If it looks like an Ari and sounds like an Ari, it must be an Ari..

Ari on the new AppNexus AppExchange.  With him, Michael, and Patrick S there, they have a mini-reunion 24/7.

CatchPoint catches the retailers

Good report from CatchPoint about how the big online retailers performed on cybermonday.

H&F to buy Yahoo! too?

Midas in the  house..

Solve is trying to Solve something..

Stu Libby is now over at SolveMedia, who got a nice piece in AdWeek today.

Solve Media from Solve Media on Vimeo.

ex-Clicker talking about – eek- Ballmer

Andrew LaVallee, former Clicker, who has been with the WSJ for years, is in Asia, talking about Microsoft and some other APAC developments.

KR about the blood-letting fun days at DCLK!

Deja Vu All Over Again..

The recent outage with Amazon might have seemed like the first real hiccup of the cloud.. but we’ve been living with the cloud for many years and over 10 years ago, DoubleClick had a cloud hiccup too.  Mehdi was there, so he remembers.  I was a customer then and remember talking with Bob Linksy on the phone afterwards.. I also remember scrambling as we took the tags down from all our publisher sites..  ahh, good times.

Filthy potty talk

Not the kind for my boys.. Kathryn Koegel wrote this piece, and the chart alone is worth reviewing.

Koegel researching it for AdAge

Ex Clicker and former Director of Research & Industry Dev addresses the untold sins of online advertising in a 25 page report in Ad Age this week.  AND…she opens with a reference to what Kevin O and Dwight did to the media world…

Building Brand Online: Best Practices in a DR-Driven Medium

http://adage.com/images/bin/pdf/1011BuildingBrandsadagewhitepaper_1019.pdf

Mehdi’s watching.. so don’t let your servers go down!

Amazon enjoyed a little hiccup – BURP – and went off-line for a while.  The omniscient QoS dog pound, over at Catchpoint, got all the gory details.. with real data, not just my mom’s whiny emails.