Now there is google talk which was released by google recently. You can expect more such products from google.
Google has made it a must that you should have a google mail account to use google talk. If you are not using google talk or google mail yet, just let me know in case if you need a google invite to get you a google account.

Just send me your name and email to my mail box and I shall send you an invite to your mail. I shall surely send you a invite, if you dont get one, dont forget to check your bulk folder, mainly if you are using google’s rivals yahoo or msn.

Being a search gaint, its intresting to see that Yahoo also earns via Google adsense.
Flickr, which was acquired by yahoo in march this year, is now under Yahoo’s management and I wonder if Yahoo knows that flicks still gets some revenue from google adsense.

Things like this will let us know the power of adsense.
Even Google’s rivals use it to make some money?

Look at these images which will give you the complete picture of what I am talking about.

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The first pic shows you flickr displaying google adsense and the second one shows you the same page with yahoo ads. Flickr actually displays both google ads and yahoo ads in random, so everytime you browse flickr you may not see google ads all the time. But, if you use flickr regularly, you might be seeing this.

Now do you agree with me if I say that even the big guns make money via google? still thinking about it?
I would like to hear your comment on this. Let me know.

Did you know that some 80,000 blogs are created each day and the number is multiplying? Statistics that many of these blogs are updated regularly. Some 13% of blogs are updated weekly. Check out the Picture to see it yourself.

The number is expected to grow into millions soon. If you are reading this and dont have a blog yet, you can think of it. The total number of blogs according to Technorati is 16.1 million as on date. I love wordpress and can do a free install and some customization for you, if you are intrested. But will do that only if you promise me that you will blog regularly and dont keep it like a dead site.

As the talk spreads about the new google desktop search. Webmasters and site owners are happy about the one cool plugin around. Well, what will the be happy about? That is obviously related to money and only money. There was a firefox extension for the same purpose, but some how if didnt work properly and people were looking for something more handy. And its in. Its none other but the Google Adsense Status plugin created by Software .

If you have not installed the plugin yet, well, I bet you will be happy to use it.

You can have the display this way also:

Adsense Status (three line display)
Earnings: $300
Impressions: x,xx,xxx Clicks: xxxxx
CTR: 7.5% eCPM: $5.99
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Adsense Status (one line display)
xxxxx Click(0s) – $300

I hope you will like it.
Here is the download link: adsense staus

This is in continuation with my previous post about eCPM. It is calculated by total earnings divided by the number of page impressions and then multiplied by 1000.

If your earnings is $50 and you have 11270 impressions.
$50/11270 = 0.00443655……
again 0.00443655……x1000 = 4.43

You can try the eCPM Calculator.

I am a great fan of blogging even though I have started it lately.
I have decided to do few things to help others who are intrested in blogging.
Mean while, you might want to know how good each blogging tool is.
You might be convinced to use one of these systems for your corporate website too.

Checkout this website which has each and every detail:
Click to see the review!
Though its a old review, you can decide your blogging tool seeing that review.
I appreciate Owen’s effort and patience.

This is not a Yahoo Inc. product, but its a cool one.
If you were wondering how to decode your buddy’s yahoo message archive and did’nt find a way, this one is right for you.
It is named Yummy.

Here is a screenshot:

Here is the download link: Download Yahoo! Messenger Message Archive Decoder
I hope you will find it useful

EFL.org has a good guide to new bloggers about what you should think before posting something on your blog.

I am not sure if there are such laws in India.
But if you are a US citizen, you got to read this.
The site says ….Whether you’re a newly minted blogger or a relative old-timer, you’ve been seeing more and more stories pop up every day about bloggers getting in trouble for what they post……………..EFF created this guide, compiling a number of FAQs designed to help you understand your rights and, if necessary, defend your freedom.

Here is the link: Legal Guide for Bloggers

Today I was asked about what eCPM really means by my friend.
Just thought to post it for others

eCPM is nothing but Effective CPM which is the effective cost per 1000 impressions generated by a cost-per-click ad. eCPM is determined by multiplying a number of factors, including the ad’s cost per click (CPC) and its clickthrough rate (CTR). The resulting eCPM can be used to rank CPC ad campaigns against CPM campaigns.

I hope you understood what eCPM means.

If you have probably come here by mitake searching for eCPM and its not about advertising, here are eCPM definitions from Dictionary:
Acronym Definition
ECPM European Christian Political Movement
ECPM External Combustion Power Module
eCPM Effective CPM (Cost Per Thousand impressions; advertising)

I thought it was the same old story of desktop search beta 1.
I felt horrible with the first version. It was taking more resource than any other application. If just an indexing application takes so much CPU resource, what about the other applications that we never close for days together? And it was taking some 500MB of space. Just to index? sounds like my system search is also like a google data center. Irritated, I un-installed and deleted all the index.

Now google is back with another new beta version.
I’m adicted to it more than any other application on my desktop.
I have been playing with the new Google Desktop for the past 2 days now and I really like it. It gives me access to something that I use often and keeps them right were I can keep an eye on them.
I have a collection of desktop tools that can make things easy. You know what I mean? easy in every sense.

It has all I want. A simple gmail notifier/indexer, news, search includes desktop(my computer) search, photos to rotate, to keep memories refreshing(you can select the photos folder).

Cool plugins like scratch pad(where you can write anything and it will be saved without your confirmation); Todo(you can save your to do tasks) and Adsense status(this is wonderful addon which displays adsense earnings).

Sticking to the left or right end of the screen, it gives you a wonderful experience.
You can see some screenshots here:
1. Sidepanel View

2. Todo plugin

3. Adsense plugin

4. Timewrap Plugin


You can download the google Desktop here: Download