Ilya Vedrashko who writes Advertising Lab - a blog about the future of advertising and advertising technology - has posted a guest blog by yours truly!  It is the first of a three-part post about the ways in which online advertising needs to change to benefit consumers.  Read the post and let me know what you think!
 

Check out this blog post on the ethics of social media.  It is an interesting look at user consent and the use/misuse of personal information and online behavioral habits.  I think that the market (consumers) will realize the risks of giving up all their rights to their personal information in exchange for a cool online [...]

On Tuesday, September 2nd, I had the opportunity to show off our site and service at the NY Tech Meetup.  The crowd was great (and huge) and I really appreciate all of the work that goes into the events.
Thanks to Allen Stern of CenterNetworks for the video.
Take a look at the video, below, and let [...]

Click here to go to Mashable.com and read about ListensToYou.
http://mashable.com/2008/06/18/listenstoyo/

ListensToYou will be giving a product demo today at the NY Tech Meetup.  We’ll get the chance to talk about our vision with about 400 members of one of New York’s most influential and informed technology and online business communities.  We are very excited and I hope to be able to post pictures or a [...]

ListensToYou is about a lot of things: user choice, control over online content, connecting people with products and services that they actually want or need and online privacy - to name a few.  But, sometimes, actual examples of online advertisements make it easy to point out the need for a service - ListensToYou - to improve [...]

We got some initial (and very good) feedback on the site’s user forum.  Keep voicing your opinion and interest in ListensToYou.  If you love it, hate it or somewhere in between, we would like to hear from you.  The important thing for us, right now, is that people like the vision - to give internet [...]

If you have topics you’d like to discuss, post them as comments on this blog post and we’ll promote some of the discussions to their own posts to continue the discussion.  We’re open to all feedback!

From the ListensToYou user forum
Make updating preferences easier in real time. Go to someone like Conduit in short term- have them create a toolbar for you - that way users have one-click access to your resources. Also paves the way for better ad network integration (cookie based ad targeting growing obsolete - pave way for [...]

From the ListensToYou user forum
I’m sure you went around a lot on this already but your name is not very catchy and its too long. Gotta find a better name for the service. 
Posted by : tmc2k  
Posted date : 06-20-2008 00:59:45 am
 
Replies
Thanks, tmc2k! You know, we went back and forth with this. We did get some [...]