The Click Fraud Myth

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

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Keep Safe

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.

Dope site

You might want to consider signing this Online petition against DOPA.

Google was framed

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

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The power of the network

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

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Lies, Damned Lies and Weblog Statistics

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,

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