Google Rival Hopes for Its Turn
Published Wednesday, April 04, 2007 by Technology Monster.Who's crazy enough to try to take on Google's fearsome ad network? Turn has created a network it says is highly automated, using some 60 variables such as the content on a site, past performance of ads, and type of audience to more finely target ads to just the right people. Barnett says more than 1,000 advertisers, ranging from SideStep to Performics, are using it already, serving about 5 million total ads to 30 Web sites. |
Apple's iPhone Is Misnamed
Published by Technology Monster.Amid all the potshots at the iPhone for not having this or that feature of this or that cellphone, I think a lot of folks are missing something important: The thing's a freaking computer! Yeah, you'll use it as a phone too. But assuming it's not all vaporware, you'll be doing a whole lot that you do on your computer now--email, Web browsing, listening to music, watching video. Apple will need to open up a lot more to let outside developers and device makers latch onto the iPhone's coattails.) |
This Old Space
Published Friday, October 06, 2006 by Technology Monster.For better (broader audience) or worse (yuck, who are all these sketchy old guys here?), some 68% of people on MySpace are 25 or older, according to Comscore. It's that younger people are all too willing to spam their entire IM or email contacts to join MySpace, while people older are more careful of annoying their friends. I'm sure it's more than that, but it does make you wonder if the nature of these social networks is very different for older people. |
Dunn's Done, Hurd's Not
Published Sunday, September 24, 2006 by Technology Monster.In the wake of the HP leaks probe scandal, Chairman Patricia Dunn is now leaving the board entirely--not surprising, given her central role in the mess. Indeed, he said that while he approved something as specific as the name of a fabricated HP employee in an email intended to lure CNET's Dawn Kawamoto into revealing her source for leaked HP information, he did not see or approve of the use of tracer technology to be used in that email. |
HP Scandal: Now, It Leads to CEO Mark Hurd
Published Thursday, September 21, 2006 by Technology Monster.Until now, Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd has been squarely in the eye of the hurricane that is the HP leak probe --you know, that place in the middle of the storm where everything's calm and quiet. Given the slow-motion train wreck that the probe and its aftermath have become, it's hard to see how he will be able to finesse his way out of this situation, as HP has been trying to do from the start. |
New Yahoo Mail: Wish I Liked It Better
Published Friday, September 15, 2006 by Technology Monster.The last couple of days, though, I can't log into the new service--that guy on the bouncing ball there, whom you can watch while you wait for the login to take, just keeps bouncing--so I've had to go back to the old one. What's funny is that I now find the old service a little less brittle than the new one, which despite its Ajax coolness had a considerable lag time to bring up messages or new folders at times, plus the scrolling through messages felt a little weird. |
K12 Online 2006 Conference?
Published Saturday, September 02, 2006 by Technology Monster.Week 2 Strand A: Personal Professional Development Tips, ideas and resources on how to orchestrate your own professional development online; the tools that support Professional Learning Environments (PLEs); how to create opportunities to bring these technologies to the larger school community; how to effectively incorporate the tools into your personal or professional practice; or how to create a supportive, reflective virtual professional community around school-based goals. |
Oracle Rising
Published Wednesday, August 30, 2006 by Technology Monster.Among the highlights from the smattering of analyst reports that landed in my inbox today is one by Brent Thill of CitiGroup He still rates the stock a hold, but says there are?early signs? that Oracle is gaining market share on?nemesis SAP.? Is this the same Brent Thill who delighted SAP execs last December with his research that Oracle was actually losing application market share via its acquisition spree, not gaining it? |
Copy Protection Killing The Promotional Value Of Content
Published by Technology Monster.With a few video download stores popping up online, it looked for a while that some of the record labels were thinking about trying to charge for music videos, basically destroying their promotional value and missing the point on the value of promotional goods. There's just one problem: Tim is on a Mac, and the video on VH1's site won't play on his Mac, because it's incompatible with the Microsoft DRM that VH1 seems to be using for no good reason at all. |
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