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Yahoo! Launches Shine, Calacanis Confused…

March 31, 2008 12:50 pm / 3 Comments / Pat McCarthy

Yahoo! today announced the launch of their new women’s site Shine. While the site looks great, and as a Yahoo! employee I probably care more about Yahoo! news than most people, I didn’t think it’d really make much of a splash in the tech blog world and the feeds I normally read.

Well, Jason Calacanis stirred up a controversy by claiming that Yahoo! was competing with it’s advertising publisher partners by creating a site that competes with them. Normally, I tend to think Jason is on the ball with a lot of his opinions, but his post on this subject doesn’t seem well thought out.
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Posted in: Advertising

Could Advertising Optimization Algorithms Be Crowdsourced?

March 5, 2008 10:52 am / 2 Comments / Pat McCarthy

This article in Wired is a good read about Netflix’s competition to improve it’s movie recommendation engine.

I found it interesting for a few reasons. First, as a Netflix user I’ve always felt their movie suggestions for me have not been very good. I usually understand why they recommended what they did, but it’s never stuff I have much of an interest in watching.
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Posted in: Advertising

The Last Lecture from Dr. Randy Pausch Video

March 4, 2008 1:49 pm / 3 Comments / Pat McCarthy

As a father of three kids, I found the following video from Dr. Randy Pausch to be important and quite moving. Paush is a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon who only has a short time to live due to pancreatic cancer, and he made a special last lecture for his class and most importantly his three kids that is about his mindset and how to live life. Pretty inspirational stuff.

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