Drawing inspiration from Facebook and Google playbook, Meebo, the popular online instant messenger aggregating service, has just unveiled its new Application Program Interface (API) for chat-based Meebo Rooms and Meebo Network, a partnership with “premium community, media and entertainment partners,” with whom the company will share half the ad revenue generated by Rooms.
Aimed specifically towards social [...]

For those of you who couldn’t get enough of the Yahoo! Media Player, there is plenty of good news to cheer about. Yahoo! has just released the second iteration of its browser-based MP3 player in beta. And from the look of it, it’s clear that Yahoo! has some big music plans up its sleeves. (Actually [...]

Adobe and Yahoo! have introduced a new service which will allow publishers to insert Yahoo’s contextual advertisements inside Adobe’s portable document format to generate money. Ads will be contextually related to the matter inside the PDF file, when viewed with Adobe Reader or Acrobat Writer.
Text-based ads served by Yahoo! will only be shown in [...]

Advertising programs like AuctionAds, Chitika (aff) or WidgetBucks maybe in big trouble because Google had rolled out a new type of dynamic ad which displays live product prices fetched from eBay. Here are some screenshots of these new AdSense ads (credit: labnol):

These dynamic ads will appear on some ads formats which run in your [...]

To tackle Adsense Theft, Google has introduced a new feature which lets you whitelist the sites which show your Google Ad. You can specify the whitelist by logging into your Adsense account, and navigating to Adsense Setup > Allowed Site (google.com/adsense/publisher-whitelist-view).

The whitelist doesn’t prevent other sites from showing your Google Ad, but the impression [...]