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Thursday, May 25, 2006
As part of the r6 rollout Banner
ads will be added to all INTL versions of AOL
Journals. These are the Journals hosted
on:
journals.aol.ca - Canada
journals.aol.co.uk - UK
blogs.aol.fr - France
tagebuch.aol.de - Germany
diarios.aol.com - Mexico
The ads will be the same style (728x90 banner ads) currently seen in the US version. The disclaimer below the ads will be localized for each country, i.e.
"L'emplacement publicitaire n'est pas contrôlé par l'auteur du blog."
"Werbung in Blogs stammt nicht von Blog-Autoren"
The other major addition to the International version of AOL Journals is that AIM account holders will now be able to create a journal in their respective country domain (as listed above). We'll also add a new locale for the AOL Latino brand, Ads will be there too.
So...Why? Why would we do this again and not learn from the folks that left in Nov. '05. Well the answer is simple, the businesses are different. The folks up north and in Europe run their own business and make these calls. We've shared all of our lessons learned and have given them plenty of advice to help them make their decisions.
Your feedback is needed!
Please put your feedback in the comments section and a link to your journal.
*************UPDATE June 12th 2006******************
No ADS on UK, FR, and DE. Canada, Mexico, and Latino will have ads until further notice.
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About Ads
journals.aol.ca - Canada
journals.aol.co.uk - UK
blogs.aol.fr - France
tagebuch.aol.de - Germany
diarios.aol.com - Mexico
The ads will be the same style (728x90 banner ads) currently seen in the US version. The disclaimer below the ads will be localized for each country, i.e.
"L'emplacement publicitaire n'est pas contrôlé par l'auteur du blog."
"Werbung in Blogs stammt nicht von Blog-Autoren"
The other major addition to the International version of AOL Journals is that AIM account holders will now be able to create a journal in their respective country domain (as listed above). We'll also add a new locale for the AOL Latino brand, Ads will be there too.
So...Why? Why would we do this again and not learn from the folks that left in Nov. '05. Well the answer is simple, the businesses are different. The folks up north and in Europe run their own business and make these calls. We've shared all of our lessons learned and have given them plenty of advice to help them make their decisions.
Your feedback is needed!
Please put your feedback in the comments section and a link to your journal.
*************UPDATE June 12th 2006******************
No ADS on UK, FR, and DE. Canada, Mexico, and Latino will have ads until further notice.
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Paul,
Search header is coming for CA. Spell Check will be bit of a longer wait, sorry :-(
You do get all of those "invisible" features that we do for all countries in addition to the whitelisted tags.
As for the edit controls, try clearing you cache. -
Sorry, Yoel. That was too short of me. I do have support for tables this morning. As well, I am aware that there may be several changes that are invisible to me because they are in infrastructure.
-Paul -
A tuesday morning update for the tech people. I have ad banners. As far as I can see, I have no other aspects of this upgrade. Still no spell check. No new header with search box. And when I go to beta, I have no edit controls, so I can't even see if the tagging beta for IE works.
-Paul
http://journals.aol.ca/plittle/AuroraWalkingVacation/ -
<<If it makes you feel any better - we care. We, the little people, in this big company care and we've been fighting the Ads battle for months before last Nov. and the months since.>>
And in the interests of being fair, Yoel, I must say that I'm glad that there are people there who do care. If more people who put customer service anywhere near the same level as revenue were higher up in decision-making positions, I'm sure the ad fiasco wouldn't have happened to begin with.
I do hope that folks like you will one day be able to convince your managers that they have embarked on a long path that sends a clear (and apparently wrong) message to some of us: "You're only important to us until we find a more convenient way to make money, then you don't matter one bit." That's what I felt like I was being told, and I don't think I'm alone in that.
That doesn't make your job any easier, but it might give you another glimpse of how some former paying customers had been made to feel.
Again, thanks for your efforts to fight the battle and I do wish you success.
Patrick
http://patricks-place.blogspot.com
6/14/06 6:48 AM
-Paul