Monthly Archives: April 2007
Ask to launch adsense competitor
As a part of Ask Sponsored Listings (ASL), Ask will launch a new contextual advertising platform in the week of May 21st. This was confirmed by Paul Vallez, Director of Product Management. This looks like a serious attempt to compete … Continue reading
We feel fine! Visualizing human feelings
We feel fine is an interesting project which analyses recent blogposts and extracts information about what the world is currently feeling. Fun idea and I think they did a great job on the user interface: “Every few minutes, the system … Continue reading
Doubleclick acquired by Google
Wow, that’s what I call a major acquisition in advertising world: Google has bought DoubleClick for $3.1 billion (in cash). That’s 10x the yearly revenue of DoubleClick! This has just been confirmed on the Google blog. This is immediatly the … Continue reading
EMI starts moving in the right direction
Steve Jobs (Apple) and Eric Nicoli (EMI) announced today that they will start selling DRM-free music! Now why exactly is that good news? a) your purchased songs from iTunes will no longer be tied to your iPod. You can transfer … Continue reading