Media and Markets
Anti-spyware software may be spyware after all — DRATS — just as we suspected!
By cdharris at January 3, 2006 | 11:15 pm | 0 Comment
Be careful whenever you download software -- even if it promises to be the good guys and solve all your problems.?? As it turns out,? some opportunistic companies are disguising themselves as "anit-spyware solutions" but are really spyware in disguise.? Your basic Trojan horse.?? Not the fun kind, either. Mark Russinovich recently noted that:? "Last week when I was more...
Blog , Datamining , Emerging Science and Technology , Media and Markets , TechnoActivism , Technology and Privacy
Virtual Product Placement
By cdharris at January 3, 2006 | 8:18 pm | 0 Comment
Actually having a physical product or package for actors to handle is so over. Paid product placement on TV shows is now utilizing advanced digital bluescreen or "greenscreen" capabilities, similar to high-end animated films,? and virtually inserting an image of the product into the mise en scene. In a recent episode of the CBS show "Yes, Dear", a package of more...
Blog , Datamining , Emerging Science and Technology , Media and Markets
SWARM and Mobile peer-to-peer social computing
By cdharris at December 30, 2005 | 2:34 pm | 0 Comment
SWARM is a community based on a peer-to-peer (P2P) model, featuring Mobile Social Music Software. The system consists of a variety of devices that essentially link together into a shared network,?emphasizing?gesture recognition and ad-hoc shared music listening. The ?sensor subsystem? detects wearers' gestures while they listen to music. ?The Malleable Music Terminal? is more...
Blog , Data Visualization , Emerging Science and Technology , Geolocation and Psychogeography , Media and Markets , Technology and Art
French people want to share
By cdharris at December 26, 2005 | 12:41 pm | 0 Comment
Two days before Christmas,? the French Parliament voted to legalize P2P file sharing,? including movies and music,? even though Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres' had already proposed new legislation that would have established steep penalties for anyone convicted of pirating copyrighted materials with a fine of $360,000 and as much as three years in jail.??? A more...
Microsoft Online Ads To Offer Demographic Filtering in 2006
By cdharris at November 18, 2005 | 1:22 pm | 0 Comment
Microsoft announced in March 2005 it planned to release a technology that neither Google nor Yahoo can yet offer: the ability for advertisers to precisely filter the people exposed to their search ads by demographic information.? For example,? advertisers will be able to target one ad to men, another to women, and use additional information such as age and geographic more...
Blog , Datamining , Media and Markets , Technology and Privacy
Data yearns to be shared
By cdharris at October 10, 2005 | 4:24 pm | 0 Comment
The marketing industry can't live without data, the "continuous marketing intelligence" stream that has become a necessity to predict and interpret market performance, consumer response, and just about every other function in marketing/advertising/communications relies on datamining. Everyone participates in the production of information culture, every time we more...
