Comments on: Conflicts of interest http://yardley.ca/2008/03/13/conflicts-of-interest/ greg yardley on internet and mobile marketing Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:49:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rob Leathern http://yardley.ca/2008/03/13/conflicts-of-interest/comment-page-1/#comment-1376 Rob Leathern Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:12:18 +0000 http://yardley.ca/2008/03/13/conflicts-of-interest/#comment-1376 It's clear that Google's position and time/effort invested to date in getting thousands upon thousands of publishers to sign up (not to mention their 40,000 servers running Adsense!) will stand them in good stead here.... free sells, uptime sells, simplicity helps etc. etc. I would love to think of the ability to write to an API and push stuff into the Ad Manager etc. but I am very skeptical of the extent to which that will happen. What do you think, Greg - I think given your position you should have a great perspective on "openness", APIs and the like? It’s clear that Google’s position and time/effort invested to date in getting thousands upon thousands of publishers to sign up (not to mention their 40,000 servers running Adsense!) will stand them in good stead here…. free sells, uptime sells, simplicity helps etc. etc.

I would love to think of the ability to write to an API and push stuff into the Ad Manager etc. but I am very skeptical of the extent to which that will happen. What do you think, Greg – I think given your position you should have a great perspective on “openness”, APIs and the like?

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