Caroline Takeda

For the good and for the bad, just like any other media.

Adsense is not for advertisers, its a program for small publisher, not big enough (in traffic) to qualify for DoubleClick (The Google Display Network). Nalates might be able to give some insights into how that one works ( I am not using it, I am a greedy *****).

Why? Again, it's not about individuals personal data. It's about GROUPS. The advertiser has no access to individual or personal data, not even IP addressee. He has no way to identify YOU. One group in retargeting could be, all clicks that did NOT result in a purchase : Show ads of same product Another group could be: All clicks that resulted in a purchase: Show ads for complementary products YOU are not a person to them, you are a cookie. Don't want to see those ads anymore? Just delete the cookie. Done.

I can shad some light on that as well. The system CAN track a lot more than just what you look at. It CAN track the conversions as well (purchases). It tracks what people look at (Impressions), it tracks what people click on (CTR), it CAN track which click resulted in a purchase (conversion). This is called Retargeting. If you are shown the same camera you already bought, that means the advertiser does retarget not very specific. He did set up a campaign using the wrong targeted GROUPS. In this case he probably did set it up as "target everybody who clicked on that product". What the advertiser should have done, is setting the campaign to "clicked but didn't finish purchase process". In order to do that he needs to setup conversion tracking first. Way more effective and less costs as well. It is not the systems fault, or some stupid programmers fault. It is the advertisers fault.

No! I tell you (and everybody else who is paranoid about data selling) why it is NOT in Meta's interest to sell data. The same applies to other tech companies such as Google. I used to work for the later and I am still involved in the online media business. I know what I am talking about, I make a living with that stuff. The business model is selling ads. They want companies to pay for ads to their users not for buying data. The data is what makes the ads valuable. The data is what allows to target very specific niches, very specific targeted groups and demographics. To give that data away is killing the business model, because the person who possesses that data, doesn't need Facebook, Google and the likes any longer. He can now do it himself. A user data base, is the new gold. It is what justifies a platform's existence. It is something you protect by all means and never let get anybody a hold of it (unless by accident or illoyal workers). In addition, it is not about individuals data, its about collective common pattern. Nobody will pay lots of money to advertise to YOU. YOU as an individual are not important to them at all. They don't care about YOU. They advertise to thousand, if not millions who share common interests, common demographics or other common pattern, making a GROUP of people a target worth to advertise to. GROUPS matter not individuals There is a name for that: Big Data. They do not want to sell your data, because they want to keep selling ads. I put it as simple as I can: Data sold = no more ads = no more money No, you are not the product. Ads are. Stop being so paranoid about it.

I don't think so. My guess is, that Marc Z. wants to make it impossible to create adult content on his metaverse, hence the reason the avatars have no lower body part.

It actually meant to be funny. My warped sense of humor. But yes, the meta twitter account has some pretty good traffic, and some of that might end up on my site. However, this is not the kind of traffic which converts into sales, hence pretty useless as a self promotion. Traffic that converts comes almost entirely from Google searches and reddit in my case. All other traffic is just nice to have (including twitter and the forums).

To practice, hard to understand?

I am not good at poker, and I want to change that I am looking for some people to play regularly as a small group in order to improve skills and try out some strategies. We can discuss timing. I already set up a small private skybox for that purpose. We are not playing for L$ for obvious reasons. Any body interested please send PM or contact me Inworld. (I know it's an old thread!)

Yes! There are numerous blogs and youtube video tutorials explaining Second Life stuff. You can save a lot of time and frustration, if you simply take maybe half an hour of your time and watch/read a few of those. You do read IKEA instructions before you start. You do read IKEA instruction do you??? And yes, it will get better. Just like with every new culture you are getting into: Integration is key. Here a couple of things you might consider: Stop Acting Like a Noob! – Best 14 Tips to Get Settled in The Second Life Community Here a beginners tutorial: There are similar ones about mesh, about land buying, about creating things. So useful!

Ich habe den begründeten Verdacht, das Problem ist nicht mehr ganz aktuell! Nach 9 Monaten.

I am curious how this will impact the sl economy. Is it bad news for mesh body builders? They compete now with free ones provided by the lab!

It matured. It's no longer the crowd of giggling kids in a sandbox. It became a world. A world where people do socialize or not. Each to their own.

That's what I thought, is that wrong?

Ok, Deduct from that tier for the land and minus the stipend, you pay 9 US$ per year for the additional groups and free texture upload.I suppose one can use the land allowance on parcels you already own. At the moment I have premium (including the 1024 on Belli) plus a 4096 parcel on Zinga. Total cost approx. 395 US$ / year. If I gave up my home in Belli, I would end up at around 310 US$. With the new premium plus at 245 US$ + tier for the additional 2048sm of 156 US$ would make 406 US$. I'd be paying 14 US$ for more groups and uploads. Well. No. Or am I missing something? P.s.: Don't care about VAT as I am exempted from that anyway, using a EU-VAT number of my registered business.

No

Lyndka, it's not about giving you an e-mail adress. It's about sending personal data via an insecure website. SSL and https are normal Web-Standards today. For reasons.

That would be funny

No? http://shenanigans-cafe.net/wp/contact-us/

Bloggers ?

Hi Darcy, sound all very good to me. Especially the higher payouts 🙂. On the b2b side, I would expect a little more than a conversion goal. This is serious sales job. Also having the option to get paid in L$ might be very attractive for some smaller affiliates. You don't want to register an official business in rl for a few bucks. Its not only about financial records, ist about tax records. Especially Europeans want to be registered for VAT exemption. The only downside I see here, is the time this will take to develop. What's the planed timeline on this ? As fas as SEO-Training is concerned, we can talk about me supporting your affiliates. I have lots of experience in this field and used to actually work for Google. Check out rankings of my blog 🙂

Wrong. They are in IM trying to get laid. If you like to chat in open, the best if not only way is to iniciate it. Works for me most of the times.

According to his LinkedIn profile, he did quit a bit of job hopping in the last 20 years. Especially the last 5 years do not look like a hot shot marketing guy. I wonder if Linden Lab is yet another 2-3 years interim job to him. Damn, I should have sent my cv lol

It lacks method of course, but it shows talent.