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Media6, N.Y., is an advertising company that maps the U.S. social graph and uses this data to provide major brand marketers with scalable customized audiences. The company's patent-pending algorithms and social graph data connect a brand's existing customers with user segments composed entirely of consumers who are interwoven via social media. "Linked consumers share high degrees of 'homophily' -- the tendency of like-minded people to be attracted to each other -- and evidence similar psychographics and engage in group purchase behavior," said Joe Doran, Media6's founding CEO (and former general manager of Microsoft's AdCenter).

"I have to admit this is the first smooth Ubuntu install I've ever had," reported Slashdot's JoeytheSquid. "It actually detected my wireless adapter right out of the box. No fiddling, no CLI hackery, no sacrifices to the pagan gods of open source (which is good because my lease forbids livestock and the downstairs neighbors frown upon blood dripping through the ceiling.) Not bad, not bad at all."

"This view is very contentious for some people. The key here is todeliver value. The crust or core features also have to provide valuebut probably in a different way. Enterprise versions have featuresthat the average Joe User might not need but eventually might growinto," Lampitt explained...

"This is going to be earth-shattering, because the Internet is no longer restricted to the computer for the mass market. Now that the average Joe Consumer will be able to do that, it will really change the game," Martin noted However, an old hiccup remains for online video com...

"The goal is to open up the White House to the American people, to give you a direct line to the administration," Dr. Jared Bernstein, chief economist for Vice President Joe Biden, said to the audience before introducing the president. Bernstein served as moderator for the event...

Cup of Joe There's a Starbucks icon that gives you the location and phone number of several Starbucks shops closest to where you are, and it'll map out directions as well so you can find the shortest path to your caffeine fix. And there's a gas prices icon that does the same t...

Third-party developers are gearing up for releases for the Wii and DS as well. Leading the way are 2K Sports' "Major League Baseball 2K9," while offerings from Electronic Arts include "Trivial Pursuit" and "MySims Party" in March, "EA Sports" on May 19, "Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10" in June along with summer releases "MySims Racing," "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" and "EA Sports Tennis." ...

In the technology market, EMC is the leader with this concept, with the responsibility for assuring customer loyalty reporting directly to the CEO Joe Tucci. This is because he realized that not all customers, and not all citizens, are created equal, and that there are some that you'd probably rather have your competitor deal with because they are so costly and negative, while there are others who sing EMC's praises that, were they lost, could cost EMC millions in lost sales.

Blame the POTUS channel on Sirius for sparking this proposal. Whenever I grew tired of the rhetoric on the different left/right talk channels during last year's election season, and wanted more details than the horse-race coverage provided by the cable TV news channels' audio feeds, I would end up on Sirius' original political network. It had the balance I craved, emphasized light over heat, and hosts like Joe Mathieu always managed to land interviews with good journalists working in local markets...

If the two companies can reach an agreement and then pass substantial regulatory hurdles, the combined entity would have access to more than 200 of the most popular musical artists in the world, including Billy Joel, Elton John, Jimmy Buffett, AC/DC, U2 and Madonna Ticketmaste...

Most open source enthusiasts want more people to embrace Free and Open Source Software solutions, but just like how the style of products is important to Apple aficionados, familiarity with the terminal and an appreciation of the under-the-hood mechanics matter to the FOSS lovers. That said, FOSS has an added element absent from the corporate-backed technologies. Whereas fans of products made by rather large businesses need to appeal in aggregate (or focus groups) to get noticed in the product design process, FOSS is a free-for-all. Anyone is free to bring anything to the table. While a lot of folks may get corporate logo tattoos and/or pontificate about what such-and-such company did right or wrong, few of them will ever have any actual input. On the other hand, if Joe Sixpack wants to make his own Linux- or BSD-based operating system with his own logo and software, he's free to do that. FOSS is based on empowerment and the appreciation of empowerment, and with empowerment comes responsibility...

Connecting With Everyday Joe There are compelling arguments in favor of President Obama keeping his BlackBerry while in office, Hyun-Yeul Lee, assistant professor of communication at Boston University, told TechNewsWorld, including "continuing to connect with the everyday Joe...

"We'll take all the friends we can get -- no matter where they come from," Joel Kelsey, policy analyst for Consumers Union, told the E-Commerce Times. "We think right now is the time for everyone involved in the transition -- Congress, the Commerce Department, the FCC, President Bush, President-elect Obama, the broadcasters, the electronics companies -- to stop pointing fingers, which is what has been done all along for the past year and a half, and start looking for solutions to make sure millions of people have what they need to continue receiving broadcast signals."

Legend has it that the inventor of chess was so wise that when the king asked him to name his reward, he replied that he only wanted one grain of wheat for the first square, two grains for the second, four grains for the third, eight grains for the fourth and so on up to the sixty-four squares on the board. The king readily agreed, thinking it a ridiculously low reward for such an amazing invention, but then was later advised by his treasurer that he owed the inventor more grain than could be produced by the kingdom in 10,000 years!...

The idea for 4Sale4Now came to founder Joe Elias one night a few years ago, when he woke up with a concept for the company in his head. "He started writing pages of notes about the concept," said Di Nicola. "We still have those notes, and it's amazing to look back to them, an...

A rating system like the one being suggested should focus on individual pieces of content, rather than the site itself, to allow the content submitters to do the rating "heavy lifting," thus creating a scalable UGC (user generated content) rating system, Joel Smernoff, president of Paltalk, told the E-Commerce Times...

There is a possible path for success for Cygnus -- albeit a narrow and uncertain one, Joel J. Felber, an attorney with Ostrolenk, Faber, Gerb & Soffen, told the E-Commerce Times Cygnus' complaint describes its patent as relating to methods and systems for accessing one or mo...

E-commerce is also highly amenable to crowdsourcing, Joel Lunenfeld, senior vice president and chief innovation officer at Moxie Interactive, told LinuxInsider. Buying sites such as Teambuy.com, for example, let people band together to buy products in bulk and receive a price discount...

You may not know the guests and performers by name, but if you have even a passing interest in YouTube's influential three-year history, you probably know them by the talents that got them attention and video views. So there was the guy who shoves all kinds of things in a blender; the young Korean guitar prodigy who uploaded his electric version of Pachelbel's "Canon," jamming with real-life guitar hero Joe Satriani; the guy who gives out free hugs; the host of celebrity dissing segment "What The Buck?"; the Dutch girl whose singing talents -- first displayed on webcam -- landed her a deal with Justin Timberlake's label; and, of course, the aforementioned Chad Vader, grocery store night manager whose viral videos show him using the dark side of the Force to score dates and get stockboys to finish their inventory...

"They have not outlawed Internet gambling," Joe Brennan Jr., chairman and CEO of IMEGA, told the E-Commerce Times. "An American, unless he lives in a state like Washington where it's a class C felony to gamble online, can still go online and not have to worry about prosecution for Internet gambling."