When an adCenter order expires, the status that is reported to the adCenter API is deleted. The adCenter Web site uses the term expired for the same status. Advertisers sometimes set orders to expire prematurely when using the Web site. If they attempt to correct the status via the Web site, then it may not be reflected via the API if your system has already deleted the order. This difference can cause issues if youve coded tools to delete orders with the deleted status.

The adCenter API Sandbox environment is made available for API developers to test their code in an environment to assure they can access the API. Developers want to see if the API is available, for example, to manage campaigns, manage customers, and get reporting. We make those APIs available via the Sandbox environment, but we also have the Web UI available for the sandbox. None of our competitors provide a Web UI for the sandbox environments when testing their APIs.

If you have a history of high monthly expenditures on adCenter, you can get tokens to access accounts programmatically via the adCenter API. If you want to have access to the adCenter API, then contact your adCenter account representative to discuss the nomination process. In addition to a user name and password, API users need a developer token or code to access their data. adCenter provides 3 kinds of API access to suit the needs of different customers.

Facebook will soon be changing the "Become a Fan" button that you see on Fan Pages to the more universal "Like" button. According to the site Clickz , Facebook has started sending confidential email to ad agencies informing them that the "Become a Fan" button which functions as a subscription/membership button  to fan pages will be changed to "Like" button within the next few weeks. And what could be the reason for the upcoming change?  Unfortunately,

Betsynote: I first ran into Professor Michael Eisenberg last fall when he was introduced to me by multiple folks the MacArthur Foundation, local Seattle educators, and the NCCE conference organizers. When I chatted with him in his office (yes, I got lost, even though it was Mary Gates Hall as a landmark) I realized he had a long history of working with Internet literacy and critical thinking, and his pro-library/reference stance provided another insight into the discussion.

by Mike Krumboltz The remains of actor and war photographer Sean Flynn may have been found in Cambodia. The identification of the remains may put to rest a long held mystery over Flynn's fate. He had been missing since 1970. Flynn, who was son to dashing Hollywood legend Errol Flynn , was an actor in his younger days. He then switched careers to photojournalism. During the Vietnam war, he worked closely with US Special Forces to chronicle their missions via film.

Sending someone a picture or document while chatting online can seem like the most natural thing in the world; it's common enough for topics like children or school papers to be discussed. So Google's upgraded one of its offerings by making it easier for people to trade files. A post on the Google Talkabout Blog announced this afternoon, "Starting today, you can share photos, documents, and other files while chatting in iGoogle and orkut. To give it a try,

A Philadelphia man has been arrested and charged for threatening to kill Republican Party Whip Eric Cantor in a video on YouTube, according to the FBI. Norman Leboon, 33, threatened to kill congressman Cantor and his family in a YouTube video uploaded sometime in late March. In the video Leboon allegedly said: "Remember, Ericour judgment time, the final Yom Kippur has been given." The video then refers to Cantor as "Lucifer, you're a pig you're an abomination.

Getting press coverage can mean a great deal for gaining traffic and overall exposure for your business. That said, there are also ways to take some initiative yourself in getting some exposure from news search. News Search Optimization As Lisa Buyer of the Buyer Group talked about with WebProNews at SES last week, news search optimization is getting more powerful with social media and real-time search. Add these to older tactics like blogs and press releases,

Google's mobile applications in mainland China have been at least partially blocked according to the search engine's special Web page for service availability. Google launched the site one week ago today after it shuttered its Google.cn search portal and shuttled users to Google.hk instead, an effort to get around censorship in that country. At the time, Google's YouTube, Google Sites and Blogger were already completely blocked in China. But the mobile service snafu,