Author: Toni Schneider
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Behavioral AdSense
I wonder how AdSense effectiveness will change with their addition of behavioral targeting. This part is particularly smart: And by visiting the new Ads Preferences Manager, users can see what interest categories we think they fall into, or add and remove categories themselves. The Preferences Manager also allows people to opt out of being behaviorally…
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Swiss car news
A couple of intriguing car innovations from my old homeland – both are deceptively simple: An ETH professor is working on a pneumatic hybrid engine. It stores excess energy as compressed air instead of using batteries, which could make hybrid engines simpler and cheaper. Rinspeed (a Zurich based Porsche dealer and tuner known for creating…
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Gravatar hits a billion
Demitrious recently mentioned that Gravatar now handles over a billion avatar requests a day!
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Startling poem
A couple of days ago I tuned into KQED and was drawn into an intense reading of a poem. It was San Francisco high school student Simone Crew reading a Iraq war poem on Forum. You can hear it at the 10 minute mark:
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BBC documentary
I recently watched “Century of the Self” and found it to be one of the best told histories of the 20th century. From the Wikipedia: The documentary describes the impact of Freud’s theories on the perception of the human mind, and the ways public relations agencies and politicians have used this during the last 100…
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Innovation crisis
Jon Callaghan asks how VCs can help sustain innovation during our tough economic times.
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WordPress in the news
There’s a nice article about Matt and WordPress in USA Today and news that WordPress.com is one of the fastest growing large web sites in the world (#3 according to TechCrunch’s analysis).
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WordPress 2.7
A big day today for WordPress: The eagerly awaited 2.7 release was officially released this morning and lots of people are downloading it. Congratulations and huge thanks to the hundreds of people who have contributed to this release. It’s a milestone for WordPress with a new user interface and information architecture, and crucial new features…