x+1 – on the edge of privacy

August 4th, 2010 by michael-altendorf

This platform is really showing the future of a completely de anonymised user tracking. Hard to believe that this is really legal in US. 10 years ago doubleclick was blamed for this. Now it becomes reality:

Ready the full scary article here:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703294904575385532109190198.html?mod=WSJ_Tech_LEADSecond

The future of ad exchanges

August 4th, 2010 by michael-altendorf

Doubleclick PM explains some insights about their ad exchange

Facebook – Amazon & Shopping 2.0

August 4th, 2010 by michael-altendorf

Facebook and Amazon announced a deal which will introduce the next chapter of ecommerce. Mass personalization and social shopping will become mainstream.
Now, users are able to log in with Facebook connect to their Amazon account. Amazon can personalize the user experience, offer discounts to the social graph or offer personalized recommendations on the users’ preferences in the profile.

German Basic Thinking Blog Comment:
http://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2010/07/28/amazon-facebook-deal-schoener-shoppen-mit-deinen-profildaten/

Read Write Web already predicted this in 2008
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/what_if_amazon_and_itunes_impl.php

Techrunch Article
http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/27/amazon-now-taps-into-facebook-for-social-product-recommendations/

eweek
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Amazon-Facebook-Connect-for-Social-Shopping-583131/

Google invests $100 Mio in Zynga & will start Google Games

August 4th, 2010 by michael-altendorf

The social gaming marketing is growing and google doesn’t want to miss that area. As item selling and virtual currencies are coming up as second pillar of social web business models Google will now step into this space with Google games
http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/10/google-secretly-invested-100-million-in-zynga-preparing-to-launch-google-games/

IAB Keynote on the future of online marketing, targeting and the social web data

August 4th, 2010 by michael-altendorf

Definitely one of the best overview about the online advertisement market in 2010.
The Social Web is coming and the user generated data will change the value chain!

Source: http://www.slideshare.net/tkawaja/terence-kawajas-iab-networks-and-exchanges-keynote

Digital Advertising Ecosystem

June 1st, 2010 by admin

Internet economics – Grundlagen der Internet-Ökonomie

June 1st, 2010 by admin

Social Media Advertising

June 1st, 2010 by admin

Join our new group on Facebook and start the discussion on social media advertising strategies:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=120526761297111

What comes after Farmville and Mafia Wars on Facebook and other gaming platforms

March 10th, 2010 by michael-altendorf

Professor Schell from Carnegie Mellon university shows what’s up next after Farmville and all the gaming apps.’
In these days the Gaming Developer Conference in San Francisco takes place and a lot of new stuff is announced.

Companies like Zynga or Playfish will be the big hype in early 2010.
I would recommend to add http://www.insidesocialgames.com/ to your feed reader

By the way, the just announced Civilization 5! I next milestone in gaming. The PC game is not built by Sid Meier due to his work on Sid Meier’s Civilzation network
http://www.facebook.com/civnetwork?v=info

 

Source: http://g4tv.com/videos/44277/DICE-2010-Design-Outside-the-Box-Presentation/

 

The secret history of Silicon Valley

February 26th, 2010 by michael-altendorf

by Steve Blank, serial entrepreneur at Google TechTalk.

You can follow him here https://twitter.com/sgblank