[JDEV] Advertising Namespace

[Duncan, Paul]

Good point, but the display of the banner-ad would be left to the client
developer to ignore or not, thereby leaving it in the hands of the developer
to justify to a company its validity.

The benefits of a product registration from a shareware client would be the
blocking of the ads.

Todd suggested something about another RSS channel.  I'm not sure what this
is so I can't speak to it.  Perhaps more clarification?

- Thanks -
Duncan

-----Original Message-----
From: jdev-admin at jabber.org [mailto:jdev-admin at jabber.org]On Behalf Of
Thomas Muldowney
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 4:15 PM
To: jdev at jabber.org
Subject: Re: [JDEV] Advertising Namespace


I think the ramifications of being able to ignore the namesapce would make
it
very hard for a company to want to join an ad campaign like this.  If I
don't
have guaranteed audience or guaranteed views what's the point?  Food for
thought.

--temas

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 03:29:39PM -0500, Duncan, Paul wrote:
>     Ok.  First of all let me start off by saying I find banner ads on my
IM
> clients annoying and invasive.
>  
>     I know this.
>  
>     However,  for some shareware/freeware developers, the only way they
can
> see any cost justification is by the selling of
>     ad space on thier web sites and through some of their client software.
> One of the coolest news readers I've ever seen has
>     a banner ad at the bottom.  I respect the developer for going this
route
> and not charging me for using his tool, as I now have 
>     this fantastic reader for free.
>  
>     Other developers may want this ability.  Others will not.  By
providing
> a namespace for this, clients can exclude this, regardless if its sent or
> not, or
>     if they wish, utilize the namespace to help offset the development
> costs.
>  
>     I'd guess it would be something like:        
>         
>         jabber:x:advertisement
>  
>     <x xmlns="jabber:x:advertisement">
>         <url>http://www.mysoftware.com/bannerads/buy.jpg</url>
>         <tracking_no>AE9323DEFGH123</tracking_no>
>     </x>
>  
>     This is not an email to instigate a full-fledge flame war against me
or
> my value system.
>  
>     Thoughts?
>  
>     - Duncan