bill stenner

Craigslist Fires Back at EBay, Alleging Bogus Google Ads

once again... who sold eBay a nice chunk of their company??? the fact of the matter is that craigslist owners should sue themselves first for either being drunk or not being drunk.

Forecast for Accelerating Online Ad Spending in 2008

I find internet advertising irritating. i cant remember if ive ever clicked on one to actually go through. Even more i wont even visit a site like Forbes that only seems to want to bombard you the second you click a news link. Of course you have to wonder how sensational the most mundane news will be made just to get you to view those dumb ads. Which then means that i will only take serious the companies that dont attempt to stick irritating ads in front of my face like some pimply teenager trying to get attention. Its ok with me as it makes it easier to know what sites provide quality news.

Google: Valuing the King of Search

i was in a chat room and someone mentioned about how google had screwed him out of 130 or so bucks over his having adsense on something of his. It got me thinking.. i wonder if this is a common practice and if so how long until they get a class action suit. What is likely before that is an antitrust investigation. Every company that gets too big..and corrupted by the absolute power of having so much money that your mattress is uncomfortable.
On top of that.. just wait till they try to get that radio automation patent through here in Canada. Y'know the one that was given to them on Dec. 25th 2007. Great idea.. not satisfied with a little slice of the pie lets just take everyones advertising dollar! The little problem comes further through in the patent when they start talking about sending advertising and radiogreetings.com messages to childrens toys. You see long ago here in Canada, very sensibly, it was made ILLEGAL to target children directly by advertising to them.
Googles use of a toy named "fluffy" in its patent is almost hilarious.
Not to mention..its just creepy.