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We were specifically thinking in terms of time based contextual advertising. I.e. showing you an ad for a Taylor Swift concert if you had a free Friday night (b
by justin 16y ago
We were specifically thinking in terms of time based contextual advertising. I.e. showing you an ad for a Taylor Swift concert if you had a free Friday night (because you didn't have any events on your calendar) and we knew you liked pop music. In retrospect, we might have been better off just creating the time based advertising platform and making an API available to other calendaring services.
I still think this is a cool idea and would be excited to see someone execute on it.
- colkassad 16y agoEspecially if you have a patent! I kid, I kid. I really enjoyed reading that and I'm glad you have found success beyond Kiko. I remember when Gmail released their calendar and everyone was talking about how it would crush your project. If I remember correctly, someone bought your IP? I wonder what they did with it.
- abstractbill 16y agoTucows acquired Kiko in an eBay auction: http://gigaom.com/2006/09/05/tucows-bought-kiko/ http://gigaom.com/2006/09/05/tucows-bought-kiko/