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The real reason for Google's free 411 service

Tim O'Reilly speculated why Google is really doing a free 411 service . In short, I'm speculating that the 1-800-GOOG-411 service is designed to harvest voice data to build Google's own speech database, rather than licensing from Nuance or another player. Charlie confirmed this at the recent Google Developer...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 06-04-2007
Another ironic Mac commercial

We already know some of the ads in the Get-A-Mac campaign don't exactly make sense . The latest, "Counselor", seems particularly ironic to me. In the ad, the Mac says that the PC "is a wizard with numbers and dresses like a gentleman". The PC is able to say that the Mac is "better with creative stuff...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 10-19-2006
Advertising in RSS

Mike Gunderloy (Larkware News) points to an ad brokerage for RSS feeds . Interesting idea. How effective it is depends. I still think that, especially when it comes to personal weblogs, a personal endorsement is going to be infinitely more effective than a canned ad. I think the only way this is going...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-26-2004

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