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Google Kills Yahoo Deal

You know, I was actually looking forward to the Google-Yahoo search ad deal. Becoming an AdSense publisher would have earned Yahoo $800 million a year, unburdened their ad salesforce, and allowed them to focus on what they do best: portals and APIs. With Yahoo laying off ten percent of their workforce, that’s exactly what they need right now: revenue and focus.

Unfortunately for Yahoo, Google just killed the deal. Click here to continue reading “Google Kills Yahoo Deal”…

100 Days On a Couch Live on Video

The Internet enables stay-at-homes, live video enables exhibitionists, and Long Tail advertising allows them to profit from it all. That’s what this guy’s doing, attempting to stay on his couch for the next one hundred days, for all the world to see, on Yahoo Live video at 100dayscam.com. He’s even crowdsourcing what he should do on cam.

Welcome to a world where you can get famous sitting on your couch. It’s his first day, and he’s already got pixel advertisers.