Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
This is a great example of what is possible when you enable widgets with a communication mechanism (as in communicating with other data elements) and take advantage of microformats. Great work by the Dapper team, this is a very novel solution (in all fairness, it is essentially what AFC is doing, so novel is subject [...]
Does anyone really believe that newspaper advertising next year will decline less than this year? I guess at some level you could argue that there has to be a floor but given the macro conditions and the two largest industries who advertise in newspapers going to crap, financial services and automotive, it’s hard to believe [...]
But I doubt most bloggers are trying to be the next Arrington. Most of them just want to support themselves blogging, right? This post reminds me of the phenomenon a few years back as the open source movement was taking off. [From SarahLacy.com: Maybe Blogging Is Just a Loss-Leader?] I get asked a lot why [...]
If Charter offered this as an opt-in service, I’d sign up (although I’m not a Charter customer!) because anything that makes advertising more useful and relevant is something I’d jump on. Cable and high-speed Internet service provider Charter Communications (Nasdaq: CHTR) Latest News about Charter Communications will not move forward with plans to test a [...]
Look out comScore, Nielsen, and Hitwise. Anytime a company like Google puts out a product that is functionally rich and does it for free, the companies that sell something similar are going to suffer. This happened when Google Analytics came out, it will happen here. What will be interesting to watch is how companies that [...]
Tom wrote an interesting piece about Fair Use and an alternative monetization model. In the comments he posted this and it’s something I fear he is spot on right about. I’m afraid that the future is going to be a largely closed web and a web where the usefull information is going to be expensive [...]
I wrote about this last week, studying vertical ad networks has been really eye opening for me. It’s the long tail in advertising… The improved technology has helped. Ad networks once served ads to pages where no advertiser wanted to be, like pages that get few hits or those with controversial content. Now, though, many [...]