January 2008
14 posts
Domain Auction Cleaner →
Microsoft AdCenter scores the WSJ Properties →
It looks like it’s really going to get interesting in the battle for publisher ad space. In the last year Microsoft has started to become much more serious about locking up publisher properties, and they’ve done so again with WSJ.com and its related properties.
It’s great for large publishers that they’ll now have Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google, and every other ad network in the world fighting for...
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Ducks lose overtime heartbreaker to USC. Ugh.
Ducks vs. UCLA….Let’s do it.
Automattic (Wordpress) Snags 29.5 Million in... →
Interesting news out of Silicon Valley where the creators of popular blogging software Wordpress has taken a $29.5 million round of funding to help them grow into their next phase.
I’ve had a couple of conversations with founder Matt Mullenweg at conferences over the years and participated in the first Wordcamp event in San Francisco, and it’s great to see such a nice guy succeed. Matt’s a classy...
39+ Photoshop (PSD) to XHTML / CSS Services | On... →
Really starting to feel like we’re getting close to having the baby. A month left!
Sports Guys Videos →
PSD to HTML service. You Design - We XHTML / CSS.... →
Online Advertising Taking Over TV Advertising:... →
HipMojo points to and analyzes a report from WPP’s GroupM unit that Sweden will be the first country where internet advertising surpasses TV advertising in 2008, and it would happen in the UK in 2009. This is major. While I think it will take a bit longer in the USA, it’s happening faster than I would have predicted a couple of years ago.
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When Display Advertising Creates More Value →
Scott Karp kicked off the new year with a good post called Five Guiding Principles For The Transformation Of Media Companies. It’s a good post that needs to be read by every executive at major media companies today, and in many ways a lot of it seems like common sense to those who have been watching the transformation occur and understand what’s going on.
Specifically though I wanted to address...
Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS) →
JP Morgan Predicts Display Advertising CPMs Will... →
Techcrunch comments on the “Nothing but Net” report released by JP Morgan that discusses the prospects of online powers who derive a majority of their revenue from advertising.
There are a number of interesting items in the report, but the one that hits closest to home for me is their prediction that display advertising CPM prices will rise from their bottom in 2007 of $3.31 to $3.86 by 2011...