The Accurate Audience Measurement Tools are Here. The Accurate Audience Measurement Tools are Here.

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Image by Josh Bancroft via Flickr PaidContent.org is one of the best sites on the Web. Grab their feed. They have a piece today that discusses a new tool that combines mobile and Web traffic stats. This comes on the heels of their service that tracks PC-TV viewing alongside traditional television viewing. Once ...

Microsoft’s Surface Touchscreen Computer

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Just because I think this is the coolest thing out there and I want one. Microsoft's table-top computer, brought to you by the Silicon Valley Insider.Check it out here.

MS Live News, Like Google News Only…Like Google News

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

I worked on a story yesterday for Ecommerce Times about Gawker Media selling off three of its properties. In the course of reporting the story, I talked to an author who researched trends in media. His take: people are moving from a personality-centric news source to an aggregation service that ...

So That’s What Happens When You Depend on Third Parties

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

In 2006, newspapers were patting themselves on the back for partnering with Google and Yahoo (I believe) to help sell advertising in both print and online. At the time, I was winding up my time at Technology Review; however, I was adamant that we not look into similar deals for magazines. ...

Video Advertising Conundrum

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Coming home from South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi), I was struck by the number of regular joes and joannies who have moved into the video blogging space. I'm using vlog generically because folks like Gary over at Wine Library label what they do a blog -- it feels different. Maybe ...

Adobe Air: The End of Design and Banners

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

We're building a content management system as part of a project here in Media Informatics. Along the way, my student worker came to me and showed me Microsoft Silverlight, a cool environment that enables developers to create applications that work online and offline seamlessly. It's a difficult task to describe how ...