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CHART OF THE DAY: Internet Ads Growing Faster Than Any Medium In History

dhelmreich — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:18:23 +0000

Great chart and post from Silicon Valley Insider:

The growth of Internet advertising through the medium's first 14 years obliterates the growth of advertising for cable and broadcast television over their first 14 years. Here's a revenue comparison in current inflation-adjusted dollars.

(Dare we say that online advertising looks as though it has gotten a bit ahead of itself?)

Gator / Claria / Jellycloud finally shuts down.

dhelmreich — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:38:28 +0000

I thought we would never see the day.

The infamous spyware company, Gator, having rebranded at least twice and most recently losing several of their "key" employees to the toxic, ISP behavioral targeting firm, NebuAd, had shuttered it’s doors.

http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/06/controversial-ad-company-jellycloud-shuts-down-citing-industry-consolidation/

Blogger Spam

admin — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 14:14:25 +0000

I have been diligently posting for a few days now, and earlier today I received a notice that a new had registered with the email address of adolfodaine77@gmail.com.

Wondering if this was someone that I knew professionally, I first went to Rapleaf to determine which friend had registered. You can see the Rapleaf results here – it looks like his email has been “known” to them for about three months, but no details.

I tried Spock next, with similar results here – still no luck.

Google had the bad news – over 37 search results from both English, Cyrillic and German sites reporting similar registrations, here, here and here. Apparently this guy is not just the the fan I thought he was, but a new category of blog spammer.

This may be nothing new to the lot of you, but surprising to me – bloggers beware.