Truemors
Targeted advertising exploits insecurities
I've mostly learned to ignore the loud and often obscene ads that litter the edges of my Gmail and Facebook accounts, but every so often the accuracy with which they pick up tags in my emails nabs my...
created by Terri Potratz | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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840 views | 2 recommendations | 6 comments
M.D. quits day job to Blog
"y Son, the Blogger: An M.D. Trades Medicine for Apple Rumors Sign In to E-Mail or Save This Print Reprints ShareDiggFacebookMixxYahoo! BuzzPermalink By BRIAN STELTER Published: July 21, 2008...
News Corp's MySpace Launch Global Redesign
"NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp's MySpace plans to launch a global redesign next week in an attempt to widen its demographic and boost user engagement on the site, the social networking site said on Friday. In...
Mentos madness as 1,300 students set Diet Coke fountain record
A new world record has been set. 1,360 students in the town of Leuven, Belgium set off simultaneous geysers with mentos and diet coke. Looks like lots of fizzy fun!"After they each dropped a tube of the mints...
Couple Catch Burglar, Make Him Clean Up at Gunpoint
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A burglar in Montgomery chose the wrong family to mess with, literally."Adrian and Tiffany McKinnon returned to their Centennial Hill home Tuesday after a week away to find that...
NY Times, Moveon do Dems Dirty Work
"By writing off more than half of its normal price, it encouraged the publication of a nasty hit piece on the honor of a serving commander in a theater of war. The Paper of Record helped call Petraeus a...
Google gets into fishwrap
Now you can buy newpaper ads through Google. ""We started with roughly 70 daily newspapers," said Spencer Spinnell, head of advertising strategy for Google Print Ads. "Now we have 225. Currently the network...
Michael Moore rebuts CNN on Sicko, calls for apology
"Last week night, Michael Moore appeared on Wolf Blitzer's CNN show, The Situation Room, to talk about his stirring new movie, Sicko. Blitzer opened the segment with a taped "debunking" that purported to show that...
eBay Takes All Its Adverts Off Google
"eBay has pulled all its advertising from Google after learning of the search giant’s plan to gatecrash its user conference this week to promote Checkout, a rival to eBay’s PayPal payment service.
The online... 
G. Kofi Annan on Mainstream Advertisers Ignoring the African Markets
"G. Kofi Annan on Advertisers Ignoring Africa. Posted by beninmwangi on April 29th, 2007 A few minutes ago I came across a post on Kofi’s blog entitled, “African’s Aren’t Affluent Enough” this post challenged me personally to do more to help “update” public...
Utah Bans Trademark Keyword Ads
This seems unusually burdensome for search engines, and impractical in general. "The US state of Utah has outlawed the use of other people's trade marks to generate business through search engines. The plan has been called unconstitutional and impractical. In creating a new...
Symbology Development Growth Gets MSM Attention :: Symblogogy
"Yes, that’s right, the Main Stream Media (MSM) here in North America is finally taking notice that cellphones and symbologies make good bedfellows (New York Times – “New Bar Codes Can Talk With Your...
created by Edmund Jenks | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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Time Inc. Bleeds as Detroit Automakers Gut Magazine Ad Spending
"NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Blame it on Detroit. While many are looking to the digital future to explain why Time Inc. fired 289 people last week, they'd do just as well to look at the present -- particularly at the changing marketing habits of the domestic auto industry. "How to monetize a low traffic blog
"Over the first few months of a blog’s lifetime, traffic from search engines is low, even though the articles are well optimized. Yet, you can do something to help your blog popularity and traffic in early stages "
QR Based PM Code - The Best 3D Symbology Ever, Really!
"QR Based PM Code - The Best 3D Symbology Ever, Really! ... And it is a 5th Generation Media symbology known as the PM Code. With this printed symbology one can use a simple cellphone with a camera and unleash...
created by Edmund Jenks | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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990 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
