“Microsoft on Monday began displaying mobile advertising to MSN Mobile customers for the first time, in hopes of generating additional revenue,” Elena Malykhina reports for InformationWeek.
“Now when mobile users in the United States visit Microsoft’s MSN Mobile Web page on their cell phone and smartphone browsers, they’ll see banner and text ad placements,” Malykhina reports.
“The software giant claims that the introduction of mobile ads will enhance the experience for customers,” Malykhina reports.
Full article here.
Enhancement? Uh, riiight. The good news for MSN Mobile suckers is that the experience was already impossible to diminish.
MacDailyNews Note: If we could operate with fewer or no ads, we would; but we can’t, so we don’t. As always: iPhone users, while on EDGE, please use our RSS feed instead of our home page while we debate whether we should be redesigning our Web pages for a device that offers a full Web browser and purports to surf the real Web or until Apple releases a 3G iPhone, whichever comes first.
There are ads on MDN? Who knew?
I always find it funny when an ad farm posts negative comments about ads. Priceless stuff.
This space for rent>>>>>>>
I think MDN has a hell of lot more justification to have ads to cover their expenses than MafiaSoft ever will. MDN hasn’t been extorting the world out of billions for decades like Bill and Company have. If the ads bother your tiny little minds so much then go elsewhere. I don’t think anyone here will miss your sorry asses.
MDN doesn’t merely post too many ads. They routinely remove comments from this forum that point out this fact. Their smugness on this particular story is too much to take….
Boycott MDN!
And after you crack the secret code with your decoder ring your mouth will drop as you read “Be sure to ask for genuine Vista.” In the immortal words of Ralphie Parker: “A crummy commercial? Son of a bitch!”
DG
Fuc* no more viag*a advertisement!
Windows mobile up their … enhance your ti*ts!
…as long as you thus admit that the Department of Education does everything but.
yeah MDN on iPhone is painful…sorry
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@ tclash:
You’re in luck! Microsoft is already preparing the product to have ads projected inside your eyelids. It’s called the Big Ass Table (known inside Redmond as the Surface). All you have to do is lie your eyes down on the table for 3 hours and let the ads burn into your retinas, and bingo! – Instant eyelid ads.
Who says Microsoft can’t innovate? Oops, my bad. I think they got the idea from a Fischer Price Viewfinder pointed at the sun.
Re MDN;
Yes, the ads are annoying.
Yes, we like the site.
Yes, the site would disappear without the ads.
Perhaps The Belinda and Bill Gates Foundation would be interested in funding the site for the betterment of mankind.
Couldn’t hurt to ask.
I can’t wait until Microsoft opens it’s line of cinemas.
There will be ads shown every few minutes throughout all the movies, because ads will enhance customers’ viewing experience!
the problem with MDN’s ads isn’t the quantity but the fact that they are intrusive and they also must load before the content does…why can’t the content load first?
I’m not one to privy someone from making a good buck and I do keep coming back to the site again and again but only until someone beats them at their own game…macobserver where art thou?
Obviously, Microsoft embraces this pathetic vision that the intelligence could be measurable with the money one can make…… Although this sort of “philosophy” is very widespread, the arguments of Microsoft are not less doubtful…
@ eaDGbe
That would be: Sofa Bitch right?
Bend over. Here comes your enhanced experience.
This can only boost the iPhone and AAPL.
Where else was M$$$$ GOING TO FIND MONEY…
No one in there right ming was going to buy it…
Bottom Line MSSSS is all about money and isn’t going to offer anything that might make life for the user better!
Buy a Mac and to hell with MSSSS!
We’re not complaining that you have ads. All news sites have ads. It’s that MDN ads load excruciatingly slowly and ALWAYS before the content. Other sites with just as many ads don’t make you wait to read the news.
Why can’t you fix this?
Looks like you opened a can of worms, MDN! But there is a huge difference between Microsoft and a useful service like yours. I understand that you need ad revenue but do you really need to use popups? They clearly anger so many of your readers. I don’t even want to guess how many unpaid hours you put into this endeavor but is it worth to alienate most of your readership?
Can’t you come up with something else that can generate revenue? How about more editorial pleas for donations, a pledge drive, a yearly holiday buying guide, etc? Ask your loyal readers! They will help with ideas.
I read your great content often, but it is a resentful experience every time.
@Franz,
With all the Microsoft bashing that goes on around here, it’s so ironic the MDN’s service is also something that users put up with despite it being a resentful experience.