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[Richard Kreiss]

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What all these advertisers forget is that when they just show you "targeted" adds, they may actually miss getting one interested in something new and interesting but never considered. 

Show only tech stuff and the may miss your interest in "whatever". :)

Richard Kreiss
From my phone

On Aug 31, 2011, at 5:22 PM, Walter Vaughan <wvaughan at steelerubber.com> wrote:

> I just a few minutes ago I was looking for someone on facebook.
> They weren't, but the deep search had someone with that same name on
> myspace.
> 
> 1st) I hadn't been to myspace in years and I noticed you can now sign on to
> myspace with your facebook account. Wow.
> 
> 2nd) And this is where it gets weird. The myspace page had a banner add for
> Centrify. Centrify has a free and pro version to use Active Directory
> as a sign-on for Ubuntu, which I installed last week. Yeah, Maroon5 fans
> are interested in AD managing user accounts on Ubuntu servers. Weird.
> 
> 3rd) Then the next myspace page I looked at had a banner from Professional
> Projectors. Isn't that interesting just yesterday I was all over their
> webstite.
> Now I am just being target marketed to.
> 
> I fully support the idea of advertiser sponsored stuff. But can't they be
> a little less obvious? It would be like watching football on ESPN and
> having an ad for Anzio inserted. First you would think cool, and then
> you would think something is not right here. How many football fans
> need to purchase a terminal emulator? Oh wait, there used to be a billboard
> for filePro in the Indy airport that I remember seeing years ago.
> 
> See, I did get filePro in the discussion.
> 
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