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By day, I'm a product manager serving a group of fantastic engineers at Square.
By night, I fight crime and solve mysteries with a robot pal of my own creation.
By midday, I like a snack, generally a cookie.
Part of this biography isn't true (hint, I like cookies and engineering, I don't own a robot)
Category Archives: Business
The New York Times hosed my computer
This story doesn’t get any better. I mentioned earlier that the New York Times was running a Java applet video ad that caused my home computer to wig out. At work, it seems, the applet causes my computer (G4 Mirrored … Continue reading
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N.Y. Times has video ads done wrong
I’m not suprised that the New York Times has video ads — they’ve tended to be pioneers in ad formats — but I’m suprised that they’re done so badly. This morning I was trying to read this story when all … Continue reading
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I don’t want to say I told you so…
But Advertising.com has finished a study that shows that up to 85% of “conversions” occur days after a user has seen an ad. (via Web Marketing News) While I’ve talked about this before, I’ll readily admit that I don’t have … Continue reading
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NYTimes to battle USA Today
[The New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com) is going to soon be offering a free version of its [digital-replica edition](http://homedelivery.nytimes.com/HDS/Transition.do?mode=EE&ExternalMediaCode=N22AA) to patrons of [Wayport](http://www.wayport.net/), a provider of hotel and travel Wi-Fi hotspots. (via [Poynter](http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=56243)) What does this have to do with [USA Today](http://www.usatoday.com/)? … Continue reading
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Video ads on news sites
“Editor and Publisher”:http://www.editorandpublisher.com reports that the two “Denver”:http://www.denverpost.com “papers”:http://www.rockymountainnews.com/ have begun “selling video ads”:http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2016756. I was unable to find any of those ads on the site today, but the “E&P article”:http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2016756 says that they do *not* start playing automatically — … Continue reading
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