By Ian, on August 20th, 2006 People are upset about Click Fraud. But I think advertisers have never had it better. What is Click Fraud? Wikipedia to the rescue: Click fraud occurs in pay per click [PPC] online advertising when a person, automated script, or computer program imitates a legitimate user of a web browser clicking on an ad, for the purpose Continue reading The Click Fraud Myth By Ian, on August 19th, 2006 Sorry for dropping this post yesterday. When the digg crowd came on, it was one of the things that seemed to pull the site down. Anyway, as you were. Steven Colbert on protecting your online identity. Sound advice. By Ian, on August 19th, 2006 You might want to consider signing this Online petition against DOPA. By Ian, on August 19th, 2006 For many observers, one of the key lessons of the Kiko tits-up episode is that startups need to watch out for the evil empire that is the Google Operating System. Mike Yamamoto’s comments in “Google, slayer of Web 2.0 start-ups” seem typical of the sort of conclusions being drawn. One of Kiko’s Continue reading Google was framed By Ian, on August 19th, 2006 Some very interesting debate recently about Metcalfe’s Law, network effects and its application to Web 2.0 communities. I picked up the trail at Silicon Beat here which led me to a post by Metcalfe himself here, and some clever comments in an earlier post by Fred Stutzman here. Metcalfe’s Law states that the value Continue reading The power of the network By Ian, on August 18th, 2006 Sorry for another list, but I seem to have run out of semi-profound thoughts for this week about Web 2.0 and social media. Instead, the old standby of weird and interesting things I found from my site statistics this morning. I don’t have an enormous amount of faith in these programs. My host runs two, awstats and Webalizer, Continue reading Lies, Damned Lies and Weblog Statistics | About this BlogSocial tools, devices and web evolution are creating epochal change in media, society and business. The plan is to hide under the floorboards till it’s all over document some of the interesting parts of that change. More…. |
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