Seems like there is a lot of interest in what we are up to with phpadsnew. If you are interested in learning more, contact or aggregate and read Andy. He'll be posting on the progress.
If you have experience with phpadsnew, Andy wouldn't mind hearing from you either. And so would John Battelle.
It is interesting how John is starting a media company and one of the first positions and arguably the most important is for a technology person who is familiar with the advertising business... not the other way around. Google has certainly changed the media business. And this adds a bit of credence to my theory that ad technology is as important to the media business as content production. In fact, given what Seth has to say about arbitrage, it may be even more important.
I love the transparency, btw, John.
Peter: I'd argue that OF COURSE John is looking for a technology person with familiarity with the advertising business because he's already got someone with the opposite talents: himself!
Posted by: Pamela | May 16, 2005 at 03:52 PM
True Pamela. But, 5 years ago would the first hire at a startup media/publishing company be a technology person? Probably not. It would have been someone that knew something about distribution.
Posted by: peter caputa | May 16, 2005 at 04:05 PM