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by earl 14y ago
Guessing: Meebo has been trying to make money via their behavioral targeting dataset. Meebo sees browsing activity of users via sites that embed their javascript and also through the plugins they get people to install in their browsers. It
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by earl 14y ago
1 - there's very little money in chat, meebo's original product; 2 - meebo has been trying to make money via their behavioral targeting dataset: they see browsing activity of users via sites that embed their javascript and also through the
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by earl 14y ago
It would be a lot easier to agree that security researchers shouldn't be selling vulnerabilities to the highest bidder if, say, they were offered $250k to $1mm each from the vendors involved. Baring that, it's hard not to think this is mos
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by earl 14y ago
Wow. Is anyone gullible enough to believe this is anything but a strike at google's ad business? For an example of what could go wrong, look at the absolute debacle in europe when legislators tried to control cookie privacy with the EU coo
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by earl 14y ago
The model isn't without precedent. For example, lots of paramedic companies run training programs at a loss, eg REMSA. Congrats on the launch! I wish I had 9 weeks to do nothing but learn about IOS. suggestion: tell everyone to buy a macb
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by earl 14y ago
Google is known -- by their own blog! -- to use this data for ad targeting. Until they say they aren't, it's more than reasonable to assume they continue to use it for ad targeting. They are certainly aware of other ad networks using the
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by earl 14y ago
Quoting me: Google uses search activity from the past several hours to help match ads in adsense for content[1]. Hiding those from other ad networks is, imo, one of the best reasons they should be sued for antitrust. So: Googl
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by earl 14y ago
Seriously, are you reading a press release? Also, you're 10-ish years behind, which is how long ad.com has been doing retargeting. Retargeting has widespread since the advent of a global cookie space with exchanges -- rmx in '08 or so. A
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by earl 14y ago
Perhaps I wasn't clear. Google is hiding referer data, particularly the query string, for a growing number of searchers. Today it's anyone logged into google, or about 60% of traffic to my blog. Tomorrow, they may well do it for anyone.
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by earl 14y ago
sadly, no. Adsense is a $10B/year business. Even ex tac of 30%, that's still a big business. From wikipedia [1]: In Q1 2011, Google earned US$2.43 billion ($9.71 billion annualized), or 28% of total revenue, through Google AdSense
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by earl 14y ago
Do you seriously believe advertisers waste trillions of dollars? That not a single one has turned off ads in a geo-fenced area to see what happens? Or that adwords advertisers (and all direct response advertisers for that matter) don't fa
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by earl 14y ago
Google uses search activity from the past several hours to help match ads in adsense for content[1]. Hiding those from other ad networks is, imo, one of the best reasons they should be sued for antitrust. We've recently started to exp
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by earl 14y ago
1 - fb has the potential to be the first serious adsense competitor: slightly poorer context data (though they certainly can repeat much of the work google has done, and I bet bing would love to do a data deal with them) but much better dat
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by earl 14y ago
Empirically, you're wrong. In order to install random plugins, Firefox makes you click through a dialog that you're forced to read because the install button isn't active for a couple seconds. People fill their browsers with spyware anywa
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by earl 14y ago
Hi -- I know quite a bit about this stuff (worked at Scribd on the pub side, Quantcast on the DSP side, and Yodle doing sem). Contact me offline if you'd like to talk. Email is in my profile.
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by earl 14y ago
I get confused all the time. I thought cardinality[ tikhon ] was 1.
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Safari private mode is broken(blog.earlh.com)
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by earl 14y ago
Google told Motorola if they used Skyhook then their devices wouldn't be android compatible. [1] And from emails: one email quotes an Android manager saying it was obvious to phone manufacturers that "we are using compatibility as
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by earl 14y ago
One of the examples I gave, Skyhook, so clearly contradicts your entire post that I have to assume you're intentionally lying. Because that was exactly google preventing someone from executing their business essentially via blackmail. S
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by earl 14y ago
Your point is more than fair, but at this point, does anyone not know the deal with Apple (and Google and Microsoft for that matter?) All these companies are looking out for #1. If it becomes in their interests to screw you, look out. Ap
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by earl 14y ago
nick: the people who really strike it rich aren't the ones writing code this this this. Except for a few companies that come around a handful of times in a generation (Google, fb, et al) coders don't get rich at startups.
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by earl 14y ago
I actually don't think they do; they're directly measured by quantcast. If you go to http://www.quantcast.com/ranker.com and select page views, week, and global they still peak at 4mm. Which is nothing to laugh at.
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by earl 14y ago
I can't recommend any Atlassian products. They removed the markup editor from their wiki product; their sole remaining choice -- the rich text editor -- its a piece of shit that is actively hostile to any dev stuck using it. They're doing
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by earl 14y ago
you can configure ifttt to im you when there are new posts on craigslist
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by earl 14y ago
Friends don't let friends ride muni. I've ridden public transport all over the world and never been in physical danger on public transport before. Riding muni it happened multiple times in 16 months. Not to mention it's slow, untimely, an
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by earl 14y ago
That is possible but extremely unlikely. Companies who spend interesting amounts of money on advertising don't just hand you $100k or something. Instead, they hand you $10k for a month or a quarter and tell you to demonstrate what you can
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by earl 14y ago
You realize that brand advertising isn't measured via clickthrough, right? Most people on the net don't click -- see the infamous natural born clickers study. Yet nonetheless, brand advertising via display can be demonstrated to be very e
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by earl 14y ago
One, you presume that advertisers are incredibly naive and don't measure returns. Obviously cleanly measuring advertising returns from fb is hard, but it's still being done. Second, fb can put up the first credible alternative to adsense s
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by earl 14y ago
here's the pricing chart for today [1]. What makes you think it was supported -- the flat line beginning at 334 pm? [1] http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=FB+Interactive#symbol=fb;... ;
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by earl 14y ago
Note that twitter has something most ad networks don't: they can tie web browsing to a login and email address, and quite often to a mobile phone.

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