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Microsoft tinkering with scary-smart ad spots (cnn.com)
2 points by jmorin007 on Feb 7, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



"For example, if a car company wanted to show its logo for 10 seconds in the bottom-right-hand corner of the screen, the computer program would find the 10 seconds in which the logo interferes least with the action in the video."

Waitwaitwait... In my experience, marketers want to interfere in the most HORRENDOUS manners...




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