December 2009
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CBS dumps ad networks, sets up its own
CBS is expected to announce Dec. 14 that it will no longer do business with third-party ad networks, and will instead sell all of its considerable online inventory on its own. via Business Insider
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Stacked graph update
December is a tough time of the year to get anything done and I now realize that my plan to develop stacked graph visualizations of Newstogram data (which required learning a new programming language) was overly optimistic. I’ve pushed this out to 2010 but to keep me motivated I have added two stacked graph visualizations to my data wall: 1. Visualization of my Last.fm listening history...
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“Google now appears to be going full throttle on personalization, choosing it as...”
– …via Greg Linden
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Pivot
Microsoft LiveLab’s new visualization tool Pivot looks amazing…. almost worth getting a Windows 7 machine to check it out!!
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Confusing economics of BusinessWeek Exchange
SAI reports that BusinessWeek Exchange only has 37,000 registered users. Despite the embarrassingly low number of registered users BusinessWeek expects to earn $5MM from BW Exchange this year. Put another way, BusinessWeek expects to earn over $100 in revenue per registered user of BW Exchange(!!) I’m sure they’re able to command some impressive CPMs, however even with outrageous CPM...