Do you like cookies? Chocolate chip? Oatmeal raisin? How about “magic cookies?” Because we work with thousands of online advertisers, the question about the behavior of “cookies” often comes up. Far from the easy responses of they are best warm and with milk, computer “cookies” have different behaviors and purposes, and most of all, a massive lack of clarity in the minds of most online advertisers. We here at Zango wanted to take a few minutes to both describe and link to some cookie information, and explain some of the work done to better understand how “cookies” interact with our desktop advertising products.

In the category of “you can’t EVER please some people,” this week’s winner is: Sunbelt. A Sunbelt blog post this week highlights the lengths some folks will go to keep themselves detached from consumer reality...

People, both amateur and professional, make videos for all sorts of reasons – more than 3,500 years of new video footage is created every single year, according to Trends magazine. The two primary ones, though, are fame and/or fortune. Lonelygirl15 proved both points true, not to mention ways to attain these goals. Zango’s President and Co-founder Daniel Todd explains.

Following last week’s dismissal, with prejudice, of a putative class action lawsuit against Zango, Eric Benderoff, technology reporter of The Chicago Tribune, asks, “Are some companies unfairly painted as violating our privacy and polluting our computers?”

Nearly a year ago, and to much fanfare in the blogosphere, a putative class action lawsuit was filed against Zango, known at the time as 180solutions, Inc. Yesterday, the case – Simios v. 180solutions, Inc. – was dismissed, with prejudice.

Consumer Reports’ recent report (“Cyber Insecurity,” September 2006) perpetuates the all-too-common mistake of lumping legitimate “adware” into the same nefarious bucket polluted by “spyware.” Zango CEO Keith Smith responded in writing to the magazine’s editors, a complete copy of which is within this posting.

The 2006 college football season kicks-off in less than a week and Zango has your favorite team covered…

While quite surprising that “there were no searches at all for such modern [literary] masters as Malcolm Lowry, Martin Amis and Lee Gomes,” it wasn’t surprising to us, here at Zango, that Internet users like their music, pictures and everything else accessible via the Web to be available for free.