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Apple Designer Regrets | Mobile "Crushes" Facebook? | IBM Distrusts Siri
Business Strategies:
Apple designer 'winces' over some past product choices
Campaigns of Note:
LG Electronics USA Debuts 'Only LG' Ad Campaign
Customer Experience:
Three Myths abou [...]
Posted: Friday, May 25th 2012
Top News: HP Awards PC Business | AmEx Brand Innovation | Groupon Reports Profit | Millennial Media Doesn't | Google Ads Trump Facebook | Social Brand Blunders
Ad Technology:
Volvo Launches China's First RTB-based Advertising
DoubleClick co-founder targets publishers with content-meets-commerce service
Publishers [...]
Posted: Tuesday, May 15th 2012
Closing Bell: Netflix Chastises Comcast | ScoreBig Mimics Priceline | FCC Fines Google
Streaming Media:
Netflix CEO Calls Out Comcast on Net Neutrality
Business Strategies:
ScoreBig Uses Priceline’s Model to Name Your Own Price for Live Events
Privacy:
[...]
Posted: Monday, April 16th 2012
Industry Buzz & News: 6/17/10
Online Ad Market:
Online news commands highest CPM.
HP partners with Yahoo for targeted advertisements.
Mobile search is [...]
Posted: Thursday, June 17th 2010
Hotels Go On Offensive Against Negative Reviews
Hotels are taking a particularly aggressive stance against anonymous reviews found on such sites as Yelp or Trip Advisor by actively trying to connect the data dots to identify the author.
Once the hotel has identifying information in hand it might thank the poster for the good review - perhaps with a gift basket. In the case of a negative review, it might send an email asking for either a reconsideration or a chance to readdress what was wrong with the person’s stay, [...]
Posted: Monday, May 17th 2010
Competitive Data Ripe for Picking on SocNets
Social networks have become a goldmine of information for companies skilled in the art of connecting the dots - a little-noticed development that is beginning to concern companies.
According to a global study commissioned by Cisco only one in seven of the companies that participated in the research has a formal process to adopt consumer-based social networking tools for business purposes - indicating that the potential [...]
Posted: Friday, January 15th 2010
Industry Buzz & Snippets: 01/15/10
Ad Technology:
Clear Channel debuts Google-like ad platform.
Privacy:
Flash cookies could become hot button privacy issue.
Message Confusion:
Misunder [...]
Posted: Friday, January 15th 2010
Facebook Revamps Privacy Policy; Asks for Feedback
Facebook has tweaked its privacy policy and is asking its 300-million-plus user base for feedback by Nov. 5th.
This outreach is, some say, a wise move for the site, which has been burned by user backlash before on privacy issues - most famously over its now retired Beacon platform, which initially [...]
Posted: Friday, October 30th 2009
Revised TOS Gives Facebook Perpetual Rights to User Content
This month Facebook revised its Terms of Use, a document it is legally permitted to update at any time without informing users. Users demonstrate tacit acceptance of the Terms by continuous use of the site.
The revision grants Facebook complete, perpetual ownership of content up [...]
Posted: Monday, February 16th 2009
Aussie Gov't to Pilot Nationwide 'Net Filter
The Australian government is moving forward with plans to implement a nationwide online filter of objectionable material.
The filter is one component of an $82 million cybersafety effort to protect children from exploitation and discourage adults from downloading illegal content, including terrorist materials or child pornography, [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 16th 2008
Spammers Reap Plenty on 0.00001% Response Rate
By effectively "hacking" an existing spam network, researchers unearthed the "economics" of being an email spammer, reports the BBC.
Here's the secret: high volume and a virally-expanding network, which means even the tiniest response rate can produce millions of dollars in profit per year.
Computer scientists at the University of California, Berkeley and San Diego conducted a month-long study of the Storm Network, a spam oper [...]
Posted: Thursday, November 13th 2008
NebuAd Loses CEO, Pursues Less Controversial Pastures
Battered by bad press, recent Congressional probes and the loss of ISP clients, CEO Bob Dykes of NebuAd has decided to step down.
Following his departure, President Kira Makagon was chosen [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 4th 2008
User Consent: Just an Afterthought to Behavioral Tracking
Letters released by the House Energy and Commerce Committee reveal that many internet and broadband companies use targeted-ad technology without clearly informing users.
The largest online ad firm of all, Google, said it tracks web-surfing behavior across affiliate sites. And this isn't the first such outing: two months ago, The New York Times [...]
Posted: Tuesday, August 12th 2008
China Promises 'Sufficient' Web Access for Olympic Journalists
International Olympic Committee (IOC) officials have backpedaled on their promise to provide unrestricted internet access for the 21,500 media planning to cover the Summer Games in Beijing, reports the Globe and Mail.
"Sensitive" websites that are not considered Games-related will be blocked, said IOC press chief Kevan Gosper, expressing regret t [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 31st 2008
Customers Shoulda Read the Privacy Policy, Says Embarq
In response to a Congressional inquiry about its pilot test of NebuAd's services, internet service provider (ISP) Embarq insisted it revised its privacy policy at least two weeks before it integrated the platform.
NebuAd partners with ISPs to serve ads to users based on their aggregate online activity. The behavioral ad firm sparked a debate over privacy in the Senate earlier this [...]
Posted: Wednesday, July 23rd 2008
Viacom Wants to Know What Googlers Uploaded onto YouTube
In an unexpected twist on the Google/Viacom copyright battle, Viacom has expressed interest in learning which YouTube videos have been uploaded by Google staffers.
The media giant recently won the right to cruise YouTube records in search of copyright-protected content. Data now available to Viacom includes YouTube users' IP addresses, usernames, videos watched and video uploads.
The ruling, which [...]
Posted: Tuesday, July 15th 2008
Behavioral Advertising Faces Senate Today
The Senate Commerce Committee is holding a hearing for online behavioral advertising today.
Central to the debate is NebuAd and its technology, which gleans online activity data from ISPs to serve targeted ads to unwitting broadband subscribers. The company has suffered a [...]
Posted: Wednesday, July 9th 2008
Viacom Wins Right to Cruise YouTube Records
Google has been ordered to surrender the data of users that watch YouTube videos, including videos streamed on other websites, to Viacom.
The ruling (pdf) was made by Judge Stanton of the federal court for the Southern District of New York.
YouTube user data now available to Viacom includes usernames, videos viewed and IP addresses, which Viacom can use to identify some individuals through I [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 3rd 2008
Free Press: NebuAd Has No Respect for Privacy
Behavioral ad platform NebuAd violates "fundamental expectations of internet privacy" according to a report from the Free Press and Public Knowledge group, reports MediaPost.
Free Press issued a report which stated "NebuAd's practices resemble several forms of 'attacks' on users that have generated considerable controversy and user condemnation."
The report compares NebuAd's target [...]
Posted: Thursday, June 19th 2008
Ask Puts Promotional Guns Behind Privacy Policy
Ask.com wrote an open letter to privacy advocates and the California Attorney General's office, toting a more prominent "Privacy" link on its website.
From the letter:
As of today, Ask.com has added a [prominently placed] direct link to our privacy policy ... right on our homepage. It is only one of four non-search related weblinks ... We’ve also made sure that the "Priv [...]
Posted: Thursday, June 19th 2008