Clickable Raises Another $3 Million, Officially Adds Jonathan Miller to Board  —  Advertising technology startup Clickable has raised another $3 million from its lead investors Union Square Ventures and Pequot Ventures, in a follow-on round to the $3 million it raised last July, confirms CEO David Kidder.

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Erick Schonfeld
Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/20/clickable-raises…

The Google Set-Top Box (Think Android For TV)  —  Deep in the Googleplex there is an engineering team thinking about how to extend Google’s reach into your TV.  Its work goes way beyond the Google TV ads currently being tested by EchoStar (and targeted with help from Nielsen).

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Erick Schonfeld
Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/20/the-google-set…

MoveOn.org takes on Facebook’s ‘Beacon’ ads  —  Online activist group MoveOn.org is poised to announce a campaign targeting Facebook’s “Beacon” advertisements, which post information about users’ activity on partner sites (movie rentals, purchases from online retailers) onto their friends’ News Feeds.

Source:   CNET News.com
Author:   Caroline McCarthy
Link:   http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9821170-36.html

Former AOL Chair Backs New Search Tech Startup ‘Clickable’  —  NEW YORK-BASED CLICKABLE ANNOUNCED THAT former AOL Chairman and CEO Jonathan Miller has joined the company’s Board of Directors.  —  The announcement comes on the heels of the search tech startup’s naming of Nielsen BuzzMetrics vet Max Kalehoff …

Source:   MediaPost Publications
Author:   Tameka Kee
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Pay Me for My Content  —  INTERNET idealists like me have long had an easy answer for creative types — like the striking screenwriters in Hollywood — who feel threatened by the unremunerative nature of our new Eden: stop whining and figure out how to join the party!

Source:   New York Times
Author:   Jaron Lanier
Link: […]

What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?  —  Today I want to ponder the question: what if Microsoft, not Google, had created Gmail?  What would be the differences in that web mail client for users today?  What if we apply some of the same design rules that brought us Hotmail, for instance?

Source:   Google […]

The 20 Worst Venture Capital Investments of All Time  —  Catastrophic collapses and classic crashes in the high-tech business world.  —  Some things were just never meant to be, but that doesn’t mean that investors won’t pile millions of dollars upon a bad idea — or even a good idea gone bad.

Source:   insidecrm.com
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Status Update: Facebook Is Letting Users Drop the “Is”  —  Facebook has caved into popular demand and will make the “is” in status updates optional, effective tonight, according to allfacebook.com.  —  The much despised “is” has been a mandatory component of the status update …

Source:   Epicenter
Author:   Betsy Schiffman
Link:   http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/11/status-update…

Firefox 3 Beta 1: The Memory Use Says It All  —  I’ve been a long time Firefox fanboy.  I was one of the 10,000 people who contributed, and had their name featured in the NY Times back in 2004.  I’ve long preached to anyone who would listen that Firefox is a better alternative to Internet […]

Meebo’s Got Game  —  If you’re looking for a killer app on the Internet and are unwilling to get into pornography, gaming is your best bet.  So when Meebo opened their platform last month to third party developers, it was clearly only a matter of time before they let game startups in.  That time has […]