Elliott C. Back: Internet & Technology

There’s a new monetization service from AdBrite which is quite promising. It’s called BritePic and offers to overlay assorted controls on top of your images, as well as unobtrusive advertisements. Their list of features is long, but rather unimpressive:

# Email this image
# Link to this image
# Embed this image (you still get the ad revenue, even if your pic is embedded elsewhere)
# Zoom in and out (see demo)
# Captions that slide out when you hover over the pic
# Ads from AdBrite
# Link the image to another URL
# Subscribe to RSS

What really shines is the user interface for their BritePic enhancements. It’s a sheer, transparent overlay that reacts to mouse events and hides when not active. For example, it adds a header which you can mouseover to show the advertisement:

There’s also a menu added to the bottom to produce a list of features:

I’m definitely going to start running the ads on this blog, just because I like how easy they are to use, and how little they get in the way of the user experience. I coded up a quick Wordpress plugin to replace all image tags with appropriate adbrite tags, and it works fine for me so far: adbrite-images.rar. You need to replace the Adbrite ID with your own, and then activate and you’re good to go.

I feel like it might be a good idea to inform Wendy of the results of this rather silly quiz:

You Are 64% Evil

You are very evil. And you’re too evil to care. Those who love you probably also fear you. A lot.

Nooo, it’s not true!! Muahahahaha…

The once exclusive Pink ZUNE has come, and they are legion! 100,000 units of the elusive pink zune will be product, according to Engadget. It’s not quite the same as the magenta zune, though, whose quantities limited less than a 1000:

Now the Zune comes in colors of white, black, brown, and pink. I’d personally hope for a metallic purple, silver, green, and blue set as well, but it seems that Apple has a monopoly on pretty mp3 playing devices. Phooey.