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The Internet’s Biggest Google Whores

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 05:51:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: WOW! Some of these folks are raking in the cash!

The following is a list of the Internet’s eight biggest Google AdSense publishers. The information was compiled from interviews and articles found on the Internet. Whenever possible, I list the source of the information.

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September 25th, 2006 by John Chow

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I apologize in advance if I missed anyone on the list. If you make more than the people listed, please send me proof of your Google AdSense earnings and I will add you on the next time the list is updated. This is a list of individual site owners - people just like you and me. Big corporate AdSense publishers like AOL are excluded.

1: Markus Frind: PlentyOfFish.com - $300,000 per month

Markus Frind is a local Vancouverite who is turning the online dating world upside down. His site, Plentyoffish.com is biggest free dating site on the Internet. Plentyoffish.com receives up to 500 million page views per month and make over $10,000 per day for Markus, who runs the site from home.

You think a site this big would be staffed by a hundred people but the only employee that Markus has is his girlfriend, who helps to answer the emails. Markus coded Plenty of Fish all by himself. The site is lean and mean and requires only four servers to handle all that traffic.

Doubts about Makus’s Google earnings were silenced when he posted this $900,000 check from Google. According to Markus’s blog entry, the check represented two months of AdSense earnings.

Tags: google, adsense, money, making money, google whores

Turn Your iPod into the Ultimate PowerPoint Accessory

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 04:02:24 GMT

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Clip Source: www.micropersuasion.com

Turn Your iPod into the Ultimate PowerPoint Accessory

This is the second in my series of posts on various gear that I find useful.

Many readers of this blog work in PR or marketing or for Web 2.0 related start-ups. This means you spend a lot of time preparing presentations in either Microsoft PowerPoint or Apple's Keynote. What's more, you probably also invest hours rehearsing and traveling to and from various meetings. Oh and if I were a betting man I'd say you carry an iPod. Well, whether you are on Windows or Mac with a few simple steps you can turn your iPod (even an older one) into the ultimate PowerPoint accessory. I am going to focus on PowerPoint here since it's what most people use. The process is similar for Keynote.

Tags: ipod. powerpoint presenter, steve robel, ipod presentations

Branson's next big bet

Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:52:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Branson is one of my top 5 favorite entrepreneurs.

Clip Source: money.cnn.com

Richard Branson, entrepreneurial icon, shares his freshest ideas - like a Virgin superfuel that will let us jet around the world guilt-free.

Branson's next big bet

July 27 2006: 3:50 PM EDT

By Carleen Hawn, Business 2.0 Magazine

(Business 2.0 Magazine) -- Business 2.0 Magazine has identified the Best business ideas in the world. This is the first in a series that will appear here throughout the next month. Check back daily for updates.

Where others see disaster, Richard Branson sees opportunity. The founder of Virgin Group has business interests on six continents, including airlines, express trains, and limousine services, so his company's contribution to global warming worries him.

But instead of wringing his hands, Branson sees a new fortune to be made in reinventing the fuel business, much the way he's made over air travel, credit cards, health care, and more.

He's investing in conventional ideas like ethanol plants and solar power, but he's also developing a formula for a new ultraclean fuel that can power his jets as well as cars and trucks.

What we love about Branson is that he's part Warren Buffett, part P.T. Barnum. Not every idea he's dreamed up has panned out: Virgin Cola bombed in the United States, and the irresistibly named Virgin Brides retail chain is down to one lonely store in Manchester, England.

Tags: richard branson, virgin, entrepreneur, business, concepts, money

BottleNotes - the NetFlix of Wine

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:23:20 GMT

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Tags: wine, wine tasting, wine shipments, mail order wine

Blogs In Space

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:37:36 GMT

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Clip Source: www.bloginspace.com

Don't miss out on your chance to be heard. Click here to send a one-time message into space.

BloginSpace.com Messages FollowAtlas V Launch Into Deep Space
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla NASA's Atlas V exploration of the martian atmosphere carried MindComet's BloginSpace.com in its coattails as they rocketed out of the Earth's atmosphere. Unlike Atlas V headed to Mars, bloggers from over 73 countries are attempting to communicate with alien life via messages broadcasting into deep space destination unknown.

Tags: blogs, blogging, bloggers, space transmission, astronomy, universe

Where's The Skepticism About High Priced Domain Names?

Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:27:32 GMT

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Clip Source: techdirt.com

Where's The Skepticism About High Priced Domain Names?

Over the weekend, some tech blogs were buzzing about a USA Today article from late Friday evening, discussing the return of high prices for domain names. Considering the recent obsession with the online advertising market, the fact that domain names are selling for more money isn't all that new or surprising. In fact, we've some similar stories lately. However, it's interesting to note that the article doesn't bother to find anyone even remotely skeptical about buying up expensive domains with plans to resell them at a higher price down the road. The reporter apparently didn't bother to search out anyone who got burned the last time around, when domain names were regularly selling for thousands... and then you suddenly couldn't give them away. Instead, they quote someone who's clearly biased (he's a domain name broker) insisting "a patient speculator can buy a name for $30,000 and, a few years later, sell it for a windfall." Do people really have that much difficulty understanding these things can be cyclical? Especially in an age of "search," where people often discover sites based on where their search engines point them, rather than by simply guessing random domain names -- it would seem like specific URLs might not have as much value. In fact, the whole article feels "placed" by a PR agency -- perhaps for domain name registrar GoDaddy, whose president has a couple of choice quotes in the article talking up the importance of buying domain names. Good timing for a company that may soon announce plans to go public.

Tags: domain names, high price domain names, godaddy, domains for sale

India Rising

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:48:28 GMT

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Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

India Rising

Messy, raucous, democratic India is growing fast, and now may partner up with the world's richest democracy—America.

March 6, 2006 issue - Every year at the World Economic Forum in Davos, there's a star. Not a person but a country. One country impresses the gathering of global leaders because of a particularly smart Finance minister or a compelling tale of reform or even a glamorous gala. This year there was no contest. In the decade that I've been going to Davos, no country has captured the imagination of the conference and dominated the conversation as India in 2006.

The marketing slogans wouldn't work if there were no substance behind them. Over the past 15 years, India has been the second fastest-growing country in the world—after China—averaging above 6 percent growth per year. Growth accelerated to 7.5 percent last year and will probably hold at the same pace this year. Many observers believe that India could well expand at this higher rate for the next decade.

Tags: india, democracy, business, growth, technical hub, future

Google Gobbles up another one

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 04:16:19 GMT

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Clip Source: googleblog.blogspot.com

Googler insights into product and technology news and our culture.

Here comes Measure Map

Posted by Jeffrey Veen, Google Measure Map Team

2/14/2006 02:30:00 PM

My first post to my blog was a little paragraph about my obsession with cycling, and I remember feeling a little ... let down. Sure, it was remarkably easy. Write. Click a button. Reload. Cool! But then what? It wasn't until someone left a comment that I was hooked. An audience! Someone is reading!

It was this feeling that led to the idea of Measure Map. Our goal has been to use the power of web analytics to help bloggers feel that same sense of connection with their audience. Today, as the Measure Map team joins Google, our mission remains the same: to build the best possible user experience so people can understand and appreciate the effect their blogs - their words and ideas - can have.

Tags: google, acquistions, measuremap, web20, analytics

AOL to Charge Senders for Incoming Email

Fri, 03 Feb 2006 05:12:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Time to nikel and dime people now.

Clip Source: slashdot.org

AOL to Charge Senders for Incoming Email

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday February 02, @10:11PM

Tags: aol, email, yahoo, fees email, mail fee