bobbyd

Is Google's OpenSocial Really The Second Coming?

This is most certainly a "very" big deal for small developers like me...apps.facebook.com/verb.../

Now how about you "seekingalpha" open up the walled garden and let a 1000 social nets bloom! ;)
bobbyd
gangsta of social love
verbdate.com

Is Google's OpenSocial Really The Second Coming?

This is most certainly a "very" big deal for small developers like me...apps.facebook.com/verb.../

Now how about you "seekingalpha" open up the walled garden and let a 1000 social nets bloom! ;)
bobbyd
gangsta of social love
verbdate.com

Cisco CEO John Chambers Envisions A Collaborative Future

Its great to hear a CEO like Chambers talk about web 2.0 and the power of leveraging the user base of a social network. We are seeing this daily on verbdate.com. People in Spain, talk with voip to people in Australia and share photos and tips on linking youtube videos to their profile on our site. All the while showing each others presence, location, and availability to chat or be called via skype! God Speed Mr. Chambers, God Speed!
bobbyd
gangsta of love
verbdate.com

Google: New Adwords Algorithm Could Boost Advertising

I sure hope this is a significant improvement as our experience with adwords at verbdate.com, has been a let down. For example, we often see google placing ads for competitors in our pages which is fine as we are a free service and the traffic always comes back since the competition wants $30 a month, and when we have the time we apply some filters to the ads especially the "alternative" lifestye ones. This is all fine as we understand that Google shareholders want to see Google charging for more and more ads, its just that the adwords user has very little say in what those ads are and how they match to a semantic web page and its tags.
The big disconnect is when members see ads for "name tags" and "price tags" because the word tag appears in our html.

This got is thinking about building an ad engine based on tags! For example, some of our members will place the tags "yoga" or "snow board" in their profiles and rather than show them an add for a desert or an add for ebay snow globes, our tag engine will show them ads for "LuLuLemon Athletic Wear, or a holiday ski package to Whistler or their local mountain lodge.

To see this in action visit verbdate.com/tags.php and use the above mentioned keywords of "yoga" and "snow" and if anyone is interested in a demo with more information regarding verbdates Inverse ad engine and our plans to grow out this ad network please feel free to email me: [e-mail]

Ah a million relevant ads being seen by a million people a few million times a day, what a dream! :)

Making the Match: Trends in Online Dating Sites

Speaking of dating, check out the future of online dating sites at verbdate.com. Its dating 2.0 with voice over ip, video, tags, presence and location as well as all traditional online personals features. The big take away? Its 100% free and trending around the globe!

The future of online dating is free, with video and voice services and with the integration of Youtube video greetings verbdate.com is leading the way in free user generated content on a dating site!

"The future is not so much in content, but rather the conversations and communities formed around it! "bobbyd
Talk on all - talk on :)