Adtools

I was recently running through my followers on Twitter (which I apologise for as I don’t do it as often as I should) and discovered I was being followed by http://advalidation.com/. To say that this site ticks a hole swathe of ‘to do’ boxes on my development list is to do it a dis-service. If [...]

“Think we’d all be better off if HTML5 could somehow instantly replace Flash overnight? Not necessarily, according to a set of comparisons from Jan Ozer of the Streaming Learning Center website, which found that while HTML5 did come out ahead in many respects, it wasn’t exactly a clear winner. Jan Ozer’s article can be found [...]

A number of years ago I had a meeting with OneVision, a company used in newspaper/print for pre-production/press Quality Assurance amongst others things. At the time we were looking at trying to resolve issues with badly coded flash ads, where the clickTag() hadn’t been set properly or been set to CLICKTAG() or cLiCKTag() or some [...]

Adtelligence is a free reporting layer for OpenX systems find it here: http://www.adtelligence.net/. Original article from techcrunch: http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/01/18/adtelligence-gives-openx-reporting-a-visual-makeover/. Follow them on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Adtelligenz. Bang goes another idea I was going to work on, I really must start getting more code written in future. Perhaps I should spend my time resolving OpenX inventory forecasting instead or [...]

Article from Techrepublic explaining ‘Flash Cookies’, or rather, Flash Shared Objects: Original article here: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/itdojo/?p=1424&tag=nl.e101

Mcafee are reporting that Adobe Reader and Flash are to be prime targets for criminal hackers next in 2010. This on the back of this report: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/22/mass_flash_file_vulnerability/ and http://websecurity.com.ua/3789/ My personal take on this is that yes, it could be used as a potential XSS but invariabaly it would have meant that the original 3rd [...]

Eyeblaster have spent some time and money building a new PR site http://www.digitalshouldbesimple.com/ trying to highlight the ‘issues’ surrounding some aspects of the the digital media buying and delivery process.

Trawling Google Video again and ran across this clip from Google/Doubleclick explaining the role of Doubleclick Studio:

I’ve been following the W3C’s GeoLocation working group recently, they just had their latest face-to-face meeting to discuss the proposed standards for the W3C GeoAPI. Link: http://www.w3.org/2008/geolocation/ I think the important thing to pick-up on here is that the W3C are making proposals for ‘location aware devices’ to expose their location data (latitude/longitude and civic, [...]

Whilst wandering around various ops related videos on Google I found my old work colleague Danny Meadows Klue introducing people into the wonderful world of Web Analytics. <embed id=VideoPlayback src=http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-511341268909051465&hl=en&fs=true style=width:550px;height:400px allowFullScreen=true allowScriptAccess=always type=application/x-shockwave-flash> </embed>