Writing

My friends at Lotame processed their one billionth ad transaction this weekend and will quickly double that.At the same time, Jeremy Liew writes about content specific ad networks that in effect are creating synthetic ad channels:"Synthetic channels, like the channels [...]  Read more

Jason Calacanis has a new venture, Mahalo, and I love it.It's not because I think the idea of the "first human-powered search engine" is a necessarily novel or a good one -- I have no idea if this is new [...]  Read more

Atif Rafiq, in an essay called "In Defense of the Text Web, writes that:"[I]t’s simplistic to believe that anything produced in text today can be better consumed in video. The written word is and will remain the optimal form for [...]  Read more

This weekend I read about two interesting companies developing advertising platforms for online video providers and publishers.ScanScout's technology scans video content, creates intelligence about the clip and then dynamically matches ads to the content and intelligence it has just created.Adap.tv [...]  Read more

Some comments on Carmun from around the world today:Networking aims beyond facebooks: Boston GlobeNew Resource Rating and Sharing site: Out of the JungleCarmun: Helpful Student Tool or Evil Conspiracy -- Connecting the Dots Read more

"Surely this is exactly what an education institution should want – collaborative learning. They’re always banging on about the collaborative environment of a school, college or university, so why not accelerate this using the very technology that the students use [...]  Read more

Great definition:"Open data is to media what open source is to technology. Open data is an approach to content creation that explicitly recognizes the value of implicit user data. The internet is the first medium to give a voice to [...]  Read more

It's being widely reported that Google's share of the U.S. search market has climbed yet again.This data is consistent with two points I've recently found. On the quantitative side, 6 weeks into the initial launch of Carmun, we' see that [...]  Read more

"Iggy Pop, now 59, is the captain of these inside-outside actions. Try to take your eyes off him. How he re-enacts fear, rage, sex, abject boredom, universal love and lethal cynicism, while dancing with originality, remembering lyrics and maintaining the [...]  Read more