June 10, 2008

Google Street View now in Modesto!

By : Roy
Filed under : advertising, google

Pretty sweet, now you can check out your home or other area businesses on Google Street View in Modesto. They have gone through and photographed most of Modesto area streets.
Like these landmarks:

Stanislaus County Free Library
The Modesto Arch
The McHenry Mansion
The Tiki (my favorite bar)
Submitted by Dan Jensen
- The infamous A&W Drive-In
- Home of the Nuts

Pretty [...]


May 9, 2008

Bus Benches for Atheists

By : Roy
Filed under : advertising

All around the city I live in, Modesto, CA, there are bus benches and billboards that spew Christian trash, directing people to a website called jesusislord.com. A good 90% of our city’s bus system is covered in this crap and at least 15 or 20 billboards littered around our county alone. Here are some [...]


April 3, 2008

I received my Google Ad Manager invite

By : Roy
Filed under : advertising, google, web apps

Wahoo! I just received my Google Ad Manager beta invite today. I signed in and now im ready to start setting up ad slots and seeing how Google can help me manage my ad publishing campaigns. I’ll let you know if I find anything remarkably interesting.
Oh and… There doesn’t seem to be a [...]


March 17, 2008

Craigslist found not guilty of housing discrimination

By : Roy
Filed under : advertising, legal

The wildly popular, infinitely useful, online classified ads website, Craigslist, was found not guilty of charges from Chicago based Civil Rights attorney group that claimed Craigslist violated federal housing laws and was responsible for posting ads that excluded potential buyers or tenants on the basis of race, gender or religion.
Since Craigslist allows it’s users to [...]


March 13, 2008

Google Ad Manager Beta Invitation

By : Roy
Filed under : advertising, google

Google announced the release of a new beta product for advertisers today called Google Ad Manager. I currently run a few different sites, and in my quest to try and make them profitable (besides providing it with great content) I try to manage advertising for each of these sites.
On this site I am using Text-Link-Ads [...]