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At these hard times it is absolutely fascinating watching the largest advertisers making their strategic decisions on how they will handle their marketing, especially now that we are all wondering if internet advertising will still remain healthier than other mediums and if it has any chances of growing as the web publishers tend to hope.

Here in Russia Procter & Gamble is one of the largest ad

http://profy.com/2008/12/02/procter-amp-gamble-movin... 

Apparently at least some Australians aren’t happy with a PayPal advertisements that include legendary Aborigine David Unaipon with a motorcycle police helmet added on to suggest PayPal has heightened security.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/01/paypal-gets-in-... 

I believe Yandex is the best-known Russian internet company for the English-speaking technology community. The company resembles Google in its operations quite a lot - but a smaller one, playing mainly on the national level and only making its first steps to achieve international expansion, like opening an office in the Silicon Valley and hiring former Yahoo search expert.

http://profy.com/2008/11/11/russian-yandex-reports-p... 

Firefox is the only web browser in the world that has tons of enthusiastic followers. I've seen desktop wallpapers, icons, t-shirts, graffiti, and even tattoos that are dedicated to Firefox. But it didn't stop there. Just recently, I saw some videos on YouTube that promotes the use of Firefox.

http://www.junauza.com/2008/10/10-cool-and-funny-fir... 

Anyway, as you can see from the title today’s post is on 10 old vintage ads that represented some of the famous computers in the 80s. I was around to see some of them but not all. Let us know what you think and which ads you remember. All images are linked directly to the source.

Tagline : 13 good reasons to buy the Ace 1200

http://techyshit.com/10-computer-ads-from-the-80s/ 

“The pre-roll” - the video advertisement which begins the user’s experience with desired video content – has seen some major improvements in ad platform technology, along with convergence of user acceptance and marketers learning how to be much more user-friendly with video advertising.

http://www.reelseo.com/pre-roll-video-ads-improvemen... 

There are opportunities for marketers to run successful ad campaigns on social networks such as MySpace and Facebook and, if done properly, the majority of social networkers don't find it a turnoff.

http://www.bizreport.com/2008/10/ads_on_social_netwo... 

"Atravesse na faixa" means "Go across the track" and reminds people not to cross the street whenever they feel like, or else... or else they might end up as this illusion.

http://www.oddee.com/item_96486.aspx 

This is the site where I saw the most of the behind-the-scenes information on cookies and on what they do, be it harmless or suspicious.

http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq/ 

A review of Google search shortcomings due to its over-commercialization

http://www.shvoong.com/internet-and-technologies/sea...