Damon Armstrong

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Vengence via Google Ads

Published Thursday, January 25, 2007 11:03 PM

I was reading an article today about how GoDaddy removed a customer's domain name from their registry at the request of MySpace.com.  You can view it here:

GoDaddy Pulls Security Site After MySpace Complaints

Apparently someone had posted usernames and passwords of MySpace users to SecLists.org, and MySpace wanted the offending material to be removed immediately.  Instead of contacting the website owner, MySpace contact GoDaddy and requested the domain deletion.  This effectively took the entire site offline, not just the offending material.   I think there are going to be more than a few people who are a bit miffed at GoDaddy for going along with the request, but what can you do?

And that's when I saw something interesting.  Immediately following the article was a "Sponsored Links" section containing Google ads.  And guess who was right at the top of the list?  GoDaddy.  Check out the article and scroll to the bottom, it will probably be there for you as well.

This got me thinking.  Google Ads, from what I understand, work on a per-click basis.  You click on an ad, and Google charges the company for that click.  So you can exact some menial form of personal vengeance on companies that you feel deserve your wraith by clicking on their Google Ads with no intention of buying anything.

Or you employ your friends, family, coworkers, and people on the web to wage an all out vengeance ad click war to broadside the advertising efforts of a company.

I'm sure the day is comming.

by Damon
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ddicecca said:

Damon,

I absolutely love the article on Web Parts: http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/asp.net/web-parts-in-asp.net-2.0/.  Thank you.

I hate to ask this question like this, but. . . How can I get that to work with Active Directory?  I would like users to log-in using their AD account.  Also, how could I allow them to add or remove pages as well?

I'm really looking to do more of a My Yahoo! type of thing, or even a PageFlakes sort of thing.  I love PageFlakes and the look of it.  NetVibes is good too.

I am fairly new to this, but thanks to you, this is all starting to make a little more sense.

Thanks so MUCH!

D
February 23, 2007 2:08 PM
 

Damon said:

If you want to use Active Directory for users to login, then you will want to check out the ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider.  You can find the MSDN documentation at:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.security.activedirectorymembershipprovider.aspx

As for adding or removing pages, you will have to come up with a mechanism to handle that outside of WebParts.  WebParts allows you to edit a page, but not to add additional pages to a site.  

As a shameless plug, however, I will say that in my book I do cover how to build a very simple content management system in Chapter 13 - HTTP Handlers.  

http://www.amazon.com/Pro-ASP-NET-2-0-Website-Programming/dp/1590595467/sr=8-1/qid=1172597016/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-8115582-9662230?ie=UTF8&s=books

You could combine that content management approach with web parts on a master page to allow users to create their own content pages.  Or you could find a third-party content management solution that may help too.
February 27, 2007 11:28 AM
 

ddicecca said:

Damon,

Thank you so much for taking the time and responding.  I greatly appreciate that, and now I'm heading out to get your book.

Thanks again!

DD
February 27, 2007 12:05 PM
 

ddicecca said:

Damon,

Thanks again for taking the time.  Since I last posted, I have come quite a long way with your example, it it has literally been a life saver.  

I do have a question though, (more like a two part question) and I know you are trying to lead me in the right direction with the link you provided, but I was wondering...

I would like to use SQL Server for the database instead of the SQLEXPRESS database, but I am not sure at ALL on how to go about doing this.  

On top of that, I would like to use AD for the students to log-in, and have that some how populate SQL with their username and password at the same time.  Is that the way I should do it?  I am lost as far as this is concerned.

Or should I do a "synch" of some sort, with AD and the username and password fields in SQL?  I am just not sure on how to go about doing this.

Thanks again, and your help is appreciated more than you know!!!

Dan
March 21, 2007 2:58 PM
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