Re:Ads are not necessarily bad...
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You wouldn't need that much personal information. Just a bunch of checkboxes like what you have right now in the prefs where you can hide the topics that you have no interest in.
Hardware
Software
Toys
Books
Caffeine:-)
Music
Or perhaps break those down into even more specific categories.
By default, you get all ads. Let the user check the ones they are not interested in, perhaps with a limit so you can't check everything.
Presto! Slightly more targeted ads without giving up much more personal info other that the fact that I like caffeine! Let Taco do what he wants with that.
Ads are not necessarily bad...
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...it's just the implementation of some of them that everyone hates.
I personally don't mind ads at all as long as they are embedded into the page and not pop-ups or pop-behinds.
You really want to make them effective? Figure out a way to target them a little better. Perhaps a preferences page or something. I have no interest in the latest rack mount system, so if you could figure out a way to hide that when I log in and show a tasty ThinkGeek caffeine ad instead, then your sponsor's ad dollars will be much better spent.
...for Apple, who is releasing some mystery device next week and getting back into the consumer hardware business.
Hopefully it won't go the way of the Newton or Pippin...
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- Hardware
- Software
- Toys
- Books
- Caffeine
:-)
- Music
Or perhaps break those down into even more specific categories. By default, you get all ads. Let the user check the ones they are not interested in, perhaps with a limit so you can't check everything. Presto! Slightly more targeted ads without giving up much more personal info other that the fact that I like caffeine! Let Taco do what he wants with that....it's just the implementation of some of them that everyone hates. I personally don't mind ads at all as long as they are embedded into the page and not pop-ups or pop-behinds. You really want to make them effective? Figure out a way to target them a little better. Perhaps a preferences page or something. I have no interest in the latest rack mount system, so if you could figure out a way to hide that when I log in and show a tasty ThinkGeek caffeine ad instead, then your sponsor's ad dollars will be much better spent.
...for Apple, who is releasing some mystery device next week and getting back into the consumer hardware business. Hopefully it won't go the way of the Newton or Pippin...
That thing looks slightly more aerodynamic than a brick.