Yahoo's content

Look at this article:

Man, that guy's awesome. Now look at the page. Man that page is awesome.

posted: 2007-08-05 11:28:27 2295 comments Read More

Are you wasting your ad budget online?

Business 2.0 has a post about the popularity of online email programs for delivering ads. I'm cross-posting my response here because I don't frequent their blogs enough.

Yeah, email sites rank among the top places for putting ads -- because they are applications with which people spend a lot of time. But all of that time means that the users are building up proficiency with the app and that translates to ad blindness. Ads in such applications are the easiest to ignore for several reasons.

First, a successful ...

posted: 2007-07-30 23:41:10 20 comments Read More

The Biz is back!

Three words for ya: Yo Gabba Gabba

Yo Gabba Gabba looks to be the new H R Puf'N'Stuf, now with a hiphop beat and targeted at younger children.

Here's an example:

posted: 2007-07-22 21:52:34 61 comments Read More

SEO versus SEM

The best way to clarify the difference between SEO and SEM is as the difference between earning traffic and buying traffic.

You can often tell when SEM ( traffic buying ) is at play because you don't get what you want from the search engines.

As an example, as part of playing around with adsense, I've put various ad tags in a few locations on this blog. One one of my pages, the ad took me to http://www.shopzilla.com/8N_-_cat_id--16011700__nwylf--__oid--558586819 which is a search results page for "tdk ...

posted: 2007-07-15 09:33:05 2107 comments Read More

The Pixies and Tivo

The Pixies were on Austin City Limits last night. They rawked. But that's not the point of this entry.

I've been using a tivo for a couple of years now. It should know alot about what I like at this point. But it doesn't. TiVo's recommendation engine was instead deciding to record Saturday Night Live, which I almost never watch, save for when they feature I band I care about. Had TiVo consulted my other media habits, it would have put anything featuring the Pixies at ...

posted: 2007-07-08 11:13:30 296 comments Read More

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