To give you a good example of the flip flopping that you'd be exposing yourself to:
Inline gadget were strongly supported in the beginning and for a long while. Then deprecated and turned off. Then brought back. Then they stopped accepting new ones but allowed the grand-fathered inline gadget to live indefinitely. Then they announced the grand-fathered gadgets were being deprecated. Then the deprecation was delayed, twice. Then the date passed and were still enabled. Then they were just turned off but left in the directory, which confused the hell out of people. Then they finally removed them after many months. Sigh. You think we're done, we're not. Over the last year there were blips where the inline gadgets were turned on for a day or an hour or so. Then it turned off again. Then as of a few weeks ago the inline gadgets were turned back on and left on! But they aren't in the directory nor is it any kind of official policy. Apparently, these gadgets are the cached versions as well because I don't have the ability to edit these gadgets without pinging them to update these files. Brad PS. Rob, I can't fault you for the lack of consistency. On Oct 2, 2:11 pm, John <[email protected]> wrote: > i want a clear answer . > > is it > > Yes , they allow including advertising in iGoogle Themes > > or is it > > No , they do not allow including advertising in iGoogle Themes > > On Oct 1, 2:11 pm, Rob Russell <[email protected]> wrote:> Hi John, > > Our current policies are > > athttp://code.google.com/apis/themes/programpolicy.html. > > > Here's the part that seems most relevant > > "To ensure that all users enjoy our product, we’ve developed a set of > > program policies for themes. Under the policies, a theme may not display > > (via text or images) or link to: > > ... > > Adwords or other advertisements (apart from your logo in the attributions > > area)." > > > The program policy is short and in general I encourage theme developers to > > read it before submitting to the directory (this is general advice, not > > specific to your question). > > > hth, > > Rob Russell > > Google Developer Relations > > > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 9:37 AM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi:- > > > > Will Google allow developers to include advertising in their iGoogle > > > Themes? > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<Google-Gadgets-API%2Bunsubs > > > [email protected]> > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en.
