Tag: VC

‘Cause we all just want to be big tech stars!

On June 16, 2010

In Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Venture Capital, Web/Tech

I love the technology world. There is so much creativity, and the following video is a great example of that. This music video is a parody of Nickelback's Rock Star music video. Check it out. There is more reality in this video than most of us would like to admit. 🙂

I saw this video on Brad Feld's great blog, "Feld Thoughts", so special thanks to Brad for bringing it to our attention.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xed8eVUvm_E&w=640&h=385]

Daily Roundup for 2008-04-17

By golf

On April 17, 2008

In Bookmarks, Online Advertising, Venture Capital, Web/Tech

Targeting, Ad Network Spending Increase – eMarketer

More than nine out of 10 US advertising agencies and advertisers buying online media plan to work with ad networks in 2008, according to Collective Media’s "Ad Network Study 2008." Nearly three-quarters of respondents said that they planned to spend more with ad networks in 2008 than they did in 2007.

ISPs meddled with their customers’ Web traffic by Robert McMillan, IDG News Service

In a paper, set to be delivered Wednesday, the researchers document some troubling practices. In July and August they tested data sent to about 50,000 computers and discovered that a small number of ISPs were injecting ads into Web pages on their networks. They also found that some Web browsing and ad-blocking software was actually making Web surfing more dangerous by introducing security vulnerabilities into pages.