Vurve. Amit Kumar's Twitter Tweets on CEOsTweeting.com! Always up-to-date! UpTake. UpTake - Your First Step to a Great Trip. Semantic Travel Search Engine UpTake Launches. According to a comScore study done last year, booking travel over the Internet has become something of a nightmare for people. It's not that using any of the booking engines is difficult, it's just that there is so much information out there that planning a vacation is overwhelming. According to the comScore study, the average online vacation plan comes together through 12 travel-related searches and visits to 22 different web sites over the course of 29 days.
Semantic search startup UpTake (formerly Kango) aims to make that process easier. UpTake is a vertical search engine that has assembled what it says is the largest database of US hotels and activities -- over 400,000 of them -- from more than 1,000 different travel sites. Using a top-down approach, UpTake looks at its database of over 20 million reviews, opinions, and descriptions of hotels and activities in the US and semantically extracts information about those destinations. A simplified example ontology is depicted below. Team. Yen Lee, President and Founder of UpTake at PhoCusWright 08. Interview: Yen Lee, President and Founder, UpTake | Videos | Breaking Travel News. Tunerfish | beta.
Beta. Why Entertainment Will Drive the Next Checkin Craze. In recent months, a crop of services have popped up that re-purpose the checkin concept, popularized by Foursquare, and connect it to media and entertainment, as opposed to location. In theory, the idea of checking-in to cultural concepts (like media, music, etc.) and not places is one that doesn't jive in the real-world. It would follow then that the apps that provide this service — GetGlue, Philo and Miso — are silly and far too extreme in ideology to attract anything more than a testbed tech audience. In practice, this alternative checkin behavior is one that is more cultural and familiar than anything the location checkin offers. In fact, it emulates the way we experience entertainment in our everyday lives.
The desire to share is unchanging — it's how we share that will continue to evolve with the help of social media and entertainment checkin services. The Culture of Entertainment Philo is hyper-focused on live television. The Checkin Connection Enter the checkin. Industry Matters. Lauren Marks: I'm playing with #TunerFis... Baskey: TunerFish now available at... Stephanie Nelson: Any feedback on @GetGlue v... Nida Zada (Nida) Tunerfish. Tripline. About Us. A note from Founder and CEO Byron Dumbrill Thanks very much for visiting. We've worked very hard to create something unique with Tripline, and we hope you enjoy what we've built so far. We're still in Beta and we release new features every couple of weeks, so if there's something you'd like to see, click on the [feedback] link to the left, or contact us directly.
We're only three people, but we'll usually get back to you pretty quickly. Share With The People You Care About At its most basic level, Tripline is a way for you communicate by putting places on a map. Your Plans Become Your Stories One of the earliest concept slides I put together had a simple statement: "Planning is a creative process". A Window On The World Aside from the most obvious use (travel planning and sharing), we've built Tripline to help you tell any story that involves moving across the map. Maps As Media Objects The story behind the origins of the Tripline concept goes back to May of 2005 - five years ago! Facebook. Byron Dumbrill (byronics) Tripline.
Draw Your Itinerary On A Tripline Map. Having just returned from a vacation, I’m in the midst of uploading videos and photos so I can send our visual memories of the trip to family and friends. But what if you could create an animated slideshow of sorts that would include an interactive map of your itinerary with photos, videos, Tweets, and even Foursquare check-ins from your trip? Tripline has launched to allow users tell a story of a trip by putting places, images and information on a map. Tripline allows you to create an interactive, embeddable map detailing a trip using your destinations. You essentially create a timeline of your stops within a country or city and tag each stop with descriptions of your activities and include images as well. The most obvious use is to be able to share itineraries and trips with anyone easily and visually.
Tripline is also monetizing through sponsored trips from travel planning companies (such as GAP Adventures). Tripline's Use of Google Geo APIs. Tripline The Google Geo Developers Blog has a great guest post from Byron Dumbrill, Founder & CEO of Tripline. Tripline was one of my Maps of the Week last month. Tripline allows anyone to easily create an embeddable interactive Google Map of a journey or trip. I particularly like how the map uses animated lines to connect each stage of a user created trip. In the Geo Developers Blog post Byron discusses how Tripline decided to use the Google Maps API for Flash as the best platform to combine the maps, the animations and soundtrack elements in Tripline.
Byron says that another advantage of using the Google Maps API for Flash is that it makes the created maps easy to share. One of the great features of Flash files is that they are easily embeddable (e.g. The lesson for other Google Maps developers is that if you want your users to be able to embed your maps then you should seriously consider using the Google Maps API for Flash. Via: Google Geo Developers Blog. T-zine: Avec Tripline, chaque voya... Avtips: I stumbled upon Tripline,... Tripline: www.goo.gl/imAB new update... Jools Stone: This site rocks @tripline... Byron Dumbrill. Tripline. Topspin Media » Blog. Topspin Media. Topspin Media » Shamal Ranasinghe.
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Bootup Roommates: TinySpeck, Mozilla, & Joyent | Bootup Labs Blog. There are a lot of great technologies being developed in Vancouver that we’re proud of, and personally I think we could do a better job telling our story. For example, not many people know of these three world class organizations being developed right in our city, and Bootup Labs is lucky enough to be call them “Roomies”… at least for a little while.
Stewart Butterfield‘s TinySpeck has temporarily set up shop in the old DimeRocker office while they wait for their new office to be renovated. Stewart is best known for creating Flickr here in Vancouver, and now splits his time between here and San Francisco. TinySpeck’s first project is called Glitch. It’s pretty amazing to watch Stewart and his rock-star team of artists and developers create something from thin air at break neck speed. Mozilla Messaging’s Thunderbird 3 email client, developed by David Ascher and his team. Joyent’s cutting edge cloud computing technology lead by VP of Engineering, Mark Mayo right here in Vancouver.
Flickr Follow-Up Project Has A Name, Tiny Speck. And They're Hiring. Back in June of last year, Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, the husband/wife team that started Flickr, left Yahoo to pursue other interests. We already know what Fake’s new project is, the just-launched Hunch. Now we know what Butterfield’s new project is. Or, at least, what it’s called: Tiny Speck. Butterfield sent out a tweet tonight announcing that the new company was hiring. The link he sent goes to a page on a site for the Tiny Speck project. Along the top of the jobs page it reads “We’re a new company, founded by four core members of the original team behind Flickr.” So what is Tiny Speck all about? And the main page doesn’t offer much help either. Below that, you’ll find the logo, and below that you’ll find the link stating that Tiny Speck is hiring. So, is there anything to be drawn from this position they’re hiring for? So clearly this is a creative project — it almost sounds like their making an animated movie.
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Prior to co-founding Rocket Fuel, he was instrumental in helping Yahoo! Grow its behavioral-targeting advertising from an experiment into a major revenue driver for the company. Before Yahoo! , Richard was a general manager at DoubleClick, where he helped usher in a customer-centric approach to a publisher business, ensuring that customers achieved their goals—both through the Internet boom and bust.
Previously, he was with NetGravity, the company that developed the Internet’s first commercial ad server. At NetGravity, he was instrumental in building its customer-service organization into a profitable business. See Less. Rocket Fuel. Yahoo Veterans Launch Rocket Fuel, A "Hybrid" Ad Network. A team of Yahoo veterans who built its behavioral targeting advertising technology are publicly launching a hybrid ad network today called Rocket Fuel, which they’ve tested over the past year with major brands including Nike, Dell, Microsoft, and American Express.
Despite keeping quiet, Rocket Fuel’s ad network reaches 40 million people and shows them about 100 million ads per month. CEO George John calls Rocket Fuel a “hybrid ad network” because it combines all sorts of targeting data (social, behavioral, contextual, geographical, search) to figure out what works best at any particular moment. “We saw how important it was to let the data tell you which ad to show,” says John, who came from Yahoo along with president Richard Frankel and CTO Abhinav Gupta. Rocket Fuel’s algorithm considers everything from a consumer’s online behavior and location to the time of day and what particular ad was shown. We let the data tell us what works and what is important. Rocket Fuel CEO John Says Ad Exchanges More Like A Technology Platform Than Media Source. George John is CEO of Rocket Fuel, Inc., an online advertising network. AdExchanger.com: How do you see the role of the ad network evolving over the next 12-24 months? Will ad network arbitrage disappear?
It has been hyped that the ad network marketplace is overly crowded with more than 400 players. But when you take a closer look at the market in detail, of these supposed 400 networks, 370+ are small niche buyers and vertical content aggregators that act as basic service providers to make buying media a little easier for agencies and advertisers. The remaining 25 or so aren’t really data targeting companies but rather inventory aggregators who basically sell pre-defined profiles or “buckets” of impressions and call them customer “segments.”
Many of the traditional players are only scalable through efficient operations, not technology. The industry has advanced and is in a critical transition period. In our view network arbitrage will not disappear – quite the contrary. Campaigns run better on Rocket Fuel. Rocket Fuel is a breakout sponsor at the Mobile Marketing Association Forum in New York City. The MMA's 2014 New York Forum is an exceptional opportunity for CMOs to educate their teams and drive innovation within their companies. Rocket Fuel’s mobile expert, Nitin Chitkara, will speak on Day 1 at 2:25 p.m. Register... read more» Rocket Fuel is a VIP Room sponsor of the 14th Annual Excellence in Interactive Marketing Awards at FIG: Fashion Industry Gallery.
The EIMAs honor the best of the best in interactive marketing. Rocket Fuel hosts a morning of reflection on, and insights about, the disruptions shaping our industry. Rocket Fuel will sponsor a happy hour and speak at Interactive Day San Diego on May 15-16. George John will speak at LUMA Partners 6th annual Digital Media Summit during Internet Week in NYC.
Rocket Fuel will attend OMMA Mobile at Internet Week New York on May 21st. George H. John. George is currently CEO of Rocket Fuel Incorporated, a well-funded startup in silicon valley aiming to disrupt online advertising with a modern, quantitative data-driven approach. Add some rocket fuel to your career today, and email your resume to careers@rocketfuelinc.com. :) Previously, George was Senior Director for Behavioral Targeting and Personalization at Yahoo! , where he grew his team from 3 to 90, grew ad revenues 3x, drove a major Yahoo! Property from #3 to #1 with personalized recommendations, delivered systems for SEO and SEM analytics and optimization, and led a major technology acquisition and partnerships with eBay and others. Before Yahoo! Previously, George was at E.piphany, which he joined as employee #13 in 1997. Prior to joining E.piphany, George was the first senior data mining analyst in the Global Business Intelligence Solutions division of IBM, where he built a team of ten star analysts and worked as a liason between the research, consulting, and software groups.
George John. George John has built a successful career by consistently generating insights and profits for marketers by analyzing huge amounts of historical data to predict response rates and target messages—helping Kraft sell more Miracle Whip, Amazon.com sell more books, and Wells Fargo sell more financial services. Prior to co-founding Rocket Fuel, George led teams building high-tech systems to optimize marketing at Yahoo! , salesforce.com, Epiphany, and IBM, in roles spanning engineering, marketing, sales, and executive management. As a senior director for behavioral targeting and personalization at Yahoo! , his teams delivered systems to optimize marketing spend and personalize content and ads. This helped advertisers see up to a 400% lift in click-through and conversion rates, driving one major site to number one in comScore rankings, and delivering hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.
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