Brrr, it’s cold. I’m wearing long pants to work for the first time in months, that’s how cold it is in Raleigh today. Still, a nice hot cup of coffee and these hot news stories, and even brass monkeys are happy.
- TC is reporting that Automattic–creators of WordPress–turned down a $200 million acquisition offer. That makes me think they have something big up their sleeve.
- AdBrite will today launch a new advertising platform for Facebook application developers.
- NBC wanted what?!? It seems the company wanted a cut of Apple’s iPod revenues as part of its negotiations. Yeah, right. And Samsung owes us a cut of their monitor sales–after all, without our great content, why would you want a monitor anyway?
- If Australian regulator ACCC can approve Google’s DoubleClick acquisition–when they’re peeved at Google right now–surely other countries can do the same.
- Fair Isaac is diving deeper into click fraud tracking with its announced partnership with Think Partnership (dis).
- Stuck on ideas for
linkbaitviral marketing? Tamar Weinberg has put together 6 themes for you to think about. - Yahoo Messenger 9.0 launches with media-playing features and file transfers.
- Twitter rival Pownce has launched its public API for developers.
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Dave Sokol Says:
October 30th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
Will the fair isaac/thinkpartnership venture have any substantive impact on the marketplace?
Andy Beal Says:
October 30th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
@Dave – we’ll have to wait and see. It seems like a lot of attention is going to any kind of ad marketplace right now, so one with built in click-fraud prevention could be interesting.