Posted in Internet on Sep 26th, 2009
Advertisers always want to know what their audiences think of their ads, so Facebook has teamed with Nielsen to take a direct approach. Under a new deal between the social network and the media measurement firm, Facebook users will be asked their opinions of various ads via short, opt-in polls.
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Posted in Internet on Sep 26th, 2009
Sidewiki is Google’s attempt at a wiki Web annotation tool. Users who install the Google browser toolbar and enable Sidewiki can view comments on the page sorted by relevance, as determined by Google’s own algorithm. However, the new tool may have the effect of taking Web page commentary out of the control of the page’s [...]
Posted in Internet on Sep 26th, 2009
Intel’s Atom processor CE4100, unveiled at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Thursday, is the newest System-on-Chip in a family of media processors designed to bring Internet content and services to digital TVs, DVD players and advanced set-top boxes.
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Posted in Internet on Sep 26th, 2009
Can a company that doesn’t have a revenue stream possibly be worth $10 billion? That’s the question that a group of investors are answering with an unequivocal “yes” in the form of $100 million in cold cash. There is skepticism over the wheeling and dealing, though, and more than a few flashes of dot-com deja [...]