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TIME: Two developments seem to be on the minds of those who are watching the Internet play a central role in our lives. One is how the user-consumer has become part of the creative process, and the other one is the degree to which we are being microniched and perhaps disconnecting from one another. Is that what's happening...
...make a series of inductive leaps. "If you know what magazines a 40-year-old female voter subscribes to or what websites she reads," says a former DNC consultant, "you can apply that to things like Google AdSense"--which generates increasingly specific ads as it monitors how a user clicks through a website. "When someone types in the words schools or Oprah, your education plan--targeted for moms--will be right there. You're still fishing, but at least you're fishing with the right bait." Candidates will also infiltrate every trusted message board and blog that they possibly...
...hosting events.”According to Michael A. Jaffe ’06, an economics concentrator who counts the Student Friends of HUAM as one of his primary extracurriculars, the museums garner support from faculty and students because of their emphasis on easy access to art and their user-friendly approach to research and analysis. “It’s a really great program because they make an effort to involve the students [and] integrate them into the greater Harvard community,” says Jaffe.This approach to the study of art has its roots...
...company executives decided to market it. Meantime, Gupta's MSR group co-authored a paper with a computer science professor from the University of Calgary that was presented at a leading conference on computer and human interaction, reporting on the development of the prototype and the results of user studies with the enhanced telephony device. The resulting product, Microsoft Office Communicator, which brings together email, IM telephony and other features on the PC, began shipping last May and is currently in the hands of more than 10 million users, he says. Microsoft's goal is to attract 200 million...
...into China's cyberspace I very much enjoyed your article on the Google empire [Feb. 20]. But did Time's reporters walk out of the Googleplex, the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California, really understanding why Google is so successful? Google's triumph lies in its enormous user base. Growing that base to infinity plus one is far more important than ad revenues. Once you have the most wanted product in the universe, you have a googol (1 followed by 100 zeros) possible ways to make money. John Skelly Mons, France Despite Google's refusal to turn over data...