I sometimes get asked about my workday. Many people I have been talking to about the workday assume that it is an easy peasy job which basically centers around researching topics to write about and writing articles afterwards, preferably in a very nice environment such as a garden or beach condo. I usually manage to [...]
Internet Advertising Provider Kontera
Ghacks has been using the same Internet advertising providers since the creation of the website. This has changed in the last few months were we replaced a few advertisers to test new advertising schemes. One area that has changed was intext advertising. Intext advertising refers to those double-lined links that you see occasionally on the [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Apr 6th, 2009
- Comments: 6
Load your advertisements after your content
I didn’t have much use for loading ads after my content, since on most of my sites and those I worked on, they were near the end of the code anyway, but while working on a site today I ran into a problem. There is an ad at the top of the design which tends [...]
Internet Advertising: Opt-Out Of Behavioral Targeting
There are many forms of Internet advertising that you encounter. One that has raised privacy concerns in the past is the so called behavioral targeting that is being used to track and analyze user behavior to display relevant ads to them. Many users feel that this is a invasion of their privacy and want to [...]
Protect your privacy from Google AdSense’s new behavioral ads
Google recently launched behavioral targeted ads for AdSense. This means AdSense displays adverts not only on the context of the webpage, but on the context of your browsing history. The aim is to provide more relevant and efficient adverts, but tracking cookies being used across hundreds of thousands of websites raises obvious privacy issues, as [...]
Microsoft Back on the Offensive
After a $500 million “Wow Starts Now” campaign completely bombed Microsoft went awfully quiet and let the public, the tech community and Apple noisily tear Vista to pieces.
Understandably of course, there where a lot of serious issues with Vista’s release, nothing we hadn’t seen before, but issues nonetheless. It’s safe to say that 2 years [...]
Refer an advertiser, get half the money for the first month
I’m looking for advertisers to place their banners on Ghacks and would like to give everyone the opportunity to earn some money when they refer advertisers to my website that book advertisement. The payout will be half the money for the first month which means it is a minimum amount of $150 and a maximum of $2500 depending on the ad spot sold.
