{"id":24,"date":"2007-08-28T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/2007\/08\/facebook-ads\/"},"modified":"2010-04-09T21:58:17","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T16:28:17","slug":"facebook-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/2007\/08\/facebook-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\">Facebook<\/a> began displaying advertisements in the &#8220;news feed&#8221; you see on your home page. Here&#8217;s an example of one I saw today<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/uploaded_images\/Facebook-ads-763778.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/uploaded_images\/Facebook-ads-763775.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I clicked on the link in that ad, it took me to a page displaying this video<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/uploaded_images\/Facebook-advideo-736985.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/uploaded_images\/Facebook-advideo-736982.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While a single ad in my news feed is not going to bother me much, I don&#8217;t know whether I&#8217;d feel the same if there are going to be many of them scattered through the feed. Also, it doesn&#8217;t look like this ad has been contextually targeted (unless Facebook knows something about me I don&#8217;t?) But I&#8217;m sure they have that idea lurking around somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>What was really interesting though was that the ad was being served through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doubleclick.com\">DoubleClick<\/a> which is in the process of being acquired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/about.html\">Google<\/a>. So all those guys <a href=\"http:\/\/scobleizer.com\/2007\/08\/26\/why-mahalo-techmeme-and-facebook-are-going-to-kick-googles-butt-in-four-years\/\">predicting the downfall of Google<\/a> at the hands of Facebook might want to <a href=\"http:\/\/onotech.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/mahalo-techmeme-facebook-google-scoble.html\">re-think<\/a> their arguments a bit! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Yes, yes I know that&#8217;s not precisely what Scoble was saying, but I still think he&#8217;s full of hot air. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Facebook began displaying advertisements in the &#8220;news feed&#8221; you see on your home page. Here&#8217;s an example of one I saw today When I clicked on the link in that ad, it took me to a page displaying this video While a single ad in my news feed is not going to bother me&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/2007\/08\/facebook-ads\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook ads<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[39,40,41,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}