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| Oct 6, 2010 | Yahoo acquires Dapper | Dapper provides a platform for creating dynamic display ads, as Yahoo shows weakening ad impressions
As Yahoo! licks its wounds after several of its SVPs have left in a massive management overhaul, it refocuses its energy on ads (perhaps lo... |
| Oct 5, 2010 | Yahoo makes display ads smarter with Dapper acquisition | Looking to make their display ads more appealing to advertisers and agencies, Yahoo today announced on its blog that it has plans to buy Dapper, a mashup technology to bring the advantages of search-based advertising into the world of displ... |
| Oct 5, 2010 | Yahoo makes display ads smarter with Dapper acquisition | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Looking to make their display ads more appealing ... |
| Oct 5, 2010 | Yahoo Nabs Display Ads Startup Dapper | Most recently in the news for its executive exodus last week, Yahoo announced on its corporate blog earlier today the acquisition of San Francisco-based Dapper, a startup that specializes in fancy contextual display ads, i.e. ads that take ... |
| Jul 20, 2010 | Enterprises Are Leading the Point-and-Click App Creation Revolution | In the read/write era, enterprise technology has been playing catchup with the consumer sector, integrating social networking, wikis and activities streams into business-grade applications. But that hasn’t always been the case – look at the... |
| Dec 26, 2008 | Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies | In this article, we’ll analyze the trends and technologies that power the Semantic Web. We’ll identify patterns that are beginning to emerge, classify the different trends, and peak into what the future holds.
In a recent interview Tim Bern... |
| Dec 23, 2008 | Top 100 Products of 2008 | Over December we’ve published ten top 10 lists of the top products of 2008. We intend to open these lists up for public voting in 2009, to tap into the wisdom of the intelligent crowd that reads our site. But for now, you’ll have to make do... |
| Dec 11, 2008 | Top 10 RSS and Syndication Products of 2008 | RSS and syndication are the veins that the new social web flows through. Countless products and services have been built on top of RSS in the past few years but there are always a few that stand above the rest.
As part of this year’s Top 10... |
| Dec 2, 2008 | Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2008 | In 2008 we saw the Semantic Web gain traction, giving us plenty of choice when selecting the 10 best Semantic Web products of 2008.
This is the first in a series of posts we’ll publish over December, listing our choices for the top web prod... |
| Nov 20, 2008 | 10 More Semantic Apps to Watch | In November 2007, we listed 10 Semantic apps to watch and yesterday we published an update on what each had achieved over the past year. All of them are still alive and well – a couple are thriving, some are experimenting and a few are stil... |
| Nov 13, 2008 | 30 Days Later: 22 Apps We’re Still Using 1 Month After Finding Them | How easy is it to launch a new web application these days? Easy enough that we see scads of new ones every day, in our tips inbox, on other blogs, raining out of the sky like cats and dogs. We love many of them, we really do, but after that... |
| Nov 10, 2008 | Dapper MashupAds Turn Your Website Into Contextual, Display Ads | The most important ad for a company or brand is its Website. So why not use that Website to generate ads? Dapper, a startup that can create a feed from any Website, is applying its technology to generate contextual, display ads from the con... |
| Sep 25, 2008 | Reading Blogs at Work: Why You Should Do It & How You Can Make it Worthwhile | Yesterday we wrote about a new Pew study that found that only 11% of people in the US who use the internet at work are using it to read blogs. We’ve seen other studies that put this number much higher, but Pew’s is probably the most objecti... |
| Sep 16, 2008 | Yahoo Loses Search Monkey Product Manager | Yahoo may be pushing ahead with its strategy to open itself up to outsiders (this weekend was Hack Day), but insiders are still streaming out the door. Even some of the product managers driving the open strategy are not sticking around.
We ... |
| Jul 30, 2008 | Some Web Apps Work Better Together | How many new websites can you fit in a Volkswagen Beetle? Sometimes it feels like that’s what we’re trying to do these days – but all these new applications and services don’t have to be crammed into our heads and lives as separate things t... |
| May 20, 2008 | Next Gen Apps Won’t Be Pushed Around By the Browser | The invention of the browser was a huge boon to the internet and a substantial amount of computing now goes on through that interface we’ve grown to love. The internet is not a place where innovation takes a break, though, and a new generat... |
| May 7, 2008 | MindTouch Goes Polyglot, Gets Nod From Mozilla | Open source wiki and application platform Deki Wiki, powered by MindTouch, is releasing a new version of its software today that makes it easy to switch between multiple languages for the content and interface of any page on a wiki. The com... |
| Apr 15, 2008 | Meme13 Tries and Fails to Solve the Techmeme Echo-Chamber Problem | Many people love to check out automated blog meme aggregator
Techmeme
throughout the day for the latest in tech news – but a considerable number of other people consider it a self-promoting echo chamber that poisons the tech blog discussion... |
| Apr 7, 2008 | FirstRain Research Suite: Look and Drool | FirstRain
is a web research tool-suite that markets itself to buy-side professionals in hedge funds. It costs $10k per year per user and is today announcing a distribution deal with
CapitalIQ
, an upstart Bloomberg competitor. That price is... |
| Mar 20, 2008 | Semantify – Automate Your Semantic Web SEO in Five Minutes | The timing couldn’t be better for the release of Semantify, a new service from Israel/San Francisco’s Dapper.net. One week after Yahoo! announced that it will begin indexing the semantic markup and meaning of content on the web, Semantify o... |
| Mar 3, 2008 | APIs and Developer Platforms: A Discussion on the Pros and Cons | Should your company offer an API for outside developers to build on? Should you engage in one of the fast growing developer platforms or with another company’s API? There’s a world of options opening up to leverage cross-site functionality ... |
| Feb 6, 2008 | Funding the Semantic Web: Dapper’s Ad Network Plan | The founders of the data extraction and API creation service Dapper announced this week that their aim is to leverage Dapper in the service of ad networks and derive a semantic index of pages around the web from that activity. They will lau... |
| Feb 4, 2008 | Is Google’s Social Graph API a Creeping Privacy Violation? | I love me some screenscaping and mashups and data portability, but when it comes to personal information things get a little more complicated.
I’m in San Francisco today at Dappercamp, an event concerning a tool that’s always got the rights... |
| Jan 7, 2008 | MindTouch Powers-Up DekiWiki with Dapper | Open source wiki vendor MindTouch is releasing a series of major new features Monday and some of them are quite interesting. People used to talk about MindTouch for its outlandish stunts – like working with nutball John Gotts on the short-l... |
| Jan 4, 2008 | Just Assume Any Info You Put Online Is Public | I have to admit that I was sorry to see that my fellow Techdirt blogger Julian had beaten me to the punch, writing a characteristically insightful post on the Robert Scoble/Facebook story. But Facebook and screen-scraping are two of my favo... |
| Dec 31, 2007 | The Glory, Bliss and How-to of Screen Scraping for RSS | Wired has an awesome top story today on the world of startups utilizing scraped data from big companies to offer new layers of value for their own users. It’s a roughly objective piece that I highly recommend reading but it was also inspira... |
| Nov 8, 2007 | Deadpool: Teqlo Finds Out That Mashups Don't Make Money | Making my point that it is hard to make money from mashups, investors have pulled the plug on Teqlo. The startup, backed by Peter Rip, was originally focused on being a widget-based tool for creating mashups, competing with Yahoo Pipes, Dap... |
| Sep 28, 2007 | Roundup: Zlango’s leaked PowerPoint, DIY Facebook apps, and more | Here’s the latest action:
1) For entrepreneurs: Zlango and the art of the PowerPoint pitch
2) DIY widget makers help you create your own Facebook applications, sell ads
3) Compete suggest smaller video sites are eating up market share
4) Do... |
| Sep 27, 2007 | Dapper Launching Semantic Ad Technology | Dapper, the Israeli founded super-tool that “creates an API for any website” is looking to make the transition from useful service to viable business with the release of DapperAds, the company’s new ad serving technology. What Dapper Does
D... |
| Sep 17, 2007 | Intel’s MashMaker to launch this week | IDF, Intel’s annual developer forum, starts tomorrow in San Francisco and the hardware company will make one of its most interesting moves into the consumer software world yet.
Included in the event will be the unveiling of two new projects... |
| Aug 26, 2007 | Dapper to Launch Instant Facebook AppMaker | This Tuesday, Israel-based Dapper will launch the private beta of Facebook AppMaker, a new tool that the company claims will provide people with a dead simple way to create new Facebook applications.
At its core, Dapper allows users to crea... |
| Mar 19, 2007 | Web 3.0: When Web Sites Become Web Services | Today’s Web has terabytes of information available to humans, but hidden
from computers. It is a paradox that information is stuck inside HTML pages, formatted in
esoteric ways that are difficult for machines to process. The so called Web 3... |