Hi all, I hope you will forgive me a slightly off-topic post, but I thought fellow WAMUG list readers might find this use of internet advertising interesting, I certainly did.
Ripple <http://ripple.org> came up with the idea of using internet advertising as a means of easily raising money for charity. They say that ALL the money they generate goes to the charities concerned - they do not (at present) deduct any overheads or charges. They explain just how it works here <http://ripple.org/how-it-works.html> Personally, I don't really use a home page but I do use Google quite a lot so I've just used the Ripple searchbar feature <http://ripple.org/searchbar.html> To add ripple to Firefox as my default search engine (it is just added as an additional search engine to the others I have installed) and now everytime I do a google search (as a ripple search) a small advertiser payment goes to charity. Anyway, I thought it was a great idea and some worthwhile causes - so I hope you will not consider this post spam as I genuinely felt that many of you would find it interesting (and computer related). Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
