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Companies are not following their own Do-Not-Track policies
by
John Moe
Jul 13, 2011
That's according to a recent study from Stanford's Center for Internet and Society. While Congress wrestles with online privacy legislation, the...
Yahoo! is reading your emails and still forcing me to type that stupid exclamation point at the end of its name*
by
John Moe
Jul 11, 2011
Yahoo! is drawing the ire of a consumer lobby group called Which? (you'd think the two companies would get along given their shared penchant for...
Google to launch data exchange?
by
John Moe
Jul 11, 2011
That's what Ad Age says, citing anonymous sources....
Twitter to suck more
by
John Moe
Jun 24, 2011
That's because sponsored tweets are about to find their way into your tweet stream. Twitter has had things like sponsored trends and sponsored...
"Kinect is amazing and everyone loves it. Let's put ads all over it!" - Microsoft
by
John Moe
Jun 21, 2011
Okay, that's a bit of a paraphrase. Today Microsoft will announce NUads (short for natural user-interface ads) for the Xbox Kinect system. It lets...
Facebook paying you to watch ads
by
John Moe
May 6, 2011
This is a new program that Facebook is trying out where you get Facebook Credits in exchange for watching some ads. It's an expansion of an earlier...
Groupon gets rid of Trump ads
by
John Moe
Apr 29, 2011
Groupon has announced "The Apprentice" ads won't be allowed on its site after someone posted an online petition to boycott Groupon on the belief...
For public good, not for profit.
Kids don't realize ads are ads
by
John Moe
Apr 22, 2011
The Journal of Advertising has published a study about how kids perceive online advertising. Short answer: they don't. Kids were found not to make...
Billboard of tomorrow will recognize you, target you
by
John Moe
Apr 18, 2011
A New York company is raising money with the intent of building smart billboards. The company, Immersive, is working on a system where a camera...
Online advertising passes print
by
John Moe
Apr 14, 2011
Not that we needed many more indicators of the trend in print but pixels are raking in more money than ink, according to a new report by the...