We've spotted a code change that adds what appears to be a web bug (since the code returns the HTML for a 1x1 image) for each RSS post in SUP journal feeds; the image uses the SUP_BASE_ADCALL_URL, so although it may not have anything to do with ads, it seems to involve the ad server in some way. It's conceivable this will be used to give SUP users ( Read more... )

I'm not surprised that this escaped notice, between Basic Accounts, censored interests, and contemptuous Russians, but sponsored styles are back.

There are three new featured themes, by "HP.com/gwen", which you can access directly here. Each contains some kind of embedded web bug in the header that links through doubleclick.net to some page on HP ( Read more... )

some code recently posted to the ljcom repository says that some Expressive themes named "Havaianas Stripes Blue," "Havaianas Stripes Orange," and "Havaianas Stripes Teal" will be among the first "sponsored" layouts/styles.

we still don't quite know what "sponsored" means in this context.

edit: secretlondon points out that "Havaianas" is a brand of sandal/ ( Read more... )

kunzite1 points out this one: "start of document to demystify advertising crap" -- For documenting parts of the advertising code.

Under "Committer: Sup" is the submission -- LJ::ads subroutine uses 2 new hooks for processing ads embedding. hooks.txt contains the description of these hooks.

One interesting development seems to be "start of working on ( 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.
( source)

Advertise link at the bottom of each Horizon page. (In addition to the 'Upgrade' link which was already there I think.)

"Show sponsored communities to logged out users who do interest searches."

"Ads between entries" added to each (S2?) layout.

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link.

not sure exactly what it means, but it sounds interesting.

i'm sure foxfirefey or someone from 6A/LJ can shed some light on this funkiness.

edit: link: YAY FOR CODE REVIEW! :DDDDDDD

now. if only we could get some more of that. oh, and, a wider range of public testing plzkthxbai.

...changin' ur codez.

SUP commits changes to changelog.

something broke changelog.

last revision of the livejournal repository is r9503.
last revision of the ljcom repository is r3936.

latest in svn of livejournal is r9521.
latest in svn of ljcom is r3947.

i have an issue with this onewhat happens if the author of the entry doesn't want to receive any more comments and won't reply to any more, but wants the ( Read more... )