Archive for March, 2007

Inserting Ads seamlessly into Video

Uncategorized on March 30th, 2007 No Comments

The Wall Street Journal (behind a paywall) reported today Advertising.com, a subsidiary of AOL will be Ad distributor for the as-yet-unnamed NBC – News Corp. joint venture for online video. It seems like advertising.com is leveraging some of the IP it got through AOL’s acquisition of Truveo back in Dec 2005. The technology allows advertising.com [...]

Adwords on Gmail

Uncategorized on March 29th, 2007 No Comments

The ads that appear at the top of my emails in my Gmail account have become extremely targeted lately. I can’t seem to stop clicking on the ads that show up. Google has figured out my interests in start-ups and travel. I get mostly content links from Business week, NY travel and others that are [...]

Green Efforts

Uncategorized on March 27th, 2007 No Comments

http://sustainlane.com/

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VC Anti-Portfolio

Uncategorized on March 26th, 2007 No Comments

Check out this page from the Bessemer Venture Partner site. An interesting (and witty!) profile of missed opportunities. http://bvp.com/port/anti.asp Full Disclosure: Bessemer is an investor in the company I work for.

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The Dissent from Within

Uncategorized on March 26th, 2007 No Comments

Are corporate-types finally waking up to the need for enviromental responsibility? Here is an extract from a Wall Street Journal article (behind a pay wall) NONDALTON, Alaska — Soaring in his private plane above the pristine tundra here two years ago, Robert B. Gillam experienced a conversion: The money manager and pro-business Republican became an [...]

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Say No to Skiing at Heavenly

Uncategorized on March 26th, 2007 No Comments

The Heavenly ski resort at Lake Tahoe is planning to cut-down hundreds of trees to make way for a chair lift. Here is an extract from an article in the Wall Street Journal (behind a pay wall). …ski resorts, which cut down forests to create ski slopes and build condos, still haven’t completely won over [...]

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