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The Successor To Popunder Ads?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the testing-your-patience dept.

Croaker writes: "So, apparently, boston.com is trying out these new ads called "Shoshkeles" (the marketeer who came up with that name was on crack, no doubt). The result is an incredibly annoying experience of having crap run around the page you are reading, along with sound. And you thought banner ads sucked. The company responsible for the technology, United Virtualities says these are 'browser driven, platform agnostic, sound enabled, free moving forms that marry total creative license to a whole new level of effectiveness.' Effective in annoying, I guess." The site says "the ads only appear when using an Internet Explorer browser," though. Darn.

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  1. marketeers.... by _Marvin_ · · Score: 5, Funny

    "platform agnostic" and runs on IE only... those marketeers never fail to amuse me.

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    1. Re:marketeers.... by usernumber31337 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Quick! Port this to linux!

    2. Re:marketeers.... by Glytch · · Score: 5, Funny

      Didn't you know? "Platform agnostic" means it works on Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000 and even XP!

    3. Re:marketeers.... by Publicus · · Score: 3, Funny

      That settles it. From now on I am an athiest. I will not _admit_ to professing ignorance.

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    4. Re:marketeers.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Or the radio station that plays both kinds of music:

      Country and western

  2. origin of "Shoshkele" by Frothy+Walrus · · Score: 5, Funny

    the Shoshkele is a traditional Polish dance in which the dancers move around the space a lot. interesting it got used, but i wish it were for something less annoying. :)

    1. Re:origin of "Shoshkele" by Verteiron · · Score: 3, Funny

      "Hi Ted, have you met my daughters? This Mary, Shoshkele, and Sara. You ok, Ted? That's quite a cough you have there..."

      That poor girl. And I thought Grizelda was bad.

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    2. Re:origin of "Shoshkele" by roman_mir · · Score: 4, Funny

      As opposite to other dances during which dancers move around 'the space' a little?

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    3. Re:origin of "Shoshkele" by mightbeadog · · Score: 1, Funny

      Oh great. Five years from now a computer generated chick named "Shoshkele" will start doing walk-ons on all my favorite TV shows, running out in front of the actors and trying to sell me soft drinks and insurance.

  3. Could just as well say: by Dog+and+Pony · · Score: 3, Funny

    "This ad will disappear if you leave this site."

  4. Re:"Platform agnostic" by rjamestaylor · · Score: 5, Funny

    It means, while they do not deny the existence of a platform other than Windows/IE, they have no knowledge of such a platform and doubt it would possible to find it.

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  5. Re:It works in Konqueror 2.2.1 by rjamestaylor · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll submit this as a bug to the KDE team...

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  6. Popup Ads: 2025 by syf0n · · Score: 2, Funny

    Today Boston.com is trying out a new ad scheme called the "Chichacolockney"! This new, media rich ad dominates your screen, then wraps it's tentacles around the sides of your monitor and pulling itself out of cyberspace into reality! It then proceeds to run rampant about your home, screaming advertisements for a company, until you catch it and beat it to death.

  7. Potential for revenge? by Ungrounded+Lightning · · Score: 3, Funny

    how about:
    "Shoshkeles, named for the middle daughter of their creator, ..."

    Maybe we can get them busted for child abuse?

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  8. Re:Actually, I like them by Malcontent · · Score: 3, Funny

    What's with all the whitespace...

    Anyhoo. The ads are for the suckers. It's just another stupid tax. For those people too stupid to use mozilla, too stupid to use a proxy, too stupid to change their home page, too stupid to do anything but open their mouths wide so that corporations can shovel shit down their throats.

    I say let the stupid pay the stupid tax. The rest of us can enjoy ourselves at their expense.

    BTW. This kind of thing is exactly why IE invented. IE is not a web browser it's an advertisement delivery device to windows users.

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  9. Re:ads for IE only... by Antity · · Score: 2, Funny

    IE runs on Intel, Athlon, Transmeta, VIA, ...

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