Wednesday, September 15, 2010

When did google start revealing it's adsense share?

I just had to sign up for a new adsense account because my old company took mine (thanks!) and whatever.

So on my new account I saw this:

AdSense for Content: ca-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxx64268 68 % publisher revenue share

Well, what do  you know? Google is not taking 50% or 66% of the revenue, they are sharing 2/3 with me!

Woot!

I am the home page on LinkedIn

I have been asked why my LinkedIn profile is http://www.linkedin.com/in/index - why does it have "index" at the end instead of my name?

Linkedin offers users the option of creating a unique landing page url.  The user chooses a word, which is suppended to "http://www.linkedin.com/in/".

Well, I was a very early linkedin user and when LinkedIn offered me the opportunity to enter any word as my profile page url, I decided to be cute and use "index" thinking it would be reserved or blocked. But lo and behold it was not and now it's what it is.

However, I now realize that when someone sees that url they think I've mistyped my profile page.  Typical me-move, eh? Trying to be cute, I hosed myself. Doh!

Will Facebook Go The Way of AOL?

There was a time when AOL was the internet.  I remember when AOL could sell keywords for content. So Bank of America had to pay AOL bucoup bucks to own the keyword for "home banking" (I don't know if they did or not, it's just an example).  Then the internet arrived and mozilla and Netscape and all the aol users had to browse the internet with a crappy browser inside AOL and then everyone dropped AOL.

Will someone develop an application that mimics Facebook outside of the Facebook website? Wouldn't it be great to be able to right-click (or for Mac users just click) on the screen and your friends would be in a drop-down?  Networking right from the operating system, no browser needed? Or is this no longer necessary since the browser itself will one day go away and the internet will be the operating system?