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Is this the future of online advertising?
Six Gmail Lab feature Which You Missed
Opera 10.50 Beta 2 for Windows Released

Is this the future of online advertising?

Posted: 26 Feb 2010 01:33 PM PST

Google Adsense is the preferred way for most blogs to showcase ads and earn revenues. Google Adsense and Ad-words make a lot of sense considering most people do not mind text based links as ads. They are a lot less inconvenient than those pesky and irritating flash pop-ups ads.

Here is a new way of showing ads which Digg.com has come up with and it is apparently making a lot of revenues for Digg.

As you can see in the image above, when you visit Digg.com the third post from top is a advertisement.
You can actually have readers Share it or Bury it but as you can see in the image readers cannot comment on it.
The way the revenues work is the more often people share it or read the link the lesser the advertisers pay.

I don’t think this sort of advertising can really make a big difference to Google Adsense and it’s relevance but it might change the way paid reviews are being used in blogs. The concept is that let’s say a company pays a blog for writing a review. The blog displays it and has a way of it being rated in terms of page views or even being voted by readers. It could also be a rated in terms of getting traffic to the blog. The higher the traffic the post brings the lower the advertisers have to pay.

I don’t think we will be seeing this system making its way to your favorite blogs in the immediate future but I think this could be the future of online advertising atleast when it comes to blogs.What do you think? Do drop in your comments.

Link: Digg Ads

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Six Gmail Lab feature Which You Missed

Posted: 26 Feb 2010 11:46 AM PST

Six of the most used Gmail Labs features have been official by Gmail. Adopted by millions of users, google took the decision based on their usage and user feedback. Perviously, some of the other experimental features like tasks, google calender and offline gmail, were made a part of gmail. We have listed the features along with their details for our readers-

Search Autocomplete

Type the keywords in the Gmail search box and search auto-complete will automatically suggest the terms that you might be looking for. A very handy feature that can make search within gmail very quick.

Go to Label

Go to label has been integrated with the gmail search box and works for those who have keyboard shortcuts turned on. It adds keyboards shortcuts to navigate in your account, like- typing “g” for “go to” and “l” to get “label”. Thses simple shortcuts will take you to search box with the “label:” operator already filled for you. Start typing the label name and search autocomplete will help you find that label. Send your cursor to the blank search field, using the keyboard shortcut “/” .

Forgotten Attachment Detector

Often we forget to attach desired files to emails and send them with forgotten attachment. Forgotten attachment alerts you when you send such an email. The alert is issued after a quick scan of the contents of your email, searching for keywords that suggest the presence of attachment with the email.

Youtube Previews

We often receive links to youtube videos in my mails, for which i have to copy the link and paste in my address bar to see the video. Youtube previews allows you to view such videos within your email, reducing the load to a single page.

Custom Label Colors

Coloured labels make life easy with gmail when you receive so many emails from different people. You can easily arrange the mails in labels. And when your world is colourful enough, you would love to add these colours to your labels too! You can choose from over 4000 possible color combinations to help distinguish and organize your labels. Add custom color from the regular labels interface. And there you have it!

Vacation Dates

If you are using vacation responder, you must be knowing that when turned on, it automatically sends a reply to people who mailed you when you were on a holiday. And with Vacation Dates, you can specify the dates in advance, for which you will be away! You need not to turn on the vacation responder once you have submitted the dates.

Do you use any of these features? Let us know..

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Opera 10.50 Beta 2 for Windows Released

Posted: 26 Feb 2010 05:39 AM PST

Closing in to make World’s fastest browser, Opera today released another beta version of opera 10.50 . Just a few days ago, Opera 10.50 beta 1 was introduced.

With opera storming its way through alpha and beta releases, this move can be crucial ahead of browser ballot where windows users will be presented with the Microsoft Browser Ballot from 1st March, which will force users to choose between the five most popular browsers presented in random order. Beta 2 contains many significant improvements over the first beta.

The changelog includes a list of bug and crash fixes along with tweaked styling. Some of the highlights of the changelog are-