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I’ve got an abundance of bits and pieces of canadian telecom and internet experience, and I am thrilled to be in a place in time when all is changing, technology is developing, and the status quo is being disrupted. 

Floobergeist is a word that is beginning to defy definition.  The more I roll that smooth pebble around, the more it becomes to mean. Floobergeist started out as the magic dust that turns dreams into ideas.  And then it began to encompass the zing that happens when you have conversations about those ideas. And now, it’s the whole evolution from dream to conversation, with each step improving the later and the former along the way.

Everyone aspires to good conversations. They can lead you to adventures you’ve never imagined, and to people you can twig with.

Let’s have a good conversation…

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Inappropriate Advertising on Social Networking Sites?

October 19, 2007  /  jules kivell

It’s a bigger deal than one might think - having racy or inappropriate ads in your social networking site. It’s already happening on Facebook….and Alec Saunders has picked up on it.

But it’s becoming a much bigger deal globally… especially with Google’s foray into the social schene with Orkut.com
I tried Orkut, as one of the first social networking applications, and I didn’t really fall in love with it.  But folks in Brazil certainly have. 

Orkut is in the Top 5 of sticky websites, with more than 32 billion page views.  It’s no wonder Google wants to stick some advertising on it.  The problem arose when a goodly portion of the ads were *very* adult oriented, and in some cases, illegal.
The Wall Street Journal has the whole story on what’s going on with Orkut and Google.
it doesn’t make sense that Google can’t keep track of ads that are good and ads that are illegal. I’ve never googled something and come back with an ad that’s even remotely bad taste…. Methinks it’s got more to do with Orkut’s back end than Google’s.

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