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Tune In To Google TV Ads
The official word from Google said they will run a trial of targeted video advertising with a couple of outlets: EchoStar, which…
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Google Joins Doubleclick Bidders
As we talked about last week, Doubleclick is for sale and Microsoft was thought to be the leader in the clubhouse to buy the advertising company.
Topix Gets Local with Citizen Journalism
Topix, the local news aggregator that is owned by several big U.S. newspaper chains (Gannett, The Tribune and McClatchy), is doing what amounts to a relaunch of the site and adding “citizen journalism” or social media to the mix, as well as moving to a dot-com domain (it used to be dot-net). Founder and CEO Rich Skrenta — who describes on his personal blog how…
Topix Reinvented As Hyperlocal News Portal
The news aggregating site at Topix.net has a new complementary domain at Topix.com, and a renewed focus on the local audience that CEO Rich Skrenta thinks can be a difference maker for the site. Oh, and just call them Topix.
Comedy Central Opens Online Joke School
Just when you thought the Internet was full…Today, Comedy Central opened up an online joke school for the humor impaired. Marking yet another stop along the way to TV/Internet content integration, while taking advantage of the broadband boom and the online community meme, the all-comedy cable network's "Crash Course In Comedy" is an interactive online comedy school "for wannabe standup comedians."
Say Yea, Nay To Reddit’s Ads
"Brace yourself, ads are coming" - and you can vote on them. Of course, you may choose to give every single one a thumbs down, but that's Reddit's problem. They're the ones with the new ads, and they're the ones with the new voting system.
