Anybody else miss the old Metafilter Text Ads system? April 12, 2010 7:12 PM Subscribe
Anybody else miss the old Metafilter Text Ads system? Those were great, the ones where you just paypal $20 and get a little text ad for your blog or whatever. The only site I know of that still has that system (which I believe was pioneered here at MeFi) is Kuro5hin. Anybody know of any others?
You know who else ran small unobtrusive text ads on their web site for low cost?
posted by GuyZero at 7:34 PM on April 12, 2010
posted by GuyZero at 7:34 PM on April 12, 2010
Canter & Siegel?
posted by Hardcore Poser at 7:37 PM on April 12, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by Hardcore Poser at 7:37 PM on April 12, 2010 [1 favorite]
Don Lapre?
posted by cog_nate at 7:51 PM on April 12, 2010 [2 favorites]
posted by cog_nate at 7:51 PM on April 12, 2010 [2 favorites]
HITLER!
posted by klangklangston at 8:22 PM on April 12, 2010
posted by klangklangston at 8:22 PM on April 12, 2010
Every once in a while I type "metahitler.com" and "metahitler.net" into an address bar to see if the sites exist, but they never do. I'm mostly glad but a little disappointed too.
posted by Kattullus at 8:28 PM on April 12, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by Kattullus at 8:28 PM on April 12, 2010 [1 favorite]
In regards to my usage of the drug, it modified my personality, to the extent I became highly irritable. I was like a crack MetaHitler.
posted by klangklangston at 8:28 PM on April 12, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by klangklangston at 8:28 PM on April 12, 2010 [1 favorite]
Göogle?
posted by Rock Steady at 8:29 PM on April 12, 2010 [2 favorites]
posted by Rock Steady at 8:29 PM on April 12, 2010 [2 favorites]
Text ads float up / from the bottom of the webpage / like bubbles in fine champagne
posted by cog_nate at 8:31 PM on April 12, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by cog_nate at 8:31 PM on April 12, 2010 [1 favorite]
I'd like to see this return in some form.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 8:33 PM on April 12, 2010
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 8:33 PM on April 12, 2010
Look, GNFTI, we'd all like to see a return of famed alternative rockers Faith No More, but until Sir Jim Martin decides to fully commit to the band, we'll just have to be content with Mike Patton's myriad side projects and saying, "Roddy Bottom, Roddy Bottom" over and over again.
posted by klangklangston at 8:37 PM on April 12, 2010
posted by klangklangston at 8:37 PM on April 12, 2010
"metahitler.com" and "metahitler.net"
In my world those two sites would redirect to the History Channel webpage.
posted by turgid dahlia at 8:45 PM on April 12, 2010 [6 favorites]
In my world those two sites would redirect to the History Channel webpage.
posted by turgid dahlia at 8:45 PM on April 12, 2010 [6 favorites]
I'm kind of tired of Hitler
posted by edgeways at 8:54 PM on April 12, 2010 [2 favorites]
posted by edgeways at 8:54 PM on April 12, 2010 [2 favorites]
Yeah well I'm tired of opinions!
posted by turgid dahlia at 8:57 PM on April 12, 2010
posted by turgid dahlia at 8:57 PM on April 12, 2010
You know who else was tired of Hitler?
Goering.
posted by shakespeherian at 9:01 PM on April 12, 2010
Goering.
posted by shakespeherian at 9:01 PM on April 12, 2010
http://askhitler.com/ loads a blank page with a single cryptic html comment. Seems to be a domain squatter.
posted by drjimmy11 at 9:15 PM on April 12, 2010
posted by drjimmy11 at 9:15 PM on April 12, 2010
I'd pay $20 to run a little text ad in the sidebar, only for other logged in members to see.
It would say "You know who else needed a hug?"
posted by davejay at 10:00 PM on April 12, 2010
It would say "You know who else needed a hug?"
posted by davejay at 10:00 PM on April 12, 2010
klang: FNM is reunited and touring with the Album of the Year lineup (so no Jim Martin, but... eh).
posted by scatter gather at 10:43 PM on April 12, 2010
posted by scatter gather at 10:43 PM on April 12, 2010
I saw FNM on the Album of the Year tour; Limp Bizkit opened.
After every two poorly-received original songs, Fred Durst would yell to the crowd, "Who likes Rage? Who wants to hear Rage?" and the band would then launch into a Rage Against The Machine cover.
I'm not sure I need to do that again.
posted by klangklangston at 10:53 PM on April 12, 2010
After every two poorly-received original songs, Fred Durst would yell to the crowd, "Who likes Rage? Who wants to hear Rage?" and the band would then launch into a Rage Against The Machine cover.
I'm not sure I need to do that again.
posted by klangklangston at 10:53 PM on April 12, 2010
http://askhitler.com/ loads a blank page with a single cryptic html comment. Seems to be a domain squatter.
Jesus, this is sad. I can just picture the guy who bought this domain, you know? This bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, wet-behind-the-ears greenhorn web entrepreneur, just aching to bite himself off a piece of the big ol' search-engine-revenue pie. "Wow," he thinks, "people really seem to love this Ask Jeeves website. How about a site that does the same thing -- but instead of a butler, Hitler?"
Look, kid, I know it sounds like a stroke of genius right now. Who knows, you might be able to get some VC funding if you pull a few strings and talk to the right Todesengel investor. Listen to me, though, -- it'll never pan out. I mean, a couple years ago, back when the whole "Nazi search engine" concept was new and shiny, maaaybe. But in 2010? The field was already getting crowded, and then our friends in Mountain View released Google Hitler and killed the category. No one's gonna be making a special virtual trip to Ask Hitler when Google's targeted Hitler results are already showing up at the top of every search. No matter how cute you make your vector graphic of Hitler's face and torso area.
Oh, and that's another thing. Who uses a mascot for their site these days? People still living in the '90s, that's who uses a mascot. And why did we anthropomorphize our websites in the '90s? Because we were still afraid. We were afraid of the Internet, afraid of our cold, hard, inevitable fiber-optic square-corner future. Back then, a Hitler mascot would have been fucking essential, because it was still the '90s, and people still cared about the human touch. Well, the '90s were 20 fucking years ago. Are you wearing any flannel today? 'Cause I'm not wearing any goddamn flannel. Christ, even the Ask Jeeves people dumped their mascot, and Jeeves was like their own personal Führer.
Really, the only way you're gonna salvage this whole concept is if you modernize it. You need new ideas, just like Hitler needed new ideas to win over 90% of the German electorate. And frankly, my friend, the only good ideas I've seen from you were other people's good ideas first. Looks like you're gonna have to pick someone else's brain if you want to make this work. So -- and I say this with all sincerity, kid -- good luck with that. I've been hearing a lot about this "cuil" website lately; have you noticed that "heil.net" is still available? Just a thought.
posted by decagon at 11:32 PM on April 12, 2010 [3 favorites]
Jesus, this is sad. I can just picture the guy who bought this domain, you know? This bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, wet-behind-the-ears greenhorn web entrepreneur, just aching to bite himself off a piece of the big ol' search-engine-revenue pie. "Wow," he thinks, "people really seem to love this Ask Jeeves website. How about a site that does the same thing -- but instead of a butler, Hitler?"
Look, kid, I know it sounds like a stroke of genius right now. Who knows, you might be able to get some VC funding if you pull a few strings and talk to the right Todesengel investor. Listen to me, though, -- it'll never pan out. I mean, a couple years ago, back when the whole "Nazi search engine" concept was new and shiny, maaaybe. But in 2010? The field was already getting crowded, and then our friends in Mountain View released Google Hitler and killed the category. No one's gonna be making a special virtual trip to Ask Hitler when Google's targeted Hitler results are already showing up at the top of every search. No matter how cute you make your vector graphic of Hitler's face and torso area.
Oh, and that's another thing. Who uses a mascot for their site these days? People still living in the '90s, that's who uses a mascot. And why did we anthropomorphize our websites in the '90s? Because we were still afraid. We were afraid of the Internet, afraid of our cold, hard, inevitable fiber-optic square-corner future. Back then, a Hitler mascot would have been fucking essential, because it was still the '90s, and people still cared about the human touch. Well, the '90s were 20 fucking years ago. Are you wearing any flannel today? 'Cause I'm not wearing any goddamn flannel. Christ, even the Ask Jeeves people dumped their mascot, and Jeeves was like their own personal Führer.
Really, the only way you're gonna salvage this whole concept is if you modernize it. You need new ideas, just like Hitler needed new ideas to win over 90% of the German electorate. And frankly, my friend, the only good ideas I've seen from you were other people's good ideas first. Looks like you're gonna have to pick someone else's brain if you want to make this work. So -- and I say this with all sincerity, kid -- good luck with that. I've been hearing a lot about this "cuil" website lately; have you noticed that "heil.net" is still available? Just a thought.
posted by decagon at 11:32 PM on April 12, 2010 [3 favorites]
Kuro5shin. I completely forgot about that site. Huh. And there's a new post on Plastic.com as well.
Anyway, you can use managed placements on Google Ads to sorta do this, including for Metafilter.
posted by Hartster at 3:13 AM on April 13, 2010
Anyway, you can use managed placements on Google Ads to sorta do this, including for Metafilter.
posted by Hartster at 3:13 AM on April 13, 2010
I know sites that have Project Wonderful ads that get into silly things with them from time to time. It's a site where the ad space is auctioned off.
posted by The Devil Tesla at 4:03 AM on April 13, 2010
posted by The Devil Tesla at 4:03 AM on April 13, 2010
It's not an astral fuckup so Meatbomb is powerless to fix it.
posted by Babblesort at 6:26 AM on April 13, 2010
posted by Babblesort at 6:26 AM on April 13, 2010
Hartster: “Kuro5shin. I completely forgot about that site. Huh. ”
K5 has become the crazy-attic-grandmother that everyone wrote off long ago and speaks about wistfully and in the past tense, but is actually still alive, just in a form that nobody wants to talk about.
posted by Kadin2048 at 7:15 AM on April 13, 2010 [5 favorites]
K5 has become the crazy-attic-grandmother that everyone wrote off long ago and speaks about wistfully and in the past tense, but is actually still alive, just in a form that nobody wants to talk about.
posted by Kadin2048 at 7:15 AM on April 13, 2010 [5 favorites]
When it comes to hollering 'Who likes Rage?,' you'd think Fred Durst would've learned his lesson after Woodstock.
posted by box at 10:48 AM on April 13, 2010
posted by box at 10:48 AM on April 13, 2010
Kadin2048 wrote: "K5 has become the crazy-attic-grandmother that everyone wrote off long ago and speaks about wistfully and in the past tense, but is actually still alive, just in a form that nobody wants to talk about."
I agree with this post, but do not like using favorites for that purpose, so here I post. I guess things went downhill when rusty started doing other things. :(
posted by wierdo at 11:14 PM on April 13, 2010
I agree with this post, but do not like using favorites for that purpose, so here I post. I guess things went downhill when rusty started doing other things. :(
posted by wierdo at 11:14 PM on April 13, 2010
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