marta (who I am ever grateful for) has confirmed that the Best Buy ad is an approved LiveJournal ad; however, there has been a change in the ad's presentation, in that it no longer automatically plays audio.

Additionally, Frequently Asked Question #265: What are LiveJournal's guidelines on acceptable ads? has been modified, as the Best Buy ad trips ( Read more... )

Okay, so here are some ideas for some (ENTIRELY LEGAL) tools to develop:

1. Website tool to identify the Sponsored+ users in your friendslist. So far, the only way I can see how to get account type for a user is scraping their profile, since it's not in the FOAF. I'm pretty sure that's *not* the way to do it. Users will have to be cached in a ( Read more... )