I was browsing around on istockphoto.com today, looking for something else entirely and as usual got sidetracked. Found a couple of really good photo’s which I thought I’d post up, below: This is a picture of a Marseille alleyway at night, not exactly a glamorous sparkling city-scene but I was just struck by its quality. [...]

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Never shy of offering some incentives in the form of prizes to affiliates, my favourite network Advaliant launched a couple of new lead generation contests today in time for Christmas. First one gives BIG cool electrical toys like plasma tv’s and wii’s and ipods to everyone who meets lead targets for the month of December [...]

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Anyone who reads this blog will already know I think that farcebook ads suck ass, but this amused me today – apparently they have now implemented a blanket ban on diet ads in the quest to ‘maximise end-user experience’ or some .com – sounding bullshit. Wow. Big shock and awe there, especially for anyone who [...]

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<rant> Just tried submitting a few more ads in various niches to facebook again tonight, I try and avoid it if I can but thought I would give it one last, last, last last go seeing as I keep hearing about how much money others are making out of it. I’ve tried in the past [...]

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Following on the heels (coat-tails?) of facebook and myspace, google has launched its own self-serve adsense type ad platform on its struggling-to-pay-the-hosting video website, youtube, today by the looks of it. Basic banners etc don’t seem to be on offer, presumably as you can already place them on youtube via adwords.Then again, aren’t sponsored video’s [...]

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I buy a lot of books on the subjects that interest me – don’t seem to get much time to read them, but still. I tend to buy something that covers a subject I wish to learn about, skim the relevant chapter and put the book down again. I’m ending up with a pretty good [...]

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Thought I deserved a little present seeing how hard I’ve been working lately and I have ben tempted to get a netbook for a while now, so when I saw the new Samsung NC10 I just had to get one! Actually its not quite released in the UK yet but hopefully it will be very [...]

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Got an email from Myspace the other day, the ads department, asking if they could call me for a chat which was pretty cool. They seem to have been contacting some of the bigger spenders on their ad platfrom since its launch to get some feedback, constructive critiscism and ideas which is good to see [...]

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