The Internet Advertising Bureau approved new ad banner sizes today, each one larger than the last.
I’m designing a 1024×768 ad banner for a January 2004 launch. Looking forward to IAB approval next fall.
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Venerable online music retailer CDnow has been soaked up by the Amazon juggernaut. The transition completed this week, and now CDnow looks and operates just like Amazon. So tell me, why would I go to CDnow over Amazon.com? Will they really have price and product differentiation? How long before CDnow redirects straight to Amazon Music?
Post of the Year on Textism.
It is often said, dear reader, that comments are the lifeblood of weblogs, bringing the pithy links, quotes and anecdotes of an otherwise humdrum personal site to unparalleled levels of vibrancy.
Thus, in recent months I brought comments to this Web site, in the simple-for-me-easy-for-you form of Quicktopic links, which cost nothing, work well, and encourage return visits, as they remember one’s login data efficiently, eschew pop-up windows, and avoid extensive programming by the affable fellow who does the back-end coding for this site for me. Obviously, these pages should and could be as vibrant as possible, and who am I to stand in the way of intellectual discourse?
Except, dear reader, that for some inexplicable reason, save for the news of my engagement and barring the inevitable conclusion that these compound sentences are in most cases a codeine on the synapses, you never say a thing.
Thus, no more comment links for the time being. No dummy, this one.
Hot news this week is Economist.com’s “subscriber sponsorship” plan, where advertisers pay for users’ access to Economist.com in exchange for a more targeted, and appreciative, viewer audience. Sleuth Holovaty spotted links to the discussions below on E&P, I Want Media, and Poynter.org.
Here are actual articles discussing the plan:
~ View an Ad, Get Something Free at Some Web Sites, Reuters
~ Start of a New Trend? Paidcontent.org
Danny Sullivan: Death of the “keyword” metatag.
A few weeks back this space discussed Jesse James Garrett’s aggravation at not knowing who the forces are behind Amazon’s powerhouse site. Ask and ye shall receive: Mark Hurst interviews Amazon VP of site development Maryam Mohit on Good Experience.
Dive Into Mark: Recommended reading for folks who enjoy this site (or any site for that matter).
The redesign of Economist.com in Digital Web Magazine, an excerpt from “Usability: The Site Speaks for Itself.”
My surname, Wertheimer, is German, and rather literally means “from Wertheim,” a small village in southwestern Germany.
Apparently, Wertheim aspires to be a tourist destination; and with the Internet being what it is, the village has a Web site.
Microsoft earns much of its money on OS sales and loses it everywhere else. Surprised? Don’t be—the whole point of initiatives like XBox, MSN and Windows CE is to lure new users into relying on the Windows operating system.