Archive for August, 2008

Publish Your Passion – HubPages

Know something? Want to spread your word?

Hubpages is where you can easily publish information on a topic you love to write about.

In the world of HubPages, a hub is like a webpage, containing an article that you can write whatever you like on your favourite topic.

To start writing is pretty simple.  After signing up, you just need to create a hub and start writing on it.  With their easy-to-use interface, you can load content, photos, video and links onto your hub.

Thousands of people interested in your topic would be able to read your hub.

Best of all, for those who are interested in some extra cash, you can join their loyalty program.  They have a traffic referral program AND you can also earn affiliate commission of Adsense, Kontera, eBay & Amazon.  You can also setup an Analytics account to track traffic information.

Microsoft Live Mesh Computing

How many digital devices do you have?  Let me think – desktop, laptop, mp3 player, pda, mobile… maybe external hard drive… and another laptop… and another phone….

Do you ever find it hard to have the information synchronized between all these devices?

Microsoft Live Mesh solves this issue, and more:

Add your devices to Live Mesh
Get all your devices connected together into the Mesh and get the folders synchronized

Explore your Live Desktop
Connect to remote PC via Live Desktop, plus online storage (free!!) for synchronization

Add and share folders
Yup, you can add folders!  You can choose to share with your friends or keep them private

Stay informed with news
Chat with others sharing the folder, check what’s updated in the shared folders

Surely it is a revolution to computer usage nowadays.  More information: http://www.mesh.com

Have a peek at Google’s data – Google Insights

In summary, Google Insights is a free keyword research tool that allows you to explore Google Trends data by subject category or to compare different locations.

“With Google Insights for Search, you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, and time frames.”

In key phrase research, you are concerning quite a number of factors.  These 3 things – category you are in, seasonal trend, and target audience, would be presented to you in Google Insights and it has certainly made SEO a lot easier.

If you have a new product and are looking at entering the market, you should surely start your research through Google Insights.

New Features in Content Network Ads – Google Adwords

I personally found that the content network is very limited in terms of control over the ads.  However, Google has made this happen – more customization can be done on the content network ads now!

New functions now include:

  • Frequency Capping – control the impression of the ad in front of each user.  Now they won’t see the same ads again and again!
  • Frequency Reporting – reports impressions and how many times people are seeing them
  • Improved Ads Quality – Improves performance improvements
  • View-Through Conversions – Now you can see how many users visit your site after seeing an ad.  Keep a log and sure would help you in your placement campaign.

Entrecard Toolbar

Entrecard has released their first toolbar – runs only in Firefox 3 though.

Using this toolbar, you can:

  • Switch accounts easily – if you have more than one account, you can switch easily with a click of the mouse.
  • Quick jump menu – you can quickly jump to different pages including the dashboard, messagebox, ad-calendar, stats, linked blogs page, and buy EC credit page.
  • Favourites & EC Category page menu – link to your favourites or category pages
  • Browse EC sites – through cheapest sites, most advertised…
  • Jump buttons – jump to the next site
  • Favourites – save a bookmark
  • One-click advertising – want to advertise on a site? Just click once
  • Interaction – send message to the site owner etc.
  • Entrecard menu – including links to EC related forums

If you are serious about EC dropping, surely you should install this toolbar.  Have fun!