Word: surfers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coming weeks will festoon them with banner ads. GOP rival John McCain previously experimented with banners, but not at the same level of marketing sophistication - Bush's people cross-referenced lists of registered Republican and Independent voters with lists of users of various web sites. A web surfer who, for example, clicks on the Nashua NRA chapter page in the coming weeks could be met by a blinking banner asking "How much will the BUSH TAX CUT save YOU?" If he clicks on the ad, a pop-up calculator will quickly compute his family's savings under Bush's plan...
Originally a surfer band and nothing more, the Beach Boys always retained a corny novelty sound that combined with their dated harmonizing and often nave lyrics to make them less than popular at present. Yet in their day they were America's best rock band, peaking in 1966 with their Pet Sounds album, which topped the charts in Britain, outselling even the Beatles' Revolver...
...players to online deals or to synch TV commercials with click-to-buy options. With a traditional commercial, says Aram Sinnreich, an analyst with Internet research firm Jupiter Communications, "the most the advertiser could hope for is to eventually send the user to the store." But webRIOT's online surfer-viewers are virtually at the store today, and the future implications make advertisers salivate. webRIOT is already selling on-air and online ads as a package...
...Accenting his statement with a click of the mouse, he continues, "If I don't see what I like right away, I move on. I'm not an endurance surfer; I'm a sprint surfer...
...popular caricature paints Jobs as a brilliant, driven man-child running around Apple in sandals and shorts, screaming at underlings while trying to build the perfect digital machine. By most accounts, this image remains more or less correct. He really does show up most days in shorts and surfer Ts. And intelligence reports from Cupertino, Calif., indicate that the infamously fiery Jobs still has, um, anger-management issues. "Anyone who has worked with Steve during his second tour at Apple will tell you that he's as driven, tense and temperamental as he has ever been," says author Alan Deutschman...