I've noticed quite a few sites with a flash page curl effect in the top right of their page.

Does anyone know what this is? Is there any standard resource where I can get it or any code tutorials?

it's peel away ads
http://www.peelawayads.com/
I don't care for them
I had a free copy when they first came out, but never went live with them.. just tested

Jesus, are you serious? That's one of those amatuerish sellsellsell pages.. and I don't understand why you must pay to display ads? Shouldn't it be the other way round?

These adds were a novel idea when i first started seeing them, but are a little less attention grabbing now. Still, they're not too intrusive or annoying, so could be worth a try.

I've seen one nasty side effect of those peel away ads appear with IE - massive resource hogging. My boss was having problems with her machine - or so she thought - it was very slow and unresponsive. One look at Task Manager showed that IE was using 99% of her system resources - and it was because she had one of those pages with the peel away ads up in her browser. As soon as she killed the page - she got her resources back.

For bandwidth issues, I would be weary of them, but with broadband getting stronger & flash getting better...I'd go for it,

I think they look good

Have to agree with LadynRed re resource hogging in IE. Just went to the site mentioned by Brandon above and found my CPU usage was up to 100%. After closing the tab down to 2%.

Just a side note in my opinion, I think these are risky. You are overlaying a flash program over a good portion of your page so what if there is an error with that flash? Also, keep in mind the amount of resources. Nothing annoys me more (especially when using my older laptop) than pages that unnecessarily make my CPU work hard and slow everything down.

If I'm not mistaken, about 4 months ago, this site that we are "forum-ing" on had one of these GUI ads in the upper right corner, did they not?

Sounds like a test of the way back machine is in need.