Monthly Archives: March 2009

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The End is Near (To Save on ADSPACE)

Friday is the last day to get 20% off the early bird price for ADSPACE. Use code “AdSpaceC” and you get in for $316. Wait until the last minute and pay $595! The list of speakers you’ll see at the … Continue reading

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How My Internet Marketing Skillz Save Me 50%+ on Groceries

This post is a bit off-topic, but hey its my blog and I’ll blog off-topic if I want to. I’ve recently started shopping on Amazon.com for groceries and the amount you can save by doing this is amazing. Take a … Continue reading

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Mainstream Media Catches Flog Fever

Some interesting investigative work by ABC – turns out the Acai berry weight loss model was a $1 stock photo of a German model! With mainstream media raising the alarm, seems like only a matter of time before Google and … Continue reading

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Google’s March Towards Banner Ads on Google Search Continues . . .

First Google added “Google Checkout” logos to the AdWords results for participating merchants. Then they offered “product images” for retailers. Today I noticed the latest non-text test on AdWords search – mini logos (or, maybe these are favicons, I don’t … Continue reading

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What Do Terry Semel, Henry Ford, and AIG Have in Common?

By 1916 Henry Ford was a rich man: his company was making $60,000,000 of profit a year (in 1916 dollars!) and he was the dominant shareholder. Rich beyond belief, he made a shocking announcement to Ford’s shareholders – rather than … Continue reading

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Where’s My Stuff? A Stimulus Plan for Start-Ups

My brother has launched a cool Web site designed to bring the start-up community together in these tough economic times – startupstimulus.org. Thomas Friedman threw out the idea that government bailout money should go to entrepreneurs, not dying businesses like … Continue reading

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Yet Another Flog Suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder

I have to believe that it is only a matter of time before fake blogs (“flogs”) are banned by Google and/or shut down by the FTC. It seems that the creators of these flogs must agree with me, because they … Continue reading

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Semantic Targeting Gone Wild!

Let’s say you work at DoubleClick and your job is to develop an algorithm that matches display ads with appropriate content on, say, CNN.com. An article shows up that is focused on “Mexico.” You figure that perhaps this is an … Continue reading

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Could This Deal Get Any Better?

Last week I announced the unveiling of ADSPACE, the first and only conference dedicated to contextual advertising (AdSense, Quigo, Pulse360, and so on). The conference is taking place in SF on April 22 and will feature a lot of top … Continue reading

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