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Advertising on a Free Wireless Network?
Mischievous0ne asks: "I had an idea yesterday, and I wanted to run it past the Slashdotcommunity. Would you use a honeypot (free wireless access point) that covered a large downtown area (3-4 blocks of restaurants, coffee bars, an iceskating rink, a small park, and general hangout) if you had to have a framed banner ad at the top of every page you visited while on the network? Do advertisers still pay for banner ads? Are banner ads, effective? I live in a college town in Indiana, and I know there are wireless users here, but the campus wireless network is severly limited. I'm also not sure how people would react to the banner ad space in exchange for free access."
1.) For the clarifications of others:
honeypot (free wireless access point)
Do not confuse a honeypot with a honeynet (the network with little security to watch for breakins).
2.) Look at Juno web. They allow free (modem) web access, and make a profit off the banner ads across the top of the browser.
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
Um, that should be modded up for being funny, NOT insightful. Come on, I called BINGO halfway through the second paragraph.
"Sometimes a woman is a kind of religion, she can save your soul & set you free from all your sins" - Bad Examples
Would moderate the parent as "interesting"!?!?!
It's a bunch of BS bogus marketing terms with no actual value whatsoever. Talk about the Dilbert drones!?!?
Whoever you are, you really, REALLY need to read more Dilbert - or is that one of those cartoons that just "isn't funny" 'cause it's just reality?!?
SHEESH...
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
I see... someone had too many moderator points again.