We’re pleased to announce the initial agenda for FM’s inaugural Signal San Francisco – an executive-level, one-day digital marketing conference featuring 25 speakers from the worlds of technology platforms, innovative startups, and...
Weds. Signal: Who Speaks the Truth, Anymore?
If you read Signal closely (and I know at least two of you do), you’ll notice stories to which I *don’t* pay attention. I dare you to guess which they are today. Meanwhile, there’s actual news happening, and some plain truth telling...
Monday Signal: Big Issues, All In Play
Has anyone else noticed how “big” the stories are getting in our industry? And by big, I mean, weighty, important, global, clashes-of-titanic-forces Big. A review of three days’ worth of links shows fights over Internet standards,...
Highlights of the 2011 Clojure/conj
The second annual Clojure/conj came to a close last November. I was able to attend and wanted to share some impressions of the conference in general and a couple of the more inspiring talks in particular. I’ll be happy to …
Apache ZooKeeper: Part 1: A convenient service for your servers
Like many data-centric companies, we use Hadoop to routinely process large data sets on an hourly and daily basis. While Hadoop offers a great model for scaling data processing applications through its distributed file system (HDFS), Map/Reduce and...
Midweek Signal: The Brand’s Online
The Superbowl continues as a peg upon which to hang consideration of our industry’s place in the branding world – can online be a branding experience (I say yes), or are we doomed to becoming a data-driven direct business (I say, yes and!)....
“Bloggers have to eat.” I remember John Battelle saying that the first time I sat down to have a conversation with him. It was part of his conveying to me why he was inspired to found Federated Media Publishing (FMP). …
Monday Signal: Monday Morning QB’in
Well, the SuperBowl took over my life last night, but not how you might expect. By the time I got around to watching the game, it was nearly over. Tivo’s great, but … I missed the second screen experience. Dern kids. But here are some Monday...
7 wireless security facts to protect your Wi-Fi network
Think your wireless network is safe? You may have succumb to one or more very common Wi-Fi security myths. With these wireless security facts, you can get on the right track to make your home or office network safer.
Friday Signal: Ripple In Muddy Water
The ripples of Facebook’s IPO filing continue outward, but what does it all mean? Well, you’ll not find out much from this issue of Signal, though there are a few links about that momentous event. Rather, it’s all a bit …. muddy...
Federated Media Publishing has made some major changes during the past 12 months. But something bigger and more fundamental is at hand.
Weds. Signal: The Other Other One Percent
If data is currency, then the results are in: The rich are consuming a lion’s share of our data currency. I must admit, as a consumer of gigabytes a day, I’m guilty. But somehow, I don’t feel bad about it. Should I? Meanwhile,...
Conversation Targeting: How it’s different
Conversation Targeting – a new ad product we launched recently, to much success -- is based on some strong semantic technology. However, it’s probably not what you think it is.
Monday Signal: What *Is* Evil?
The theme of this past weekend’s reading seems to be morality – good and evil. It’s much on all of our minds as we consider life after “winning” the SOPA battle, watching Google explain why it did what it did with Search...
Weekend Signal: Google, Google, Facebook IPO
If nothing else, Google’s recent (and somewhat controversial) moves have put it squarely in the news – Google is back, as a topic of discussion and debate. But expect that to change, as Facebook’s IPO filing is expected next week. To...
