Re: Jumping on the AdBard bandwagon

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 06/03/2009 09:44 AM, Stormy Peters wrote:
> I think the ad offer will be attractive to large companies looking to
> hire OSS developers or influence their purchasing decisions.

Yeah.

> I'm interested to see how much goes to the website owners.

Good Q.  Maybe we can casually ask them?

> I think they'll be able to attract plenty of OSS developers blogs to
> advertise on.
>
> Behdad, are you thinking GNOME should consider being a part of it? I
> think Planet GNOME would be exactly the type of readership they'd be
> hoping to hit.

I'm not sure.  But *if* we end up adding ads to our pages, AdBard sounds like 
should be it.  Perhaps we can wait and see what comes out of it first.

> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 6:28 AM, Claus Schwarm <clschwarm googlemail com
>
>     I think the offer is bad. We've just made something similar in a month,
>     without being required to pay US$ 1000/month (even if it's 75% off now).

I was asking whether we should sell them ad space on, say, p.g.o, not paying 
them to advertise us.

behdad


>     Best regards,
>     Claus
>
>
>     On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 22:07 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>      > Hi list,
>      >
>      > What's everyone's thoughts on the new AdBard [1] thing?
>      >
>      > Cheers,
>      > behdad
>      >
>      > [1] http://adbard.com/
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