Stretch Your Notions About Web Ads
I like to read the Prensa Libre, an online Guatemalan newspaper so I know what’s going on in Guatemala. I take one-on-one streaming video Spanish conversation tutorials twice a week (via ooVoo and Skype) from Internet Spanish. I like having something to talk about other than “what all the dog did today,” as Willie Nelson once sang.
Today I had three surprises: first that Guatemalan ex-president Alfonso Portillo was captured and jailed, giving the U.S. 40 days to prepare charges against him for diverting funds and washing money.
Second on Prensa Libre in the narrow left column, I saw an ad with Darren Rowse, the Pro Blogger himself, touting Chitika as his second biggest source of income, after Adsense. I first heard about Darren last weekend from Mary Gillen’s Learn One Thing newsletter. I had not heard of Chitika or thought that a blogger in English would profit from advertising in a Guatemalan newspaper.
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Shortly afterwards, that spot was filled with an ad for Object- Oriented Animation in Adobe Creative Suite 4 Premium for Web. It has a clever Flash animated feature at its top that plays once and invites you to play it again.
The Adobe CS4 Web Premium bundle includes these products:
- Dreamweaver CS4
- Flash CS4 Professional
- Photoshop CS4 Extended
- Illustrator CS4
- Fireworks CS4
- Acrobat 9 Pro
- Soundbooth CS4
- Contribute CS4
- Adobe Bridge CS4
- Adobe Device Central CS4
- Version Cue CS4
