googles change in the TOC sends showckwaves through the publisher community!
The image is an example of images used in violation of googles new rules. Among publishers the use of images next to google adsense ads is a well known method to increase CTR. The recent change was on every relevant forum within an hour.
How is this going to effect you and your earnings? For me it will certainly decrease the CTR on some of my sites. Will this mean a max exodus to the Yahoo! Publisher Network among US publishers? This is a distinct possibility.
That’s right, iPod and Google seem to be getting a bit friendly these days. I think Google knows how to pick a winner and this is proof of that.
According to Google’s VP of European Operations, Nikesh Arora, iPods increasing storage size will give the little device no limits when it comes to ramping up space capacity.
From the original source: “Arora said, by 2012, iPods could launch at similar prices to those on
sale now and yet be capable of holding a whole year’s worth of video
releases. Around 10 years down the line that could be expanded,
creating iPods that can hold all the music ever sold commercially.”
This week has been a little odd for me with my web finds. I just can’t seem to shake these weird finds that keep coming up. First, there was the Girl Poop Pants story, and now bananas have their own suit cases.
I think a picture could probably sum up the new and improved Banana Guard.
My question is… does anyone else think this whole banana case thing looks a little…ummm…kinky?
Microsoft seems to have simply gotten in too much of a hurry to jump on the media player bandwagon with its new “iPod Killer”, the Zune. It’s almost as if they needed to release a Beta version to a few of us junkies so we could have at least tried to help them through this painful episode with a little less tears. That obviously didn’t happen.
Here we are a day or two after Zune went on the shelves and the AppleInsider is confirming that Zune isn’t even compatible with Windows Vista. That’s right, the big bad Zune won’t even work with Microsoft’s new OS that should start hitting machines shortly.
Talk about rushing out the door with shirt on backwards! I almost feel kind of sorry for the Zune folks. I mean… who would have thought it would be THIS bad? iPod, it’s your turn. Let’s see what you got!
That’s what you’ll be hearing from any store owner or bank manager in Japan should you decide to grab something that isn’t yours and make a run for it.
Recently we’ve watched a plethora of revenue sharing sites sprout throughout the great big www, but this is the first Digg like social networking site that I’ve seen that offers a 50-50 split on all Google Adsense with its users.
PlugIM first caught my attention when the administrator added a story from one of my blogs and I followed the link to the site. At first glance I figured I was looking at another Digg copycat script running a site that probably had no visitors, but after a few days and a decent amount of free bonus traffic coming from the PlugIM page I decided I should have a better look around.
Unlike Digg, these newer communities have an advantage for rookie bookmarkers like me. We can actually get in now and build ourselves a little group without fear of Digg trolls coming to beat us down because we aren’t a part of their crew.
Plus, you get to have your Adsense code floating around on someone else’s pages for a little simple participation in the community. I think this is probably the direction we’ll see the Internet shift in moving forward and I for one am very happy to see the social community embrace its user friendliness and unselfish practices.
I think most of us watching the whole iPod killer wannabe come out of the gate knew all too well what the DRM feature Zune shoves in our face was about. The DRM program in the Zune media player kills any file after its third play if it wasn’t purchased, regardless of where the file came from. What this means is that any indy band or individual looking to market their own music (in my case it is trance that I create and offer for free) will be dead in the water with this new “iPod Killer”. Personally, I knew what was behind the surface… money.
It’s Saturday so I figured we could use something different. Today’s first post came to me as a surprise and I still have a hard time believing it happened.
According to this blogger, when a 40GB iPod was ordered it was shipped with two bars of soap and a package of cheap batteries instead of an actual iPod.
OK, of all the ways I’ve seen parents try to get their kids to brush their teeth properly, this has got to take the cake.
When pressed to the teeth, the toothbrush renders a recorded riff from a pop star that lasts two minutes — precisely the amount of time dentists say children should spend brushing their teeth.
Personally I think it’s a brilliant idea. From the sounds of things the tracklist is not quite ready, but hopefully the toothbrush will come with some good beats.
As expected Microsoft’s latest browser release, IE 7, bombed before it even came out of the gate. The tarnished browser is up against a beast of a machine in the open source browser we’ve all come to know and love… Firefox.
IE 7 tried, at least we think they’ve tried, to take on Firefox as a “me too” browser with all the goodies that come along with it, but failed miserably. To make matters worse, now Mozilla is releasing Firefox 2 just days after IE 7 let its fans down.
Oh yeah baby! Firefox 2!
Firefox 2 is set for full release this Tuesday and I imagine we’ll see a gigantic flux of traffic heading to the Mozilla website for some download action. The new version doesn’t change a whole lot for the user, but there appears to be significant changes in security. While IE 7 closes the gap on browser functions, security is something they just can’t seem to get right.
First Firefox took the web by storm with its user friendliness. Now we’re seeing the open source giant take Microsoft on in security as well.
Coolest Gadgets got it right with their assesment on this nifty gadget. The stealthswitch is a USB device that can sit on the floor beneath your desk for stealthy use. When someone approaches your computer and you wish for them not to see what you’re looking at you simply tp the switch and the window will instantly drop. There are several settings for the switch that allow you to choose what is hidden and what will remain viewable.
If you’re one of those peeps who like to play games when the boss isn’t looking this might be your desktop radar detector.
