Net Faerie

Yesterday, Google Inc. announced that it has completed its acquisition of DoubleClick, a company that offers online ad serving and management technology to advertisers, web publishers and ad agencies.

Eric Schmidt, Google’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said, “We are thrilled that our acquisition of DoubleClick has closed. With DoubleClick, Google now has the leading display ad platform, which will enable us to rapidly bring to market advances in technology and infrastructure that will dramatically improve the effectiveness, measurability and performance of digital media for publishers, advertisers and agencies, while improving the relevance of advertising for users.”

Read more on Google official site

Some concerns raised in regard to the performance of digital media and the relevance of internet advertising… Reminds me of Gmail and the ads…

Well… it’s getting scarier eh, how your personal information is exchanged by invisible hands in invisible medium?

But maybe it’s the price we have to pay for those technologies they’re spoiling us.

And I might be guilty too

Shylock Adsense is a WordPress plugin that allows you to insert Adsense ads on your blog without modifying the template. More then that, you can set it up to show different Adsense ads for articles older then X days (x is the number of days you decide).

For example, you can insert a 468×60 ad at the bottom of a new article, and once that article turns 7 days old it will have a 336×280 ad blended with the text from the beginning of that article.

Get Shylock Adsense Plugin here.

Free eBay & BANS report tool.

You might discover new niches.

This study concluded that someone using a larger monitor could save 2.5 hours a day.

You say?

This article has a very nice recommendation on Drupal modules that might be useful for newspaper site.

It gives you some news ideas to think of too.

Must-read

So I checked Commission Junction advertiser list (with the following filter on: Language=All and Targeted Area=USA), and found out interesting fact that out of 1000 result it returned, the first 204 advertisers were NEW.

On the other side, advertiser/merchant with the highest 7 Day EPC was DebtBuster ($1397), which offered personal loans services. The second and third place were, respectively, occupied by ExpressCopy ($542) and Yahoo Seacrh Marketing ($421).

Then there were Capital One UK Credit Card ($363), GoToMeeting/GoToWebinar ($280), SilverJet Air ($265), Nationwide Personal Insurance ($265), Time Warner Cable Internet Service Provider ($263).

Wonder does this imply anything of the current economic state…

CambrianHouse is the home of crowdsourcing.

John Howe introduced the term few years ago.

In CambrianHouse, you are able to submit your ideas, let the community vote for it, and let the crowd help you making it true.

http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr

sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) is a method "to insert rich typography into web pages without sacrificing accessibility, search engine friendliness, or markup semantics". It’s been designed, scripted, tested, and debugged by Mike Davidson and Mark Wubben.

"sIFR is meant to replace short passages of plain browser text with text rendered in your typeface of choice, regardless of whether or not your users have that font installed on their systems. It accomplishes this by using a combination of javascript, CSS, and Flash."

Yet another social-networking-slash-language-exchange site?

Hmm, you judge.

But I have to admit that I fell in love with the interface!

(and the overall navigation :))

Welcome to the land called internet

when the sun shines bright each and every day

and the flowers never stop blooming

Hang on

and enjoy

I will take you

flying high