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• Social network advertising: not your father’s banner ad

  When i visited the San Jose Mercury News yesterday, what did we talk about? Advertising and how newspapers were going to make it online. Well, one trend we’re seeing big time is the move to social networks. Facebook alone has more than 100 million... Posted Nov 26 2008, 06:38 AM by Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger Filed under: Advertising, Technology, Facebook, MySpace, Social Network

• The best marketer of 2008 reads us the ROI act

  You think the best marketer of the year is Tom Peters? Guy Kawasaki? Seth Godin? Sorry guys. It’s Gary Vaynerchuk. He owns a sizeable wine store in New Jersey. Sells $50 million a year. And he reads all other marketers the riot act. Er, the ROI... Posted Oct 09 2008, 04:18 AM by Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger Filed under: Advertising, marketing, Technology, economy

• My Fourth of July Present to you: the geeky Congresswoman

  Get in a patriotic mood by listening to our conversation with Zoe Lofgren, the world’s geekiest politician (she’s a Congresswoman from Silicon Valley). This is part of our trip to Washington DC. “We’re boring,” she said,... Posted Jul 03 2008, 08:47 PM by Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger Filed under: Advertising, politics, Technology, WIFI, R&D, network neutrality, immigration, congress, broadband

• Advertising in casual games

  One thing that came out of last week’s meetings with lots of elected officials is that their attention is on the advertising industry and that means our attention should be on it too. One interview in particular, with Representative Ed Markey (he’s... Posted Jun 29 2008, 06:38 PM by Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger Filed under: Advertising, Technology, Mochi Media

• Why Microsoft will buy Facebook and keep it closed

  It no longer is about Data Portability. I’m hearing these rumors too that John Furrier (my ex-boss) is reporting. That Microsoft will buy Yahoo’s search and then buy Facebook for $15 to $20 billion. That just changed the whole argument of... Posted May 19 2008, 06:08 AM by Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger Filed under: Search, Advertising, Yahoo, Microsoft, Technology, Facebook, Social Network, social graph

• Microsoft’s real problem

  I almost wrote a very long blog post telling Microsoft how it could get back into the search business. In response to all this stuff in the Wall Street Journal and on TechMeme about how Steve Ballmer is telling employees that he thinks he can guide Microsoft... Posted May 02 2008, 03:51 AM by Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger Filed under: Advertising, Yahoo, Microsoft, Technology