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Solve Media Lets You Skip Web Video Ads. One String Attached …

Peter Kafka in Media on March 5 at 4:00 am PT

You despise “pre-roll” ads. Do you hate them enough to type a marketing message?

Making Sign-Ups More Complicated Is a Good Thing, and Other Lessons From Twitter's User Retention Efforts

Liz Gannes in Social on March 30, 2011 at 4:05 pm PT

Twitter was able to bump up new user retention 29 percent by redesigning its sign-up flow to add more steps that helped customize a user’s account and show them what the service does.

Insert Bad "Google Captchas reCAPTCHA" Pun Here

John Paczkowski in News on September 16, 2009 at 11:38 am PT

Evidently, Google’s efforts to create a new CAPTCHA system that requires people to rotate images until they’re upright aren’t moving as quickly as the company would like. Because this morning, the search giant said it had acquired reCAPTCHA, developer of the Web’s preeminent CAPTCHA technology.

Insert Bad “Google Captchas reCAPTCHA” Pun Here

John Paczkowski in News on September 16, 2009 at 11:38 am PT

Evidently, Google’s efforts to create a new CAPTCHA system that requires people to rotate images until they’re upright aren’t moving as quickly as the company would like. Because this morning, the search giant said it had acquired reCAPTCHA, developer of the Web’s preeminent CAPTCHA technology.