Abstract: An application for a computer system for providing content and advertising to users includes a server computer, a user computer, one or more sources of content and one or more sources of advertisements. Software running on the server computer retrieves content based upon requests from the user computer from the one or more sources of content, selects a target advertisement from the one or more sources of advertisements and sends the content and the target advertisement to the user computer for display. Remote software running on the user computer measures the length of time that the target advertisement is in view on the user computer and sends the length of time that the target advertisement is in view to the software running on the server computer. The software running on the server computer receives the length of time that the target advertisement is in view and writes at least an identification of the advertisement and the length of time to a billing record.

Abstract: An application for a computer system for providing favorites to users based upon time, date and/or location includes a server computer and a user computer. The server computer knows at least one of a location of the user computer, a time at the location of the user computer and a date at the location of the user computer. A plurality of favorites is stored at the server computer; each favorite is classified by at least one of location, time and date. Software running on the server computer displays one or more of the favorites selected from the plurality of favorites based upon at least one of the location of the user computer, the time at the location of the user computer and the date at the location of the user computer.

Abstract: An application for a computer system that provides content and advertising to users includes a server computer, a user computer, one or more sources of content and one or more sources of advertisements. Software running on the server computer accesses content from the one or more sources of content based upon requests from the user computer. The software also selects an advertisement from the one or more sources of advertisements based upon one or both of a location of the user computer and a time at the user computer. The software then sends the content and the selected advertisement to the user computer for display.

Abstract: An application for a method of providing content and advertising to users includes accepting a request for desired content from a user and retrieving the desired content from a source of content at the server computer system. An advertisement is selected at the server computer system and the desired content and the advertisement is sent from the server computer system to the user computer system for display. A length of time of display of the advertisement and a level of user activity are recorded in a billing record at the server computer system for later billing.