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Best Buy Installs More Vending Machines Under Best Buy Express NameAugust 11th, 2008 at 9:35 amSource:CenterNetworks
I’ve always been loyal to FeedBurner, even capitalizing the B when most don’t. Yet, as I predicted, the move to Google’s ad program has been very disappointing. I can only hope that the program will get better over time. Immediately after Google acquired FeedBurner I was nervous that FeedBurner would ditch their awesome advertising network for Google’s low paying, text ad AdSense program. Sadly I was right. Here are some of my additional thoughts in video:
Adam Ostrow wonders what type of ad matching Google is doing based on the ads that he has seen in the Mashable feed. We have been relatively successful in selling our own RSS ads. Perhaps there is room for a new RSS ad player to take the slot that FeedBurner’s ad program occupied. We are testing the Pheedo feed advertising service and I will provide a side-by-side comparison in about a month. More CN Coverage:
Today’s announcement follows the initial launch of the Best Buy vending machine at the Dallas airport. The machines sell all sorts of electronic items from iPod media players to headphones to digital cameras. As I’ve noted before, these machines would sell at an even better percentage if they provided devices that were already charged. And the ability to buy media from the machine (i.e. iTunes) and have it loaded on the device also could be hot. At a minimum these machines should offer charging stations - buy the product, open it and you are given a lockbox to plug in the device and lock it for a period while you wait for your flight.
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Best Buy has announced this morning that they are installing more vending machines in airports across the U.S. The pilot program is branded Best Buy Express and will initially launch in in the following cities: Atlanta (ATL), Boston (BOS), Dallas (DFW), Houston (IAH), Las Vegas (LAS), Los Angeles (LAX), Minneapolis (MSP) and San Francisco (SFO).
