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The AdSense Game

Joel Comm has created a pretty neat AdSense game. Basically, it’s a game focused on making money with your website through AdSense.

I thought it would be fun to put together an online game focused on making money with AdSense, and I’m pleased to invite you to come and try out The AdSense Game now!

Be sure to follow the instructions so you can get the hang of it quickly. Realize that it is just a simulation and not real life. It’s there for fun, but you may learn a thing or two along the way!


Joel has a post on his blog about the game in which he gives a few useful links to those who enjoy playing the AdSense game.

Looks like it could be pretty fun, but I think I’ll stick with the real AdSense “game”, this site. The AdSense game is comparable to games like Lemonade Tycoon and Rollercoaster Tycoon.

[via BlogNews Channel]

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Google’s Click Fraud Analysis

So, yesterday, Google released an analysis of click fraud. Basically, Google says there’s many flaws in how click fraud consultants determine a click is fraudulent.

A rigorous technical analysis by Google engineers has found fundamental flaws in the work of several click fraud consultants – flaws that help explain why widely quoted estimates of the size of the click fraud problem are exaggerated. We would like to share this research so that advertisers can be aware of these problems and so these consultants can use the information to improve their services.


You can download the entire PDF here. It’s 17 pages and is about 165KB. The post at the Inside Adwords blog is pretty lengthy, so go read the details. The analysis done by Google included a case study on 3 of the major click fraud firms: AdWatcher, ClickFacts, and Click Forensics. Google is worried that advertisers may be making changes to their campaigns based on inaccurate data provided by these third party firms. Which could adversely affect the performance of their online marketing campaigns. Boo!!

Adotas has a good post on the subject too.

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Wordpress.com: Domain Mapping

Wordpress.com, the free blog hosting site based off Wordpress, is getting ready to allow users to use their own domain names in conjunction with the wordpress.com service. What’s that mean? You will be able to setup a domain to point to your wordpress.com blog.

For example, I blog at http://slackware.wordpress.com. If I bought the slackwareblog.com domain, I could point it to slackware.wordpress.com. So, slackwareblog.com would essentially be running on top of Wordpress.com. It’s a lot like gmail for your domain.

Right now, Wordpress.com is only testing this feature out, offering it to the first 8 people to comment on the Wordpress.com blog post discussing the new feature. I’ve been wishing for this feature since I started using wordpress.com, glad it’s finally on the horizon.

On a related note, “92.63% of the traffic to WordPress.com is for blogs outside of the top 25.” I figured it’d be lower than that, but that’s pretty impressive for those outside the top 25.

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Exclusive OmniDrive Screenshots

Techcrunch has some exclusive screenshots of OmniDrive. OmniDrive is an online storage medium, similar to those thought to be in development by Google and Microsoft.

Michael Arrington over at Techcrunch has been using OmniDrive. Last week they released a client interface for those on Windows systems, in addition to their web-based interface. OmniDrive sounds pretty neat, although it’s still in beta. Apparently they’ll be sending out a few hundred invites each day until they’re open to the public.

They’re also going to release an API to developers, which is really cool:

With the API a developer can either build applications that existing Omnidrive users can use, or they can create their own users and use Omnidrive purely as a backend. The API extends to being more than just saving and retrieving a file with user management, payment management, media handling and the ability for the users of a partner application to use their desktop tools to store, retrieve and access files.

Go head over to Techcrunch to have a look at the screenshots.

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Google Maps/YouTube Mashup

This is pretty cool (via Download Squad). It’s a Google Maps mashup that integrates videos from YouTube. Pretty entertaining, and it’s also been used for educational purposes…

Here’s a little about why the site was initially created:

This site is dedicated to the advancement of distance education, or distance learning, which is a field of education that focuses on the pedagogy/andragogy, technology, and instructional systems design that is effectively incorporated in delivering education to students who are not physically “on site” to receive their education. Instead, teachers and students may communicate asynchronously (at times of their own choosing) by exchanging printed or electronic media, or through technology that allows them to communicate in real time (synchronously).

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Blogspot Boylove Shutdown

The “boylove” site discussed in my previous post has been shut down. I don’t think anyone would argue with that, except maybe “Freedom“.

Stacy informed me of the sites demise in the comments in that last post, I do appreciate the info provided by readers in comments very much. New sources are good, I don’t typically get a lot of my information from the Christian bloggers and religious community in general, so a change is nice I guess.

Now, this is just one of what’s likely to be many tens of thousands of “boylove” blogs. Assorted Babble rightly notes that parents need to be aware of their childrens online activity at all times. I’d expect to see some sort of group formed to start targetting some of the larger and more popular “boylove” blogs. Groups are how the blogosphere gets shit done.

I’m all for violating peoples right to free speech if they’re going to be discussing fantasies, that if acted out, would be 100% illegal. Some would say that isn’t free speech, but free speech isn’t unlimited. For instance, you can’t speak of bombs while on an airplane. This is the same type of thing. People shouldn’t be allowed to blog about their fantasies with small boys, no matter how much they believe it’s an OK act to engage in.

I think a few years of a “Red Scare” type scenario would do some good. I wish some people were afraid about how their views and opinions would be percieved by others. I’m exempt of course, because, uhh, I just am.

I’m by no means advocating for large scale government involvment in internet freedoms. As far as I’m concerned, they should stay out totally. It should be up to individual companies to include such content restrictions in the terms of service.

Oh, and this post has been linked at Outside The Beltway and Mudville Gazette.

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