摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method, system and apparatus, including a computer program encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, for providing a method.SOLUTION: The method includes: a step of receiving an instruction from a user to promote an item that is included in an activity stream associated with the user; a step of presenting an activity stream in a social context by a social application; a step of receiving a request for an advertisement; a step of determining that the item is responsive to the request; a step of determining one or more advertisements responsive to the request; a step of ranking the item and the one or more advertisements; and a step of providing the item, in response to the request rather than the one or more advertisements and on the basis at least partly of the ranking.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 8 |