Archive for November, 2006

• Google AdWords now charges advertisers for broken API Beta

  Google have now announced that the AdWords API Beta will attract fees.
  Any bug reports are still treated as if the AdWords API was in Beta - that is, you get a massive display of indifference from Google Technical Support to any problems you report. I feel bullied and abused.

  We’ve already dropped development of some […]

  November 3rd, 2006

• March of the robots

  Today is a break from my normal activities. I’m off to the Open University, for RoboFesta UK. I started research into signal processing and computer modelling, in the OU’s Energy Research Group, around 20 years ago. And that circle of interest is closed today.
  We develop software to improve internet advertising. Some of that software […]

  November 2nd, 2006

• Tracking with Flash Cookies

  Web Browsers can be configured to reject third party cookies (cookies that are not from the web server offering the pages you read). Third party cookies have several uses, commonly:

  individually tracking users across multiple sites
  anonymised web analytics

  Some users have configured their browsers to reject all cookies, including cookies from the web site that they are […]

  November 1st, 2006