Archives for the "Advertising" tag
Ruthless Efficiencies
As readers of this site know, I strongly believe that we are now in the middle of a major overall shift in economic trend that hasn’t been seen since the introduction of the paper bill in late 1700s england. Seen under this lens, I’m starting to think that there may be some truths to the [...]
Tags: Advertising, Internet, United States, VOIP
In Business, Technology
Future Tense – IPzation
Google returns 0 results for this at the time I’m writing this entry. The concept of IPzation, in my view, is that everything electronic interaction is moving to a level where the communication will happen over an Internet Protocol layer. We are already starting to see the beginning of that phenomenon with Voice Over IP, [...]
Tags: Advertising, Google, Telephony, VOIP, Video
In Analysis
2006 Predictions
Since 1997, It’s been a long running game here at TNL.net central to make wild predictions about the upcoming year that have turned out to be only somewhat off (and, as always, I promise to revisit them around the end of next year to assess how far off base I was) so here goes this [...]
Tags: 3G, AOL, Advertising, Blogging, Broadband, Europe, Google, Media, Microsoft, Social Networks, Sony, United States, VOIP, Video, Wireless, Yahoo
In Analysis
Getting to Know You
Google’s introduction of new extensions for Firefox is all about knowing more about some users. This week, Google introduced two new Firefox extensions: Google Safe Browsing and Blogger Web Comments which are providing richer integration with the desktop and a number of new features based on your surfing patterns. But the question, when looking at those is [...]
Tags: Advertising, Google, Java, Search
In Analysis
Uncovering a Spammer
I’ve received a lot of emails about Emailresults.net, the company that sent me the spam for Howard Dean’s campaign. The interesting thing is that they all seem to point to the fact that the company is using harvested emails and offering them to customers as an opt-in list. A lot of their customers have been [...]
Tags: Advertising, Google
astroblogs
The ragingcow blog got me thinking about the concept of Astroturf blogs (I would call them astroblogs). A lot of people are saying that a blog like ragingcow can’t work and yet, there is a number of discussions about it all over the blogosphere. Now, if it doesn’t work, how come I now know about [...]
Tags: Advertising, Blogging, Marketing
In Business





