{"id":1800,"date":"2007-10-15T20:50:41","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T00:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/10\/15\/im-in-ur-facebookz-adsensing-ur-widgetz\/"},"modified":"2007-10-15T20:50:41","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T00:50:41","slug":"im-in-ur-facebookz-adsensing-ur-widgetz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/10\/15\/im-in-ur-facebookz-adsensing-ur-widgetz\/","title":{"rendered":"In ur Facebookz, AdSensing ur widgetz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s face it, the only reason I’m writing this post is so I can use a headline that features “LOLcatz<\/a>“-speak, possibly my favourite Internet meme since the Star Wars Kid (although the “Dramatic Prairie Dog” is running a close third). Still, the news from VentureBeat that Google is working on<\/a> a custom AdSense platform for Facebook strikes me as a great move by the Internet giant. <\/p>\n

While everyone from Microsoft and Yahoo to Google itself is deep in talks<\/a> with Mark Zuckerberg about doing deals for a stake in Facebook (which has three term sheets in hand<\/a> with $10-billion valuations, according to Owen Thomas at Valleywag), Google is hard at work tunneling underneath the social-networking edifice and absorbing some of those clicks from within. Brilliant. <\/p>\n

As Eric Eldon points out<\/a> at VentureBeat, Google is effectively using the terms of Facebook’s widget platform — which allows developers to make money from their widgets — to do an end-run around Microsoft, which already has an advertising deal with Facebook that provides the bulk of the company’s $150-million or so in revenue.<\/p>\n

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Let’s face it, the only reason I’m writing this post is so I can use a headline that features “LOLcatz“-speak, possibly my favourite Internet meme since the Star Wars Kid (although the “Dramatic Prairie Dog” is running a close third). Still, the news from VentureBeat that Google is working on a custom AdSense platform for … <\/p>\n

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