Archive for the 'Microsoft' Category

Microsoft Concentrating on Video Ads for Behavioral Marketing

Microsoft, who simply lost in the search marketing competition so far, is turning its sleepless eye to video marketing in various ways (via Wired), and is downplaying the importance of search - at least for spending (in the US, the leading online marketing field is still paid search).
Tarek Najm, a technical fellow at Microsoft […]

Don’t Yahoo, Microsoft! - says Google.

Google Official blog has started its lobby against a potential Yahoo buy-up by Microsoft. Yes, it is and will be a continuous anti-trust shouting game between Microsoft and Google. It is clear that Microsoft would be a super mega software - internet empire with Yahoo, and it is also clear that Microsoft won’t stop courting […]

Newsvine Participatory News Site Featuring Videos in 2008

The latest Newsvine newsletter contains some upcoming features and improvements for 2008. Needless to say, Videos are coming! (There will be other goodies coming too like Journalism Awards. “New ways of visualizing news stories within your social chain” sounds also very exciting).
I wonder which video platform/ player/ service Newsvine community-driven news site is going to […]

MSNBC Alpha Channel Videos in Beta: Large Size Video Player & the unwelcome 30 s Ads

The new Video player of msnbc.com (still in beta) has been introduced by Stokes Young on the Alpha Channel blog of MSNBC :
We are the web site of NBC News, and the primary goal of our new video player is to help you experience the stories you want to see when you want to see them. […]