A newcomer to the sponsored links, TradeDoubler, an European leader in affiliate marketing, will embark on contextual advertising on March 31 with AdMatch.
Knowing the seriousness of the TradeDoubler platform and its advertisers, I look forward to seeing what AdMatch looks like.
The sponsored links will be available in three formats: text, xml feed and product display.
In its press release, the company says
“AdMatch operates as follows: the solution scans the contents of web pages and facilitates the placement of advertisements along the site’s content as relevant and contextual. Thus, AdMatch helps improve the relevance of ads on your site, optimizing conversion rates and ultimately increasing your commissions.”
For the moment, there is no site for Admatch.com, .eu, or .fr online. I think TradeDoubler will be an integral part of Admatch in and among the members’ section.
It is the “Anti-Buzz” that has become the Buzz in France: Nicolas Princen, a 24-year-old graduate of HEC and the Ecole Normale, has been appointed by the Elysée to make sure he gathers everything that is said about French President Nicolas Sarkozy on the Web.
In other words, Princen will do some News Monitoring and will decide whether the Buzz on Nicolas Sarkozy is either good or bad.
Also, it is understood that if a blogger says something against the president, an attack to justice will follow. Wow. It’s another step towards the death of Web 2.0 and blogs on celebrities.
Bloggers, it is time for you to recycle somewhere else: soon you will not be able to say anything without fear of prosecution. Nicolas Princen will sue all blogs and online media that releases false rumors about Nicolas Sarkozy.
By “attacking,” it is not yet clear whether this includes formal notice or a direct summons to court.
Some people took this news with humor by creating a page on Facebook, declaring that Nicolas Princen is “sexy”. The page already has almost 200 members.
Princen, definitely a name to remember. A future Loic Le Meur, perhaps? (The story did not say whether Nicolas Princen planned to hire someone to monitor everything that is said on the Web about himself… ; -)
This video shows the high technology of the beast : it can climb a slope in a wood, it can walk in the snow, on ice, is pushed roughly without saying a word, jump over an obstacle without contact, climb a wall of bricks… and all this without never falling down.
What this robotic quadruped is able to achieve is incredible. But the most unsettling is its shape, its body like a beast or a giant spider with a permanent noise of a big bee. We could easily think that there are also two men hidden under the Big Dog.
Big Dog weights 235 lbs (106.7 kg) and can carry more than 340 lbs (154.3 kg). A Monster.
The new Big Dog Video from Boston Dynamics :
The program is funded by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA).
Rinspeed sQuba is the perfect James Bond’s Car. And she is ecologic.
Genius Frank Rinderknecht just created a superb electric Roadster that is the first world submersible car.
Squba has 3.79 m long, 1.94 m width and 1.12 m tall, it weights 920 kg and looks like the Lotus Elise. It goes from 0 to à 80 km/h in 7.1 seconds and max speed is 120 km/h.
sQuba uses lithium-ion batteries.
sQuba can go underwater with two back propellers and two lateral Seabob jet drives, responsible for keeping the car stable. It can goes under a maximum depth of 10 m and speed is 6 km/h above the water and 3 km/h under.
Passengers use oxygen cylinders. “If the car was a hardtop, all the cabin would have to be really strong to cope with the water pressure. This would add lots of extra weight to the car and it would move very slowly out of the water as well”.
Project Manager is Tapan Bhat. Yahoo Buzz will be first open to 100 publishers and will rank the news according to the most popular search results and the number of votes.
This Summer YahooBuzz will be open to every member of the Yahoo Publisher Network, that means all webmasters that display Yahoo Ads on their Website. Very Bright from Yahoo to recruit publishers and to increase the overall Yahoo online Ad Revenue!
I received this morning an email from Gabriel from Yooba.com
For now we don’t know much about this website except this is a B2B service for Internet Marketers. You can use Yooba for create, publish and evaluate different kinds of online content for marketing purposes.
Yooba goes from a simple ad to a complete interactive Internet campaign.
Beta Release: Spring 2008. You can register now on the site.
If the service is as good as the promotional video, Wow !
* Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
* Vince Gill - These Days
* Herbie Hancock - River: The Joni Letters
* Kanye West - Graduation
* Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Song of the Year
* Plain White T’s - “Hey There Delilah”
* Corinne Bailey Rae - “Like a Star”
* Rihanna featuring Jay-Z - “Umbrella”
* Carrie Underwood - “Before He Cheats”
* Amy Winehouse - “Rehab”
Best New Artist
* Feist
* Ledisi
* Paramore
* Taylor Swift
* Amy Winehouse
* Michael Buble - “Everything”
* John Mayer - “Belief”
* Paul McCartney - “Dance Tonight”
* Seal - “Amazing”
* Justin Timberlake - “What Goes Around…Comes Around”
Best Pop Duo or Group With Vocal
* Bon Jovi - “(You Want to) Make A Memory”
* Daughtry - “Home”
* Maroon 5 - “Makes Me Wonder”
* Plain White T’s - “Hey There Delilah”
* U2 - “Window in the Skies”
Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals
* Tony Bennett & Christina Aguilera - “Steppin’ Out”
* Beyonce & Shakira - “Beautiful Liar”
* Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - “Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)”
* Gwen Stefani & Akon - “The Sweet Escape”
* Timbaland featuring Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake - “Give It To Me”
Best Pop Instrumental
* Beastie Boys - “Off the Grid”
* Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals - “Paris Sunrise #7″
* Dave Koz - “Over the Rainbow”
* Joni Mitchell - “One Week Last Summer”
* Spyro Gyra - “Simple Pleasures”
Best Pop Instrumental Album
* Beastie Boys - The Mix-Up
* Chris Botti - Italia
* Dave Koz - At the Movies
* Spyro Gyra - Good to Go-Go
* Kirk Whalum - Round Trip
Best Pop Vocal Album
* Bon Jovi - Lost Highway
* Feist - The Reminder
* Maroon 5 - It Won’t Be Soon Before Long
* Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full
* Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
It’s very popular, as much as a major Sports Event.
24 States choose their favorite candidate for Presidential Election on 4th November.
Super Tuesday Winners:
Democrats: Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama (I think we’ll have to wait for March 4 Ohio and Texas)
Hilary Clinton wins California, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey…
Barack Obama wins Georgia, Illinois, Delaware, Alabama, North Dakota, Utah…
Republicans: John McCain followed by Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney.
John McCain wins Connecticut, Illinois, New Jersey, Delaware, New York, Oklahoma…
Mike Huckabee wins Arkansas, West Virginia, Alabama…
Mitt Romney wins Massachusetts, Utah…
