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Click Fraud Audits: What is IAB's dog in the fight?

Mild mannered, advertising industry sage Randall Rothenberg didn’t wait long to pick a fight in his new role as President, Interactive Advertising Bureau IAB, and he picked a big one.The IAB is “the trade association for interactive marketing in the United States.” It represents over 300 interactive companies and its...

Tags: Yahoo, Google, Click Fraud

Blog posts 2007-04-24

Why Click Fraud is NOT case closed!

In the world of click fraud, what a difference eight months and a cross-country trip makes! The SES New York City “Auditing Paid Listings & Click Fraud” panel yesterday was a collegial, mutually beneficial industry reaffirmation of how far EVERYONE has come in battling the scourge of click fraud...

Tags: Google, Click Fraud, Advertising, Yahoo, Search Advertising, Search, Legal, Business Models

Blog posts 2007-04-13

Click Fraud: Yahoo wants audits!

Last month I asked Click Fraud: Yahoo pledges quality, what about audits? Reggie Davis, newly appointed Yahoo Vice President of Marketplace Quality, told me Tuesday that Yahoo supports the Internet Advertising Bureau’s push for “auditing against standards,” the click measurement standards currently being formulated under the auspices of the IAB’s...

Tags: Click Fraud, Yahoo

Blog posts 2007-04-12

Can Yahoo 'stay ahead' of click fraud?

In “Google, Yahoo on click fraud audits: look to the IAB” I recount my exchange with Google and Yahoo, during the click fraud panel at Search Engine Strategies conference last August, asking the companies to commit not only to the Interactive Advertising Bureau IAB “Click Measurement Guidelines,” but to the...

Tags: click fraud, Yahoo! Inc., advertiser

Blog posts 2007-01-08

Click fraud: $150,000 solution in 2007?

Click fraud has caught the eye of the National Science Foundation.The Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships awarded a one-year grant of $149,923 for development of a “real-time Collaborative Click Fraud Detection and Prevention System,” as part of its Small Business Technology Transfer STTR program.The STTR is a Small Business...

Tags: ROI, Click Fraud, Yahoo, Google, Search, small business, program.The STTR

Blog posts 2006-12-28

Will Web 3.0 be in the green?

The Web 2.0 Summit last week in San Francisco may have been about "scraping money off the table as the money–VCs, IAC, Fox Interactive, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others–were auditioning startups in the hallways and in private rooms,” as fellow ZDNet blogger Dan Farber notes, but at the Ad:Tech conference...

Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Media, Culture, Google, Yahoo, User-Generated Content, MySpace, Click Fraud, Venture Capital, VC, Social Web, YouTube, Amateur Content, Social Networking, Social Media, ROI, Metrics

Blog posts 2006-11-13

Additional Resources

Judge freezes assets of massive spam ring

The Federal Trade Commission won a huge antispam victory in court yesterday, with a federal courts in Chicago's order to freeze the assets of a botnet spam group generally known as HerbalKing. The group used botnets to spread its poison around the globe. Just one botnet...

Tags: Asset, FTC, Spam, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-15

News to know: Gartner, Firefox 3.1, Apple notebook event, Intel

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Hiner: Gartner: Top 10 technologies to watch over the next three years Larry Dignan: IT's challenges: The end of device charging; ROI; Super programmers ...

Tags: Richard Koman, Mozilla Firefox, Apple MacBook, Gartner Inc., Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Notebook Event, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-15

Secunia: popular security suites failing to block exploits

Secunia: popular security suites failing to block exploitsPatch your applications...And don't run your browser with administrative rights (in case you forget to patch those applications, e.g., WinAmp, QuickTime, etc).If you're on Windows XP/2000 or Vista and you've foolishly turned off UAC, you can use this tool:http://www.download.com/RemoveAdmin/3000-2381_4-10824971.html?tag=lst-1&cdlPid=10835515Thing is, RemoveAdmin is a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Secunia, popular security suite, exploit, security suite, Kaspersky, security

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

Surviving the recession with Free Enterprise OSes (Part 2)

In Part 1, I discussed the four Free Linux distributions that are best position to provide extended support and ample functionality to an end user through a protracted recession,  as well as having the characteristic "safeness" or "stability" factor in terms of being able to weather...

Tags: Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Sun Solaris 10, Red Hat Inc., Recession, Operating System, Novell OpenSuse, BSD, CentOS, Scientific Linux, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Fake Microsoft Patch Tuesday malware campaign spreading

Fake Microsoft Patch Tuesday malware campaign spreadingowning a computerthese peeps whom click on the email should not be allow to own a computer. period until they go through security training for 1 year

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, PRODUCTIVITY, Viruses and worms, Fake Microsoft Patch Tuesday, malware campaign, malware

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

Google blocking Chrome from some countries

Google tends to comply with the governments of countries like China who want to prohibit some search results from being shown to their citizens -- it's a bit of a touchy subject, but that is the choice Google has made, and for now, that's how it's going to be. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Keeping the dream alive - bootstrap your way out of the death spiral

Jennifer Leggio is on the road. Guest editorial by Ryan Kuder I was very publicly laid off from Yahoo! back in February. It's a gut-wrenching experience for anyone who has gone through it. At the time, my choices were to get a new...

Tags: Dream, Network, Yahoo! Inc., Start-up, Jennifer Leggio, Ryan Kuder, VC, Angels, Networking

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Apple's new MacBook line: Affordable enough?

Apple's new MacBook line: Affordable enough?What are the specsI haven't seen the specs yet (are they published?) but I don't think it's going to be enough. They either need to compete with Windows PC's or not. Don't half ass it. My guess is the lower price will still not match...

Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, new MacBook line, MacBook line

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

Yahoo, Google, DOJ play let's make a deal; Google could walk

Yahoo, Google, DOJ play let's make a deal; Google could walkSo Google succeeded how?You state the Yahoo deal was a success because MS didn't buy Yahoo. In retrospect that was actually bad for Google since Yahoo would have done nothing but weigh MS down. If anything it would...

Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

LiveBlog: Apple's notebook event

LiveBlog: Apple's notebook eventThat Jobs fellow always looking out for us![i]Jobs said the licensing for Blu-Ray technology is still too complex to burden customers with the costs associated with it.[/i]Thanks Jobs! I'll be thinking of you while watching Blu-Ray movies on my HTPC Vista machine that cost me ~$60...

Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Apple Inc., LiveBlog, notebook event, notebook

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

Apple MacBook 2008 Event

Apple MacBook 2008 EventMore info on the multi-touch?Sounds interesting... is this for the Mac or the iPhone??So much for your prediction ......... of an $800 MacBook. To answer who the big loser was it was you and the people who read your blog. This was basically another non-event...

Tags: Notebooks, Blogging, Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook 2008 Event, Apple MacBook 2008, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

Yahoo, Google, DOJ play let's make a deal; Google could walk

Google and Yahoo are talking to the Department of Justice about heading off an antitrust suit over the companies' search advertising deal. According to the Wall Street Journal, Google and Yahoo are offering up concessions to the Department of Justice to push their deal through. For Google,...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., U.S. Department Of Justice, Search, Government, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Judge orders Palin to preserve Yahoo emails

Judge orders Palin to preserve Yahoo emailsAnother Fishing Expedition ....... funded by the taxpayer and brought about by partisan politics. I suspect the rumors and the interest will subside shortly after the election.RE: Judge orders Palin to preserve Yahoo emailsIf there was anything criminal in those messages, the Dems...

Tags: Palin, Yahoo! Inc., e-mail, Yahoo Email

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

Judge orders Palin to preserve Yahoo emails

It's been a source of contention on this blog and others whether Sarah Palin used her Yahoo accounts for any state business, or whether it was all family pictures and political stuff. It's a question that will eventually be sorted out by the courts because an Alaska judge just ordered...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-14