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On-the-fly decisions for instant ads

Now, companies like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft let advertisers buy ads in the milliseconds between the time someone enters a site’s Web address and the moment the page appears. The technology, called real-time bidding, allows advertisers to examine site visitors one by one and bid to serve them ads almost instantly.

For example, say a man just searched for golf clubs on eBay (which has been testing a system from a company called AppNexus for more than a year). EBay can essentially follow that person’s activities in real time, deciding when and where to show him near-personalized ads for golf clubs throughout the Web.

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BreakingNews is now on Facebook

Last December, MSNBC acquired the Twitter account @breakingnews, which was started as a basic newswire by Michael van Poppel and gradually grew to 1.4 million followers (it’s now up to over 1.6 million). A month later, MSNBC announced that it had acquired BreakingNews.com, which will has become a web portal for the online newswire. And today, it’s completing the triefeca: MSNBC has just launched Facebook Page at Facebook.com/BreakingNews.

MSNBC spokesperson Gina Stikes says that the new Facebook account will only send updates for the biggest stories to break (you can still use its other feeds if you want to receive every story to come from the service). The page is obviously still quite new (it only has 645 fans right now), but you can expect that the grow quickly.

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x.minutes.at : Cool web browsing timer

Do you have problem speding too much time browsing instead of doing your work. x.minutes.at is a simple web utility that will remind you with “Time’s up!” popup after certain period of time.

You can just enter "periodoftime.minutes.at" at the beginning of the url and it will start counting down the time. A simple example is "http://5.minutes.at/idiotheaven.blogspot.com , after 5 minutes the “Time’s up!” popup will show up to avoid you from spending to much time browsing non related things to work.

The idea is to keep you alert from being distracted by the sweetness of browsing the internet.

Camera on Spiderman's head

Street Heros Head Cam ~Jump


Who says our youth are out of shape because of all the video game playing they do? These guys were probably influenced by a video game but have probably taken it a bit farther than is healthy. With a camcorder strapped to his head the guy does some Spider-Man like moves.

[via : hackedgadgets ]