Category: News & Trends

Do you need a laugh today? Here’s a great one on talking dogs.

Wow, this is neat! I found a very interesting article and service that really improves blog commenting. It moves the problems of comments to a one click voting tool. I am going to try to implement it now because if you are like me, you know that it really takes a lot to get comments on your blog. Most people simply will not take the time to leave you a comment. But that does not mean that your content is not good or meaningful for your readers.

Here’s the direct link to this cool blog commenting tool http://postreach.com/static/clickcomments but take a moment and click my post title so that you can try out the online demo. I thing you’ll agree very cool. You’ll be seeing it soon on my blogs!

You’ll want to read our article about how you can use a webcam too and just how easy it is to set up. Published in our recent newsletter, we give you the low down on how to use video messaging, using a webcam with Acrobat Connect, and how to use video calling in Windows Live Messenger.

It’s easy reading and I know that you’ll be thinking of how you can use a webcam too once you read just how easy it is to implement its use.

I have a love hate relationship with the content networks on the various pay per click vehicles. I love content for helping to establish a new brand or give company identity. But I hate to pay a lot for clicks in content because they typically do not convert at a high rate.

So it is good news for me that Yahoo Sponsored Search has decided to change the way that it prices clicks in content. Now Yahoo will assign a value to a website for content clicks based on conversion rates. This may actually end up giving content a good name, well eventually.

What Yahoo has done has assigned a cost per click value to content on a site by site basis. This is bad news for Yahoo Publishers, but good news for advertisers. Why pay the same amount per click in content for JoeBlow.com versus WebMD.com?

Over time this may change the way that I personally feel about enabling content in a program, but for now, I consider it good news, but I am not ready to turn content on again just yet.