Why don't the advertisers use a "coupon" model for their ads (or at least use one more often)? Just like the coupons that come in your local paper, when a user clicks on an internet ad for a product, that user could submit a small amount of information (you're presumably already going to buy the product, and coupons + what you buy + how you buy at the supermarket already gives out more info than you know - even if it is an anonymously generated profile of you) and receive some amount off of a purchase price or a service charge or whatever. Advertisers could better market to the people who replied to the "coupons", users would get savings on things they actually want, and sites who host the ads/coupons would get revenues.
I'm a bit confused. I thought "micropayments" in the historical sense (last year) meant that if a company wanted to you read a spam email or look at an ad of theirs then they'd pay you. Somehow in the past year this seems to have reversed. How did the idea of company's paying a person to look through their drivel disappear?
If these company's wanted to pay me a nickel for each ad they wanted me to see, I'd look at them. But as has been mentioned by other comments, users have been deluged with these cheesy things and nobody really cares anymore except newbies and aol users.
I totally agree with number 1 on your list.
Number 2 is already there.
Number 3 is going to be a while.
Number 4 - I think Linux already has this if you want Windows 3.0 or 3.1. I'm using KDE
and its not seamless, as you mentioned. Hell,
I'd give up chrome and fins on a desktop just to
have some sort of common clipboard setup (honest to God, for some reason I can't copy from kedit to Netscape!!!).
As for Number 1, I want to setup an Ethernet card on my machine, and all of the info on
the 'Net seems to be saying "give up and reinstall Linux".
Yes!!!! Let's help our Internet-less neighbors in Canada and Mexico. I don't know how many times I've looked into the eyes of the children there, knowing they sought the true knowledge that only the Internet could bring them....
Come my friends...let us start the Christian Children's Internet Fund...for only $40 a month you can adopt a child and give them DSL access... Your adopted child will sent you email correspondence and naked pictures of Sally Struthers....
I know that this information has been presented many times in a Mars special on one of the Discovery channels...they got the first results, cracked some champagne and were about to release the info when some additional tests came back and didn't back up the first results...so they didn't let it out.
Like I said, I saw this a few months ago, so now the mainstream press is recycling it and of course, there's the Slashdot recycling as well...
"without a corresponding "standard" to describe the structure the file should have. If you want regularity"
Actually, if you want regularity, I'd suggest Metamucil - in the orange flavor that is.
Slashdot Mirror
Why don't the advertisers use a "coupon" model for
their ads (or at least use one more often)?
Just like the coupons that come in your local
paper, when a user clicks on an internet ad
for a product, that user could submit a small
amount of information (you're presumably
already going to buy the product, and coupons
+ what you buy + how you buy at the
supermarket already gives out more info than
you know - even if it is an anonymously
generated profile of you) and receive some
amount off of a purchase price or a service
charge or whatever. Advertisers could better
market to the people who replied to the
"coupons", users would get savings on things
they actually want, and sites who host the
ads/coupons would get revenues.
I'm a bit confused. I thought "micropayments" in
the historical sense (last year) meant that if a company
wanted to you read a spam email or look at an ad
of theirs then they'd pay you.
Somehow in the past year this seems to have reversed.
How did the idea of company's paying a person to look through their drivel disappear?
If these company's wanted to pay me a nickel for
each ad they wanted me to see, I'd look at them.
But as has been mentioned by other comments,
users have been deluged with these cheesy things
and nobody really cares anymore except newbies and aol users.
I totally agree with number 1 on your list.
Number 2 is already there.
Number 3 is going to be a while.
Number 4 - I think Linux already has this if you
want Windows 3.0 or 3.1. I'm using KDE
and its not seamless, as you mentioned. Hell,
I'd give up chrome and fins on a desktop just to
have some sort of common clipboard setup
(honest to God, for some reason I can't copy from kedit to Netscape!!!).
As for Number 1, I want to setup an Ethernet card
on my machine, and all of the info on
the 'Net seems to be saying "give up and reinstall
Linux".
Yes!!!! Let's help our Internet-less neighbors in Canada and Mexico. I don't know how many times I've looked into the eyes of the children there, knowing they sought the true knowledge that only the Internet could bring them....
Come my friends...let us start the Christian Children's Internet Fund...for only $40 a month you can adopt a child and give them DSL access...
Your adopted child will sent you email correspondence and naked pictures of Sally Struthers....
I know that this information has been presented many times in a Mars special on one of the Discovery channels...they got the first results, cracked some champagne and were about to release the info when some additional tests came back and didn't back up the first results...so they didn't let it out.
Like I said, I saw this a few months ago, so now the mainstream press is recycling it and of course, there's the Slashdot recycling as well...
"without a corresponding "standard" to describe the structure the file should have. If you want regularity" Actually, if you want regularity, I'd suggest Metamucil - in the orange flavor that is.
Does anybody that's read the book Contact by CS remember the end? How come we're not doing this? I feel lied to!