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Google behavioral ad targeter is a Smart Ass
Distributed ad crunching Google is handling its interest-based advertising behavioral ad targeting from a custom-built ad server known internally as Smart Ass, or smart ad serving system.…
Continue reading »Google vs Murdoch, Twitter and Facebook
Is there life after Google? Australian media billionaire Rupert Murdoch is betting there is. He “reckons net access content is worth money,” said p2pnet yesterday, going on, “ Lots of money.
Continue reading »Oh Oh Oh! iDont Droid!
“Motown artist, MOZELLA has unwittingly been dragged into the war between Google/Verizon and Apple/AT&T,” says a puff piece forwarded to us by Sydney. “Verizon, the nation’s biggest wireless network has concluded a deal to develop mobile phones and other gadgets based on Google’s Android mobile operating system,” it says, going on: “Verizon will introduce two Android phones this year and also plan to roll out a number of smart phones. Their goal is to take down the iPhone, the king of the smart phone Jungle.” BUT — Verizon uses the MOZELLA song Magic (Oh Oh Oh)” in their iDont Droid Does TV ads, “probably because it sounds like a song that Apple would use for an iPhone Advert,” says the item, quoting Mozella as saying: “I’m happy that Verizon has used my song but I didn’t know I would be dragged into the spat between Google and Apple.” Here’s the ad .
Continue reading »Concert for deaf people: good vibrations
A concert for deaf people? p2pnet blogged about that in February in a post on the Emoti-Chair, a “cross-modal, audio-tactile” display chair that lets deaf or hard of hearing people to feel the vibrations of music and sound . It was also featured in a Toronto performance in March.
Continue reading »Da Vinci Code Fans Targeted By Real International Conspiracy
It’s the shocking mystery hidden for a millennium: What will Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown’s next book be about? But, beware, truth seekers: Chasing the latest clues to the upcoming novel The Lost Symbol could expose you to a vast and secret conspiracy that’s been manipulating Google search results to push malicious software. On Tuesday, NBC’s Today show kicked off a week-long promotion for Brown’s Da Vinci sequel by airing the first of a series of clues to the thriller’s plot, in the form of a tour of a real-life biological research facility nicknamed the “Death Star” because it houses dead animal specimens.
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