Google has just announced the public release of Google Ad Manager, a hosted platform for the full management and optimization of online advertising campaigns. To access it one needs only to have an existing AdSense account. Google-Ad-Manager-beta.jpg Google Ad Manager has been designed to serve and ...

I beg to differ with PGL, Martin Feldstein, and Steve Pearlstein. First, PGL: Gee the (Social Security) Trust Fund will have $5 trillion in bonds earning interest. What that means is that over the past decades, Social Security has, when accrued interest is accounted for, taken in $5 trillion more in ...

Filed under: , , , , , , Now, I know Wayne Wang isn't in most cinephiles' good graces these days.* He's spent most of the decade making bland and unremarkable middle-brow flicks like Maid in Manhattan, Because of Winn-Dixie and Last Holiday. But the director behind The Joy Luck Club and Chinese Box ...

Filed under: , , , , It comes as little surprise whenever a studio decides to kindly remove a film from a director's hands -- the situation with Lionsgate's treatment of Punisher: War Zone still smells fishy from this end -- but while most filmmakers would proceed to bite their tongues and salvage their ...

Launching a new Internet startup? Wondering what are the key things to worry about before it's too late? Do you need a business plan or do you need a great team and a cool idea to run with? startup_id9111352_size365.jpg Photo credit: Leli456 When launching a new Internet startup, that is a company proposing ...

Co-browsing systems, file sharing tools, polling and feedback services are just some of the great services Robin and I have hand-picked and tested for you in this new issue of our weekly online collaboration Sharewood guide. online-collaboration_id779508_size485.jpg Photo credit: Jenny Solomon Here ...

What do you use when you need to create online presentations that really stand out? In today selection of visual communication tools a great tool for visually comparing different items as well as a graphic chart creator and some cool image editing tools. visual-communication_id41814_size485.jpg Photo ...

Filed under: , , , , I never would have thought I would see the day that moviegoers and critics would praise the heck out of Jean Claude Van Damme -- unless they were all in the midst of a discussion about awesome crappy martial arts movies from the '80s. But the critical praise has finally come with ...

How can the educational system we pay for via our taxes change and transform itself into a new way to prepare our young people for an even faster-changing future? Are there alternatives out there? George-Siemens-by-Darcy-Norman-2498889348_ac865dd27fo.jpg Photo credit: D'Arcy Norman As I have promised ...

Filed under: , Following another (inter)stellar quarter of sales, GameStop's COO Dan DeMatteo says the company is unconcerned about digital distribution, which caused us to instantly "Journeyman" back to 2007 to relive the Penny Arcade strip above. Gamasutra reports that during a post-results ...