Crenk » closed http://crenk.com Web Apps, Mobile Apps and Reviews Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:12:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Yahoo Closes RSS Ads, But This Is Only Small Part of Big Change Coming http://crenk.com/yahoo-closes-rss-ads-but-this-is-only-small-part-of-big-change-coming/ http://crenk.com/yahoo-closes-rss-ads-but-this-is-only-small-part-of-big-change-coming/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:08:46 +0000 Steven Finch http://crenk.com/?p=1758 It has been reported by the Silicon Alley Insider that Yahoo is closing their RSS Advertising solution.

Not much word on why — a Yahoo spokeswoman provided this statement to SAI:

Yahoo! is closing its Ads in RSS effective February 2, 2009. The beta program, which enabled publishers to place contextually relevant ads on their own site, was available to a targeted group of small online publishers. We have ended this beta program to focus on other more broadly used ad products for our publishing partners such as Sponsored Search and Content Match.

Silicon Alley isnt really sure why Yahoo is making this move. However, here at Crenk we know that this is just a smaller part of the big move coming from Yahoo. I have heard from inside the company that they are going to be closing a lot of departments within their contextual advertising network. Major changes will be coming with the next three months.

]]> http://crenk.com/yahoo-closes-rss-ads-but-this-is-only-small-part-of-big-change-coming/feed/ 0 Co.mments Will Be In The Deadpool on 11th January http://crenk.com/comments-will-be-in-the-deadpool-on-11th-january/ http://crenk.com/comments-will-be-in-the-deadpool-on-11th-january/#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:07:33 +0000 Steven Finch http://crenk.com/?p=1574 It has been reported today that Co.mments will be hitting the dead pool on the 11th of January. Well according to a post by Steve Rubel this morning the service will be shutting down and the founder Asaf Arkin announced it in a blog post the previous night.

I have never really understood these commenting services, because they dont seem to add too much to the user experience.

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