Well the AdCenter team has been hard at work assimilating all the feedback from various blogs, forums and napkin backs into what will soon be unleashed upon us in the form of a very significant update. I was lucky enough to be invited to a demo of the new system yesterday and here’s what you [...]
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
So we’ve all heard by now that MSN is incentivizing search. It’s not a horrible idea and I really like that that the big prizes are donations to charity. A little bit of social goodwill is always nice to see and can really go a long way. One a tip from SEO Protege Kerry Dean [...]
Monday, January 16, 2006
So I’ve been playing around with AdCenter for a few weeks now and there are a couple usability items that drive me absolutely nuts. First off is all the scrolling - up down left right all the time it slows you down to a crawl when you are entering a new set of keywords and using [...]
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Well well well - Part 2 already. The approval process has run full course and here are the results: Approved =55 Pending =0 Rejected =13 Now what’s interesting is there seems to be only faint traces of logic to the editorial process. For example let’s say the site is about dog houses: maryland dog house - approved kentucky dog [...]
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
So I decided it’s time to jump in and learn this PPC thing. I simply know too many people making money on it to let another day pass without getting in on the game. MSN was kind enough to invite me to the AdCenter pilot program. My plan is to blog my AdCenter Adventure as [...]
Thursday, October 6, 2005
MSN is getting ready to launch adCenter and they are looking for participants in the pilot program. Here’s the email I received from a friend at Microsoft this morning: As you know, we launched MSN adCenter –our next generation advertising platform — in France and Singapore last month. This was an important first step to [...]
Friday, September 16, 2005
Katrina Flyover: Aerial images of Katrina’s devastation - Hurricane Katrina - MSNBC.com MSN has done a pretty nice job of putting together a pretty smokin before and after gallery of New Orleans using Virtual earth and Pictometry. Well worth checking out but be sure to use IE - Opera and FF won’t render it [...]
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