Google contextual ads: working for humanity

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Google Faces More Competition for
Contextual Listings

Google Faces More Competition for
Contextual Listings 02/17/2004 03:51 PM
dmnews.com Feb 17 2004 8:01PM GMT

Contextual Advertising In Email May Be
Patented - And Not By Google

Contextual Advertising In Email May Be
Patented - And Not By Google 05/19/2004 07:17 PM
Here we go again with more pointless patent battles that will do more to hold back, rather than encourage, innovation. While Google has made the big publicity splash (with both good and bad publicity) concerning their Gmail offering that puts contextual text ads alongside email based on the contents of the email, anothe r company applied for a patent on a similar idea well before Google applied for their own patent. Now, there's almost certain to be some sort of patent battle concerning this type of offering, which will do little (if anything) to help ensure better solutions reach the public. Instead, it will just tie up lawyers in a long term battle that will pay off handsomely for lawyers - but only delay innovation for end users. Besides, I still wonder how such an idea is patentable? It's not as if it wasn't obvious. Hell, even I came up with the idea before Google announced their product - and if I could think it up, it's pretty hard to say that it's "non-obvious."

Open Safari Google contextual searches
in new tabs

Open Safari Google contextual searches
in new tabs 04/22/2004 10:34 AM
Command-Control clicking on highlighted text in a Safari window will bring up the standard contextual menu. However, when the "Google Search" item is selected from the menu, the results open in a new tab, unlike the regular ...

Google is offering more contextual
search results, including package
tracking options

Google is offering more contextual
search results, including package
tracking options 12/13/2003 04:50 AM
Google now tracks packages .. direct from the help page .. Search By Number

google.com/help/features.html#number
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MSN working to top Google

MSN working to top Google 07/05/2004 06:09 AM
Seattlepi.nwsource.com - Mon Jul 5, 08:28 am GMT

Google working on a new Web browser

Google working on a new Web browser 09/25/2004 07:57 AM
KeralaNext.com Sep 25 2004 11:46AM GMT

Working at Google isn't easy

Working at Google isn't easy 09/09/2004 10:46 AM
Sydney Morning Herald Sep 9 2004 2:17PM GMT

Is Google working on a web browser!

Is Google working on a web browser! 09/26/2004 11:20 AM
Webindia123 Sep 26 2004 2:37PM GMT

Run Down of Top Things Working with
Google

Run Down of Top Things Working with
Google 12/01/2002 07:55 AM
"I rebuilt my web-site myself, using what I or others may call search engine friendly - techniques."

Google Working on AdWords API?

Google Working on AdWords API? 02/01/2005 09:15 PM
The API is currently in beta release, and is being tested by a handful of companies.

Sci/Tech ; Google working on a new Web
browser

Sci/Tech ; Google working on a new Web
browser 09/25/2004 07:18 AM
Keralanext.com - Sat Sep 25, 10:26 am GMT

Microsoft Notebook: MSN working to top
Google

Microsoft Notebook: MSN working to top
Google 07/05/2004 09:38 AM
One way to understand the challenge Microsoft Corp. faces as it takes on Internet search king Google is to think of it in terms of soda pop. The big cola companies are famous for conducting blind taste tests, in which participants sample Coke and Pepsi and declare a preference without knowing which soda is in which cup. In the prototypical example, people opt for the drink that's not their normal favorite, showing just how much a brand can influence perception and choice -- and, not incidentally, providing good material for a TV commercial.

Google Working on Video Search

Google Working on Video Search 12/19/2004 03:08 PM
Rumor is that Google - among others - is working on searching video clips.

Doh, The Humanity!

Doh, The Humanity! 07/21/2004 04:40 PM
Doh, The Humanity! Broken web pages, but in a funny way. [via B.A.'s Weblog]

Google Working On Full Text Book Search

Google Working On Full Text Book Search 10/29/2003 12:11 AM
Hey sports fans, it looks like Google is not going stand idle while the Alexa/Amazon Duo beat it with a full book search. Rumors rampant that Google is working up a power play of their own.

Humanity Stoops to a New Low

Humanity Stoops to a New Low 07/30/2004 07:34 PM
Lost Dog Held for $10K Ransom
An elderly man went out for a walk with his dog, on the way home, the dog disappeared. A friend helped him make some Lost Dog posters and he waited by the phone for some good samaritan to return his only companion.
Instead, he got a call from someone demanding $10,000 or he'd never see his dog again. He gathered up half of his savings and went to pay the ransom. The dognapper brandished a knife, took the money and said the dog was tied up to a post nearby. It wasn't.
He went home brokenhearted until he heard a car door slam outside and his dog came running up to greet him. Now he wonders if the dognappers were putting him on the whole time.

Glasses for Humanity

Glasses for Humanity 09/25/2004 04:00 PM
I had one of those what can I do today moments with the idea of donating in-kind to Glasses for Humanity. 90% of eye glasses are wasted -- and Robert Tolmach's foundation is one of the most cost-effective forms of...

Journalising humanity

Journalising humanity 04/12/2004 10:02 AM
A photo journal of a UNPA Nurse Practitioner's experiences in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

A New Frontier for Humanity

A New Frontier for Humanity 06/21/2004 12:41 PM

It's impossible to overstate the importance of this morning's privately funded space flight by Mike Melvill, who piloted SpaceShipOne into a suborbital flight 100 kilometers high. Neil Armstrong took a giant step in 1969, but this was just as important. I have huge respect for NASA, the U.S. space agency. But NASA needs the help of private explorers and industry, and of people like Paul Allen, the Microsoft co-founded who funded this mission. We need NASA for the giant endeavors, but we need privately funded space flight for everything else. Congratulations to all.

BBC NEWS Programmes Working Lunch Google
changes anger web businesses

BBC NEWS Programmes Working Lunch Google
changes anger web businesses 12/05/2003 07:51 AM
report criticising Google's update .. overhauled

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Is There Hope for Humanity?: A
Conversation

Is There Hope for Humanity?: A
Conversation 06/05/2005 11:12 PM

I'm beginning to appreciate that conversati ons are useful ways to explore ideas even if they're with yourself. So here's some more thinking out loud between my two schizophrenic halves, Dave the Idealist and Dave the Skeptic, on the subject of whether humanity has what it takes to get its act together and save the world: Dave the Idealist Dave the Skeptic Yes, I know I liked John Gray's book, found it liberating in fact, but I still believe people are good at heart, and their instincts are right if they can re-learn to listen to them. And remember Margaret Mead: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.  Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." So your argument is that we're going to save the world either by some massive act of collective altruism, even though such a thing is unprecedented, or by some subversive act by some clever noble clique of do-gooders. You know, some people would say that Bush's neocon born-again cabal fit Margaret Mead's 'small group of world-changers' definition perfectly. If that's what she was referring to, small groups of nazis and megalomaniac idealists, we're in trouble. Or is your 'small group' going to put birth control in the water supply and sabotage civilization until we have anarchy and chaos? -- which is actually the neocons' dream situation, since if that were to happen they'd just take over and feel self-justified in doing so, as they would see you as terrorists. We overcame slavery, we gave women the vote, we invented written language and a lot of other amazing things, including birth control technologies, we've made democracy, an improbable way of running the world, work, and we've found ways to strike a balance in the economy between complete totalitarianism and complete laissez-faire. We're learning what doesn't work, we have unprecedented peer-to-peer grassroots communication and organization, and we have more knowledge available to a larger percentage of the population than ever before. And instead of just writing dystopias, many people are actually proposing practical ways to bring about massive change. The last century featured more murders, more imprisonment, more torture, more war deaths, and greater extremes in distribution of wealth and power than any in our history. Every technology we've invented has a dark side that has been more effectively exploited than its positive applications. And as for communication, the digital divide is wider than ever. You shouldn't judge the state of the world by the view from your rosy little corner of it. Stories are all we are. When we have learned new stories, we have become very different creatures very quickly, in a generation or two. It's our ingenuity, our ability to change and respond to new and intuitively better, healthier, happier ways to live, and learn from each other peer-to-peer that makes me optimistic and hopeful, not new technologies, which I admit are a double-edged sword. Stories also allow fanatics and maniacs to raise huge and bloodthirsty armies, and allow cults, including most modern religions and political parties, to brainwash people to act against both their personal and collective interest. Myths and other stories allow people to tolerate and live in denial of atrocities going on all around them. Religious stories have prompted most of history's most brutal and protracted wars. And we're so adaptable that we learn to live a life of never-ending oppression, subjugation and deprivation, and we delude ourselves that our pathetic lives are good, healthy, deserved, getting better and the only way to live. But we are also capable of forgetting, forgiving and moving on quickly, when a better story, a better way of living, is told to us. And in the last decade a significant minority of the population is on a roll -- better informed, more inventive, more attuned to and knowledgeable about that's needed, what's happening and what's possible than ever before. They're able to use networking technology to make creative, synthetic, analogical and metaphorical leaps, collaboratively, in ways that would have been almost unimaginable even a generation ago. We have already witnessed, in the 1960s, a huge shift in mainstream thinking and worldviews occurring in an astonishingly short period of time, and if we could do something like that again now we have much more powerful tools and much greater knowledge to do it with, so it might actually endure this time. Pure romanticism. The 1960s weren't nearly as rosy and liberated as you remember them. Many guys jumped on the bandwagon in complete ignorance and indifference to the peace and liberation movements -- they were merely attracted by the promise of cheap dope and easy sex. Your faith (and it's nothing more than faith, since there's no solid reasoning behind it) that we could start a similar movement in this century and this time it would endure and bring about ubiquitous change, is simply the left-wing version of the right-wingers' Rapture. People don't change, cultures don't change, and there's an unprecedented level of investment in maintaining the status quo working against any little movement that might threaten that. We are programmed by our DNA to spend almost all of our time and energy living moment to moment and distracted by the minutiae of constant and trivial decisions. And even if this were not so, as Gray argues so articulately we have no 'free will' or collective consciousness. Even as 'individual' creatures we are merely collections of cells, molecules and organs, each doing what they do, largely for mutual benefit, and almost entirely (99.9999%) subconscious. So belief that we can somehow get our personal act together, let alone one at the level of some higher social order, and transform ourselves into what we are not, seems to me the height of folly, a form of leftist religious fanaticism. There you go, relying on science again, that collection of unreliable and creaky models of reality, to make your argument. The whole, at every level of aggregation, is always greater than the sum of the parts. Gaia is much more than just all individual life on Earth. We as individual and wondrous creatures are more than a mere collection of our cells, molecules and organs. And I'm not being spiritual here. Forget about 'consciousness' and these other academic and utterly meaningless concepts. We as individuals, and our planet as an organism of a different order, are mostly what happens between our composite parts. We are sensation, reaction, communication, learning, understanding, and the stories that recall them. Most of what we are at both the creature level and at the Gaia level are what is happening in the intersections, margins and edges around the component parts. That is where our true sense of self and meaning resides, that is where our instincts draw their wisdom, that is what our DNA remembers and tells us to do. Your myopic science, looking at individual organisms in isolation, is no more able to understand the great truths of life, and the nature of our existence, than a collector dissecting dead monarch butterflies is able to comprehend the astonishing transformation of that creature's life, or how it could have 'learned' where and how to migrate when three generations have transpired since the last generation, or how sun and flowers and smells make a butterfly happy and inform its understanding of the purpose of its life. Let's look at this argument. You're saying, I think, that almost all of what we are is subconscious, and that an important part of what we are is our relationships with 'others' outside ourselves. Yes? OK. So then you're saying that what can/will save us is something in our collective unconsciousness or subconsciousness? That deep down 'we' intuitively know what needs to be done, what is happening, and what is possible, and will use that knowledge to collectively do what is in our collective interest. Well, at least that's better than relying on gods. But if we had this great collective unconsciouness or subconsciousness, wouldn't we have been able to figure out, even before Einstein did, that almost all human inventions, notably in the media (since the invention of writing and the printing press), in transportation (since the invention of the lever, the inclined plane, the sledge and the wheel) and in the tapping of stored energy (since the invention of controlled fire) would have more negative consequences for our planet than positive ones, and hence prevent them from emerging? No, don't give me that nonsense that the global population is leveling off because we somehow 'know' it must, since people have repeatedly told researchers the only reason they don't have one or two more kids each is that they can't financially afford it (for now). If we ('we' being either all humanity or all creatures on the planet) are our own collective guiding hand, that guiding hand has done a pretty lousy job over the last 30,000 years. Just because we've lost touch with nature and Gaia, you say? I think it's more likely that we're just an exceptionally fierce and adaptable species which emerged by random accident from the primeval soup and, like all fierce and adaptable species in Earth's history, plagued (in the literal sense of the word, not the moral one) the planet until a meteor came along, or a climate change or new species evolved that preyed on excessive numbers of the plague species, and restored equilibrium and the selected preference of known life for biodiversity. Disequilibrium is neither new or unnatural in the universe. And that, more than the crown of creation, more even than the sum of our 'stories', is what we humans really are.

Technology enabling humanity

Technology enabling humanity 07/10/2004 01:16 AM
Sunday Times South Africa Jul 10 2004 5:20AM GMT

Oh, the humanity: Power Mac G5 gutted,
turned into PC

Oh, the humanity: Power Mac G5 gutted,
turned into PC 01/28/2004 12:05 AM
One PC user has done the unthinkable: gutted a brand new dual processor Power Mac G5 and installed PC components...

Humanity will survive information deluge

Humanity will survive information deluge 12/07/2003 08:20 AM

Renewing my basic faith in humanity

Renewing my basic faith in humanity 06/01/2004 03:53 PM
Though I'm not saying what I have faith in them to do. Still, Oingo Boingo does say it best, don't they? Nasty Habits and Clowns of Death (since, after all, boys will be boys...) Mmmm, clowns....

Doh, The Humanity!: Broken web pages,
but in a funny way

Doh, The Humanity!: Broken web pages,
but in a funny way 07/22/2004 02:56 AM
Doh, The Humanity! .. Dohs

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Humanity will survive information deluge
- Sir Arthur C Clarke

Humanity will survive information deluge
- Sir Arthur C Clarke 12/09/2003 07:21 AM
interview .. OneWorld

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The W3C RDF Data Access Working Group
has published the first public working
draft of SPARQL Variable Binding

The W3C RDF Data Access Working Group
has published the first public working
draft of SPARQL Variable Binding 01/02/2005 11:31 AM
xmlhack Jan 2 2005 1:45PM GMT

Quality Assurance Working Group Updates
Three Working Drafts

Quality Assurance Working Group Updates
Three Working Drafts 11/08/2002 08:17 PM
8 November 2002: The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group has updated three Working Drafts in its seven-part QA Framework: the Introduction, Process and Operational Guidelines; and Specification Guidelines. Learn more about the QA Activity and the roadmap for ensuring that W3C technologies are well implemented. (News archive)

Mac Gems: Contextual Moves

Mac Gems: Contextual Moves 06/24/2005 04:54 PM
Move Items X lets you move (and copy and alias) items via contextual menus.

The problem with contextual advertising

The problem with contextual advertising 05/31/2004 08:15 PM
Great musings on contextual advertising by John Battelle. He says that they aren't all they're cracked up to be because the advertiser has no control on where the ads will show up, and so they can have a real relationship with the audience, or the publisher, for that matter.

It's this relationship which I find entirely missing in all these contextual, behavioral, paid search networks. Sure, they are "relevant" to either a search, or to the content they match. But they are driven by metadata and the actions of only one of the parties - the content of the publisher for example (AdSense), or the actions of the audience (Claria, Revenue Science, Tacoda, etc.). As far as I know, none are driven by an understanding of the give-and-take that occurs between all three parties in a consensual relationship mediated by the publication. A site which has only AdSense or behavioral advertising fails to value (or monetize) the community connection between audience, publisher, and advertiser. Advertisers in these networks are not intentionally supporting the publication, and by extension they are not supporting the community the publication has created. In essence, they are not being good citizens of the community where their advertising is being displayed.

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Atomz to Add Contextual Advertising

Atomz to Add Contextual Advertising 09/23/2004 05:57 PM

Ask MacSlash: Resizing Contextual Menus?

Ask MacSlash: Resizing Contextual Menus? 05/04/2004 11:04 AM

10.3: New contextual menus available in
Adress Book

10.3: New contextual menus available in
Adress Book 11/06/2003 11:13 AM
I have noticed some new Address Book features that I don't think were available in Jaguar (at least, some of them). The new items are accessed by clicking on the heading title (home, work, etc.) in the address card itself. Th...

DragThing gets enhanced contextual
menus, more

DragThing gets enhanced contextual
menus, more 04/26/2004 10:25 AM
TLA Systems has updated DragThing, the dock application for Mac OS X (10.2 or later), to version 5.1.1, which adds enhanced contextual menus, AppleScript support and speed improvements...

Yahoo Contextual Advertising Program
Looks a Sure Bet

Yahoo Contextual Advertising Program
Looks a Sure Bet 03/14/2005 05:10 PM
WebmasterWorld members have been tracking the shadow of a Yahoo contextual advertising program for over a year. That shadow is becoming more and more defined. Recent statements by company reps - both on and off the record - indicate a program launch is imminent.

10.3: Navigate contextual menus via the
keyboard

10.3: Navigate contextual menus via the
keyboard 11/02/2003 01:02 PM
While a contextual menu is open, typing the first letter of an item in the contextual menu will focus the cursor on that menu item.

Inside Contextual Menu Items, Part 1

Inside Contextual Menu Items, Part 1 05/29/2004 06:18 AM
By Steven Disbrow, O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)

Don't Blinkx Now: Contextual Search
Built Into Your Desktop

Don't Blinkx Now: Contextual Search
Built Into Your Desktop 06/17/2004 08:53 PM
Om Malik is talking up a new software product called Blinkx, which he says gives him the same feeling Google gave him when he first met with the Google folks early on in their existence. It's a desktop (Windows only) application that integrates with your various applications to do contextual search across news, websites, and your computer to try to match any relevant info to the webpage, email or document you're reading at the time. Honestly, it sounds like a Windows version of Nat Friedman's Dashboard program. I haven't played around with it that much yet, but in looking at Om's page about Blinkx, it quickly pointed out to me that the SJ Merc had written about them yesterday as well. Who said the search space was a done deal? Just as all the big search players are figurin g out a desktop search plan, this startup seems to have come up with something that's fairly useful.
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