What is Google’s Double Serving Ad Policy? Google’s Double Serving Ad Policy was designed to monitor the landing pages of affiliates, partners and dealers to ensure that there is a good customer experience and added value from landing page to landing page – even when everyone involved is selling the same basic thing. Google has always been concerned with the best possible user experience, so this policy comes as no surprise. Everything is viewed from the eyes of a searcher that does not understand the relationships between Company A and their partners. If from the searcher’s view there are 5 ads on a page that all appear to be Company A and offer the same basic thing, it does not create the best user experience. In fact, it will likely create confusion.
These days, dames in the know are all about that piezoelectric material, evidenced by the incredibly flashy Piezing. Dreamed up and designed by Amanda Parkes, this piece of garb features electricity-generating fabrics around the joints of the elbows and hips. When the wearer walks, bends or gets downright nasty on the dance floor, the mechanical stress conjures up energy which is stored as voltage in a built-in battery where it can presumably be used later for charging your favorite handheld gizmo.
That there is Archer Quinn, self-proclaimed Savior of mankind. He’s prepping a free energy device that he plans to unveil on June 20th of this year, on which date he predicts “the oil reign and those who governed by their money and crushed the people by the taxes and control of the most basic of needs shall be put down for all time.” And if that wasn’t enough, he’s decided to nickname his gravity-based device the “Sword of God.” Guess it won’t take long to find out. Let’s all wait and laugh.
An unwelcome new feature “related posts” appeared in WordPress hosted blogs on April 25th 2008 (announcement possibly here). The result is that inside your blog post a list of links (some internal, some external) appear inside your post at the bottom of the page. You have no real control of what is displayed. Some users also noticed links inappropriate material appearing in these related posts (here).
We weren’t too happy about this new feature being delivered out of the blue, but luckily we found a forum (here) full of other WordPress users desperate to turn it off too.
This is how to turn off WordPress related posts: Go to Dashboard. Click “Design” Click “Extras” Put a Checkmark on “Hide Related Links” Click Update box below
We think the feature would be great if the option was to provide links ONLY from YOUR current blog. That way there should be no issues of unwelcome content being linked in.
Video from Barely Political which exposes the secret sweatshops used to make people blog. OK …nobody allowed out of the office tonight until you have blogged.
The DIY Century Compact Flash to SATA adatper. This is the first supporting 3x cards. That’s a quickie 96GB SSD for about $450 (plus $192.57 for the adapter plus shipping) given current on-line prices. Not bad when you consider the $1,000+ price tag for a smaller 64GB SSD. Better yet, performance should be rock solid based on earlier reviews. In stock with RAID 0 / 5 support starting May 1st.
Dreamed up and designed by Erik De Nijs, these über-geeky pants boast a built-in keyboard that’s apparently Bluetooth-enabled. Beyond that, you’ll also find sewn in speakers and a pocket made especially for travel mice of all flavors.
DivX Certification has snaked its long arm directly into HDTVs, with “over 80 models” from HP and LG slapping on a sticker indicating users can simply plug a USB drive in and play their entirely-legitimately-owned content.
Expect that number to grow, since DivX is also working with AMD, Chips and Media, Broadcom and Trident to include support in other chipsets powering digital TVs near you.
Sydney has been invaded by these posters taped onto telegraph poles. The only instruction is “Type this into Google”. So if you’ve typed “Paul Strange Presents” into Google and ended up here, the Paul Strange Google master plan might not be working quite as well as it should. After all we could tell you anything…
So is asking people to type something into Google a good marketing strategy? Well it’s risky… you need to understand how search works - because if a powerful site starts to use the same keywords then you may not end up being top of the list in Google. If you really want to guarantee your placement at the top you probably need to buy SEM ads (as indicated by the red squiggle below) but that may cost money, and considering you just told everyone your search strategy there may be people that can ride off your marketing with little effort.
BTW: If you are actually interested in Paul Strange and want to know more about the house music scene in Sydney, go back to Google and keep looking… it’s there somewhere.
Johnny Lee demos his amazing Wii Remote hacks, which transform the $40 game piece into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer.
Simply amazing.
Urrr Yes, apparently. Here we see how easy it is to get a cheap laugh - the price of entry, a young child and a slice of lemon. Babies and animals are usually up near the top of the charts when it comes to viral / video.
Would you do this to your newborn for 15 Mb of YouTube fame?
Microsoft Research is working towards integrating force-sensing technology that will enable gestures to twist on-screen imagery without crafting UMPCs out of flexible material. Essentially, the gurus behind the idea feel that implementing said tech would “turn an otherwise passive component that just holds the device together into an active input surface.”
The company says it’s developed a method to generate hydrogen by exposing water to metal. The system currently provides about 10 hours of use, or about five days of average cell usage, and will eventually allow users to simply top off and go.
Launched in the U.S. last year, Google Street View is set to launch in Australia this year. If you see a Google branded vehicle with mounted camera, either hide or do something silly. Already raising controversy in the States, debate has begun in Australia.
Microsoft and Vista go all Bruce Springsteen on us in this truly horrific video clip. It’s an ad from hell, right up there with the Cisco Teleconferencing Ad (here) from last year. We want to believe it’s a p%@*take but until mullets are back in fashion, we’re not convinced. Shame really, after the brilliant ‘Bill Gate’s Last Day Parody’ (here) they go and make something like this. Be ready to cringe…
All you palette freaks out there, here’s a cool tool that allows you to upload a photo and ‘extract’ the colour palette for use in your design projects. www.colorhunter.com
How it works - here’s Jeremy talking it up big during the “Amnesia Open Studio” night for students last month:
Windows Live Hotmail and the Powerhouse Museum are creating Australia’s first ever e-mail archive to capture a snapshot of Australian society and celebrate the role e-mail plays in our day-to-day communication.
The categories include:
1.Life and Laughter
2.Touching tales
3.Family
4.Love and romance
5.E-mails you regret sending
6.Embarrassing typos
7.Current affairs
8.Complaints
The Red Team has already won but now there’s insults on our injuries as the bombs come raining down once more. Shell shocked and unsuspecting, the Blue Team runs for cover. But will there be revenge? If so, it will hardly be sweet as Mr Moldan holds the dark key to full motion and audio retaliation.
Incidentally, the video’s creator was also the recipient of the coveted People’s Choice Award with this fine overhead smash:
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