Category: Personal

  • Nexage hits 100 billion ad requests as mobile advertising heats up

    Originally posted on Gigaom: As the world increasingly goes mobile, it’s prompting a boom in mobile advertising, which is heating up and is poised for a huge year in 2012. The winners include companies such as Nexage, a real-time bidding exchange provider which told me that it hit 100 billion ads requested today through its…

  • Originally posted on Gigaom: Emails, tweets, notifications, text and instant messages, Facebook status updates, Path moments — all these are new tools of communication when taken together are notification hell. These notifications prey on human desire for a dopamine fix. And just as we are over-caffeinated, I think the 21st century is quickly making us…

  • We are all living inside the notification hell

    Originally posted on Gigaom: Emails, tweets, notifications, text and instant messages, Facebook status updates, Path moments — all these are new tools of communication when taken together are notification hell. These notifications prey on human desire for a dopamine fix. And just as we are over-caffeinated, I think the 21st century is quickly making us…

  • Originally posted on Gigaom: An image from the SodaHead poll results (click to enlarge) Facebook is in the process of converting all user profiles to the new Timeline design. But according to a new poll, the majority of people aren’t so keen on the new look. Seventy percent of respondents to a poll of 1,900…

  • Poll: The older you are, the more you hate Facebook Timeline

    Originally posted on Gigaom: An image from the SodaHead poll results (click to enlarge) Facebook is in the process of converting all user profiles to the new Timeline design. But according to a new poll, the majority of people aren’t so keen on the new look. Seventy percent of respondents to a poll of 1,900…