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Wednesday, February 14. 2007
An unobtrusive experiment
You might have noticed that I like to use BrainKing sites to try out new technologies and an interoperability of them. Furthermore, I like the users to play with it. 
The game site (BrainKing.com) was usually the main playground but since the blog site (BrainKing.info) is showing an incredible growth of traffic (see the previous posts about the site statistics), I have decided to choose this one.
On the other hand, it can appear on the BrainKing.com site as well, but can be turned off on the Settings page (paying members).
All right, what is it all about? The observant readers of this blog have undoubtedly noticed that I have completely removed all banner ads from the site, because they have turned out to be a waste of time and page space, regarding the drastically low income they could generate. Moreover, they used to be always the same, and who wants to see the same advertisement for the 100th time?
Just a few days ago I have started to experiment with in-text contextual advertisement links provided by Kontera. You might have spotted a couple of new links with a double underline at the recent entries of the blog. When you hover your mouse cursor over them, a short description of the company which provides the advertisement appears, and if you are interested in it, you simply click and visit their site. If not, just move the mouse cursor elsewhere and the advertisement silently disappears. Simple and effective.
I like this technology because it gives people a choice. The classic banner ads don't - you must see them, whether you want to or not. And although some text analysis gives funny results (for example, Firefox Extension is translated to Hair and Extensions Studio, most likely because Kontera says that it can take up to two weeks to finetune the text analyzing algorithm for our site), it can occasionally bring up interesting information. I have just spent about half an hour browsing the historical articles of this blog to observe which words or phrases would be turned to clickable links.
And, as the bottom line, I am glad to add a new article to the Advertising on BrainKing category.
The game site (BrainKing.com) was usually the main playground but since the blog site (BrainKing.info) is showing an incredible growth of traffic (see the previous posts about the site statistics), I have decided to choose this one.On the other hand, it can appear on the BrainKing.com site as well, but can be turned off on the Settings page (paying members).
All right, what is it all about? The observant readers of this blog have undoubtedly noticed that I have completely removed all banner ads from the site, because they have turned out to be a waste of time and page space, regarding the drastically low income they could generate. Moreover, they used to be always the same, and who wants to see the same advertisement for the 100th time?
Just a few days ago I have started to experiment with in-text contextual advertisement links provided by Kontera. You might have spotted a couple of new links with a double underline at the recent entries of the blog. When you hover your mouse cursor over them, a short description of the company which provides the advertisement appears, and if you are interested in it, you simply click and visit their site. If not, just move the mouse cursor elsewhere and the advertisement silently disappears. Simple and effective.
I like this technology because it gives people a choice. The classic banner ads don't - you must see them, whether you want to or not. And although some text analysis gives funny results (for example, Firefox Extension is translated to Hair and Extensions Studio, most likely because Kontera says that it can take up to two weeks to finetune the text analyzing algorithm for our site), it can occasionally bring up interesting information. I have just spent about half an hour browsing the historical articles of this blog to observe which words or phrases would be turned to clickable links.
And, as the bottom line, I am glad to add a new article to the Advertising on BrainKing category.
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You may be sad to know it's not such an unobtrusive experiment. Whenever my mouse cursor goes over one of those links, the text suddenly gets bigger and the letters start overlapping, making it impossible to continue reading. 
I noticed that if I press 0 and then 9 (one of Opera's shortcuts for zooming the page) the text size remains large but it's position is recalculated and it becomes readable again.
I noticed that if I press 0 and then 9 (one of Opera's shortcuts for zooming the page) the text size remains large but it's position is recalculated and it becomes readable again.
Hmmm, I've just tested it with Opera and you are right. That's strange. This problem doesn't appear with Firefox or IE. I'll report it.
Since it seems to be a general problem of Opera, I have just filed a bug report at the Opera homepage. Let's see what happens next.
A suggestion to use another web browser is probably not the best proposal, eh?
A suggestion to use another web browser is probably not the best proposal, eh?
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Thu, 18.10.2012 17:11
Perfect. The next update
should solve it.
The next update
should solve it.Thu, 18.10.2012 15:59
Yes, I was using 4.1, just upd
ated to 4.1.2
And I remembe
r having GIF problems, so that
sounds good
Wed, 17.10.2012 17:09
Maybe I've just found somethin
g:
"Android supports bitmap
files in a three formats: .pn
g (preferred), .jpg (acc [...]
Wed, 17.10.2012 17:04
The game looks just fine to me
. What device do you use? (and
Android version). The only di
fference I can see is th [...]
Wed, 17.10.2012 17:01
The one I was talking about wa
s the game with ID 5923731, bu
t I tried my other Chess game
with the same result. Ba [...]
Mon, 15.10.2012 01:03
Interesting. My chess games wo
rk fine for me. Can you post t
he game ID?
Sun, 14.10.2012 23:08
So nice that this is now on it
s way
If I open a game o
f Chess, I can see the board,
the highlighted squares [...]
If I open a game o
f Chess, I can see the board,
the highlighted squares [...]Sun, 14.10.2012 02:59
I have finally found some time
to fix the backgammon dice bu
g, so if nothing goes wrong, i
t should go live tomorrow.
Fri, 12.10.2012 04:28
OK i have started a game of ea
ch gammon with Furby for testi
ng purposes (not Anti gammon t
hough). I ring up each g [...]
Fri, 12.10.2012 03:36
Yes, i noticed that BUT not on
all the gammons. I will have
a look again in a while. Some
versions, the dice were [...]
Fri, 12.10.2012 01:11
You can post everything here,
that would be fine for now. :-
)
I've just found out that Ba
ckgammon is unplayable b [...]
Thu, 11.10.2012 22:15
Woooohoooooo MadMonkeys there
installed and running.... w
here do you want any Bugs, Pro
blems, Ideas or anything [...]
installed and running.... w
here do you want any Bugs, Pro
blems, Ideas or anything [...] about BrainKing for Android
Thu, 04.10.2012 15:11
Thanks, I think that one techn
ology (Android) is enough for
now. And I don't plan to u
se Flash on BrainKing we [...]
And I don't plan to u
se Flash on BrainKing we [...] about BrainKing for Android
Thu, 04.10.2012 14:33
nice! i'd ask you to write an
app for the iPhone, but braink
ing works fine in Safari on th
e iPhone, as long as one [...]
Mon, 18.04.2011 22:15
I understand the ins and outs
of what you are trying to achi
eve
Its funny, that t
he ones i use all the ti [...]
Its funny, that t
he ones i use all the ti [...]