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Google and the blocking of adverts in Chrome

13.01.2010 By: ronansprake Under: Technical Comments: 1

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When the Chrome extensions gallery opened in December last year, I had wondered if ad-blocking extensions would surface. Given that Google currently derives nearly all its revenue from adverts, it would appear to make no sense for them to allow their own adverts to be blocked by Chrome.

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Social media and social responsibility in digital marketing

11.01.2010 By: alanofford Under: General Comments: none

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Social responsibility and marketing aren’t phrases that sit together very comfortably, but in this age of openness and accountability, they’re increasingly being used in the same breath. At a glance you’d think that communication solutions produced digitally would be more environmentally sound than traditional printed methods, an email, for example, doesn’t use up any trees, or expend any petrol to get to its destination. However, recent research has found that reading the news online for 30 minutes actually produces more CO2 per year/per reader, than reading a printed newspaper.

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