We just received confirmation from Google that they have re-enabled serving ads to our site. It may take 24-48 hrs for it to take effect.
Users who also signed up for Personal Ads should see Google AdSense being rotated alongside their personal ads.
Let us know if you have any questions or concerns…
Monthly Archives: January 2007
Google AdSense is back
29-Jan-07More Control over your Personal Ads
29-Jan-07We have over a 100 ads already in the personal ads section and we hope that you are able to use this feature to your advantage. We have now added another option that will help you to focus your ads to a specific set of users.
Currently, you can choose whether you wish to display these […]
More Ad Options
27-Jan-07The ad space under your stories is totally your space and till today we have been using Google AdSense to fill that up. Now, we have now added a new option on your profile page called ‘Ads‘ that gives you total control over what appears along with your stories.
Some of the feature include […]
Google AdSense Issues!
26-Jan-07We were informed by the Google AdSense team yesterday that they will not be serving any more ads to our site due to copyright content being posted here and invalid clicks. We are currently in the process of working with them and will keep everybody informed on how things progress.
In any case, we would suggest […]
Negative Comments will be Collapsed
23-Jan-07We have noticed some comment spam problems on the site and are instituting some new measures to tackle this.
Henceforth, all coments with less than ‘-2′ in total votes will be collapsed. The comments are still there and users can click to view them at any time.
Check this story and the image below for an example…
Cleaning the MP3 section on IndianPad
19-Jan-07The mp3 section on IndianPad has grown over the last 4 months to become a large repository of old and new music.
However, a lot of links in the mp3 section are becoming invalid. Most of the invalid links are usually due to the removal or blocking of media on the source site.
One of our users, […]
Users have recently complained that there seems to be excessive anonymous voting on some stories and the posters may be trying to push their stories to the front page.
We ran statistics on all stories on the site and found that some stories are getting a lot of votes from the voting widgets on the blogs. […]
Move Stories to the Adult Category
09-Jan-07We always get great suggestions from our users but sometimes they are soo good that we drop everything to work on it.
GaramVideos came up with one such suggestion here. First, we kicked ourselves for not including it earlier and then we added it as soon as we could.
You should see a new option in your […]
Gravatar Support Dropped!
04-Jan-07Gravatar was a great concept as it allowed users to carry their profile avatars to multiple sites all over the net. We supported gravatars since we started but the site has been buggy and non-functional over the last 6 months.
We have now moved on and created our own system of hosting avatars. Please visit your […]