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Technorati

March 2nd, 2009

So, I am writing this post to complete my Technorati “claim of” our blog.
I have to put this code: [Deleted the code - can't be too safe :) ]
somewhere on the blog’s front page.
First, I am not sure if publishing that code in a public forum is a bad thing, but i suspect not, since [...]

Privacy Policy Self-Regulation

February 15th, 2009

The NY Times reported last week that the FTC reaffirmed its thinking that internet companies can responsibly self-police their privacy practices.  Website publishers and companies have privacy policies that are intended to report how your information is collected, stored and used, but these are often unclear and, mostly, just unread.  It is not realistic to [...]

Data Privacy Day

January 28th, 2009

Today is Data Privacy Day.  ListensToYou was founded not just to give an alternative to advertising based on data collected without user consent, but to participate in the awareness and discussion of data privacy.  Many people have told us that they don’t care about giving away their data.  Others have told us that the ListensToYou [...]

Where have you been?!?

January 9th, 2009

A fair question.  One of our friends posed this question over dinner a few weeks ago suspecting, correctly, that our lack of communication was because things ARE happening (rather than because things just aren’t happening).  It is a difficult task to bring a new way to advertise into the market in a meaningful way.  ListensToYou [...]

Online Advertising Guest Blog

October 14th, 2008

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!
 

Ethics and Privacy in Social Media

October 5th, 2008

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 [...]

NY Tech Meetup - Video Demo of ListensToYou

September 5th, 2008

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 [...]

Mashable coverage of ListensToYou

September 5th, 2008

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

NY Tech Meetup Product Demo

September 2nd, 2008

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 [...]

Real Online Ads (Really)

August 25th, 2008

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 [...]