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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: FTC Privacy Scrutiny | Skechers Settles With FTC | Front-Lit Kindle | Facebook: Madison Ave. Skeptical | Pinterest's $100MM Funding
Ad Technology:
Microsoft Reminder: Upgrade to Adintelligence v.8 Before the End of May
Best Practices:
Response: Will We Really Grow Display By Incentivizing Low Bidd [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 17th 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
Top News: Yahoo Turmoil | Search Engine Rankings | Second Guessing Second Price | Amex Tests SoMe Commerce
Ad Technology:
Debunking Ad-Tech Myths
Agency News:
Little Caesars Taps BFG 9000 for National Creative
Brand Takes a Tweeting
Campai [...]
Posted: Monday, May 14th 2012
Top News: E-Tail Spending Skyrockets | Google Defense | "Do Not Track" Looms | AOL Keeping Publications
Ad Technology:
Exponential Interactive Launches Appsnack, Global Mobile Advertising Solution For Brand Advertisers
Business Strategies:
Creating True Accountability for the Customer Experience
Campaig [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 10th 2012
Top News: Pepsi Resurrects Jackson | EBay/Paypal Localize | Responsys Email Tools | FB Privacy Concerns | FB IPO Figures
[...]
Posted: Friday, May 4th 2012
Top News: ComScore Q1 Earnings | HuffPo Digimag App | NCTA Cybersecurity Rules | Mobile Spectrum Crisis
Ad Technology:
comScore Announces Date for First Quarter 2012 Financial Results
Harvard Professor and Global Authority on Algorithmic Economics Joins Na [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 18th 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
Closing Bell: Facebook gives users more info | Boeing Android phone | Microsoft roadmap
Privacy:
Facebook’s 'Download Your Information' in three easy steps.
E-books:
E-Book Pricing: Apple's lawsuit is only half the picture.
Mobile Computing:
Boeing [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 12th 2012
Sophos Warns Against Privacy Danger Posed by Instagram Acquisition
Sophos security researcher Graham Cluley has identified a new risk for Instagram users now that the photo-sharing app is being acquired by Facebook: the unexpected use of photos shared by users in Facebook, either in ads or for other purposes.
"What needs to be recognized is that anytime you decide to store your information online, you should also assume that it could be used for marketing purposes and that it may be publicly available,†he [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 11th 2012
Social Media Forces Gather to Kill Another Online Bill
A House cybersecurity bill, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), is the target of the same social media forces that defeated the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, earlier this year, The Hill newspaper reports. The publication notes that posts comparing CISPA to SOPA have reached Reddit’s front page after receiving thousands of up [...]
Posted: Monday, April 9th 2012
The Latest Mobile Ad Networks: Cheaper, Integrated and More Private
Mobile ad networks are evolving as major players make changes in pricing, partnerships, policies such as privacy and feature sets to remain competitive.
Competitive Pricing
Apple continues to make concessions on pricing with its iAd network. In February, AdAge reported, it reduced the iAd minimum ad spend to $100,000 from $500,000. Two years ago it was $ [...]
Posted: Monday, April 9th 2012
Top News: Google Glasses' AR hurdles | Second screens | Privacy debate heats up
Ad Technology:
Google Glasses face serious hurdles, augmented-reality experts say.
Convergence:
Social 'second screen' TV is all about the apps.
Rich Media:
YouTube founders [...]
Posted: Monday, April 9th 2012
Top News: Amazon in-app payment | iPhone outsells | Australian court says Google ads misleading
Ecommerce:
More developments for Amazon’s in-app payment system for Appstore, but more work needed.
Mobile Computing:
iPhone outselling all other smartphones combined at Sprint and AT& [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 3rd 2012
Top News: iAD revenue share increases | Consumer Reports likes new iPad | OMGPOP
Online Ad Market:
Apple activates increase in share of iAd revenue to developers from 60% to 70%.
Mobile Computing:
New Apple iPad tops Consumer Reports' tablet ratings.
[...]
Posted: Monday, April 2nd 2012
Top News: Facebook digs deeper into search | DNT | Google's online store
Search:
Facebook delves deeper into search.
Man vs. Machine: Could Facebook’s people-sourced search beat Google’s algorithm?
Does Google [...]
Posted: Friday, March 30th 2012
Closing Bell: SMB security bootcamp | Obama on Pinterest | Facebook, Google hiring trends
Security:
AVG launches security BootCamp for small businesses.
Privacy:
Facebook has self to blame for employer privacy mess.
Social Media:
The President now [...]
Posted: Tuesday, March 27th 2012
Top News: FTC online privacy proposal | 4G label targeted in Australia | Siri makes traction
Privacy:
U.S. agency seeks tougher consumer privacy rules.
FTC online privacy proposals slammed by activists
Broadband:
Australian agency [...]
Posted: Tuesday, March 27th 2012
Top News: iPad 3 | Silverpop acquires CoreMotives | Google tablet
iPad 3:
New iPad 32GB, 4G version cost 9% more to produce.
Retina display-friendly apps for the iPad.
New iPad [...]
Posted: Monday, March 19th 2012
Major League Baseball Debuts Lists of Social Media Do's and Don'ts for Players
Major League Baseball has rolled out a social media policy, which was part of the collective bargaining agreement last year. NBC Sport’s Craig Calcaterra published excerpts of the memo sent to all players, which began with the statement that "…we hope that you will not view this policy as a blanket deterrent to engaging in social media."
The [...]
Posted: Friday, March 16th 2012
Top News: More privacy probes for Google | iPad 3 is here | Cloud computing economics
Privacy:
Google the subject of new privacy probes in U.S. and Europe.
E-Commerce:
Groupon UK told to clean up after record complaints.
Mobile Computing:
[...]
Posted: Friday, March 16th 2012
Top News: Privacy talk at SXSW | Apple out of iPads | CNN to acquire Mashable?
SXSW:
At CNET's SXSW 'big data' panel, sparks fly over privacy.
Mobile Computing:
Apple runs out of new iPads for Friday delivery.
Nokia likely to [...]
Posted: Monday, March 12th 2012
Google Sweetens Privacy Pot And/Or Unifies Desktop-Mobile Experience with New Search Function (Take Your Pick)
Google has introduced a so-called new local search experience that allows signed-in users to access the same information on the mobile devices as they had been viewing on the desktop in the past day, via the Recent icon.
Users need to have Web History enabled and be logged into Google when doing their search.
But Why?
Of course, this could just be yet anot [...]
Posted: Tuesday, March 6th 2012
Top News: Google Wallet Expands | Zynga platform | Facebook seesk larger credit line
Mobile Payments:
Google: Wallet expanding to 10 more Sprint devices this year.
Gaming:
Zynga and the perils of becoming a platform.
Search:
Is SEO really SEO [...]
Posted: Friday, March 2nd 2012
Closing Bell: Zynga | AT&T caps unlimited plans | iPad 3
Gaming:
A friend in need, supplied by Zynga.
Privacy:
New Google privacy policy has law-enforcement holes, say experts.
Security:
[...]
Posted: Thursday, March 1st 2012