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Archive - September, 2006
Facebook Open Registration
Facebook has just opened up registration to us non-college types. Head on over and ruin the party.
For what it’s worth, I personally think this is a stupid move that will do nothing more than piss off facebook’s already pissy base. The fact that facebook has been closed off to college kids only (unlike MySpace which allows in any freak, pedophile, pervert, and teenie-bopper in) seems to be the main appeal of the site for those that frequent its previously exclusive confines. Facebook has little chance to catching MySpace in terms of sheer numbers and cultural relevance, so why enter into that battle? Why not kick back and rule their (not so little) corner of this market? Why take away the one differentiator that makes facebook attractive to it’s users? The only thing that I can think of that would be similar, is if MySpace decided that it was going to take away profile customization, in an effort to make the site more appealing for a design conscious crowd….
Anyways, time to crash the party, drink their beer and flirt with their girlfriends. See you in there…O’DOYLE RULES!
Oh, COME ON
This isn’t even contextual, it’s just dumb. Granted, this isn’t quite as bad as the “burn baby burn” ad, or some of the other contextual slip ups, but it caught my eye right away. I mean come on…a story about a jetliner with a burning engine, and the pilot racing against time…flanked by a banner ad for a free laptop where the user races through a burning inferno?
Link to the page here. Click the ad to see the screenshot.
Firefox Should Sell Letters
Every now and again, I accidentally end up typing something like “f” and only “f” into my Firefox address bar, when meaning to type something like “flickr.com“. And since my default search engine is Google, firefox throws me to the “I’m Feeling Lucky” result for that particular letter, which in the case of the letter “f”, is FuckedCompany.com.
Now I have no idea how many people do this on a daily basis, but my guess is a lot. Enough to drive a noticeable amount of traffic over the course of say a one month period. From what I understand, Netscape used to sell the default bookmark space on it’s browser, so wouldn’t it be a good idea to sell the letters in this case? Sending “a” traffic to andrewteman.org for instance…on a CPM basis.
Just a thought….