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The current news post is about the Advisory Board, but the previous post on LJ's 10th birthday had an interesting level of partnerships and marketing in it. ( More about the news post. )

I'm a permanent user, and though my homepage is set to my userinfo, occasionally I'll be directed to the main page when I'm logged out for one reason or another, and I see ads. For more on why this is messed up, see "permanent user ( Read more... )

first 15 tags of first public post are also sent to the ad engine.
use content of entry next to ebox (if public, else use first public entry on page) for targetting ad used.
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I haven't had the time to look at the recent changelog entries closely but it seems to me that:

1) The S+ account level will be available to communities.
2) Communities will be able to be advertised in other communities. ETA: s+ and paid comms only.
3) ETA2: link. Owners will be able to choose their option (promote and be promoted, promote and don't be ( Read more... )

I just wanted to say that the new Terms of Service about ad blocking - aka those discussed here - have been implemented.

I also wanted to mention the lj_biz post about data-gathering via Hitbox version 2.0 . Just *mention* it. I'm pretty blah about the whole thing as it is now so I don't think it's really worth discussing it. But, although there is ( Read more... )

in s1 land, if you've posted a public entry, the entry text will be sent to the ad-targetting server.
in s2 land, if you've posted a public entry, the entry text on [Recent|Friends|Day|Entry]Page will be sent to the ad-targetting server.

mentioned here.

edit: uniquewonders shows me that it is intended to grab the first 500 words. if someone could check out ( Read more... )

Just to let you know, burr86 had some good information about how the interests will work:

It takes the ten most popular interests of a user, and then removes anything that isn't in the most popular interests listSo some of you were confused as to why some interests were blacklisted, but other closely related interests weren't. That's probably because ( Read more... )

in this entry, they've defined a list of interests that will not be sent to the adserver.

This guide tells you what type of data is gathered when viewing a page that serves ads and how to minimize the amount of data that is collected then.

This guide has been moved to No LJ Ads Wiki. See the Escaping Ad Server Targeting guide to see an up-to-date guide.

If you have any question of new information to provide, please comment either here ( Read more... )