26-03-2012 16:40 Today on Off Duty: Paul Vigna reports on the March Madness Final Four. Also, a report on Bach being performed by street musician in the New York City subway. Plus Money Talks with Robert Frank.
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When youre surfing the web and spot targeted ads based on your prior searches, its a jarring reminder that someone companies, websites and search engines is following your digital footsteps.
They are also following the money. The volume of personal digital data available is transforming everyday commerce, particularly marketing and advertising.
Companies want to engage and interact with you through multiple platforms that can include emails, mobile devices, social media and online video and even use that new data trove to spawn new forms such as junk mail. They want you to linger, get to know your likes and dislikes and offer more targeted promotions.
In fact in four years, advertisers will spend $77 billion on digital interactive marketing as much as they do on TV today, according to research firm Forrester.
With so much money at stake, its no wonder companies are retooling how they use metrics and analytics to achieve business goals. Other industries including financial services and health care are also working to capitalize on the data boom.
In the span of just a couple of years, how we think about customer data has really changed, says Fatemeh Khatibloo, senior analyst at Forrester, who specializes in customer intelligence, privacy and personal data issues.
The fast-changing industry is breeding startups, which are remaking existing models and platforms to lure more and more venture capital.
Naturally, the volume of personal information has privacy activists concerned about opaque companies and governments potentially abusing their power. Just a year ago in Egypt, then-President Hosni Mubarak shut down Internet access before his government began a crackdown on political protesters.
Lest you think the issue is confined to nondemocratic governments run by despots, protests erupted in January over anti-piracy legislation in the U.S. Congress.
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As our friends at NPR's Two-Way blog mentioned yesterday afternoon, the Weinstein Company has decided to release Bully without a rating following the controversy that flared when the MPAA assigned it an R, rather than a PG-13, based on language. As I've mentioned, giving the film an R rating seems very odd to me, and even more so after seeing the PG-13 The Hunger Games.
A press release outlining the promotional partners for the upcoming release of Battleship (that's the movie, "based on" the game) might seem like a ho-hum thing, but parts of it are actually kind of amusing and perplexing. Sure, you've got your Coke Zero and your Chevron and your Subway. But don't forget your ... Hilton Hotels? Take note, too, that the U.S. Navy and the USO are both on board, so to speak. [Deadline]
In its first week of availability, how many people listened online to the This American Life episode retracting their Mike Daisey Apple episode? Well, a lot. More than any other episode has grabbed in that first week, including the original Daisey episode. [Nieman Journalism Lab]
In a different twist on Mad Men fever, one writer for The Guardian doesn't have any way of seeing the show for quite a while, and doesn't plan to shell out extra money just to get the right service to see it. What to do until then? "I suggest occupying oneself with a new hobby, or more aptly, going on a prolonged bender." [The Guardian]
The host for the next Emmy Awards will be Jimmy Kimmel, and while I have found him not my cup of tea at times, Kimmel's ability to get people to do silly things is right up there with Jimmy Fallon's, so I wouldn't be surprised to see him turn out to be quite a fine host. [HitFix]
At last: Harry Potter e-books are available at the Pottermore web site. That one took a while. [NYT]
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By Will Hobson, Times Staff Writer Will HobsonTampa Bay Times In Print: Wednesday, March 28, 2012
LARGO Since Apple debuted the iPad in 2010, the sleek device has revolutionized and dominated the tablet computer market. Apple has sold more than 55 million. The company may soon get seven more customers: Largo's city commissioners.
The iPads will replace laptops as the devices commissioners use to check email and review city documents from home. The city staff is still working out the kinks of determining Largo's application needs, but information technology director Harold Schomaker thinks he'll be ordering several (depending on how many of the seven commissioners request one) in the next few weeks.
And although some residents may criticize commissioners for spending city money on iPads while trying to cut the budget, Schomaker counters that the iPads will actually save Largo tax dollars.
Commissioners now use Dell laptops, which cost between $1,200 and $1,400, Schomaker says, and are out of warranty and in need of replacing. With Apple's recent release of the latest model, older iPads are on sale for as little as $399.
"Why buy a big old laptop you have to lug around when you can get something smaller and cheaper that has the same functionality?" said Schomaker, who has been using an iPad 2 at work for the past two months to test different types of applications commissioners will need.
One of the applications Schomaker is testing, iAnnotate, may have won over Commissioner Harriet Crozier, who has declined to take a city laptop. The iAnnotate app allows users to jot notes onto electronic documents they can save for future reference.
Crozier is Largo's representative on a number of local boards, like the Metropolitan Planning Organization, and often finds herself juggling several bulky agenda packets, each with a different set of notes. With an iPad, she could save the agendas and her notes, all in one place.
"I think it's really going to help me, and it's a great price," said Crozier, who objected a few years ago when she says former City Manager Steve Stanton bought laptops for the commissioners without asking first. Crozier didn't like the idea of reading agenda documents off the screen of a laptop, but she's sold on the sleeker iPads.
So is Mayor Pat Gerard, who has left her city laptop at City Hall for the last year. She doesn't like lugging the laptop around, but Gerard thinks she'll get more use out of the iPad, which is less than 10 inches in height and weighs less than 2 pounds.
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