ICANN decides to shut down RegisterFly

On Friday ICANN issued a formal notice — effective March 31, 2007 — terminating Registerfly’s status as an ICANN accredited registrar. This means, assuming Registerfly does not successfully challenge the decreditation in court, it will no longer be allowed to register domain names or to display the ICANN logo after March 31. To see the statement issued by ICANN relating to this action please click here.

Google brings AdSense to casual games

Google Inc. said on Wednesday that it is bringing its popular AdSense Web advertising platform to the small but hot casual game space, while promising to stay out of building or publishing games itself.

But questions remained about whether and how AdSense would be able to provide the same level of consumer targeting that advertisers prize -- and are willing to pay for -- with current deployments of the technology.

In a packed session at Casual Connect Seattle, the industry's leading North American conference, Google executives said its entry into the market will offer another way for game publishers -- especially the small ones that now dominate the casual game industry -- to make money from their creations.

The Casual Games Association claims 200 million people worldwide play casual games, defined as defined as quick-to-develop, easy-to-learn-and-play games that are played via or downloaded from the Internet.

Google kills click tracking scripts

Recently google made some changes to their code due to which many click trackers like adlogger, are not working properly.

Something what many webmaster's have noticed,
The status bar no longer displays 'go to website.com' when hovering over the ads.

It is suspected that this might have been a deliberate change on behalf of Google to kill click-tracking scripts.

Round corner layout for Adsense

AdSense now let’s their publisher easily change the corners of the banner ads from straight to rounder corners. It looks pretty nice and now you don’t need to create those rounded corners yourself.

Look at the image how the new round corner ads look.