For instance, if I "Like" Whole Foods on Facebook, you, as my friend, are presumed to harbour a preference for organic food as well – hence you are more likely to see a Whole Foods advertisement when you log on.
That data can be used to show an advertisement when those users log on to Facebook.
She knows, for instance, that if she uses her supermarket loyalty card to buy cornflakes, she can expect to see a cornflakes advertisement when she logs in to Facebook.
Some programs, like PKZip, will automatically try to log a computer onto the Internet to retrieve the advertisements as soon as the program is opened.
Companies are using patented NetGeo solution for online card fraud detection, geographical access control, content and advertisement targeting, web log analytics, legal compliance, digital rights management, criminal tracking, stolen/shared ID detection, and traffic management.
Twitter, the subject of endless business model speculation, added another weapon to the arsenal today – house advertisements on the home page when you're logged in, and some search results.
Not to mention sloppy security practices, poor e-mail connections with the outside world, heavy-handed censoring of content, torrents of unsolicited e-mail advertising (commonly known as spam) and obnoxious pop-up advertisements that were in your face from the first time you logged on until you logged off, or got dropped, whichever came first.
Researchers logged the words to the cries of beggars, and advertisements for umpteen adult education classes from physics to paper flower making.
A television advertisement being broadcast by the Heritage Forests Campaign depicts ghostly images of wilderness despoiled by logging, and warns, in reference to the forests: "Once they're gone, they're gone forever".
Later, when he logs on to a social-networking site to see what his friends are up to, advertisements for an airline or hotel chain pop up alongside the postings and photos.
