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Google Product Management Director Talks Display Ad Builder

Last October Google launched its Display Ad Builder. Webproworld has covered various features of this product since its launch. "In short, DAB brings some key attributes of search -- simplicity and cost-efficiency --  to display, a form of advertising that many agencies find to be more resource intensive and complex," a spokesperson for Google tells Webproworld. "Since the fall, it's become much more relevant to…

Google’s Interest Based Ads Go to Feeds

In early April, Google clarified some misconceptions about AdSense after they changed AdSense URLs to DoubleClick URLs. In an extension of that clarification, Google has posted to the AdSense for Feeds Blog regarding AdSense for feeds tags.

Robot Wants Friends On Facebook

Researchers from the Interactive Robots and Media Lab (IRML) at the University of the United Arab Emirates are giving a robot its own Facebook profile page to explore "human-robot relationships." Research indicates that humans gradually lose interest in interactive robots after a few weeks. Dr. Nikolaos Mavridis, Lab director at IRML, hopes to change that by studying how humans interact with a robot on the…

The Craigslist Challenge Continues

Craig Newmark never killed anyone. In fact, all Craig wanted to do was help people. Unfortunately, Philip Markoff possibly did kill someone, and he found his lead on Craig’s website, Craigslist.org.