These don't always "work" as comedy, but the YouTube video below of Bill Gates' last day of work is a star-studded winner. The funny video features cameos by his employees and Jon Stewart, Steven Spielberg, Bono, Al Gore, George Clooney, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and more. It was produced for a Microsoft at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
Google AdSense publishers take note: The "Don't Be Evil" hypocrite has struck again. Writing in the AdSense blog on behalf of Google, Talia Brodecki, AdSense Product Marketing, says that unless you are in North America, South America or Japan, you can no longer earn commissions referring new publishers to the AdSense contextual advertising product. What about Central America?
This change, and the other below, take place somewhere "during the last week of January," according to the blog. This only effects commissions for referrals to AdSense.
These sleazebags calling themselves the Small Business Network have called a cell phone of mine for the second time. They use an automated telemarketing 'bot to leave a voice mail on a number that is 1) on the Federal Do Not Call List; 2) a cell phone. They called from a number with caller ID of 216-839-2146.
A server 500 error greated publishers who tried to reach the DoubleClick Performics website on the morning of 8 December 2007.
According to a statement e-mailed to publishers late in the afternoon (PST) that same day, the company "experienced a system outage due to a complete power failure at our data center."
Google has apparently struck again imposing a penalty on websites it deems are creatures from the lower realms. You know the types, the kind that actually try and scrape a buck together selling text link ads on their sites.
