Screenshot from Yahoo Weather this morning:

We’re expecting heat today, and Yahoo (weather.com) placed a snowy pic, offering all sorts of winterizing services along with my forecast.   I guess it did not notice the weather display was in Celsius, and 31C is about 88F.

For more advertising blunders see:

• The Irony of Contextual Advertising
• Contextual Advertising Blunders
• The Scary Thing about Contextual (?) Advertising

Tags: adbrite, adsense, advertising, Adwords, contextual advertising

As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.  Well, this one certainly belongs to the  contextual ad blunder series.

(Source: IT Project Failures)

Additional ad blunders:

• The Irony of Contextual Advertising
• Contextual Advertising Blunders
• The Scary Thing about Contextual (?) Advertising

Tags: adbrite, adsense, advertising, Adwords, contextual advertising

Check your FeedBurner stats, but don’t worry too much: no, there was no mass exodus, you did not lose more than half your subscribers overnight.

There’s a simple explanation: FeedBurner is missing Google FeedFetcher stats- that’s the number of users who read your blog in Google Reader.  Last time I reported the same, Google Reader represented about 40% of my readership- apparently now it’s about 60%. 

Ironically it happens on the day when FeedBurner is in the news for launching  AdSense for feeds.

Tags: adsense, feedburner, Google, google feedfetcher, google reader, outage

I fully agree with Ionut: Gmail’s spam filtering is amazingly effective. I don’t really care about how they do it, as long as it works this well.

But there’s a bit of irony in his post on Google Operating System, and it comes from none other than Google: just as soon as he’s done praising Gmail, Adsense serves up ad ad from a competing service: onlymyemail.com.

Funny thing is, competitor or not, Adsense is correct: the ad is as contextual as it can get, since the article was about spam filtering.

Of course it could have been a lot worse…

(P.S. the pic is only for illustration of what I found on Ionut’s blog; I am not running ads here)

Update: Donna Bogatin found another Web Blooper.