Ernesto on September 3rd, 2008

Rachel Beckman has a funny piece in The Washington Post today: Facebook Ads Target You Where It Hurts.  Because of how much the social network knows about individual users, ads can really sting. It chronically targeted ads at Beckman implying she was fat (“Muffin Top?” the ads asked along with a picture of someone afflicted [...]

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Ernesto on September 1st, 2008

Ah, how well I remember the Commodore VIC-20 and writing those early BASIC peek and poke programs to swap on cassette tape by USPS with my cousin Conrad.  Smart of Yeahronimo Media Ventures to buy rights to the Commodore name.  Some of us might be tempted to look into one of these netbooks on the nostalgia factor [...]

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