A historical collection of our writing.
My friends at Lotame processed their one billionth ad transaction this weekend and will quickly double that.At the same time, Jeremy Liew writes about content specific ad networks that in effect are creating synthetic ad channels:”Synthetic channels, like the channels on the big portals, have an […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
Jason Calacanis has a new venture, Mahalo, and I love it.It’s not because I think the idea of the “first human-powered search engine” is a necessarily novel or a good one — I have no idea if this is new or even interesting.(that being said, one of the first human-powered pages they put up is […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
Atif Rafiq, in an essay called “In Defense of the Text Web, writes that:”[I]t’s simplistic to believe that anything produced in text today can be better consumed in video. The written word is and will remain the optimal form for a lot of content. Yes, the same news story can be transformed into […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
This weekend I read about two interesting companies developing advertising platforms for online video providers and publishers.ScanScout’s technology scans video content, creates intelligence about the clip and then dynamically matches ads to the content and intelligence it has just created.Adap.tv […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
Some comments on Carmun from around the world today:Networking aims beyond facebooks: Boston GlobeNew Resource Rating and Sharing site: Out of the JungleCarmun: Helpful Student Tool or Evil Conspiracy — Connecting the Dots […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
“Surely this is exactly what an education institution should want – collaborative learning. They’re always banging on about the collaborative environment of a school, college or university, so why not accelerate this using the very technology that the students use anyway. The tide of web 2.0 use […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
