As someone who works in marketing, I’m a bit torn on removing myself from the selection process in targeted advertising. That said I was rather stunned to see the sheer number of sites (230!) apparently looking to target against me – according to this helpful Chrome extension. If interested in going incognito, this might be … Read moreChrome – Keep my Opt-Outs
Cablevision has been running floating ads when connected on their metro-fi on top of pages to promote their core services. The problem is that these are seriously annoying to existing customers. Our house is a multi-DVR, broadband, and phone triple-play. Cablevision even has the MAC addresses of 4 mobile devices of ours so we can … Read moreNo Cablevision, no.
Cycling Tips has a great interview with Michael Horvath, the CEO and Founder of Strava. If you’ve been around me at all you know I love Strava and use it passionately to track and share my rides as well as my (less frequent) runs. Strava very smartly filled the hole left by Nike+ for cycling … Read moreAbout Strava
My wife and I have three kids and like their dad, they enjoy using gadgets. About two weeks ago we gave Hannah (8), our oldest daughter a semi-retired iPhone 3GS to use essentially as an iPod Touch. There’s no SIM in it and it’s basically a phone I had previously installed a bunch of kid … Read moreKids and Technology
Just reading Ben King’s latest at VeloNews and caught a link to his Strava Profile which regular users will quickly see is rather different from what we usually get. And like the rest of Strav’s offerings, it’s very well considered. While this is clearly positioned as a Pro (athlete) page, it’s really very similar … Read moreStrava Pro Pages
Gizmodo notes the soft-launch of Aereo, which will bring TV streaming potentially to a more mainstream group given the complete lack of set-up. I really like this idea. Sure there’s hardware you could get to do this but the service folds it all nicely into an app. Pricing just needs to be more in line … Read moreWhat if TV anywhere was real?
This is absolute perfection.