Friday, June 21, 2002

I'm still all in a dither over the sixty bucks I coughed up in the last pledge drive.

Miasma

Wired News: Public Protests NPR Link Policy. These requirements aren't new. According to the date on the page, the permission form was last updated in March. But the page became the talk of the blogs on Wednesday, a day after Cory Doctorow posted up a link to the permission form on BoingBoing, his blog. [Tomalak's Realm]

12:52:34 AM    

The more I read The Shifted Librarian, the more I feel like we must be kindred spirits. I'd just been writing about my favorite ways to fuck up the Amazon database, and the ol Librarian here is working out a way to mess up the Yahoo spam system. Shifted Librarian, YOU STILL ROCK!

Miasma

Note to Self: Don't Use Yahoo for Searches Anymore.

Yahoo to Send E-mails Based on Search Engine Activity

"Yahoo Inc. announced today that it will debut a service that will let direct marketers send targeted e-mails to consumers based on their search engine activity."

The service, Yahoo Impulse Mail, tracks Yahoo e-mail users' search engine activity on Yahoo.com. It categorizes a few thousand words and 200 search categories, and matches that search information with the e-mail user's opt-in data. A marketer selling something that relates to that search can then send a targeted e-mail to the user. (from Industry Click via Search Engine Guide)"

LS Thoughts - Memo to self: Remember to perform really odd searches on Yahoo to get really funny marketing e-mail. How about Frogs for Dinner and Glass seaweed. [Library Stuff]

[The Shifted Librarian]

12:40:47 AM    

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