> > My question is, you can have a page like Amazon.com. When I go to > their homepage without logging in, they just push items to users. The > chance of this item being related to what the user wants is pretty > slim...but for some reason, users put up with it. When I open up an > application like Quicktime, I am just spammed with content that I > could care less about. I know they are trying to this to drive revenue > to their iTunes store, but for some reason in a desktop application, > it feels more like spam than it does on the homepage of a website. > > Has anyone had experience with integrating advertising in desktop > software, or know of any research of user attitudes towards ads in > desktop software vs web sites?
QuickTime is annoying, but iTurns is welcomed by many, and it's a desktop with it's advertising ( if we take the recommend content as the ad). Cheers, -- Jarod -- http://designforuse.blogspot.com/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
