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Yahoo! mobile phone ads coming soon... Blah!
Get ready for some ads on you mobile device. We knew it was coming back in November when Yahoo! announced that they were testing banner ads on mobile browser based services. U.S. users that accessed mobile web email, finance, news and sports information were the first lucky viewers of these ads. Now Yahoo! has announced that it has signed up advertisers on its mobile advertising network to run ads on mobile phones in 19 countries including Britain, Ireland, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, the U.S., Canada and Mexico. This world is run by advertising, so can we expect anything less? I would totally understand the use of mobile advertising to subsidize mobile devices, and monthly carrier fees. But the second you drop it onto my mobile device, it's not going to make me a happy camper, especially since each image I download on my mobile device I have to pay to see in data charges. Yahoo! is taking a leadership stake here, apparently in a race to beat out Google, so expect to see ads from Hilton, Infinity, Intel, Pepsi, and Nissan coming to that mobile device in your pocket soon.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Michael Conger said 11:19AM on 2-13-2007
Upstart cell phone companies (Alltel, US Cellular and the like, I'm talking to you) Here's another chance to differentiate yourselves from the big boys. Sell us on the fact that your service remains ad-free. OR, offer free bandwidth/minutes in exchange for the ads. Clearly, TMob/Sprint/ATT/Veriz will all stick it to us as hard and for as long as they can. But you smaller guys can take a more proletarian stance and maybe get a boost in market share.
(I used the word "proletarian" in a blog comment, a snotty, intellectual word yes, but by it's nature one that should also have widespread appeal to the masses... now, don't I just seem terribly witty?)
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Fabulo said 1:22PM on 2-13-2007
Now that's a good incentive for people to browse the web on a 160x160 screen, given the half of it is dedicaated to a banner ad. Wow. Adblock for cell phone?
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