As an advertiser and a publisher I have ad CTR data spanning hundreds of millions of impressions and about a million ad clicks across a wide array of verticals.
Exploitation of Passion for Profit
Buying Attention & Building Trust
With content that you freely distribute you are primarily trying to build relationships with people who don’t know you and have never bought from you. Since attention is limited you have to make your content accessible to gain market attention.
Highbrow = Low Readership
Most potential buyers can not distinguish between great information and average information, but most people…
Ajax-Enabled App Exploitation Framework
Reading an interesting paper from Wisec Italy, who presented a paper on an exploitation framework for Ajax and Web 2.0.
Getting A Check In Exploitation 2.0
The days of the talented waiting to be discovered by large companies with the means to distribute, exploit, and pay them a fraction of what the company is making are over. That process is soon to get an express lane. Exploitation 2.0 hasn’t often compensated the users that generate content, but that is changing.
Yahoo Closes Chat Rooms To Avoid Child Exploitation
Yahoo has decided to shut down its feature that allowed users to set up their own chat rooms. This move comes after a television news report about chat rooms being used by adults encouraging minors to have sex with them.