The Weekly Startup Review: PageTiki

Howdy Doody! It's PageTiki time!

First things first: today I started a new category on eWritings, called “startup review.” The purpose? To fight Web boredom. Seriously. I am thinking that by monitoring some of these startups I’ll get a better insight of the trends and ideas that ultimately lead to the birth of a great Web service. I am also [...]



Feedback Needed – The Best Music Site Is the Goal

There are a few reasons behind my seldom apparitions on the Web – some of personal nature (relocating home and office to larger premises) and some professional. While the personal reasons allow for some flexibility in scheduling tasks, the professional activities know no “excuses.” I must admit it is quite tiring to manage work and [...]



Secondbrain: The Final Countdown

Lately everyone who is anyone in social media paid tremendous attention to a little Norwegian startup that goes by the name of “Secondbrain.” There were reasons for people to talk about this new social aggregation platform, some of them including the MacBook Air contest that pre-announced the launch of the Beta 2.0 I already covered [...]



Higher Blog Monetization through Blog Ads

Which ad services to use for high revenue? Everything you do online needs a grain of dedication if you want it successful, so if you want to make money with your site you’ll need to dedicate all your efforts to finding the best ways to achieve your goals. I discussed in a previous article the [...]



Ads on Blogs- The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Many bloggers complain that their 125×125 pixels blog ads don’t bring as much revenue as they expect, the click-through rate is too low to even matter and the only thing they ever hear from their readers is how annoying those ads are. The reasons vary: the 125×125 format is not the best for all blogs, [...]



The Quest for the Perfect Ad

There must be a reason for text link ads to work better than image ads – statistically speaking. However, there are image ads that work, particularly on blogs, and the art of creating them… well that’s what this entry is all about. In our daily browsing habits I am sure all of us encounter both [...]



How and Why Microsoft Will Beat Google at Its Own Game

If this will catch – and it’s got my heart – Google is busted. Microsoft is giving a new meaning to the idea of social interaction pushing it over its limits as we know them, proving once again that what it takes to be really brilliant and to change the world is just an idea. [...]