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Hi kids! Today the cute and cuddly Mr. Penguin from AOL will answer all your questions on behavioral targeting! Isn’t he cute! Now you know that behavioral targeting is your friend!
Have a good day! And a tip o’the cap to the Good People at AOL who keep Mr. Penguin in anchovies in return […]

So I see the U.S. Government is showing off the new currency ..

Hey, they are using Yahoo! purple for the number. Coincidence? I’m just asking…

I’ve been dorking with Twitter .. still trying to figure out if it’s a great waste of time, or a lousy waste of time. I’m sure the cool kids are using it via SMS, but something about having my phone buzz me to learn that one of my friends is now eating a cookie […]

She: did you ever see the music man? it’s funny
Me: i think so
She: they are singing a song about the wells fargo wagon coming to town with the packages
She: basically the ups truck
She: the whole town is singing
Me: what a wonderful time that must have been!
She: the entire town is chasing it
She: all excited over […]

The Yahoo! CTO? No. Zod2008.com
Backgrounder, etc on generalzod.net

Today I went to log in to Yahoo Mail, and was greeted with this:

Why the heck would Yahoo! choose this image? And what does it have to do with viruses?

Both seen on the “Most Popular” page on Yahoo today. Two different stories, but the juxtaposition was too much to pass up:

Advertising Week is, well, just what it sounds like. A week of the ad industry celebrating itself. Among the highlights, the “Procession of the Great Icons”, where you can get a glimpse of Mr. Clean, Smokey Bear, Cap’n Crunch, McGruff the Crime Dog and dozens of other advertising icons strutting through Times Square and […]

I saw this AP photo of Typhoon Haitang bearing down on the city of Hangzhou (China) and thought — man, that could be a poster for Ghostbusters.

At work, people (and programs!) using email who mistakenly type subjects containing the word “page” into the “To:” or “Cc:” line instead of the “Subject:” line end up sending me email. Given the nature of our business, the word “page” comes up frequently in emails.
I never reply to these, just delete them. But I […]

I’ll bet the Centers for Disease Control would love this site. A notable quote from the press release:
… most comprehensive relational relationship database.
Huh?

The new Hertz web site is miles and miles better than the one it replaces. More functionality, easier to find your way around, and it even works in non-IE browsers now.
Not all the bugs are worked out, however:

Jeremy wonders how much anchor text matters, and opines that a company named “Click Here” would never make it to the first page of the search results.
So true. Or is it? Another common word used as anchor text is “download”:

on Google

on Yahoo!

While download.com appears at the top (which I suppose you’d want), this query may […]

OK, nothing to do with analytics or Yahoo. I was reading news feeds today and came across a press release where a PR person announced he has started a blog, “to Share Insight and Observations on Society, Politics and Business” (his caps).
I dunno, maybe it’s the coffee, but I think this is funny. Who […]