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“If I’m a buyer and I want to spend $10 million on TV, I can do that with one phone call and a handshake.”
1 year ago | Comment
Red Tape Said to Strangle Digital Advertising
Red tape and fragmentation are entangling advertising buyers and holding back the growth of Internet advertising, a Yahoo executive said Thursday.
Speaking at the Jeffries 5th Annual Internet & Media Conference in New York, Yahoo Senior Vice President Michael Walrath contrasted the ease of spending large budgets on television versus digital advertising.
“We just make it too hard,” he said. “If I’m a buyer and I want to spend $10 million on TV, I can do that with one phone call and a handshake.”
By contrast, he said that spending $10 million on digital media requires dozens of partners, inventory forecasting, discrepancy tracking and other steps.
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Google adds ads to Google News searches | Digital Media - CNET News
1 year ago | Comment
Google has extended its AdWords program to Google News searches, delivering text ads on the right side of the search results page, just as Google has long done with regular Web search results.
Josh Cohen, a business product manager at Google, announced the move Wednesday in a company blog:
In recent months we've been experimenting with a variety of different formats, like overlay ads on embedded videos from partners like the AP. We've always said that we'd unveil these changes when we could offer a good experience for our users, publishers and advertisers alike, and we'll continue to look at ways to deliver ads that are relevant for users and good for publishers, too. -
Native Client: Google's craziest idea yet
1 year ago | Comment
The browser's role is ever increasing. It already has become far more than a mere tool for accessing information. Today we use it to communicate, to collaborate, and to interface with applications. And if Google has its way, we'll soon be able to use it to chalk up a few righteous frags, too. Last week, a team of Google engineers demonstrated a copy of Id Software's classic first-person shooter Quake running within a browser window at a frame rate comparable to an OS-hosted copy of the game. How did they do it? Simple. The Google Native Client is a new set of components that allows Web browsers to download and execute native x86 code. It's not an emulator, and it's not a virtual machine. The code runs on the actual processor with access to memory and system resources and negligible loss of performance. It even gives browser-based apps access to modern, accelerated CPU instruction sets, such as SSE. Just how crazy are these guys, anyway?
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Agilo - Flexible process management for Scrum
1 year ago |
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Agilo™ for Scrum is a flexible, web-based tool to support the Scrum process. It is highly configurable to adapt to your specific workflow.
Agilo™ is designed and developed for Teams, Scrum Master, Product Owner and for all Stakeholder who are involved in the project. No matter if you are working locally together or in offshore teams, the Scrum Tool Agilo presents you at any time all the important information of your Scrum projects.
For the use of Agilo™ in production we offer professional support including Service Level Agreements and customisation services covering installation, updates and maintenance. Agilo™ is also available as a completely hassle-free hosted service.
Agilo is based on Trac a very successful and widespread Ticket Tracking System, and developed using the Python programming language. Agilo is distributed as Open Source Software according to the Apache Software License 2.0. -
Linus Torvald rants against C++
1 year ago | Comment (1)
*YOU* are full of bullshit. C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
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Microsoft offers free software for start-ups | Beyond Binary - A blog by Ina Fried - CNET News
1 year ago | Comment
LOS ANGELES--In its boldest bid yet to win the affections of emerging businesses, Microsoft on Wednesday announced a program that will allow some start-ups to use its server software free of charge.
Dubbed BizSpark, the program will be open to private companies that have been in business for fewer than three years and have less than $1 million in yearly revenue. Companies will also have to be recommended by one of Microsoft's many for-profit, nonprofit, government, or academic partners.
More: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10082506-56.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0
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AppleInsider | Microsoft considers adopting WebKit for Internet Explorer
1 year ago | Comment (1)
Addressing a developer conference in Sydney Australia, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the idea of using WebKit as the rendering engine within its web browser was "interesting" and added "we may look at that."
Ballmer chanted his hallmark line "developers, developers, developers" to engage participants at the Power to Developers event, but was apparently caught off guard when a student attendee posed a question about Microsoft's own internal development efforts.
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O dogajanju na spletu, kaj Web 3.0 ni in kaj je HOT
1 year ago | Comment
Splet je hitro spreminjajoče okolje, precej hitro se spreminja. Pametni online entrepreneur-ji neprestano iščejo načine kako pritegniti čim več ljudi na svoj konec spleta in tudi čim več ljudi na splet sam. In ko se nekaj teh posebnežev izmisli nove, drugačne, boljše storive, v kateri veliko ljudi vidi vrednost se začne masovna raba. In imamo nov trend.
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Microsoft Azure Vs Google App Engine
1 year ago | Comment
As you all know by now, Windows Azure is Microsoft’s brand new platform as a service offering and I thought it would be an interesting exercise to compare it side by side with the Google’s popular PAAS product - Google App Engine.
More: http://www.j-dee.com/2008/11/03/microsoft-azure-vs-google-app-engine/
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Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004
1 year ago | Comment
Thinking about launching your own blog? Here's some friendly advice: Don't. And if you've already got one, pull the plug.
Writing a weblog today isn't the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge. Cut-rate journalists and underground marketing campaigns now drown out the authentic voices of amateur wordsmiths. It's almost impossible to get noticed, except by hecklers. And why bother? The time it takes to craft sharp, witty blog prose is better spent expressing yourself on Flickr, Facebook, or Twitter
More on: http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/16-11/st_essay
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FEED: The Razorfish Consumer Experience Report 2008
1 year ago | Comment
Feeds. Widgets. Social media. Search. You read about them
all the time and use them in your work. And according to this
year’s Razorfish FEED report, consumers are adopting these
new technologies faster than the industry pundits would lead
you to believe. Are you ready?http://feed.razorfish.com/publication/?m=2587&l=1
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Microsoft Unveils Windows Azure at Professional Developers Conference
1 year ago | Comment (1)
Company releases comprehensive Azure Services Platform for the cloud, offering unprecedented power of choice and open connections for developers.
LOS ANGELES — Oct. 27, 2008 — Today, during a keynote speech at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2008 (PDC2008), Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp.’s chief software architect, announced Windows Azure, the cloud-based service foundation underlying its Azure Services Platform, and highlighted this platform’s role in delivering a software plus services approach to computing. The Azure Services Platform is an industry-leading move by Microsoft to help developers build the next generation of applications that will span from the cloud to the enterprise datacenter and deliver compelling new experiences across the PC, Web and phone.
More: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/oct08/10-27PDCDay1PR.mspx
