The team at Microsoft have been busy working on updating their Desktop application for the MS AdCenter advertising platform in the recent months. If anyone read one of my earlier posts 10 Ways to Make AdCenter Desktop Crash they may have noticed that a few members of the Desktop team commented on it asking me to contact them to follow up on the issues I was having.
~StephanieA month or so ago Steve Jobs from Apple posted an open letter to explain why the iPod and the iPad do not and will not support Flash. To paraphrase, it is because it is a proprietary 3rd party closed source development tool. Adobe can update Flash at any time and if your hardware or applications can’t support the update it can become redundant. There are also serious concerns over the security of Flash.
~StephanieEveryone has seen those books “for dummies” – Windows for Dummies, Excel for Dummies, Programming for Dummies, Washing Underwear for Highschool Dummies. Well I have to agree with the concept that most things in life need to be documented as if the person reading it has had no experience or is a complete idiot (usually it’s just the former).
~StephanieI severely dislike using MS adCenter Desktop. Actually I’ll just say it. I hate it.
Recently, after importing a campaign from Google, I tried to delete keyword URLs en mass by clicking on the Keywords tab at the account level, changing my column view to show the Destination URL and then sorting that column. Every which way I tried to sort, adCenter crashed. Then as I gave up on sorting the column (I even exported to Excel and then tried to re-import – and it crashed) I decided to scroll through my 65K + keyword list to just delete the keyword URLs as I came across them.
~StephanieOn a call with our Yahoo reps last week they provided an overview of updates to the “new” Yahoo Search Marketing Desktop which included:
~Stephanie