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Start Substituting Adsense with your own Ads
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Every blogger loves Google Adsense but what if you want to take your ad revenue to the next level? Adtoll is a great transitional tool that allows you to show your old Adsense ads while looking to sell ads on your own. Adtoll lets you use “default” ads while you court other advertisers on their network or on your own. You control the ratio of ads between your default ads and ads purchased from advertisers. They offer up every size that you are used to on Adsense with the exception of half banners (230X60) and can help you build out your ad inventory to eventually replace Google Adsense (or YPN or Microsoft’s ads). Adtoll’s cut of all this is 25% of ad revenue which is way better than we expect Google’s adsense gives and gives you the ultimate control on the cost of running ads on your site. Payouts are monthly via Paypal every month on the 15th and most sites that we have heard use them say they pay. So we’re going to give Adtoll a chance and maybe you should too. We’ll report back on its success or failure.
More new Gmail features in the pipeline
So by now your Gmail account has been updated with a IMAP and a new contact management system has finally surfaced (we broke the story Oct 31st of 2006). So whats next you ask? Well one thing that was in testing that hasn’t been rolled into our good old Gmail yet is a better signature system. Yes html signatures and/or add Google contact code will be showing up in Gmail. This feature along with the new signature code will be called Google Contacts and our bet is that it will somehow eventually find its way onto Android (their new phone OS). But wait, thats not all, apparently Google Chat is going to expand into other services much like Meebo. Google wants to be the central point for all of your IM and email and we have heard (rather loud) whispers that meebo like features were sneaking into the next rev of Gmail. Deeper down the rabbit hole we were hearing that a possible buyout or partnership with Meebo might be in the works as early examples looked eerily familiar to our testers. But wait there is even more, Google is working on toolbars that integrate into both Outlook and Thunderbird allowing some core Gmail functionality to complement their IMAP functionality. An extra benefit of installing the toolbar Google will see the “on behalf of Gmail” header sent along with each email disappear from outgoing mail. The other reason for adding the toolbar will be tighter Google Documents integration and a way to report back to Google email that has been marked spam to greater increase their already stellar spam protection. Just remember where you heard it first.
Google Adsense checks bouncing?
Seroundtable has a interesting article on Google Adsense checks bouncing. Yes I said bouncing. They dug deep to find out why one of the richest search engines in the world has some Adsense checks bouncing.
Save the Enviroment One Search at a time
While trendsetting.com lists eco-fatigue as an up and coming trend, many of us are willing to make small changes in our life to reduce our environmental footprint. A site that has recently come to my attention is blackle.com powered by Google. Blackle was created by Heap Media to remind us all of the need to take small steps in our everyday lives to save energy. The idea is that white (or light) pages use more energy than black pages (an all-white page utilizes about 74 watts to display, while an all-black page uses only 59 watts). You are encouraged to set your Internet homepage to Blackle vs. Google to help the cause. A site like Google gets about 2 million queries a day, and to date blackle usage has offset/saved 290 kWatt hours of energy. This is merely one of many ways you can help “save the environment” one step at a time; and with little or no impact on your day-to-day life. Please join the cause and pass this along to your friends and family.
GPS for FREE? Ad supported GPS the next frontier
GPS for FREE, Could it happen? AdNav a Startup out of Brooklyn, New York is one of the first companies to come out with a advertising supported GPS unit. Their device lets you get turn by turn directions, flight, weather information, search the internet via ASK.com at any WIFI access point, and find nearby attractions.
We have to say this really makes sense, and were the Google guys asleep when these guys were looking for partners? There is an old saying “Location, Location, Location” when it comes to business. Well now with a AdNav you can locate businesses that you might not necessarily know about, giving the AdNav business a distinct advantage.
Just imagine you are on vacation and are looking for a gas station. The nearest sign says next gas station 50 miles, but oh wait my adNav says there is a cool themed gas station a half a mile from the interstate only five miles down the road. The ability for that small gas station to be found is like money in the bank. Being in the right place at the right time is the difference between a successful and an unsuccessful business.
Right now AdNav is a small startup that plans to offer their GPS service to Hotels and Rental agencies for a few dollars. Ultimately they plan on giving their GPS devices out for free to the general public. They are partnered up with ASK.com for a search engine available at WIFI hotspots but you have to guess that Google will try and get poised to offer something similar perhaps bundled with their new Phone Operating system.
Meanwhile AdNav is going to gain some big time traction if they can get their devices in the hands of consumers. Keep in mind we haven’t used an AdNav and it could be vaperware but the idea is sound in this age of internet based services. The company expects to have the first devices on the street in San Francisco sometime this month.
Gmail bumps regular email to 6 Gig - Our account gets almost 50 Gig
Seems as if every time I pay for something on the web it ends up going free. Google announced today that Gmail storage was increasing from 3 Gig to 6 Gigs of space, still not matching the almighty Yahoo’s claim of unlimited space.
Interesting enough though was the fact that since I paid for 25 Gigs of space (more so for Picasa Web than anything) I now have almost 50 Gigs (42.9 Gig actually) of storage showing up in my Gmail. Many users around the web are reporting storage increases already of 1 Gig or more showing up on Gmail.
Keep in mind this storage space is typically split between your Google Account (Picasa, Documents, and so on) so even though they say more doesn’t mean you actually get it. However this is a huge boost for users teetering on the edge of full accounts who couldn’t justify paying for ad supported email.
If only now they can get rid of the “sent on behalf” message that screams non corporate on all of my sent email.
