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Since I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about contextual advertising and the move from contextual ads to user-behavior based targeting, I have been seeing great examples of awful contextual ads. By awful, I’m referring to ads that are either funny or inappropriate when viewed in the context of the article or content on the [...]

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I just finished reading Mark Cuban’s blog post about how the “Internet is still Dead and Boring,” and rather than taking issue with his central predictions, the post made me start thinking about people’s perception of online ads. Here’s the passage of the article that got the wheels turning:
I have invested in and gotten [...]

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Yes, I’ve already plugged this one, but I really like it: Powerset Blog.
I admire what the powerset guys are trying to do. For most of us, search is very straightforward. You enter a term and sift through the results pages with varying degrees of success. But it’s rare that we actually give thought to the [...]

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I’ve avoided the slideshow craze for as long as possible. I never bothered embedding one on my MySpace page, and was consistently annoyed when others did so (really, MySpace is hard to look at sometimes).
I think I can say that when it comes to slideshows my life can be separated into two distinct periods: [...]

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This morning I saw news of a new facebook app called “Social Suggester”, which promises:
Social Suggester is a social media discovery tool that allows you to easily find new Music, Movies, TV Shows and Books. Just type in a name (or select from your friends favorites) and instantly get a list of suggestions and recommendations.
The [...]

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Via CenterNetworks- Allen Stern sees a  burger joint called “brgr”, which makes him think that the web 2.0 naming convention has gone from the web to the real world. So, he comes up with a list of web 2.0 site themed burger ideas. Go check it out.

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Per Sarah’s request, the top ten things on my mind this week:

Diamond Lounge-  Please, please, please tell me it’s true.
Pownce- I think I’m completely done with it. I’m just not the right kind of person to use it. I actually get annoyed when I get an email telling me that someone has posted a file. [...]

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(Cross-posted from the CustomScoop blog)
What’s on your mind?
That is the basic theme behind Bryan Person’s latest creation, the Social Media Top Ten. Who is influencing you this week? What social media trends are catching your eye? Which memes are stuck in your head like like a song you’ve been humming in the shower every morning?
Here’s [...]

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I saw this today and actually said a favorite four letter expletive out loud.
From mashable:
You know those cool night clubs only the rich and beautiful people can get in to? Inspired by aSmallWorld, perhaps, Diamond Lounge is the latest site to take exclusivity online.
With a scheduled launch date of October 1st, 2007, the new site [...]

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Okay, so the panel picker for the 2008 South By Southwest Interactive festival just went live. That means I need you, wonderful, smart, charming, informed and well-read users to vote for me. Come on, what would be more fun than listening to a panel about Social Media Burnout? Seriously. Here are the details:
It seems [...]

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