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Building A Dream Team For Mobile Advertising, with Gradient X

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If there were such a thing as a "Dream Team" for mobile advertising, you would be hard pressed not to pick the founding team of Los Angeles-based Gradient X (www.gradientx.com), whose founders include Michael Lum (formerly of OpenX), Brian Baumgart (formerly at Adconion), and Julie Mattern (formerly of Rubicon Project).

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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Geodelic Rolls Out Clear Channel App for Android

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According to Clear Channel Airports, the airport advertising arm of advertising giant Clear Channel, it has launched a new FLYsmart application, a free, mobile application for Android which provides information about airports. The new app also includes ability to track flights at those airports.

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Interview with Jimmy Hendricks, Deal Current

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We actually built that about a year and a half ago, and are bringing that back due to overwhelming demand. In the meantime, Groupon came along, and our media customers started to lose advertising. We learned that Groupon was taking their advertisers. We had our contest software, ArtisticHub, driving some revenue.

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OpenX Debuts New Ad Quality Platform

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Los Angeles-based online advertising technology developer OpenX said today that it has launched a "next generation" traffic quality monitoring platform, which it is using to help eliminate fraud in programmatic advertising. openx advertising fraud detection quality exchange programmatic' READ MORE>>.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. This has prompted many people to question whether advertising “in stream&# and on Twitter is a good thing or a bad thing. So what do we mean by in-stream advertising?

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OpenX Touts Success At Purch

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Los Angeles-based advertising technology provider and marketplace operator OpenX says that it has expanded a partnership it has with publisher Purch --owner of Tom's Guide, Top Ten Reviews and ShopSavvy. READ MORE>>.

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