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I found dhh's comments about the London march misguided. Describing the symbol of BNP/EDL as heartwarming is particularly upsetting. It puts me off Rails, and attending conferences where he is the keynote speaker.

I recently appointed a legal firm. Today I saw their ad embedded as copy looking for cheap clicks via google content network. Screenshot here http://portablepixels.com/images/google.png

Seems to me like Google are stooping to new lows. The ad makes me feel like the legal firm I have appointed are selling diet pills and Im minded to terminate my relationship with them. Cheap clicks can be costly.

Its a percentage increase and pretty meaningless in my opinion. I was the first employee there and Head of Technology in 2006.

From the original press release re increase: The report reveals that BeatThatQuote.com grew its monthly audience of unique visitors by 1,165% from December 2006 to December 2007. Facebook came second in percentage terms with an increase of just 781% in comparison. http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=369...

Yes sure.

Were hiring, http://portablepixels.com

You might be interested in a UK site http://www.theyworkforyou.com/

You might find this wired article interesting

This Psychologist Might Outsmart the Math Brains Competing for the Netflix Prize

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-03/mf_netflix

fascinating, although fold.it appears unavailable currently

Im surprised that people who spend more time online would be more likely to click adverts.

If you do think it might be a good idea you might want to take a look at the Enterprise Investment Scheme in the UK which provides a whole bunch of tax incentives for someone making this sort of investment. http://www.eisa.org.uk/render.aspx?siteID=1&navIDs=21,97

Ted Talks Video Aubrey de Grey: Why we age and how we can avoid it. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/39

"You cannot change the state of a variable once it has been set" http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/09/13/introduction-t...

Im not a cool kid.

I wouldnt want to avoid Mr Blue Blood. He sounds like someone good to have on the team and his kids.

Nano tech will, if it isnt already make this redundant.

Forget 'every few minutes', nano in the carpets are watching your every footstep!

And tomorrow id like my bmw to be blue - wheres the remote?

My Vigor router has a JS alert dialog that reads

If you have a fixed IP address press cancel to continue

Google Charts meets Pac-Man http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p&chs=400x250&...

I deactivated my account a short while back after hearing about the beacon ad nauseum.

That'll teach them.

I kinda want to come back, please tell me I am not missing anything.

Speaking as an adwords advertiser here in the UK where the big G has 80%+ of the market (if you include aol) I welcome some competition

When To Dump Those Interrupt Adverts

Is it just me or does the idea of providing all my bank and credit card login details make anyone else a little nervous?

If anything I find ads on search results can sometimes be useful and more pertinent than natural search results. For example if I am searching for 'cheap flights to bulgaria' I can be pretty confident that the adwords buyers purchasing those keywords currently have a promotion and the ad could have been updated only minutes before. Compare that to natural search results which could be something 'optimised' several months before.