Filed under: Business, Internet, Adobe, Yahoo!
Would you like an advertisement with that PDF?
So perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that Adobe and Yahoo! are partnering on a method to insert targeted advertisements into PDF documents. Not just the ones you read online, but even PDFs that you download to your computer.
The announcement doesn't mean that every PDF file you read from now through eternity will have an ad tacked onto the side. But it does mean that content publishers now have yet another way to try to convince you to buy stuff. If you download or open a
Publishers can sign up for the Adobe PDF Powered by Yahoo! program and then upload their PDF content to be ad-enabled before it's distributed. According to Adobe's press release, ads will only show up in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat, so it's possible that you may be able to avoid advertisements by using a third party application like FoxIt.
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, ...
