November 2007
76 posts
Just to make it official, Everybody does not in fact Love Raymond
Suspect arrested, headed to Rudy’s campaign HQ to be waterboarded
Pet peeve: MAY in headlines. “Shift work may cause cancer” “You may have flaming monkeys shooting out your ass” ok… I made one of those up
Is it possible to consider content on your own company’s site NSFW?
@ IAB Forum: CBS' Poltrack: The Search For The... →
It’s time to stop the quest for the all-in-one perfect data point. At least, that was the general consensus at an afternoon panel at the IAB Audience Measurement Leadership Forum in New York. David Poltrack, chief research officer, CBS (NYSE: CBS) Inc, president, CBS Vision, noted that 10 years ago, there was a strong effort by many media companies to find the internet version of the Gross...
Run Internet Explorer on Your Mac with ies4osx... →
Mac OS X only: Install and run Internet Explorer for Windows 5, 6, or 7 on your Mac with free, open source application ies4osx. Getting ies4osx up and running takes a little effort on your part and an installation of previously mentioned Darwine, but the download site has detailed step-by-step instructions for getting it up and running (it’s not that hard). Once installed, you can run...
Publishers Propose New Controls on Search Engines'... →
Publishers unveiled a proposal today to establish more flexible rules governing how search engines index their content. Currently, the AP notes, publishers can use a “robots.txt” file to tell a search engine not to index a given page. The plan, announced at an NYC gathering of a publishers’ consortium today and known as Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP), would give...
Verizon Responds to 30 Rock Nut Shot [Corporations... →
Anyone who watched last week’s episode of 30 Rock had to have noticed when, after characters on the show praised Verizon Wireless service, Tina Fey turned abruptly to the camera and asked, “Can we have our money now?” It was…harsh to say the least…but just harsh enough to make the 30 Rock watchers at home laugh at the ad instead of becoming annoyed by its intrusion....
Video Ad Agency Spotzer Raises $14.8 Million For... →
Amsterdam-based video advertising agency Spotzer has attracted a 10 million euro ($14.8 million) funding round to fund a US launch. Spotzer has a catalogue of stock ads that can be personalised, allows advertisers to buy spots on TV, the web and so on and can target along geographic and demographic lines. The financing is led by Sierra Ventures and the round was joined by yellow pages operator...
Online Video Ranking: MSN/Live Surge, Competitors... →
Online Video Ranking: MSN/Live Surge, Competitors Sink — This month’s online video stack-up saw a major reshuffling with 3 of the Top 5 players trading places amid heavy shifts in traffic. YouTube continued to outperform the market, growing 1% in October to 213M visits on nearly 52M unique visitors.
Source: Compete Blog
Author: Alex Patriquin
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NBCU Will Get Detailed TiVo Audience Data; Will... →
NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) will get an infusion of audience data—and possibly some ad revenues—from TiVo. The deal, which starts Jan. 1, gives NBCU’s 14 networks and 10 owned-and-operated stations access to details including income, age, ethnicity and marital status. NBCU’s nets are the first to sign on to TiVo’s second-by-second audience measurement program, Stop//Watch.
As...
Online Video: Is It Really Interactive? →
Although the online video experience would appear to be this mythical, multilateral, interactive video utopia, the reality is, in fact, quite different. Because while it’s certainly possible for a network of collaborative video artists to work together, online, to piece together a long-term video mosaic of participatory brilliance, the reality has often been more of an ad hoc, trivial mess of...
Wired Staffs Up for Video Push →
Wired has hired Annaliza Savage, who until this week produced CrankyGeeks for Ziff Davis, to help start its new video division. Savage, who shared the news with NewTeeVee via email, will produce and coordinate reviews and features as the publication’s multimedia editor. Sorry if I’m a bit vague, but I’m just going to be hitting the ground running, since there isn’t a blueprint for the video...
Wired Staffs Up for Video Push →
Wired has hired Annaliza Savage, who until this week produced CrankyGeeks for Ziff Davis, to help start its new video division. Savage, who shared the news with NewTeeVee via email, will produce and coordinate reviews and features as the publication’s multimedia editor. Sorry if I’m a bit vague, but I’m just going to be hitting the ground running, since there isn’t a blueprint for the video...
Maybe Facebook Should Have Partnered With Comedy... →
I was reading about Facebook’s partnership with ABC News for 2008 election coverage and tend to agree with the skeptics who say it won’t really gain substantial traction. It’s not just about bringing the existing coverage, which doesn’t really attract young people, to places where young people hang out - though I think engaging citizens to participate in the debates via...
Maybe Facebook Should Have Partnered With Comedy... →
I was reading about Facebook’s partnership with ABC News for 2008 election coverage and tend to agree with the skeptics who say it won’t really gain substantial traction. It’s not just about bringing the existing coverage, which doesn’t really attract young people, to places where young people hang out - though I think engaging citizens to participate in the debates via...
Whole Foods: where you can get 135 different kinds of free-range, organic, cruelty-free cheese but can’t buy a package of pepperoni
TV Networks' Online Ad Inventory Unexpectedly... →
Thanks to rising online viewership and the nature of broadband audience agreements with advertisers, the major TV networks have a lot more advertising to sell for their streaming programming, TVWeek reports. The situation highlights a major difference in the economics of TV and online advertising: On TV, if a show attracts more viewers than promised, advertisers essentially get “free”...
ABC News reaching out to Facebook users? Good... →
The news outlet, according to a New York Times article, has reached a deal with Facebook to partner on political coverage. Anyone else think this isn’t going to work?
Merlin Mann's productivity talk at IDEO →
Productivity guy Merlin Mann did a great presentation for IDEO, a great design shop. He talks about how to regulate the technological systems in your life, and how to get the people around you to play along. I spend a lot of time with overheads — answering emails, organizing stuff, following up — and Merlin’s ideas on this stuff are really smart. Link (Thanks, Avi!)
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Merlin Mann's productivity talk at IDEO →
Productivity guy Merlin Mann did a great presentation for IDEO, a great design shop. He talks about how to regulate the technological systems in your life, and how to get the people around you to play along. I spend a lot of time with overheads — answering emails, organizing stuff, following up — and Merlin’s ideas on this stuff are really smart. Link (Thanks, Avi!)
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The Challenges of Yield Management →
Apple patent applications reveal updated... →
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Apple has already expanded its multi-touch empire quite a bit in the form of various patent applications, and it now looks like it could be set to give the core system itself an update, at least according to a trio of just-revealed patent applications. he main one is an application that describes a “sensor arrangement for use with a touch sensor that identifies...
Yield management wikipedia →
Essay: Stop Paying Middlemen for My Content →
Revenue models for online content have hurt artists and writers, argues Jaron Lanier in an op-ed for the New York Times entitled “Pay Me for My Content.” Lanier, an interdisciplinary scholar-in-residence at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology at the University of California at Berkeley, is a writer, developer and researcher who’s been credited with coining the term “virtual reality”...
Essay: Stop Paying Middlemen for My Content →
Revenue models for online content have hurt artists and writers, argues Jaron Lanier in an op-ed for the New York Times entitled “Pay Me for My Content.” Lanier, an interdisciplinary scholar-in-residence at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology at the University of California at Berkeley, is a writer, developer and researcher who’s been credited with coining the term “virtual reality”...
Ponytail combover’s new nemesis: jheri-curl ponytail Indian-blanket jacket guy. I’m serious.
3-D Printers Redefine Industrial Design →
Three-dimensional printers have long been used to create prototypes rapidly. Now some designers are using 3-D printers to create the products themselves, thanks to rapid advances in the printers’ capabilities.
The Google Set-Top Box (Think Android For TV) →
Decided yesterday not to get a Kindle and come to find out I’m getting one anyway. Is this my superpower?
Comparing Amazon Kindle to E-Book Readers of... →
So Amazon unveiled its Kindle yesterday. The fancy eBook with “free” EV-DO got a lot of attention and has a lot of people talking about whether or not digital books have a chance of taking on the paper kind. But the Kindle is far from the only eBook out there, naturally, and it’s turned a lot of people off with how it charges you to read blogs, get RSS feeds, and load PDFs on it....
"The writings of Robert Scoble are like a ...... →
“The writings of Robert Scoble are like a thousand monkeys typing, short about 999 monkeys.” — The Macalope, an anonymous Apple blogger at CNET. [Macalope]
Ideas for truly handmade holiday cards →
Filed under: seasonal, crafts
Sure you could download images, type a greeting, and print a card faster than you can say DIY, but where’s the fun in that? If you really want to use your hands to create DIY cards with a more personal touch, check out these options: CraftyPod has a podcast with ideas for making greeting cards from fabric, yarn, and other miscellaneous materials. Craft Apple...
Gas station purchases are the real-life analog of people’s unsanitized browser history.
ABCNews.com Grows Up →
Following up on the earlier post about changes at ABCNews.com. TVNewser has obtained a memo from ABC News president David…
Microsoft (MSFT) Still Hallucinating About Online... →
Microsoft (MSFT) Still Hallucinating About Online Ad Future? — Reuters reports that Microsoft (MSFT) division president Kevin Johnson added more detail to Microsoft’s online ad ambitions at a UBS conference yesterday. Specifically, he said that within 3-5 years, Microsoft’s goal is to become …
Source: Silicon Alley Insider
Author: Henry Blodget
Link: ...
oalocke: Wife is asking for a home-made xmas gift. Finally gonna build that giant mechanical killer spider.
NBCU Shifting Some Digital Operations From... →
The details are still sketchy but NBCU is in the process of moving its Digital Studios operations out of the incubator and into bottom-line land. As part of the corporate group headed by chief digital officer George Kliavkoff, Digital Studios has been producing original web programming, primarily with portals and some marketers, along with programming for NBCU networks such as live webcasts for...
CNN adding correspondents in original content push →
CNN is hiring 15 to 16 new correspondents across the globe. “Owning the content we broadcast, publish and make available to affiliates and other platforms is the backbone of this business,” Tony Maddox, executive vice president of CNN International, said in a statement. Two months ago, CNN dropped its contract with Reuters, emphasizing that content ownership is key.
CNN International Creates Digital Production Unit... →
CNN Worldwide announced it is embarking on a massive reorg effort to take back control of the content it broadcasts and publishes. It is creating a London-based digital production unit to produce and feed content to CNN’s alternative distribution platforms including VOD and IPTV services, its website CNN.com, and CNN Mobile. CNN International’s EVP and MD Tony Maddox said the move was...
Metrics Point to Maturation of Online Video →
We’ve seen some interesting benchmarks over the last couple of days that point to the maturation of the online video space. Some consumers are saying they’d be willing to pay — pay! — for web video if it were ad-free. A leading vendor of premium video is seeing its stats take off. And a research firm taking a hard look at the movie business has decided that video on demand will never make enough...
Android UI Video Demo Shows off Promising... →
Google’s Sergei Brin and Steve Horowitz show off multiple prototypes of the Android platform, one of which has a Palm smartphone form factor and one that has a higher-end, HTC Windows Mobile form factor. The former shows off text messaging and Google maps (which looks pretty great, btw), and the latter shows off 3G desktop-quality web browsing using webkit. There’s also 3D OpenGL...
oalocke: Carefully encoding the score of “Oklahoma” into a spreadsheet in the hopes that some Italian MBA student will find in in 400 years.
oalocke: Cows have apparently trampled the barbed wire that carries our DSL up into the woods. New site on iPhone edge is… pokey
oalocke: Hulu invite finally came through. No MacGyver. Not interested.
oalocke: No, I’m not “Ready for a Wild Teen Orgy”, unless it’s a “Wild Teen Orgy of Babysitting” so my wife and I can go see a movie tonight.
oalocke: “U.S. smoking rate stalled at 21 percent: CDC”— Hold the line, people, hold the line!
24: The unaired 1994 pilot →
oalocke: I love my parents dearly but if everyone their age must die to stop the hippie-themed investment commercials,
so be it.
Workbench →
It’s hard to have a workbench, harder if you’re in NYC with a small apartment, maybe not so hard if you don’t mind living a slightly different way (no TV, use Digikey boxes for tables)… Finally! Here’s the workbench I built! I’m about to head out for a trip but I am looking forward to getting back and building a lot of things - Link. Related:
Make Podcast:...