Comments on: Twitter Powered Contextual Advertising is Live for Any Bloggers/Web Hosts http://www.victusspiritus.com/2009/10/19/twitter-powered-contextual-advertising-is-live-for-any-bloggersweb-hosts/ Nourishment for the Soul. The current focus is inspiration and life path seeking. As my views evolve, so will my message. Latest topics include the marketing of ideas by social networking, and their role in the shaping of the future of internet commerce and society. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:02:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Intelligent Advertising 0.1 http://www.victusspiritus.com/2009/10/19/twitter-powered-contextual-advertising-is-live-for-any-bloggersweb-hosts/comment-page-1/#comment-1274 Intelligent Advertising 0.1 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:37:37 +0000 http://www.victusspiritus.com/?p=1932#comment-1274 [...] The truth strength of social media came into play within the wave space of Google Wave. Mark and Tyler bumped into each other and while editing the same wave. Mark gave Tyler his standard shpiel about the value of connecting what we talk about online, and a personalized web experience. Tyler took the concept and produced a deployable alpha version of the code. He fixed Mark’s “problematic” php, then made the great conceptual leap to use Amazon web services. Read more about it here. [...] [...] The truth strength of social media came into play within the wave space of Google Wave. Mark and Tyler bumped into each other and while editing the same wave. Mark gave Tyler his standard shpiel about the value of connecting what we talk about online, and a personalized web experience. Tyler took the concept and produced a deployable alpha version of the code. He fixed Mark’s “problematic” php, then made the great conceptual leap to use Amazon web services. Read more about it here. [...]

]]> By: Mark Essel http://www.victusspiritus.com/2009/10/19/twitter-powered-contextual-advertising-is-live-for-any-bloggersweb-hosts/comment-page-1/#comment-2251 Mark Essel Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:10:01 +0000 http://www.victusspiritus.com/?p=1932#comment-2251 Agreed, there needs to be more of a game or user bonus for opting in. That's my primary concern at the moment, thanks for the rapid review and feedback sir! Agreed, there needs to be more of a game or user bonus for opting in. That's my primary concern at the moment, thanks for the rapid review and feedback sir!

]]> By: Kevin Marshall http://www.victusspiritus.com/2009/10/19/twitter-powered-contextual-advertising-is-live-for-any-bloggersweb-hosts/comment-page-1/#comment-2250 Kevin Marshall Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:49:37 +0000 http://www.victusspiritus.com/?p=1932#comment-2250 It's an interesting angle to attempt...I *think* it's going to be hard to get people to 'log into twitter' just so they can be targeted for ads...you might need to come up with some other benefit/reason to get them to log in (and make the targeting of ads a nice side benefit to that action)...the key here is also going to be intelligent semantic processing of their feeds/data in real-time (that's a great space with a ton of action right now, but also a VERY hard nut to crack, it will be interesting to see how leveraging Zemanta works for you on this)...<br><br>Overall I think you've got a good start and gives people something to see/play with for sure...will be watching to see where you take it from here :-) It's an interesting angle to attempt…I *think* it's going to be hard to get people to 'log into twitter' just so they can be targeted for ads…you might need to come up with some other benefit/reason to get them to log in (and make the targeting of ads a nice side benefit to that action)…the key here is also going to be intelligent semantic processing of their feeds/data in real-time (that's a great space with a ton of action right now, but also a VERY hard nut to crack, it will be interesting to see how leveraging Zemanta works for you on this)…

Overall I think you've got a good start and gives people something to see/play with for sure…will be watching to see where you take it from here :-)

]]> By: Mark Essel http://www.victusspiritus.com/2009/10/19/twitter-powered-contextual-advertising-is-live-for-any-bloggersweb-hosts/comment-page-1/#comment-2249 Mark Essel Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:55:23 +0000 http://www.victusspiritus.com/?p=1932#comment-2249 Tyler kicked it into overdrive and pushed the concept past where I was stuck (he's much more familiar with php for building the early functioning version of the code). Tyler kicked it into overdrive and pushed the concept past where I was stuck (he's much more familiar with php for building the early functioning version of the code).

]]> By: Vladimir Vukicevic http://www.victusspiritus.com/2009/10/19/twitter-powered-contextual-advertising-is-live-for-any-bloggersweb-hosts/comment-page-1/#comment-2248 Vladimir Vukicevic Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:48:35 +0000 http://www.victusspiritus.com/?p=1932#comment-2248 Hey Mark - awesome progress! Hey Mark – awesome progress!

]]> By: Mark Essel http://www.victusspiritus.com/2009/10/19/twitter-powered-contextual-advertising-is-live-for-any-bloggersweb-hosts/comment-page-1/#comment-1272 Mark Essel Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:10:01 +0000 http://www.victusspiritus.com/?p=1932#comment-1272 Agreed, there needs to be more of a game or user bonus for opting in. That's my primary concern at the moment, thanks for the rapid review and feedback sir! Agreed, there needs to be more of a game or user bonus for opting in. That's my primary concern at the moment, thanks for the rapid review and feedback sir!

]]> By: Kevin Marshall http://www.victusspiritus.com/2009/10/19/twitter-powered-contextual-advertising-is-live-for-any-bloggersweb-hosts/comment-page-1/#comment-1271 Kevin Marshall Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:49:37 +0000 http://www.victusspiritus.com/?p=1932#comment-1271 It's an interesting angle to attempt...I *think* it's going to be hard to get people to 'log into twitter' just so they can be targeted for ads...you might need to come up with some other benefit/reason to get them to log in (and make the targeting of ads a nice side benefit to that action)...the key here is also going to be intelligent semantic processing of their feeds/data in real-time (that's a great space with a ton of action right now, but also a VERY hard nut to crack, it will be interesting to see how leveraging Zemanta works for you on this)...<br><br>Overall I think you've got a good start and gives people something to see/play with for sure...will be watching to see where you take it from here :-) It's an interesting angle to attempt…I *think* it's going to be hard to get people to 'log into twitter' just so they can be targeted for ads…you might need to come up with some other benefit/reason to get them to log in (and make the targeting of ads a nice side benefit to that action)…the key here is also going to be intelligent semantic processing of their feeds/data in real-time (that's a great space with a ton of action right now, but also a VERY hard nut to crack, it will be interesting to see how leveraging Zemanta works for you on this)…

Overall I think you've got a good start and gives people something to see/play with for sure…will be watching to see where you take it from here :-)

]]> By: Mark Essel http://www.victusspiritus.com/2009/10/19/twitter-powered-contextual-advertising-is-live-for-any-bloggersweb-hosts/comment-page-1/#comment-1270 Mark Essel Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:55:23 +0000 http://www.victusspiritus.com/?p=1932#comment-1270 Tyler kicked it into overdrive and pushed the concept past where I was stuck (he's much more familiar with php for building the early functioning version of the code). Tyler kicked it into overdrive and pushed the concept past where I was stuck (he's much more familiar with php for building the early functioning version of the code).

]]> By: Vladimir Vukicevic http://www.victusspiritus.com/2009/10/19/twitter-powered-contextual-advertising-is-live-for-any-bloggersweb-hosts/comment-page-1/#comment-1269 Vladimir Vukicevic Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:48:35 +0000 http://www.victusspiritus.com/?p=1932#comment-1269 Hey Mark - awesome progress! Hey Mark – awesome progress!

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