation years later. Does it change anything we already knew about Yahoo's practices in China? If we find out about cases like this after there congressional appearance then there'd be cause for an outcry.
Actually, you're refuting the article's point and I agree with you. I run a good 20 miles a week and I pass the time while running thinking of dozens of abstract things and of do a lot of problem solving when I exercise.
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Say what you want about tracking cookies and retargeting techniques but this story has nothing to do with spam. They seem to have patented a way to server advertising to users across many social networks which could then expose those adds to friends and friends of friends of the user who first sees the ad. This isn't much different than all of your friends seeing that you have "liked" a page on facebook. Marketers bank on the hope that some of the people who see what you have just "liked" will follow the link and possibly connect with their page as well. It's voluntary and opt-in and pretty unobtrusive. I don't see what about this Google concept is different from that.
AOL now has more subscribers in 2010 than they did in 2000.
No they don't! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aol_subscribers_Q201-Q407.png
Oh yes, nothing spells stable like a nearly instant service pack!
Instant? It's nearly three months since Win 7 was released and we're discussing hints of an SP1 here. By the time an actual SP1 is released it will be far from instant.
So you never dropped fifty cents for your local daily because of those adds too? And you're comparing a weekly to the instantaneous web? Good luck staying informed. At least you can stay up on tech news by not reading the articles posted here.
Nuclear POWERED, not nuclear ARMED. If you read the source and not the blog refering to the source you'd know this already. "Defense Department officials declined to speculate on which weapons might be aboard the two submarines." http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/world/05patrol.html
ANY plane becomes Air Force One when the president sets foot on board.
Why is the above modded insightful? Security Measures are now synonymous with laws? This has nothing to do with law.
"A revolution (from Late Latin revolution which means "a turn around") is a significant change that usually occurs in a relatively short period of time." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution
I thought this was news for nerds.
I work in ad sales. Nielsen is offering Live, Live +same day, Live +1, +3, and +7 feeds. They also are releasing a beta of Commercial Minute Ratings where they measure every minute of every hour and can therefore tell advertisers how many eyeballs were actually watching their spots. The DVR feeds have been in beta for over a year and advertising agencies and tv nets all contributed feedback to get it to a place they were content with. All that said, a lot of advertisers won't accept a network telling them that ratings were higher three days later. Movie Studios and Retailers advertise date specific, usually heavier on Thursdays to drive weekend sales. The extra viewers of these spots 3 days later is wasted and the advertisers won't pay more for them. It's an ongoing battle in the industry.
I'd venture that's because everyone on MySpace seems to host their pictures on Photobucket. All those millions of MySpace page views are gonna generates millions and millions more hits for Photbucket. My guess is Photobucket lags way behind in actual page views and unique visits.
One university no matter how large may not be able to thwart the dep pockets of the RIAA directly, but there is a huge PR battle being fought here. The RIAA itself says it uses these lawsuits against individuals to scare off potential "violators" which is a PR tactic. One lawsuit isn't enough to stop file-sharing but it may scare off a lot of other file sharers.
In the same fashion University of Nebrasking suing the RIAA won't stop them but it will put other individuals and institutions on notice that they don't have to bend over and take it from the RIAA.
No matter how deep the RIAA pockets are - there is no money they can spend to prevent that from happening.
FTFA: "They recruited 11 healthy adults and made them undergo a three-month aerobic exercise regimen." Bodybuilding isn't very aerobic.
What's the meaning of harassment again?
Whenever an entity becomes to big, or powerful or ubiquitous in the US at least they become hated.
Who doesn't hate the Yankees, or the Cowboys or Paris Hilton or Lindsey Lohan?
Overexposure can breed contempt. (Yes I know the real phrase.)
I've been waiting for threading to return so I could respond to this. Parent should be modded down.
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6 640159?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=david +pogue
David Pogue is currently working on a Vista book. He posted about it in his blog only a month ago:
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/10/20/bloggin
Oh, and he's written plenty of Windows books too: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/102-3339995-
There appears to be a bit of bias in your post.
When you leave out half of the truth you're being a little biased yourself - hopefully you're just ignorant.
He's a technology writer and he writes about what's current. Leave the bias accusations behind.
But he was the owner! Nothing to see here in that case.
The promise of Cable television was a clear signal. It was developed in Western PA where the rolling hills blocked the over the air tv. The acronym we know for cable, CATV, originally stood for Community Antenna Television. That's what you were paying for.
Embargo is a common term in the media industry for holding back stories. Often information is distributed in advance witha request that the reporting entities respect an embargo until a certain time. In the US, NBC enforces an embargo on highlights of the olympics until after the event airs on the West Coast, even if it happened live 12 hours earlier.
Actualy, Men 18-34 is one of the most coveted target demographics in media.
Why? Because that group watches the least amount of television so when you have program that attracts that group, like sports, advertisers will pay a lot for those eyeballs.
I live in NYC and last year the MTA, the group that operates the subways, revealed video to the new of it's planned security system and it does exactly that. Every object that is moving in the video frame is "boxed" like a military targeting computer. In their demonstration, any time one of those moving boxes stops for more than a second or two the box turns red and alerts are sent to whoever is programmed to receive them. In the video a person walks into a subway station with a briefcase (which is separately targeted) and then puts it down and walks away, the briefcase stays targeted and triggers an alert. This was a crowded NYC subway station so it was pretty impressive. I'm sure it's not infallible but it can at least trigger authorities to look up and look at situations like this they may not normally see and certainly not while walking the beat.
I am NOT defending RIAA - I think this suit is a joke, but here is the answer to your question... Digital recording makes a perfect copy which in theory could be redistributed in direct competition with the artists. Casettes result in loss of quality so even if mass produced the quality was bad enough to discourage mass piracy. I still think this suit is crap.
"The Firefox and Opera browsers come with Google set as the default, but Mayer said Google would support unfettered choice on those as well."
All they are saying is don't preselect the search tool - allow the end user the choice at initial launch of the product. Google is protecting it's search business from Microsoft unfairly leveraging the widespread distribution of it's browser. They are not being hypocritical. Microsoft will benefit financially by driving more search traffic to their site. Firefox does not benefit financially from Google search traffic. This is apples and oranges.
Hardcopies satisfy SarbOx just fine.
"This latest incident occurs about 2 months after Yahoo testified, under oath in front of Congress, that the company regrets being 'forced' to help Beijing."
Latest incident? If by latest incident they mean the revelation of Yahoo's involvement then it did happen 2 months after they appeared before congress. If one reads the article they will see the verdict was handed down in 2003.
Doesn't excuse Yahoo and a lot of what is said in front of congress is fluff, but finding out about a years old verdict doesn't change their current statement of regret, the only thing new here is the revelation years later. Does it change anything we already knew about Yahoo's practices in China? If we find out about cases like this after there congressional appearance then there'd be cause for an outcry.
Actually, you're refuting the article's point and I agree with you. I run a good 20 miles a week and I pass the time while running thinking of dozens of abstract things and of do a lot of problem solving when I exercise.