Pajama Entrepreneur

Don’t try to fool Google

Geosign, a startup that raked in $160M in VC funding, blew up one year later after its business model — gaming the Google search engine — was effectively shut down via a change in Google’s algorithm. Read more here.

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Facebook spam

I live in Amsterdam, everyone should know that by looking at my Facebook profile. Yet, Facebook has inserted this ad for Blockbuster in my news feed. Totally irrelevant to me. This is nothing more than SPAM. In a few months, my news feed will be clogged with utterly useless ads. How do I opt out [...]

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Skipping TV ads will increase even more: 28 percent of households have digital recorder

A study conducted by the Stichting Kijkonderzoek (SKO) in the Netherlands estimates that 28 percent of Dutch households has a DVD or hard disk recorder that allows people to view TV shows and movies whenever they want, and skip advertisements. One quarter of households already has a flat screen TV. Digital TV is growing as [...]

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Blyk: ad-supported mobile operator launches

Blyk has finally launched in the UK, with service coming to other European countries in 2008. I’ve been waiting for Blyk to begin its service because the model is totally different from that of other operators: only 16-24 year olds can get the service they get 43 minutes and 217 text messages free every month [...]

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