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Rumor has it they’re adding an API — but only for advertisers. The goal would be finer-grained campaign scheduling and optimization, but not for publishers to shop which ads they’d like to run. Already, some of the commentary has focused on publishers’ wishes to replace the mapping function that assigns ads to pages — sometimes, […]
Now, what would it take to build an open-source clone of Craigslist one could run locally? Craigslist Circles the Globe With Online Classifieds, One City at a Time By ERIC PFANNER, International Herald Tribune Published: January 17, 2005 LONDON – A motor scooter in Manchester, an apartment in Amsterdam, a poster in Paris. All are […]
Chris Masse’s year end summary of Prediction Markets activity for 2004 gave a pointer to an article from Time Magazine back in July that I had skimmed earlier. When I looked at it again, I found references to internal markets at Microsoft, Eli Lilly, and Intel that I hadn’t noticed before. It seems worth the […]
Yaron Goland’s thoughts on Tor suggest an interesting decentralized system… You don’t know what you have to hide and by the time you figure it out, it will likely be too late. This is where Tor comes in. It makes it much easier to hide. The reason to use Tor isn’t so much because you […]
Ben Sittler noticed that Kenosis got Slashdotted yesterday: UnderScan writes “Eric Ries, writer/programmer/CTO, authored an article ‘Kenosis and the World Free Web’ at Freshmeat [Owned by Slashdot’s Parent OSTG]. Kenosis is described as a ‘fully-distributed peer-to-peer RPC system built on top of XMLRPC.’ He has combined his Kenosis with BitTorrent & removed the need for […]
Rohit pointed out that Reader’s Digest, of all things, had an article (not on-line apparently) this month on how researchers are using fMRI to contribute new insights in behavioral economics. Monkeys (and the article’s author) were observed using fMRI while participating in artificial trading games to investigate what parts of the brain are activated when […]
ACM News Service “Boeing, U. of I. to Work on Computer Trust Issues” Chicago Sun-Times (01/06/05); Knowles, Francine Boeing and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Information Trust Institute have teamed up to design trustworthy, reliable, and secure networked systems and software employed in critical infrastructures, with a focus on basic breakthroughs that can become […]
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USATODAY.com – Canadians can place online bets for next CEO to get boot Canadians can place online bets for next CEO to get boot By Del Jones, USA TODAY People who want to do more than just read about CEOs getting booted now can try and cash in on the next executive suite ejection. Online […]
As part of the zMarket project, zLab is considering building a research platform for electronic markets. This is the sort of shared infrastructure a 1997 NSF workshop called for, which we discussed in an earlier blog entry. Unfortunately, the original link to the Netlab workshop report died in the last month. It’s odd how content […]