Category: Misc

About Google AdSense for Mobile

mobile_ad.PNGGoogle has launched AdSense for mobile. It was expected and awaited for a long time from the mobile addict (except maybe for the other players like AdMob).

Russell Beattie is complaining (AdSense for Mobile: Starting slow and AdSense for Mobile: Day 2 still sucks) about the performance of AdSense for mobile, saying that the conversion rate and the total gain are much lower than with AdMob.

Having a few mobile website myself, and being an AdMob user I wanted to try as well. I checked my Google account to find out that AdSense for mobile is not available yet in Switzerland: We do not currently offer AdSense for Mobile in Switzerland.

Too bad, actually I wanted to check how does mobile AdSense is technically inserted into a page. Somehow I assume it is done with JavaScript as it is done on the web and that would explain why the revenue is so low with AdSense, because JavaScript is not yet widely supported on handheld device and the ad might simply not be displayed on some devices.
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Bye bye Technorati

I have never been a big fan of Technorati. Monitoring content of millions of blogs is not an easy task for sure and they are facing big competition, but for me they really benefited from a lot of buzz and not that much deserved.

Now… they might be releasing new feature like Technorati Topic they still face availability problem (they always had), spam issue, and the CEO and founder, David Sifry, has step down a few weeks ago (together with a few other).

Unfortunately imho there is only one outcome possible: end of business

ShoZu again

Back from the Swiss Web 2.0 stamm in Geneva. While travelling in the train (that had some delay again) I tested again ShoZu with my new N95 (after testing it for a while I bought this device). While the version I had before was tied to Flickr this one allow to publish on almost anything (including a WordPress blog), see my previous post. It does also handle pod- and videocast. Pretty amazing and I am still on the discovery mode!

I will write about the Swissweb stamm later… now it is time to sleep ;-)

Bien bien bien

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Un design super grande classe (je reconnais bien là la marque de fabrique de ba), un peu d’ajax bien placé, un contenu original et bien leché (avec quelques dinosaures du web),… ça sent bon tout ça!

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No updates ?

What is your first thinking when you visit a company website that has not been updated for 6 months ? a year ?

I guess I do think that the company is out of business or not running that well…

I ended up this morning on mob5.com website and the latest news is dated early december when they announced that they will provide ShotCode for everyone. That’s nine months ago… immediately after thinking that using a proprietary format for 2 code was their problem more than mine I did think that since nothing happened for 8 months they must have run out of business. Probably not… but it happens every day (mob5.com was just an example).

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