Adobe cancels in-PDF advertising program
I'm not particularly shocked by the decision. First of all, I have to say, I didn't exactly run across many PDF files online that were making use of the technology. And second, it wasn't particularly hard to avoid the ads if you wanted to. So I can't imagine anyone was getting getting rich here.
Publishers will no longer be able to upload ad-enabled documents after January 16th, and ads embedded in existing documents will stop displaying after March 31st.
[via Digital Inspiration]
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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numerwan said 10:19AM on 1-14-2009
Its bad enough Reader is so bloated... I use Foxit thanks to DownloadSquad's suggestion... It opens and closes PDFs in seconds...
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Jash Sayani said 10:41AM on 1-14-2009
Nice realization... If they displayed Ads, BitTorrent would have a large traffic for Adobe Reader....
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