Archive for September, 2008

One Former Physicist’s Thoughts on the Large Hadron Collider (or Will the World End?)

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

I have a college buddy from Duke - David Hardtke, who is retired physicist who worked at LBNL and CERN (the guys who built LHC) and now Chief Scientist at SurfCanyon a search startup, who sent us his thoughts on what's going to happen with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ...

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The Fallacy & Conundrum of User Influenced Ad Models

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

As the online display ad business continues to focus more and more on the idea of user targeting (the idea of targeting the user instead of targeting the site or the context of the page), there is a growing interest and some potential concern around how we're going to target ...

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