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Microsoft Gaze – sneak peek

Last night I featured a blog post about Microsoft Gaze, a new advertising technology being developed in Microsoft’s adCenter Labs.

All the dogfood tickets were given away within the first 24 hours. Impressive, well done folks!

A generous lady took my joke about the pizza quite seriously. She sent over email a coupon (scan) for a Pizza Hut. I found that exceptionally creative. Well done Susan in-text ads fun!

The response has been tremendously positive among the users that received an invitation for our beta.

As matter of fact your creativity and enthusiasm has been so positive that handle all these communications and not to mention the pizza, is a little too much for my Italian naive work-attitude – tsk tsk…please don’t share that with my boss.

Therefore, I’ve decided to take down the Gaze post until the technology is officially announced. Which is soon anyway… Anyway do me a favor, on April 15th tune your Internet TV on the Gaze channel. Because if you’re a publisher or just a teen-blogger

Your ads just won't be the same anymore!

I thank Eric Krangel @ CNN/Money and in particular Todd Bishop @ TechFlash for their articles. Much appreciated guys. Stay tuned, we’re coming !

;mE

ps:The joke that I used in my previous post is here.

Posted: Monday, February 02, 2009 7:18 PM by windrago

Comments

nicholasr347 said:

This looks pretty cool, can i have an invite please?

# February 2, 2009 10:44 PM

windrago said:

Yes, indeed. You can register now and the gadget will work right away on your site. Please remember that it's a beta :-)

# February 2, 2009 10:49 PM

Corrine said:

What kind of controls are available to prevent GazeInLink™ from displaying links to "undesirable" results as has been evident with Vibrant Media's Intellitext tool-tips?  (Note:  Vibrant Media is included in MVPS HOSTS file http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt )

Intellitext does provide the option for webmasters to disable the feature for "members".  Is that feature available?

# February 3, 2009 9:31 AM

Marco D'Angelo said:

Ciao Mario. Nice to see you back @ blogging.

I hope you don't mind to share an invitation with an old time colleague.

No problem for the pizza, this summer in Seattle or you'll be back in Milan, whichever comes first :-).

Marco

# February 3, 2009 3:16 PM

windrago said:

How I can't deny that at an OLD colleague?? :-)

Granted. You're very lucky, it's the last one. The response has been overwhelming!

# February 3, 2009 3:52 PM

Partner Punch said:

What is Microsoft Gaze ™? Gaze is a web gadget that offers structured and contextual information to a

# February 3, 2009 4:32 PM

tarunj said:

Hi - can you send me an invite please..

tarunj - I work on the same floor as you :)

# February 3, 2009 7:19 PM
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