The folks over at the Technology Council of Southern California (TCOSC) have passed on a discount to their upcoming, January 31st event for anyone reading this blog. If you use the code BOD12, you’ll gain entry to the event for $35, a $20 discount from the normal registration fee. Info below, and you can register [...]
Well, that’s a relief. Microsoft apparently is dropping its vomit ad, after lots of customers complained. For those who have so far been spared having to watch what has been billed the worst technology ad ever, be thankful. (For the squeamish, it involved a wife.. ummm, vomiting, repeatedly, and graphically, all over a husband after [...]
I don’t know about you, but either Gmail thinks I can read a lot more Hindi (?) (see embedded ad below) than I thought I could, or someone has some strange ad targeting parameters: ps. I’m clearly NOT at zero inbox.
On the “when will the recession hit the Internet front”: today, Westlake Village-based ValueClick announced it was reducing second quarter estimates due to a drop in Internet advertising — specifically, lackluster growth in display advertising and a steep dropoff in lead generation advertising. Despite what seems like boom times in technology today, it’s pretty clear [...]
Paidcontent is reporting that OpenX, provider of a popular open source advertising serving software product, is moving its headquarters to Los Angeles. OpenX is backed by Index Ventures and Accel. The addition of OpenX bolsters the growing ranks of Internet advertising firms located in the Los Angeles and surrounding areas: among other online advertising related [...]
Here’s a great summary of why mainstream media is having so many problems, from an article today in the San Francisco Chronicle: Mainstream media as a whole, the report found, isn’t losing its audience. It just doesn’t know how to get its new online customers – or anyone else who is reading what they’re producing [...]
There’s been a lot of banter recently here, at conferences, blogs, and in my personal conversations with people about the effect of an overall slowdown (if there is one) on Internet advertising. The problem is, there are several, very different, and powerful forces bearing down on the Internet advertising market, which make it hard to [...]
comScore just released their Top 50 web rankings for November, and several Southern California companies made the rankings. Among the top sites, Fox Interactive Media (including MySpace.com) was number 5; at number 22, was Gorilla Nation; Shopzilla–undoubtedly boosted by the holiday shopping season–was at number 26; Yellowpages.com — out of Pasadena — was number 29; [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
