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…[T]he mobile web is likely going to be a significant part of our future, which is good news for advertisers because there’s one other thing we’ve been learning about the mobile web: people using the web on mobile devices are much more likely to interact with advertising.
As Volantis and others make the mobile Web easier [...]

Update: As a clarification, Microsoft previously had a Google News competitor, named MSN Newsbot, which no longer exists.

The orange breaking-news bar on the top is a decent feature of the site and only appears when big news is happening. The breaking-news information, unfortunately, appears only to be provided by MSNBC and not automatically generated by [...]

“This is where the advertising community has completely failed at adjusting and adapting and being creative,” Broes said, adding that if they did, “I think we would see a much higher cpm value for video.”

Webware’s Rafe Needleman calls it an automatic avatar builder. Broes sees it as a potentially revolutionary tool for advertisers.

He criticized [...]

There are, of course, some wacky outcomes on the myPicks map, such as the tie between Obama and McCain in Louisiana. Perhaps it just goes to show that Obama needs to work the Facebook crowd if he wants to win over more red states.

The point of the game is to accumulate points to move up [...]

As they might have said at Slashdot rival Fark, “Everybody panic!”
Performance monitoring firm Pingdom reported that Slashdot was down from 3:38 a.m. ET (12:38 am. PT) until about 8:48 a.m. (5:48 a.m. PT), slightly more than five hours.
Slashdot has been owned by the publicly traded SourceForge (LNUX) since 2000, when the company–then known as VA [...]

For what it’s worth, Google last year experimented with overlay ads that pop up within the YouTube video player itself for a few seconds. They didn’t go over too well with some viewers.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–YouTube users soon will see some new advertisements around their online videos.

“We are not the leader in display ads. [...]

A summary of the presidential candidates’ energy policies, with Barack Obama favoring support of the clean energy industry and John McCain calling for less government assistance. Click to enlarge.

Obama has voted for the investment tax credit, set to lapse at the end of this year, and favors a renewable portfolio standard (RPS), which would mandate [...]