We had a chance to talk to them at blogworld:

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Website Magazine At Blogworld

As much as I love to support these free or low budget events the only downside is a lot of times they flake out =(.

I had to make a decision this morning to make other plans since I have not gotten any response from the original organizers.

Hopefully they are just busy and it will still happen… but I wont be there =(

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Midwest Unconference - Not Going WTF Is Up ?

I have voted in 4 presidential elections in my life (everyone eligible) and never has it had as much meaning as this one. As of right now I am still undecided but I will make a decision in the next few weeks.

Please vote.

I was tagged by a few people for this meme but instead of tagging 5 people I am tagging all of you.

Please remind your friends to register to vote

Register to vote and for the love of god vote on election day.

Google has taken an initiative in this and has a really great feature in Google maps to help you find out how to register and where.

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You Know You Have To Vote, Right?

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Commentators - Interview From Blogworld

Last May Google announced that it would begin experimenting with display ads on its popular Image Search, which it has largely been unable to monetize - in 2006 the company estimated that it was missing out on $200 million a year because it wasn’t including ads in search results, and that number has almost certainly gone up since then. Google has previously tried to incorporate text ads into results, but abandoned the practice after seeing a marked decline in traffic.

We haven’t heard anything from Google about the ads since then, but we’ve just gotten a screenshot of one of them in the wild. As promised, the ad is distinguished by a subtle yellow background and a “sponsored link” header. Unfortunately, it seems like these new ads may only be taking text matches into account, without using any image recognition - the ad below is for a Guinness barstool that happens to be named “Buffalo”, but is clearly unrelated to the other images that dominate the results.

It’s impossible to judge the new algorithms based on a single example, but I hope this isn’t representative of what we’ll be seeing when the ads launch to the public. It’s not uncommon to see Google AdSense ads that are irrelevant to text searches, but these aren’t intrusive and generally don’t detract from search results. With images, a botched match is far more jarring - bad results on Image Search would probably turn off far more users than the abandoned text ads ever did.

Thanks to former TechCrunch contributor Steve Poland for the tip.

This post was originally posted by our content partner Techcrunch and is being republished on shoemoney.com with permission.

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Google Image Search Sponsored Links - TechCrunch

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ThinkTank 08 Teaser Video

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