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I recieved this email in my inbox today telling me that AdBrite has launched their banner beta program for publishers:

On 5, you signed up to be part of the AdBrite beta program for banner ads. We are excited to announce that the program has launched for publishers.

Get started now by creating an AdBrite text and banner ad zone in just a few easy steps — you will be up and running in minutes. Visit ourpublisher page to begin.

AdBrite’s text and banner ad zones are offered in IAB (Internet Advertising Bureau) standard sizes. We will always show the text or banner ads that will earn you the highest CPM — in other words, the most money.

The AdBrite banner marketplace will open to advertisers within the next week. Get text and banner zones live on your site now to be part of the launch.

We’d love your feedback about our new banner program. Contact us at support@adbrite.com or at 1-877-232-5200.

Thanks,
The AdBrite Team

Grazr is a free JavaScript based that lets you put your feed on a webpage, and nice thing about it is its quite fast.

RSS feeds are great, but the subscription model used by aggregators is slow and clumsy. After a while, it gets to be too much trouble to subscribe to more feeds. That’s why grazing feeds is becoming so popular. Grazr lets you view as many feeds as you want without the hassle of subscribing. Grazr users can freely jump from feed to feed. It’s like surfing on a river of feeds.

http://grazr.com

Here is a pretty good affiliate tip. If you sign up as a publisher over at Text Link Ads you will get acess to their affiliate program aswell. For every new user you refeer through your affiliate links and banners you will get $25.

This is a pretty nice affiliate program that can generate quick cash for you. The minimum payout is set to $25. So you just need to refer one person to be able to recieve your money.

Payments are sent out on the 1st of every month. You can be paid by check or PayPal. In order to qualify for an affiliate payment, a referred publisher must install the advertising script on their site for seven days. At this time the referral will appear in the affiliate’s account. If an affiliate refers an advertiser who purchases an advertisement, the referral will appear in the affiliate account within 24 hours.

http://www.text-link-ads.com

First came Gmail, then comes Yahoo! Mail. Now Windows Live Mail? Microsoft has realeased Windows Live Mail Beta which is an upgrade from Hotmail. Going up from a 250 MB storage space for all your e-mails to a 2 GB storage space, new look with an easy to change theme to many different colors and plus more features. Do you think Windows Live Mail will top Yahoo! Mail or Gmal anytime soon?

Firefox 2.0 is now available for download. As posted at MacWorld

A day before the scheduled public release of its long-awaited Firefox 2.0 Web browser, the Mozilla Foundation has posted the final versions of the software on its FTP servers in preparation for the public launch.

Click here to download.

This study is actually really interesting. It tells that only an extremely small number of people change their default browser text size.

…about 99.7% of visitors use the (default) Medium text size setting. Roughly 0.1% of visitors choose a text size smaller than Medium, and 0.2% of visitors choose a text size larger than Medium.

http://www.clickdensity.com/Text-Sizes-Study.aspx?

Search engine optimisation is a massive area for Internet marketing , usually if your website can not be found on the search engines your website is likely to receive little or no visitors at all. Search engine optimisation is an extremely competitive market, where nearly any webmaster will do anything to try and get that top ranking . This article discusses the big don’ts of search engine optimisation practices :

1. Don’t submit to Free For All (FFA) websites
2. Keep the keyword density low
3. Don’t optimise pages for a wide number of keywords
4. Duplicate website content
5. Hidden text
6. Infamous “click here” links
7. Automated link exchange networks

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There are several important steps to consider when choosing a web hosting company. It is important to carefully choose a company that is able to offer all the features required by a Webmaster.Do not be tempted in selecting a company purely on the price. Today hosting is cheap and the competition is strong to attract new customers.

Do some research with independent reviews of hosting companies you are interested in. See what type of reviews they have, paying special attention to their performance. How much time were they off the air off for example? Look for their uptime figures. Do a comparison with several companies.

How easy is it to get support from them? Many web hosting companies now have instant messenger service, which can offer instant answers to simple problems as well as email, phone, and fax, but normally receiving answers from these methods will be slower.

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Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 has been released. Some of the major features included (as stated on their website) are a new look, tabs (finally and obviously), improved printing capability, RSS feeds, Search tab and improved security. Click here to download.

Currently, major computers software vendors are not only targeting home users but also business class customers for their wide range of newly developed soft-wares. Internet users used to interact with one another using different chat sites. They only require software downloading from any chat software site. Different mobile phone software and utility software is also available to serve the mobile users and PC user needs. However, for business clients, customized project management software, book keeping software and crm software are available to serve the needs of various departments of large organizations.

Performancing has just released their new ad network for bloggers. You can now sign up as a publisher or advertiser.

The banners are 125×125 banners with a text box when your mouse hover the banner. You can see an example of the banner code over at Green Blog (in the right sidebar). You can have up to 6 ads on your site. Minimum is one ad.
You will get 70% of everything generated from the ads and Performancing will take 30%.

If you refer anyone to the program you will earn 5% of what he or she generates, forever. That is kind of nice!

After 48 hours you will be able to manually set a price for the ad or you can let Perfomancing decide how much you should get payed.

http://performancing.com/partnersÂ