Facebook to launch contextual ads based on user profile information; Predictive! http://www.adpulp.com/archives/2007/08/here_come_the_a.php
Facebook's new ad system will read your favorites and activities and target relevant ads, but will also predict things you'll like even before you know it. I'm guessing this is like Amazon's If You Like This / You'll Like This model.
Tribune Co. ad sales plummet 10.3% in July; 24% for Real Estate ad sales http://www.reuters.com/article/technology-media-telco-SP/idUSWEN067920070824
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonder_Years">The Wonder Years</a> is the best show on television, and will probably never be released on DVD.
In an effort to get people to look into each other's eyes more, the government has decided to allot each person exactly one hundred and sixty-seven words, per day.
When the phone rings, I put it to my ear without saying hello. In the restaurant I point at chicken noodle soup. I am adjusting well to the new way.
Late at night, I call my long distance lover and proudly say I only used fifty-nine today. I saved the rest for you.
When she doesn't respond, I know she's used up all her words so I slowly whisper I love you, thirty-two and a third times. After that, we just sit on the line and listen to each other breathe.
http://www.conceptshare.com/ -- Great software for design collaboration. Lets you upload comp as a PDF, make notes and send updates to all parties involved. Seems a little limiting, but if it's really easy, might switch to using this.
Quit my job. Last payday in 7 days. New job in 11. Moving in 20. Invoices, bills, security deposits. I feel like a very fat kid running up a very big escalator.
Great story in Businessweek about the good news/bad news around Starbucks dropping all milk with rBGH, bovine growth hormone. When Starbucks writes checks, the Walmart Effect kicks in, and the whole world shifts a little. The milk market responds accordingly: producing more milk from less productive non-rBGH cows will drive up costs, which are passed onto Kenny Rood; if its good for Starbucks, it's good for McDonalds, Walmart, etc. Bing bang bong: my non-fat latte, with one more nickel added for hormone tax, stirs up hurricanes in the dairy world.
MyLATimes launches today I got an email about this today at work, but seriously, it looks like that customized news page that pops up when you log into AOL Instant Messenger. Very 1999.
Went to Fashion Island to read and drink my coffee before work. Fashion Island is a free range zoo of the attractive. There's this store called Anthropologie that I swear is a time machine. 40-year old women leaving that store are 15% more attractive than the 40-year old women leaving the Barnes and Noble-Starbucks.
The Walmart Effect. Has anyone read this? When Walmart splashes its big corporate arms in the pool, it effects everything. Deodorant used to be packaged in boxes. Eliminating the thin paper box around each plastic canister of deodorant saved shelf space, shaved cents off the price -- less paper, lower production costs, no one to design the box, less cargo to deliver. And now: there are no boxes. Anywhere. Reminds me of how UPS saved millions by cutting back on left-hand turns.
AdAge" posts Top 100 Ad Campaigns ever. Only 3 are post-1990.
Flying to SF this weekend. I'll send you a postcard.
We had to see this coming: Mills Corp., which owns The Block at Orange and the Ontario Mills mall, is profoundly broke. Beginning as early as March 31st, the company is supposed to sell off holdings.
For 2 more months I live in Anaheim, the 10th largest city in California. The city is constructing a 'Walk of Stars.' Harbor Blvd; Hollywood Blvd, Jr. Throughout greater Anaheim, a gaggle of tourists, kids and prostitutes can scuttle across "Carl Karcher", "Gwen Stefani", "Tiger Woods" (Had no idea he was a resident),"Walt Disney" and - thank God! - The OC creator "Josh Schwartz."
We had to see this coming: Mills Corp., which owns The Block at Orange and the Ontario Mills mall, is profoundly broke. Beginning as early as March 31st, the company is supposed to sell off holdings.
For 2 more months I live in Anaheim, the 10th largest city in California. The city is constructing a 'Walk of Stars.' Harbor Blvd; Hollywood Blvd, Jr. Throughout greater Anaheim, a gaggle of tourists, kids and prostitutes can scuttle across "Carl Karcher", "Gwen Stefani", "Tiger Woods" (Had no idea he was a resident),"Walt Disney" and - thank God! - The OC creator "Josh Schwartz."
Laziness: My friend Brian and I were walking through two sets of entry doors to the mall, push/pull and automatic. Brian calls the doors a metaphor. Brian, the majestic Moses of shopping mall doors, whose telekinetic brawn bends them open like a Korean Magneto. The modern world bowing as he enters, Nordstrom giftcard in hand.
Is it just me? You have arms and hands to push doors that were made to be pushed. Mechanically perfect letters etched in the handlebar. PUSH. This is what makes us human. The very human ability to recognize our very human abilities. Oh, and if you use a drive-thru ATM, your car is just a giant wheelchair.
Found these great shorts by Hillman Curtis: SPINAL TAP
1. Do things, instead of explaining away or whining about why they can't be done. 2. Learn how to install a ceiling fan, and how to wire a light switch. 3. Create a little. 4. Destroy a little.
What's yours? Predictions for '07?
Our lease is up in March, and I don't have the time to comb Craigslist every eight minutes for a house. So: Craig2Mail - the service is rigged so whenever a home is listed in my price range, in the area I want -- it sends an email to my Blackberry. Internet, on demand, bending to my will. If a house is listed, I know about it within 4 seconds.
Television, without any reliable metric for engagement, is just going to keep dying. Verizon, however, knows when and how you use your phone. They know where you live. They know you have Jay-Z wallpaper and Jay-Z ringtones. And they know you, if prompted, would buy tickets to that Jay Z concert just down the street.
They know because they already did it for Beyonce.
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
veryrood's journal
We had to see this coming: Mills Corp., which owns The Block at Orange and the Ontario Mills mall, is profoundly broke. Beginning as early as March 31st, the company is supposed to sell off holdings. 
