The post It’s Time To Call Out Fraud In The Adtech Ecosystem appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. The post It’s Time To Call Out Fraud In The Adtech Ecosystem appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. confusing landscape = ripe opportunities for fraud. But fraud hurts the ecosystem in a massive way. MORE >>

Seen in the wild (well, OK, on this very site): The “Recommend this on Google” hover box at the bottom is new, I’ve never seen it before (then again, my ads are usually from FM ). This was always in their policies, but everyone was pretty much ignoring it – including most of the largest advertisers on the planet. MORE >>

I’m relatively new to the “mommy blogging&# world. While my husband and I have a blog to keep family and friends up-to-date on Reed (which we’re terrible about actually updating), I don’t consider myself a “mommy blogger.&# But I do read mommy/daddy/parenting blogs. Tags: blogging Well, no. MORE >>

The post Locked and Bloated appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. To Google. was contemplating the rise of Facebook and the social graph, and Google’s nascent response. Imagine that when I left Apple’s iPhone for Google’s Nexus 4, all my iTunes purchases followed me (and yes, I mean apps too). MORE >>

Protests were organized, large companies like Google and Amazon joined the movement, and within two weeks, the Obama administration had come out against key provisions of the legislation (doing it on a Saturday, perhaps hoping no one would notice, but at least they did it). Tamalpais in Marin. But the fight isn’t over. Does this matter? MORE >>