Monthly Archives: October 2007

Ad networks vs ad exchanges

Posted on October 24, 2007 by

I spent yesterday at the Right Media Open event in Half Moon Bay at the Ritz Carlton Hotel. Right Media assembled an impressive list of executives and innovators including John Battelle of Federated Media, David Rosenblatt of DoubleClick, Scott Howe … Continue reading →

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The positive outlook for Yahoo!

Posted on October 16, 2007 by

I was able to contribute a quote to a BusinessWeek.com story by Catherine Holahan on changes happening at Yahoo!. Unfortunately, she also quotes from a really old blog post of mine (July 2006) which feels like a lifetime ago, but … Continue reading →

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Building community is hard

Posted on October 15, 2007 by

Jay Rosen has an interesting post on the failure of AssignmentZero, an effort to build a publicly funded crowdsourced news organization. Among the many lessons, he keeps coming back to motivation and incentive. “A well managed project correctly estimates what … Continue reading →

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Announcing baby with Twitter

Posted on October 2, 2007 by

I get Twitter now. Until last week it seemed a bit silly to me, perhaps overhyped. But after using it to share updates of my son’s birth with friends and family members distributed across several time zones in near real-time, … Continue reading →

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