From the monthly archives:

November 2007

Arrival of Social Mapping: Google’s My Maps is Now Our Maps

November 28, 2007

Google maps product manager, Jess Lee, has posted about Google’s social mapping feature in My Maps. Tagzania also offers collaborative mapping. However, there are few differences in the two offerings.
To enable the collaborative feature of My Maps, you click the collaborative link and add email addresses of people who can add and modify the map. [...]

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How I’m Learning Online Marketing Techniques From Forums

November 28, 2007

During the early days of the web when I ran adult sites, traffic was plenty and a few software and scripts made my life easy. Once in a week I visited a few adult webmaster forums for getting all the knowledge and skills I needed to make money online while sleeping. Things have changed a [...]

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Become an Expert for Serious Online Incomes Before Quiting Job

November 25, 2007

The holidays pass very quickly. The four-day weekend is almost over. I have to wake up tomorrow morning around 7AM and get ready for another day at my regular job.
I like my job but sometimes I wonder how long I can continue the routine. I am going no where in my corporate career. I am [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving

November 22, 2007

Happy thanksgiving everybody. If you are not from the US (thanksgiving in Canada is in October), you may have heard about thanksgiving or you may be completely ignorant about it. It is a national holiday in the US.
Though it is not a religious holiday, it is about giving thanks to God for the things that [...]

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7 Tips for Great Black Friday Deals

November 20, 2007

Only two days left for Black Friday. For the last eighteen years, I have scanned Black Friday ads in the local news paper, delivered on Thursday, for killer deals. But I could never go to the store before 11AM. By that time, Black Friday shopping was half over for lots of people and I did [...]

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Kindle – Can Bloggers Sell Subscriptions to Amazon?

November 19, 2007

Amazon has launched an ebook reader called Kindle. Here is a Newsweek article about this latest gizmo that Amazon is positioning as a service rather than a device.
Unlike Sony’s eReader, Amazon’s Kindle will have wireless Interent connectivity using the cell phone data transmission technology.
Kindle has a six-inch screen and it uses e-ink for sharp readable [...]

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How Google Helps Bloggers Improve Their Rankings

November 18, 2007

After punishing the text link advertisers with a reduction in their page ranks (PR), Google is going after the PayPerPost bloggers and dropping their PRs to zero from whatever PR they had before. An IZEA blog post by CEO Ted Murphy has this to say:
Once again Google has proved that PR has little to do [...]

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Why Bob Gets $90 for a “mesothelomia” Click and You Make only $0.25?

November 15, 2007

Becuase your site is an AdSense site and Bob has original contents that help mesothelomia victims. “Just because Tom gets $2 per click for his baseball site doesn’t mean you will get $2 per click for your baseball site”, writes Mark at 45n5.com while discussing inequal AdSense payouts for clicks from different sites for the same advertiser.  According [...]

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The Rise of the Super Cities

November 14, 2007

Today, more people live in mega cities around the world than in rural settings. A 5+ year undertaking by 19.20.21 will explore the impact of this unprecedented phenomenon of the human history on consumers and businesses.
The site is aptly named 19.20.21: 19 cities in the world with 20 million people in the 21st century. Using [...]

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Your AdSense Income May Drop: Google is Redifining Clickable Area

November 13, 2007

Google is making some changes to AdSense click regions that may affect your incomes. You see, right now the entire AdSense rectangle is a clickable region. A visitor can unintentionally click on that region and you get paid for the click. Advertisers don’t like it and they consider it as a click fraud.
After the changes, [...]

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