ShoZu has announced BlackBerry support for their self-titled app that allows you to upload pictures and video from your BlackBerry to sites like Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, and more. Source: Blackberry Cool
Russell over at Mowser writes:
Google sent me a notice last week that said they’ve stopped serving ads to Mowser because of a violation of the ToS. It seems they don’t like the interstitial ad pages. Fine - we don’t like them either, so we got rid of them. Additionally, we were only serving a few thousand Google ads a day anyways, as it was just backfill to the more profitable AdMob ads.
I’m not going to bother to respond again. Google actually has competition in the mobile ad space so I really don’t give a fuck about not serving Google’s ads (their loss), but this does affect one of Mowser’s core differentiator which is ad swapping for external sites. I’m sure there’s a technical solution of some sort, as only the “site” has been “blocked”, though I’m not sure what that means since the server is doing the request for ads and displaying them rather than using JavaScript, though from now on it’s going to be sort of a pain.
It’s a shame the Google Adsense team couldn’t look beyond their standand one strike policy and see the value of the service Mowser is providing both publishers and browsers.
Hopefully we’ll see a plethora of competitors to Adsense in the mobile ad space such as admob so that alternatives are readily available should this happen to anyone else.
