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Travis Andrews

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Travis M. Andrews is a Washington, D.C.-based writer who has written for Salon, The Washingtonian, OffBeat Magazine and reported for several newspapers throughout his native Louisiana. Though he's pretended otherwise since before time, his favorite food is the French Fry. It's time the truth came out. For more about Travis M. Andrews, go to www.travismandrews.com.

You can also follow the Metairie native on Twitter @MetairiesFinest. 

 
Television is one place where the forward motion of technology is consistently evident. Unfortunately, this doesn't mean all of that forward motion is always useful. Smart TVs, which connect to the Internet and come with a litany of various applications, are one place that things aren't quite panning out. Turns out, people don't want Facebook and other apps on their TVs.
 
The Internet has given us many great things, such as the ability to take fraud to entirely new levels. Well, the music industry isn't blind to this fact. YouTube recently discovered the big three, Universal, Sony/BMG and RCA, have been adding false video views to their particular artists' videos.
 
So there's this pretty small company that you've probably never heard of. It's called Google, and back in the day, you'd use it to find stuff on the Internet. Google has obviously expanded since then, becoming an all-encompassing Internet giant, and it's finally taking a leap offline with Conversions API.

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