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Interview with Ian Swanson, Sometrics

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I worked at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace. To better understand the audiences using applications, we built out an analytics system a little over a year ago. We just recently started rolling out ad-related products, like Ad Manager, which is like Google's ad manager with baked-in social targeting.

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Interview with Sometrics, Ian Swanson

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I worked at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace. To better understand the audiences using applications, we built out an analytics system a little over a year ago. We just recently started rolling out ad-related products, like Ad Manager, which is like Google's ad manager with baked-in social targeting.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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not all the other applications that were competing for user attention in Facebook). So we ended up with “real-time streams&# in Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Blip.FM, etc. If anybody is to show ads you then need to decide: banner ads (how’d that go for MySpace?), Just ask MySpace. contextual text ads (e.g.

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Entrepreneurs Should be Respected, Not Loved

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Not making hard choices in terms of organizational structure or product direction. Biz Dev is pissed off because they can’t sign deals when they can’t get commitments from product management to agree to product integration plans. MySpace dithered. But his tenure as CEO (and frankly the whole culture of Yahoo!

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

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First, I believe that Seesmic has an excellent product – especially the web version of their product and that having another senior and experienced exec like Loic Le Meur would be great for Twitter. Short answer: quality is more important than quantity). Think about the creative tension.