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Targeted Ads and Other Coolness

Posted Wednesday, February 09, 2005

You may have noticed I added some google adwords on the right over there, and I for one am astonished by the number of ninja ads I see there. None, however are as wonderfully targetted as this one from eBay:

Discount High Scores
New & used High scores. aff Check out the huge selection now!

I know these sorts of ridiculous ads have been spotted everywhere, but I can't help giggling when it's on my own site...

In other news, I'm currently doing a very cool 4-week internship at Atari Melbourne House. So I've been very busy with that, but it's lots of fun. It's been forever since I did animation work, it feels really good to be doing stuff that's actually going to be in games.
For the animation work I managed to pick up Softimage very quickly, it seems to me to be quite a lot better than Max for character animation, although I still don't even know how to texture or render - funny how you only pick up what you need...


2 Comments:

Tzortst said:

Have you made much money off those ads?

Funny thing is I never knew you had ads, thanks to AdBlock plugin for firefox :)

Toria said:

Actually, yes I've noticed the ads a bit on your site Tim and yes, usually Ninja ads LOL.

I'm glad you're learning interesting stuff at Atari. You're a lucky guy and very talented. I suppose when you need to know how to texture or render you'll pick it up :)

Sending you a warm fuzzy hug (((((Tim)))))