Archive for the ‘Frontier India Picks’ Category
Friday, June 6th, 2008 |
Each time I load a website sitting in India, I see same ads every time. The biggest ad spenders seem to be Insurance companies, job sites and matrimonial sites. They have become an eyesore.
Since the clicks from Indian traffic are not much, I assume the readers from India see the same ads and do not click anymore. You can find a list of ads from Indian advertisers below, that I have blocked. I have since then got more clicks from the Indian traffic which usually comes in at regular Indian working hours.
How to block these ads?
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008 |
This morning I received a mail from Google about a new service called “Benchmarking.” What made me skeptic was the words “data sharing.” So logically I checked the FAQ. This is something that is interesting to read. It says ” You can decide if you want to share your Google Analytics data with Google, and also have full control over how you share it with us. Visit the Edit Account and Data Sharing Settings page from within your account to opt in to sharing your data “With Google products only” or “Anonymously with Google products and the benchmarking service.”
Why does your website needs benchmarking. This is good in case you are using Adsense or Adwords. Google writes ” Many customers have requested benchmarking and conversion-based advertising features. If you wish to help improve our services and take advantage of these enhanced features once we release them, select the corresponding data sharing settings.” On Google Adwords there is a feature called Conversion Optimizer, which is an optional feature within AdWords. This feature When enabled, Conversion Optimizer can automatically adjust your bids to maximize conversions at the minimum price. This feature relies on a site’s conversion data to operate, and is already available to AdWords Conversion Tracking users.
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 |
I just installed Wordpress 2.5. Its easy.
The Wordpress 2.5 release is most a redesign of the look and feel in the admin side. Some Javascripts have been added. Frankly, its a shock considering the older layout. The Dashboard looks pretty cool. You can update plugins without using FTP.
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008 |
The growth of frontierindia.net has been encouraging. It touched Alexa Rank of 193,465 few days back. I opened this news source during April 2007. Eight months back, when I applied for some adserving companies, frontierindia.net ranking was not what it is now. So, naturally, the urge to figure out what was alexa ranking about?
Alexa.com (since April 1996) is a Amazon company, say’s the website. Among other things Alexa Site Information is an database of information about sites that includes statistics, related links and more. Is Alexa perfect model?
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008 |
I just signed up with Kontera and they promised to get back in two working days. I will keep you updated on my experiences with Kontera as it happens.
frontierindia.net has no doubt a very good growth since it was started in April 2007. Its 193,465 on Alexa Ranking if it means anything to you, but i need to tell. It definitely does not have 500,000 impressions per month needed by Kontera. When i registered, it did have an option of below 500,000 per months impression, also since they said they will get back in 2 days means they might be accepting websites with less impressions. In 2 days we will know.
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Friday, March 21st, 2008 |
Its been down since yesterday. It reads
Can’t talk now. System’s down.
Sorry for the holdup. Looks like a temporary glitch in our network has part of Yahoo! mail down, so you’re briefly without service. Rest assured the alarms are blaring in the basement and our team is working frantically to get you up and running ASAP. Again, the snag is on our end — so there’s no need for you to do a thing.
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 |
30 minutes back, I saw a Lycos press release! My heart skipped a beat. I used to use it, umm.. may be in 1998…. I must have had 2 email id’s and had joined few Lycos communities. Those day, Lycos, Excite were a rage!
I never forgot the lycos spelling, so naturally, i typed it out lycos.com and what I see? May be a game site? Never mind, it ranks 1,668 in Alexa bar. Haha…. a Dog as a logo, what on earth?
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 |
Last time I told you that I quit Mozilla Firefox. I use Flock (flock.com). I am very happy with it till now.
But I haven’t quit Thunderbird yet. Its still my mail software. Thunderbird is finally getting the attention it deserves. I just saw this press release from Thunderbird developers that ” Mozilla Messaging, the new mail focused subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, today announced that it has begun operations.” Mozilla Messaging, Inc., is an absolutely new company.
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Friday, February 15th, 2008 |
At its 31st Public meeting currently underway in New Delhi, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is exploring the possibility of introducing top level domain names in the local language and local scripts. At present while India has introduced domain names at the secondary level in the local language, the top-level domain names are still in the American ASCII code. In a special session on Internationalized Domain names (IDNs), the ICANN experts currently meeting in New Delhi held detailed discussions on the possibility.
The Indian experts in charge of language development in the Ministry of IT as well as Programme Head of CDAC, Mr Mahesh Kulkarni shared India’s experience in developing a primer on how the 22 Indian languages can be categorized and what scripts and script families are. Development of language tables, policy issues for Indic scripts also figured in the discussions. Senior experts from ICANN debated on the complexities involved in non-English languages. Alternate spellings pose a problem. In conclusion, Indian experts explained that only homographs are being considered and CDAC has achieved Unicode character set finalization for inclusion in IDN.
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007 |
First time I logged into internet was in 1998, and same day I created my first Hotmail account. The first email received was form Hotmail staff. Boy, I read and re read every word of it. I still remember the first look and some paragraphs from it. Then there was no stopping, next stop was yahoo mail, then Excite mail and so in. In ten days, I ended up with approximately 20 email id’s!
Then MSN took it over. We had MSN messenger attached with the account. Ditto with Yahoo. Then came the groups, then a host of other services. My email id’s bloated to 36. I had 2 in hotmail.
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Friday, November 16th, 2007 |
Yahoo seems to be in problem. I personally am facing problem with emails and yahoo search engine submissions, the two services i use. i don’t use yahoo chat, so I don’t know about it.
Searching the internet, a lot of people are facing the problem. it happened approximately a month back. I initially thought it was the new Beta version, but even old version did not work when I switched over. So I checked the browsers and re installed them. I switched over to flock browser, nothing happened. Then I thought it was my firewall. I tried disabling them. it still did not work. Let me cut the story short “it does not work.”
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