Clearing the Backlog
A kid sure occupies you. A friend likened it to watching fire recently. Really not too interesting but you just have to keep watching. I obviously didn’t stop reading though so it is time for clearing the backlog again, dumping my brain into this blog once again, trying to get back on top of things.
The wonderful people at MOO have launched their MOO Stickers. I already love their business cards, and this ads to the mix. Looking forward to seeing the company grow into other markets.
The guys at Townster posted about Vibe on their Blog. Great little video!
AOL/Time Warner bought TACODA in another deal which moves a network for ads further towards the big players, giving behavioural targeting a further push into the main stream.
Seth Goldstein launched SocialMedia, which builds Facebook aps, already having over 12 Million Users in total!!! They are looking for a designer by the way. If you know anyone, send me an eMail or leave a comment.
As for ad networks, check out this article on media week entitled: Marketers Turn to Web Ad Nets. Also a real relevant point for all the people out there running performance based advertising solutions.
Don Dodge wrote about the Microsoft analyst meeting with some interesting bits. They are serious about advertising, having bought AQuantive and AdECN, having deals with Facebook and Digg. The other big pushes from Redmond are software as a service and consumer services. Big changes going on at Microsoft.
[Clickriver](https://clickriver.com/advertiser/login/home;jsessionid=C472116E6A25B9B3D399B613CB1673AC?$g6K+l7Nd0uH+aBQ0LWjs6yq/CfzfludW) is online, allowing your to advertise your services on Amazon.
Amazon has started to allow payable AMIs on their Amazon EC2 service. I have the feeling that WeoCEO might be one of them soon.
Valleywag posted the Facebook Ratecard.
The NU2M portfolio seems to be transferred to Media Ventures by the looks of it. Watch out for some posters near you in Germany :)
Desktop Tower Defense is coming to the desktop as a mutiplayer game. God the time we will loose!
F5 Networks bought Acopia. A good move if you ask me. They move from traffic management to a more integrated system of managing your entire server system.
Google is tracking deeper data with AdSense, allowing them to target users specifically based on their habits. With their reach, it’s an amazing behavioural targeting system.
Plentyoffish.com is sticking with no employees for a while with big changes in the online dating market happening it seems.
Feld posts about the Social Graph. One of our employees is working on something to allow social graph portability and Brad, ex LiveJournal / Six Apart, now Google, seems to be going in that direction too. This will seriously be a major shift and let’s see if it happens or rather when.