Comments on: Media Futures, Part 5/5: ARBITRAGE: I. Etymology

By: Software Voices

Software Voices — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 02:21:26 +0000

Opportunities for Innovators in Search - An Entrepreneur’s View

On Saturday, December 10th I have my first speaking engagement in a long time. I am on the panel as an entrepreneur at the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum panel on Opportunities for Innovators: Venturing in Online Search, Advertising & Sales.

I am using

By: Mitchel

Mitchel — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 02:26:24 +0000

Good stuff! Sorry I’m late to the party. I started my science project with many of the same insights. It really has beome effortless profits, and more each month lately. But how to scale, how to scale…

Guess I’ll have to keep reading!

By: Don

Don — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:37:17 +0000

I think it’s simply genius.
I should invest more on dead space marketing!

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 03:30:53 +0000

I’m just now making it through this series of really great articles. Some of the best writing I’ve read all year really. Excellent work.

With regards to the eBay text ads though, I’m pretty sure eBay has an arrangement whereby they pick up “dead space” on the supercheap by inserting whatever the dead word is into a standardized passage of text. Or maybe you already knew that and my brain was too dull to pick up the irony.

By: Ed Batista

Ed Batista — Thu, 26 May 2005 17:00:48 +0000

Rocket Science

One of the beautiful (and scary) things about the web is how many incredibly smart people you run into out there, and Seth Goldstein of Majestic Research is razor-sharp.

By: fred

fred — Tue, 24 May 2005 12:57:01 +0000

arbitrage is not bad, its good.

efficient markets benefit both the buyer and the seller

and you must have arbitrage to force markets to be efficient

By: Ozzboy

Ozzboy — Wed, 18 May 2005 01:25:06 +0000

Don’t forget that Ute is what they call flatbed trucks in Australia.

By: The River

The River — Tue, 17 May 2005 23:16:40 +0000

Goldstein on Arbitrage

Seth Goldstein has begun a series of essays on arbitrage. I’ve heard him speak about this fascinating topic before — as it applies to Internet advertising, of course — but it’s great to read this all in one place. (Seth

By: Noah

Noah — Tue, 17 May 2005 02:23:44 +0000

Arbitrage isn’t inherently bad. Every business that makes profit is doing arbitrage on some level. Google could (and should) be more transparent but they enbable an entire online marketplace that wouldn’t otherwise exist.

By: pc4media

pc4media — Mon, 16 May 2005 18:26:43 +0000

phpAdsNew is a Prerequisite to Starting a Publishing Empire

Seems like there is a lot of interest in what we are up to with phpadsnew. If you are interested in learning more, contact or aggregate and read Andy. He’ll be posting on the progress. If you have experience with