Using Ad Blockers: Is It Stealing?

We have had this debate before over on PCMech, but I’d like to lay it out here on this site as well. This website, as you can see, currently has no advertising on it. And my plan is to keep it this way. Like anybody else, I prefer to use a website with no [...]


Blogger Gold Rush - Is It A False Hope?

There are certainly a LOT of blogs out there. Many of those bloggers want to make money with their sites. Some actually start the blog with the express purpose of making money with it (usually a mistake). But, do they deserve it?
Louis Gray, a new Silicon Valley blogger that pretty much came from nowhere and [...]


Yahoo Strokes Google, Puts on Show for Microsoft

Yahoo is in a pickle. Microsoft is setting up for a hostile takeover of Yahoo and Yahoo is doing everything it possibly can to puff it’s chest and look valuable.
Part of this strategy is apparently to woo Google. Yahoo was to run a 2-week trial of running Google Adsense ads on the Yahoo properties. Yahoo, [...]


Google Adwords Also Does Radio, TV and Print

Most people think of Google Adwords as a search engine advertising medium. Then, of course, publishers get to set up on the other end as an Adsense publisher and make money on the receiving end. It works well, too, and I personally make 4 figures monthly using Adsense.
Well, Google is also getting in on radio [...]


AdBrite InVideo Is Launching

I got a notification in my inbox this afternoon that AdBrite is launching their InVideo product. AdBrite is, of course, the ad marketplace founded by Philip Kaplan, famous for F-ckedCompany.com fame. A few weeks ago, I posted here about this new service which got mysteriously leaked to the blog community and no doubt generated [...]


AdBrite Launches Video Ad Service

For those who work with a lot of online video (like I do), you may be interested in a new service which AdBrite has just soft-launched. The service is called InVideo. They’ve created an embeddable media player (just like Youtube) which allows you to have your own videos played on your website, but allows AdBrite [...]