22/12/2009
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21/12/2009
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“ The topic of open seems to be coming up a lot lately at Google. I’ve been in meetings where we’re discussing a product and someone says something to the effect that we should be more open. Then a debate ensues which reveals that even though most everyone in the room believes in open we don’t necessarily agree on what it means in practice. „
Official Google Blog: The meaning of open
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“ To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are. „
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“ An ad’s position on Google’s search results pages depends on Google’s secret formula derived from bid prices, the rate at which users previously clicked on the ad and a “quality score” determined by Google. „
The Science of Managing Search Ads - NYTimes.com
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“ For more than one million businesses, Google’s search advertising system is like a hose inundating Web sites with traffic. Managing it effectively, though, is as much art as it is science. It requires a mix of analytics and gamesmanship, a combination of skills that has become vitally important in the Internet age. „
The Science of Managing Search Ads - NYTimes.com
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“ The filing by the company, which owns 224 stations across the country and syndicates Don Imus’s radio show, was not unexpected but does reflect the troubles plaguing the radio industry amid steep declines in advertising revenue and big debt loads. „
Citadel Broadcasting Files for Bankruptcy - NYTimes.com
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20/12/2009
“ …here’s possibly the most interesting thing about him: He considers the fact that he’s sold three companies—and made himself and his investors hundreds of millions of dollars in the process—an embarrassment. That’s right. In a Valley where everyone obsesses over investing in the “serial entrepreneur,” Casares thinks it’s a sign of failure that he couldn’t take his companies the distance.
He compares those assembly-line-esque entrepreneurs who say they are just “the startup guy” to a 40-year-old man who still hangs out at a disco trying to pick up young girls. It’s fine at a point, he argues, but at some level a really good entrepreneur grows up. Indeed, the most successful tech companies are those where the founder stays well into the company’s life, ie Oracle, Apple, Amazon, Google or Hewlett-Packard.
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Sarah Lacy on Wences Casares (via fascinated)
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“ For much of the last century, educators and many scientists believed that children could not learn math at all before the age of five, that their brains simply were not ready. But recent research has turned that assumption on its head — that, and a host of other conventional wisdom about geometry, reading, language and self-control in class. „
Brain Power - Studying Young Minds, and How to Teach Them - Series - NYTimes.com
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19/12/2009
“ An Earth Race led by America — built on markets, economic competition, national self-interest and strategic advantage — is a much more self-sustaining way to reduce carbon emissions than a festival of voluntary, nonbinding commitments at a U.N. conference. Let the Earth Race begin. „
Op-Ed Columnist - Off to the Races - NYTimes.com
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“ This Copenhagen climate summit was based on the Earth Day strategy. It was not very impressive. This conference produced a series of limited, conditional, messy compromises, which it is not at all clear will get us any closer to mitigating climate change at the speed and scale we need. „
Op-Ed Columnist - Off to the Races - NYTimes.com
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Hi, I'm Brooks Jordan, and I assemble bits and pieces from here and there on Tumblr to understand what's going on in digital marketing and advertising. (And there's a lot going on.)
