Well it had to happen sooner or later, as there was pressure on Robert Scoble to redesign his web site from the pristine almost dull site he had before, to the spanky web 2.0 ish high color web site. Someone in marketing had a good time, and well, there are ads too.
The new mast head is ok, but they had to use the happy pointy finger picture that seems to show up on all of roberts profiles somewhere.
This seems to be the quintessential picture and portrayal of the man, a guy pointing a finger, and it is funny. Don’t get me wrong here, we like Robert a lot, we have met him many years ago (at Microsoft), and maybe he will be at gnomedex so I can say hi (I want a picture of you, me and the pointy finger ok?)
The bad part, ads, not too bad, nothing that is grossly overdone, which is nice (thanks nice marketing and web design team).
In the longer run, he has joined the rat race, the real question is what percentage of what percentage of click throughs does he get? Does he get all the advertising revenue, or just some small select amount of revenue off the ads? Annoying people want to know, what is your take?
The new design looks good, and at least the marketing and web design team didn’t go over board on this one.
Tags: robert scoble, website, redesign, pointy finger, gnomedex, humor
I don’t do clickthrough or CPA or CPM ads. They buy a sponsorship and I get a percentage off that. I get paid the same whether 1 person shows up or 1,000,000. I’ve watched what happens when there’s pressure to get traffic. It’s called Valleywag.