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Stowe Boyd is a well-known media subversive, and an internationally recognized authority on real-time, collaborative and social technologies. His new blog is Message.

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October 12, 2005

Qumana 2.0 Released, Includes Adgenta Ad Network

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Posted by Stowe Boyd

So I am experimenting with the new Qumana blog editor release, and it seems workable, although they join the hall+of+shame by making me use Windows. I am mostly fiddling with it for the integrated post-centric ad solution from Adgenta. See the embedded ad, below. The idea of post-centric ads has real appeal for those bloggers who don't have access to their underlying blog templates or who don't want to mess with them even if they do. It remains to be seen whether Adgenta has a large enough selection of ads to compete, or if the keyword based matching works. I will try some tags before embedding the ad to try to help out.
Even with the tags and the many keywords sprinkled around (blog, Windows, ad network) I still wind up with a mortgage ad. Doesn't look too promising on that score. Oh, and when I tried to bring up the blog editor help file, the link was broken, so I couldn't confirm how to separate Technorati tags, and, of course, my guess was wrong, which meant I had to edit them here, in this post. But the editor seems to work well, although I have migrated away from blog editors: too much unnecessary html generated in general.

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1. Arieanna on October 12, 2005 02:04 PM writes...

Thanks for the trial Stowe - I'm with you there on the Mac front! Soon is all I can say :)

Re: the ad relevancy - you can only enter one keyword or a single keyphrase right now - no combo stuff. This confuses the system. We have future plans on handling these, and also adding to them, but perhaps we need to put an internal sort in place for now.

Re: link. Fixing. Sorry. Probably since we uploaded a brand new website last night!

Thanks! I cannot say I've slept much in the last month, but it's great to have it out there for review!

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2. Satish Talim on October 12, 2005 11:47 PM writes...

Let me know if you find ways to put AdGenta ads in a blog post, manually ie without Qumana.

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3. fairx on January 18, 2006 09:25 PM writes...

I had a problem launching the custom banner designer using Qumana on my win2k machine.

However, I found it works on my other WinXP machine. I found this links somewhat interesting, to put adgenta ads manually.. though I never tested it outside my PC.

http://ads.adgenta.com/ads/ads.dll/BannerDesigner?

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