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Posts Tagged ‘monetization’

I’m not talking to you, dear Mr. Creative Director. You make a good living and you do not hold any grudge against ads as such. But I’m addressing the common net surfer, the guy, who bravely updates his adblocker every other month and still gets bombarded with ever-mutating pop-ups, pop-unders and other intrusive inhabitants of various ad servers. But even he has learned that the “culture of free” requires somebody to pay the bill – not in cash, this is why researchers came up with the term The Attention Economy.

Twitter begs to differ though and promises users “ads they love” – now that sounds like a bit of a stretch, but actually, metadata-infos might do the trick. But until the company get’s their own “AdTweets” up and running, you’ll just love ad.ly. Read the rest of this entry »

This weekly round-up comes with a built-in 24 hours of delay, as the author was extremely busy during the last weekend launching the Austrian Internet Council [site in German]. This was an amazing proof of the power of social media: within the short time span of 5 days we our project was the cover story on ORF FutureZone, Austria’s biggest Tech News site. Crowdsourcing is great, but it can be quite time-consuming, especially when there’s a lot of interest and involvement. So, without any further ado, let’s jump right into this week’s hot social media topics! Read the rest of this entry »

Usually, I don’t get too excited about new ad networks – but since Contenture has been developed by the team behind Clicky, I’m quite sure that this service deserves a closer look. The idea is simple: by paying a monthly flat fee to Contenture, users help webmaster make their sites sustainable. Via a JavaScript-Snippet, the Contenture networks measures users’ visits to participating sites and spreads the money accordingly. Read the rest of this entry »

Yup, I jump into your rss reader completely unexpected and start a ritual on my int’l blog that I’ve been diligently following on the German langue version datenschmutz for almost two years: from this very Sunday on I’ll publish a weekley report on current events in the blogosphere. Of course there will be international and US news, but with a special focus on “good old Europa”, as information exchange between the two continents is not working as well as one might imagine in the era of communication worshippers. It’s not a 1:1 translation of my German weekly-roundup, but the title will also include the word “Blogistan” (my kinda-Russion-sounding nom du guerre for la Blogosphere). So enjoy my first English weekly blogistan round-up, it reads a little something like this: Read the rest of this entry »