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The Great Online Advertising Divide Widens

Thursday at 12:59 pm - Link

in an environment where companies have less money to go around, they need to find the best ways to utilize that cash and speak to the target audience. For now, display advertising will not be the best place to spend ad dollars - Matt McAlister

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The Wisdom of Clouds: Elements of a Cloud Oriented Architecture

September 2 at 9:04 am - Link

the next step is to break down what technology elements need to be considered when engineering for the cloud. - Matt McAlister

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47 Photo APIs

September 2 at 1:50 am - Link

here’s the full list of photo-related APIs in the ProgrammableWeb directory - Matt McAlister

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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The cloud's Chrome lining

September 2 at 1:48 am - Link

Google knows that its future hinges on the continued rapid expansion of the usefulness of the Internet, which in turn hinges on the expansion of the capabilities of web apps, which in turn hinges on rapid improvements in the workings of web browsers. - Matt McAlister

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Novelties - Lines and Bubbles and Bars, Oh My! New Ways to Sift Data - NYTimes.com

September 2 at 1:32 am - Link

“The great fun of information visualization,” he said, “is that it gives you answers to questions you didn’t know you had.” - Matt McAlister

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oobject » algorithmic architecture

September 1 at 6:57 am - Link

If you really want to see what is happening at the cutting edge of architecture, look at some of these schemes - Matt McAlister

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Bit.ly, The Smarter TinyURL, Getting A Revenue Plan

September 1 at 6:49 am - Link

Instead of Tweeting out a link like bit.ly/1NBDp8 on Twitter, we could potentially use something like alleyinsider.com/1NBDp8. - Matt McAlister

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Web Services That Cater To Both The Publisher And The Reader

September 1 at 6:46 am - Link

This is mashing up and mixing up the concept of the publisher and the reader. And so services that do the same by focusing on both of them at the same time are going to prosper. - Matt McAlister

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MySpace Serving More Display Ads Than Yahoo : Shoud Yahoo Care?

August 28 at 10:15 am - Link

Yahoo beware, the latest ComScore numbers are not going to fair well with stock holders or advertisers. - Matt McAlister

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Paul Carvill exposes the dark corners of guardian.co.uk | Help | guardian.co.uk

August 23 at 9:30 am - Link

For example, here's a URL which will give you dead rock star - Matt McAlister

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How To Launch Software (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)

August 23 at 8:54 am - Link

That's the graph that everyone loves to see: solid growth, not a one-day wonder. - Matt McAlister

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Simon Willison joins Guardian News & Media | Media | guardian.co.uk

August 22 at 9:10 am - Link

Willison is the latest technical appointment for the publisher, parent of MediaGuardian.co.uk, which is building up its development team for a range of projects. - Matt McAlister

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10 Highly Promising Web Platforms

August 20 at 10:36 pm - Link

The list below features some of our favorite 'lesser known' web developer platforms. - Matt McAlister

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DbWorld » Blog Archive » [Dbworld] Claremont Report on Database Research

August 20 at 6:46 am - Link

As the ecosystem for database management evolves further beyond the typical DBMS user base, opportunities emerge for new programming models and for new system components for data management and manipulation. - Matt McAlister

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Recovering Journalist: What Will Happen When the Presses Go Silent?

August 20 at 1:40 am - Link

"Can you even be a major city without a daily paper?" We're going to find out the answer to that before very long, I'm afraid. - Matt McAlister

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Local Online Media: From Advertising to Action (pdf)

August 20 at 1:40 am - Link

Local newspaper sites also beat TV stations (44 percent), magazines (42 percent) and city guides (42 percent) as 46 percent identified online papers as most likely to “generate action,” such as buying a product or doing more research. - Matt McAlister

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Google Bucks Downturn in Digital Media's Slowest Ever Quarter

August 20 at 1:37 am - Link

"Companies relying solely on digital revenues for growth may struggle in the second half of 2008, as consumers and advertisers alike tighten budgets." - Matt McAlister

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Packaging Data for Reuse « Power of Information Task Force

August 20 at 1:35 am - Link

Getting to the right data and being offered clear information about its technical and legal characteristics is a critical part of a sound access layer. - Matt McAlister

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Best News Mashups Announced in Daylife Challenge

August 20 at 1:30 am - Link

if you go directly to the NewsLine home page, you’ll see a time line of today’s top stories. You can also view these stories arranged as a list or flipbook, or arranged on a map. - Matt McAlister

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Yahoo! Opens Buzz Submissions to All - But is It Democratic? - ReadWriteWeb

August 19 at 3:24 am - Link

The story of Buzz may in fact be that user voted news sites are most viable when they operate as a hybrid of voting and editorial. - Matt McAlister

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Topic Pages to Be Hub of New BusinessWeek Site - NYTimes.com

August 18 at 10:06 am - Link

Each Business Exchange topic page links to articles and blog posts from myriad other sources, including BusinessWeek’s competitors, with the contents updated automatically by a Web crawler. - Matt McAlister

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New breed of 'net newsers' shape US media habits, says Pew report | Media | guardian.co.uk

August 18 at 9:45 am - Link

They do favour some traditional media brands, including the New Yorker, The Atlantic and the BBC, the Pew survey of 3,600 adults found. But only 47% watch TV news on an average day. - Matt McAlister

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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Explaining REST to Damien Katz

August 18 at 7:17 am - Link

When you read the above list, the first thing you will note is that it describes the architecture of the World Wide Web. It doesn't describe the architecture of "a typical enterprise" or the internals of a cloud computing application. - Matt McAlister

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Data-Driven Enhancement of Facial Attractiveness

August 17 at 1:11 pm - Link

we extract a set of distances between a variety of facial feature locations, which define a point in a high-dimensional “face space”. We then search the face space for a nearby point with a higher predicted attractiveness rating. - Matt McAlister

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Amazing but True Cat Stories

August 17 at 1:08 pm - Link

after a few days of collecting [via Mechanical Turk], I selected about 25 stories and 20 images and spent an evening doing a nice layout for a Blurb book. - Matt McAlister

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wesabe-excel-budget - Google Code

August 16 at 12:59 pm - Link

It downloads your transaction data from Wesabe and shows your daily spending categorized using your Wesabe tags. - Matt McAlister

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InfoQ: Domain-Driven Design in an Evolving Architecture

August 16 at 7:30 am - Link

This article examines how we used DDD in the context of a two-year programme of work to rethink and rebuild guardian.co.uk. - Matt McAlister

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Fractals of Change: Too Much Revenue, Not Enough Growth

August 15 at 10:15 am - Link

The more ads you get and the more you can charge for them, the more money bloggers in your network can make. You want to keep this virtuous circle of growth going as long as you possibly can. - Matt McAlister

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BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » How to build a network

August 15 at 9:52 am - Link

Take the minimum value out of the network to make it grow to maximum size to enable its members to charge more for their value while keeping costs and margins low to block competitors. - Matt McAlister

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Metropolitan Police Service - Online Crime Reporting

August 15 at 5:38 am - Link

Welcome to non-emergency crime and hate crime / incident reporting - Matt McAlister

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