Lookery Guarantees CPM
Check out Lookery’s guaranteed payment program for Facebook and Bebo apps. Lookery is currently taking submissions for a new publisher program that offers guaranteed payments of US$.125 CPM across 100% of a Facebook or Bebo application’s traffic. We’re seeking a billion pages a month for this new program, at a rate of 33 million [...]
Social Networking Ads Suck
Ads work on Google because people are looking for information. They do a search, and if the advertisement shows information that helps with the query, that makes everyone happy. However, when it comes to a social network, usage is quite different. People aren’t looking for information about products — they’re looking to communicate [...]
Reuters Opens Calais Web Service
I am surprised this didn’t get broader attention, it sounds pretty cool. Basically, as I understand it what this does is enable the creation of semantic data within web pages, blogs posts, or any other kind of content by tagging it as you write it. In much the same way that hyperlinks establish a “relevancy [...]
VCs suddenly worried about valley’s economic health
Less than two months after a national survey of venture capitalists found a bullish outlook amid gathering economic turmoil, a new survey of Silicon Valley VCs released Tuesday has found their “confidence” plummeting sharply to a four-year low.[From San Jose Mercury News - VCs suddenly worried about valley's economic health]I don’t know why [...]
Body Double
Bolivian President Evo Morales or CHiPs star Erik Estrada, you decide…
Slashdot Founder Questions Crowds Wisdom
I just don’t find Digg that relevant to my little world… but when it’s a slow news day I go to page 12 on Digg just to find the weird crap that escapes broader attention.
Mr. Malda said that Digg must move to deemphasize that vocal minority in the overall voting. But then it [...]
UI Obsessiveness Pays Off
One of the things you learn quickly about Brent Simmons is that there is no detail too small to not warrant an inordinate amount of attention to getting it just right. This attention to detail pays off, NNW consistently ranks as one of the most popular Mac applications.
Normally this is kind of a [...]
Marketing Basics
“These dramatic pictures, taken near Seal Island, in False Bay, are part of a decade-long campaign to promote positive awareness of great white sharks, which are classed as “endangered” largely due to being hunted by man.” (via instapundit)
Photos of great white sharks eating cute seals to promote positive awareness of the sharks? They might want [...]
Kerviel’s Greed, Not Heroics
How does one explain the sudden celebrity of rogue trader Jérôme Kerviel? The fanclub group on Facebook now has 1,441 members…
The comparisons to Che Guevara are perhaps the most offensive and also the most accurate in that just as Guevara was a mass murderer responsible for one of the most repressive totalitarian government in history [...]
How Much Money Are Facebook Apps Making? Not Much Apparently
VideoEgg has announced that its ad network for Facebook applications – eggnetwork – has pulled in around $1.5 million in ad revenue over the past five months.[From How Much Money Are Facebook Apps Making? Not Much Apparently]
This doesn’t surprise me at all. My almost year long affair with Facebook has enlightened me to [...]
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