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AdesClrPicker v2.2 - Updated

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My free color picker software “AdesClrPicker” has been updated. For those who are not familiar with this tool, it’s a color picker tool that allows you to capture colors anywhere on your screen with a single click of your mouse in either HTML, RGB, C++, VB and Delphi color codes.

In this update, the tool has been optimized (i.e the coding) now it runs even more efficiently. Also the #FFFFFF-bug which caused the tool to get stuck in some situations has been solved. (This was a tough bug, literally ;) took me very long time to find.)

So, please download the new version of the color picker (click here).

Website: www.adesclrpicker.com/

P.S Thank you for your continuous support, feedback and suggestions to make this color picker the best freeware!

Top Commenters: April 2009

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Thank you for the top commenters for the month of April, they were: titan, Ties UK, Best Teeth Whitening, cdl test, CSS web design finder, iPhone, Minnesota Attorney, Web Design, Marisha Adams and Marketing Man.

Notice: Those who have spammed the blog with tens of comments in one day just to get into the top list were removed from the list. In this list, regular readers and regular commenters are given priority.

This doesn’t mean that you cannot comment on more than one post in one day, the fact is you can! But I am talking about those who come on the last few days of the month and spam-comment the blog just to be in the list. The rest of the days of the month they are nowhere to be seen on the blog. This won’t work here my friends.

P.S @Ties UK, you have given your email in the URL field, do you want it to be linked to your email?

Making Money with Twitter

Posted in » Make Money, Online Advertising, Social Networking - by Ades

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While twitter is still trying to figure out how to make money, others are already making money with its platform. One such service is Magpie. Magpie is an ad-network for Twitter.

How it works:

In basic terms, you allow them to access your twitter account, and they will tweet relevant ads to your account. You get paid based on your number of followers, the rate of the ads (different category ads have different prices), and the number of clicks on these ads. How exactly they calculate your earnings is obviously known only to them.

You can define the tweet frequency, and for maximum control you can choose to pre-approve each tweet from magpie yourself.

How much you can make?

It depends on the number of your followers. Magpie has a calculator on their website. According to this calculator with my 177 followers, apparently I could make up to 8.61 pounds per month (i know.. that’s very small).

Let’s insert someone’s username who is influential on twitter. And that’s none other than @aplusk or Ashton Kutcher. He has over 1.5 million followers.

So the calculator says he could make over 90 thousands pounds every month! (see screenshot) Wow, that’s a lot!

Summary

So, as you can see, number of followers does matter. On twitter # of followers are like a “unique visitors” in normal websites. The more followers you have the more money you will likely to make when the twitter based publisher networks come out. Therefore, start building your twitter community, grow your twitter’s following. I am quite sure that twitter’s own (and other) “making money models” will rely on the number of followers that one has first. And perhaps this will be combined with the number of clicks that each ad will get.

Whatever it is, you will need to have a healthy twitter community, which is active and will actually follow your tweets. Because I am sure twitter (and other future publisher networks on twitter platform) won’t just pay you for having the most number of followers. Having thousands of zombie followers who do not click on your tweet-links won’t benefit you. Therefore, don’t try to grow your network with those automatic tools that will just fill up your twitter network with dead followers. Most of those followers are actually empty accounts that won’t get updated ever.

Well, Magpie might just have thought a lesson to Twitter on how to monetize their network.

Website: be-a-magpie.com (they should really get that magpie.com!)
Follow me on Twitter: @ades

Swine Flu Outbreak Map

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Unfortunately swine flu is spreading fast and WHO has raised the level to 5 (out of 6). Phase 6 is the pandemic phase. (click on the image below to learn more about WHO phases).

You can keep track of swine flu developments in a graphical form at BBC website, Swine Flu Outbreak Map page. It shows day to day developments on the flu.

Please take precautions when at work and commuting to work. Here is what the WHO officials want you to do:

• Wash your hands with soap and water often.
• Avoid close contact with other people as much as possible
• Wear a surgical mask if you are in contact with other people
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose, or mouth. Germs spread that way.
• Avoid leaving your home while sick except to get local medical care.
• Always cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze.

Let’s hope that it will be over soon, InshAllah.

Checking out EntreCard Ad-Network

Posted in » Make Money, Online Advertising - by Ades

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As you already know (yes you should check my miniblog) EntreCard is running their own ad-network now.

I did a test run with $25 funds, promoting my color picker software in their Web Development category. Here is the results:

From the results you can see that the CPM rate was $0.4927, and CPC rate was $0.1096. I guess they run a combination of two types. In total I got 50,739 impressions and 228 clicks for my $25 bucks.

My funds were depleted right away within 24 hours, that’s because they do not provide daily limit options.

Here is how campaign creation page looks:

Yeah, it’s dead simple. No daily limits, no campaign type (cpc, cpm) selection. Also at first they did reject my website, I don’t know why, perhaps it was not a blog? But then I see they re-approved it.

Selling your credits

I am sure most of you had EntreCard accounts and perhaps some of you have some credits in their accounts still. If you do, now you can sell them for $1 for every 1000 entrecard credits as announced by EC founder on his tweet.

So, it’s time to make money if you had thousands of credits in your EC account! If you are new, you can always sign up for EC now.

In general I think it’s a good move by EC to open their own ad-network, both for advertisers and bloggers.

Website: entrecard.com

Google News Timeline

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Want to read Google News like a newspaper? Go to newly launched Google News Timeline by Google.

Google News Timeline is a web application that organizes search results chronologically. It allows users to view news and other data sources on a browsable, graphical timeline. Available data sources include recent and historical news, scanned newspapers and magazines, blog posts, sports scores, and information about various types of media, like music albums and movies.

URL: newstimeline.googlelabs.com/