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Google makes mobile AdSense official

Mobile AdSenseWe told you back in July that Google was beta testing a mobile version of AdSense that would allow advertisers to place contextual ads on versions of their websites optimized for mobile browsers. Google has made the program official now.

AdSense for Mobile works in the same way as traditional AdSense. Publishers will pay for ad space in an auction like format. Publishers of the ads will make money when mobile users click on them.

The question is: How many people are going to actually click on an ad on their mobile phone? This looks like a situation where Google will be raking in money for people seeing the ads without having to pay out very large amounts to publishers for people clicking on the ads. The ads could also potentially make loading mobile webpages take longer, and ads could take up valuable screen real estate which may irritate mobile users perhaps even to a point they stop visiting website.

Are any web publishers out there considering mobile Adsense? For those of you that surf the web on your mobile: Would a site having mobile Adsense affect your decision to visit it?

Filed under: Google

Google Mobile Ads

google mobile adsYou feared it, and now its here. Google Ads on mobiles. Google's new mobile ads are shortened versions of AdWords that will appear when users search from Google on mobile devices. The users then have the option of connection to an advertiser's business phone after clicking on the ad. The mobile ads will be limited to 12 or 18 characters per line depending on the language used, and the destination URL will appear on the third line. Currently, Google Mobile Ads are only available in the US, UK, Japan, and Germany. Only drawbacks for advertisers, no tracking ability, and they are only available to be bought by advertisers with a billing address in Japan.

UPDATE: Christian Cadeo in the comments has just informed us that he was able to set up Mobile AdWords being based in the US, with a US address.

Featured Time Waster

Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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