Driving to Wisconsin in the snow. For each unique and beautiful snowflake I see, I will utter a curse.
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Bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Sunday, February 3, 2008 @ 11:08 CST by Daniel Andrlik
Nick Carr has a pretty good article on the problems being faced by both Facebook and Google when it comes to monetizing the social networking space. A lot of us have been skeptical of ads on social networking sites, but what’s interesting here is how Carr concludes Beacon was an act of “deliberate risk-taking, if not desperation.”
I’m not sure I’d go that far, but he’s not far from the mark even then.
Bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Monday, December 10, 2007 @ 10:08 CST by Daniel Andrlik
Via Warren Ellis
People have developed a way to broadcast ads on the street so that “the sound is contained within your cranium.”
That’s just wonderful, I was just thinking to myself, “You know, I don’t think I’m harassed by advertising enough in my daily life, how can this be rectified?”
Bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Thursday, November 15, 2007 @ 10:38 CST by Daniel Andrlik
Beacon is looking worse and worse. I’m getting the feeling that Facebook really screwed this up. They need to fix it soon before they seriously freak out their users.
Bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Sunday, November 11, 2007 @ 05:33 CST by Daniel Andrlik
“IBM released an interesting new report earlier this week that predicts the end of advertising as we know it within 5 years.”
People involved in the web have known this stuff for years, but the fact that one of the big companies is doing surveys and coming to the same conclusions is comforting. Maybe advertisers will finally start to notice.
Bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Saturday, November 10, 2007 @ 12:09 CST by Daniel Andrlik
This is a troubling revelation into how at least one of the sites integrating with Facebook’s Beacon sends your browsing data back to Facebook. As Fred Stutzman points out, this is just one implementation, and Facebook may not have much say in how it was put together.
That being said, this is disturbing and let us hope that this does not become a trend with FB’s partners.
Bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Saturday, July 14, 2007 @ 04:39 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
Ads as part of the OS, scanning computer documents and settings to deliver targeted ads and block ads from competitors. Wow, Microsoft goes evil in a big way on this one.
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