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Microsoft is unleashing its Content Ads program on August 26, opening up what has until now been a small beta test of a system that targets ads to the content of Web pages. Now all U.S.-based advertisers will be able to place ads via Microsoft’s Content Ads, which hopes to do for Microsoft’s MSN websites what AdSense has done for websites partnering with Google: Blanket them in context-sensitive, keyword-based advertising. While many speculate the Content Ads program will put Google and Microsoft in close ad-selling competition, and foster advertiser-friendly price and technology wars, Microsoft still has a lot of catching up to do in market share. AdSense is already widely deployed across the blogosphere, and has become the default business model for unimaginative startups everywhere.
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News blog Drudge Report doesn’t list Fark.com on its blogroll of sources. But a tell-tale URL on a story about emigration from Britain shows that Matt Drudge does, in fact, read the edgy social news site. [Drudge Report]
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MySpace, the News Corp.-owned social network for the unwashed masses, heroically sued spammer Sanford Wallace to stop him from abusing the site. Wallace allegedly created 11,000 fake profiles and spoofed MySpace login pages to gain access to legitimate users’ accounts. MySpace also claims that he used an automated program to control the fake and hijacked profiles to send out links to adult-oriented websites in comments and messages, bringing him enough traffic to collect about $1 million in revenue from his websites. A federal court injunction prohibits Wallace from having a MySpace profile or sending emails implying that he is affiliated with the Fox Interactive Media property. Pity, that. For a while, Wallace made it look like exploiting emo teenagers with unfortunate hair was an even easier way to riches than writing a Facebook app.
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