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Q-Ads

Published by Yuletide on May 22, 2006 in Blogging and Services. 0 Comments

EDIT (pre-publishing… but I already wrote so much I might as well publish it all…): OKAYYYY so I was wrong… Here is their Privacy Statement… same old deal.

I saw in Qumana’s toolbar a button that says "Insert Ad", so I clicked it… and it turns out their hooked into a service called Q-Ads, which is sorta like Google Adsense but more customizable and stuff… (or something).

But being the shrewd netizen that I am, I perused their privacy policy… (since they, unlike many hip webservices nowadays, don’t have a plain language TOS…

Aaaanyways, I saw this among the legal speak and said "Hmmmmmmmmm…." (emphasis added):

17. Information Rights. Q-Ads may retain and use for its own purposes all information Client provides, including but not limited to Site demographics and contact and billing information. Client agrees that Q-Ads may transfer and disclose to third parties personally identifiable information about Client for the purpose of approving and enabling Client’s participation in the Program,including to third parties that reside in jurisdictions with less restrictive data laws. Q-Ads disclaims all responsibility, and will not be liable to for any disclosure of that information by any such third party. Q-Ads may share aggregate (i.e., not personally identifiable) information about Client with advertisers, business partners, sponsors, and other third parties. In addition, Client grants Q-Ads the right to access, index and cache the Site(s), or any portion thereof, including by automated means including Web spiders or crawlers.

Is this sketchy? Or is this typical? No sign-up from me, for now at least… (though I should go re-read the AdSense TOS before I make too much noise…)

So yeah, in light of their privacy statement, this is normal legalese (still scary though).

[p.s. MAN is this editor nice! Even gives MarsEdit a run for its money (haven’t tried it on OSX yet though)]

So yeah, I’m signing up… Seems like a neat service. Maybe I’ll try it here instead of Google? Or can I use both? (Probably will make one/both angry…?)

I’ll write more later re: how it goes

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Google Adsense $$$$$

Published by Yuletide on May 19, 2006 in Blogging, Me and Services. 0 Comments

WOAH!
Just checked my adsense account… Note that I started it mostly on a whim… :

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(yes, that’s a lot of money when you consider I never really expected to earn any…)
Goddamn, I use a lot of ellipses…!
OH, and notice now the ads are finally learning to be relevant!

Jungle Disk: mount Amazon S3 as a drive for cheap reliable infinite storage

Published by Yuletide on May 19, 2006 in Links, Services, Software and Web Applications. 0 Comments

Junlge Disk is an application that lets you store files and backup data securely to Amazon.com’s S3™ Storage Service.

  • Store an unlimited amount of data for only 15¢ per gigabyte [per month]
  • No monthly subscription fee, no startup fee, no commitment
  • Your data is fully encrypted at all times
  • Data is stored at multiple Amazon.com datacenters around the country for high availability
  • Access files directly from Windows Explorer, Mac OSX Finder, and Linux
  • Compare Amazon S3™ pricing with other online storage services…

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    Holy Crap!
    I hope this is as good as it sounds… Sounds too good to be true!
    So, Amazon has launched an online file-hosting service called Jungle Disk…
    How much does it cost? 15 cents per gigabyte per month!!
    If I decide to try it out I’ll write how it goes…

    Pingomatic

    Published by Yuletide on May 17, 2006 in Blogging and Services. 0 Comments

    Well, after tentatively singing pingomatic’s praises, I just realized that Technorati has record of only 6 posts in the last 47 days. Great. And editing posts won’t re-ping technorati… Though I bet there’s a way to tell technorati to just index my page…
    We shall see!
    p.s. pingomatic.com is still not loading… I should have taken the hint.

    p.p.s. other people have been having similar issues, I see….

    p.p.p.s. Found this post about a similar service called Pingoat that may be worth checking out…

    and another post about issues with Technorati and ping relay services

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    IndieKarma. Micropayments that work?

    Published by Yuletide on May 17, 2006 in Innovation, Services and Web Design. 0 Comments

    IndieKarma. Micropayments that work?:

    I got an email weeks ago urging me to look at a new micropayment system called IndieKarma. Pretty much every other micropayment scheme I’ve seen is too clunky to actually be useful, but I was pleasantly surprised with IndieKarma when I got around to checking it out. Here’s how it works.
    If you’re a blogger or web site owner, you sign up, put a bit of JavaScript code on your site, and whenever a reader who’s signed into IndieKarma visits your site, you get a penny. Seamless and easy.

    Ooooh, sounds awesome…! Maybe I’ll try it…

    (Via kottke.org.)

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