What is Semantic Advertising? Who Are The Top Vendors?

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Meaning + Promotion = Semantic Advertising Semantic advertising is the marriage of content analysis with online advertising.  As first discussed last year ( The Semantic Web – Prove It to Yourself in 5 Minutes and What is the semantic web? Why do I want it?) semantic technologies … [Read more...]

People Are Like Velcro

close up velcro hooks with lint.

Riding the packed 6 train in New York at rush hour, chest to chest with total strangers, separated only by the thin white cord of earbuds and hidden iPods, I feel the anxiety rubbing off on me. New York City is emotionally charged at the moment. The streets crackle with the … [Read more...]

The word of the day is “No”

No on plywood.  As in Post No Bills

So I'm walking Big Dog to the park and I see fresh plywood emblazoned with the words "Post No Bills". And I think to myself "Oh yeah... really? How about "no more financial meltdown", "no BS", and as long as we're at it, "no more Nigerian spam emails"? So the word for today … [Read more...]

What’s Twitter? 5 Things Your Business Needs to Know

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Twitter is a micro blogging service that consists of 140 character posts. You can think of it as SMS for the web. It has grown into a near real-time messaging service ranging from the banal "just ate an egg McMuffin" to the useful, "Arrested" which freed James Karl Buck from … [Read more...]

Why bother with Linked-In or Facebook?

Yesterday I got an email from a brilliant friend I haven't seen in years. He's the mad-scientist of video engineering who I remember as always drilling holes in the back of $100,000 Sony decks to make "just one more modification." We re-connected via Facebook (or was it Linked … [Read more...]