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Google Ad Manager is now open to public. Anyone who has Google Account can login and start managing their advertisements.

Google Ad Manager is a hosted ad management solution that can help you sell, schedule, deliver, and measure all of your directly-sold and network-based inventory.

I have always used phpAdsNew (now OpenX) for managing my ads. Compared to Google Ad Manager, I found OpenX to be much more user friendly (or is it just because I have been using it for a long long time?).

Again Google wins…

Basically besides being the No.1 search engine on the net, Google is an ad-network too — with its Google AdSense on one side and Google AdWords on the other. So, what does that say about this new ad-network platform — Google Ad Manager — that Google introduced?

OpenX has a good answer to that on their blog, below is the excerpt from their article:

Google is Your Biggest Competitor
By allowing Google Ad Manager to serve all ads on your site, you are reducin

ListMessenger Light - Free Newsletter ScriptAugust 28

Talking about Email List, here is a free script to start your own mailing list.

It used to be my favorite newsletter script back in 2003. I used to use ListMessenger 0.9.4 then, current version is 2.1. Why I stopped using it? Well, as it usually happens… because the later versions became paid. But now checking back their site, I see that they have made it free again. However, there is a paid version too. The main difference is that with free version you can have maximum of 200 subscribers only. Which is plenty of subscribers for those who are newly building their mailing list.

They also assure a smooth transition to Pro Version if your subscribers exceed 200. Pro version costs one time fee of $47.31, which is very affordable considering that you will get all the future updates for free.

So, ready to build your mailing list? ;)

Demo: listmessenger.net/demo_backend.html
Script URL:

WP Plugin: Rotating 3D Tag CloudAugust 27

Below is a WordPress Plugin called wp-cumulus in action (mouse over it). Basically what it does is - it takes your tags (or categories) and turns them into a rotating 3D navigation.

About Colors (15)
Adobe (14)
Advice to Businesses (22)
AJAX (18)
Apple (5)
Articles (56)
Blogging Tips (72)
Business Ideas (8)
Competitions (41)
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Monetizing your words VS free biz modelAugust 26

Monetizing your blog posts i.e the content that you write on your blog has been a much discussed topic. Will people pay to read your blog posts like they do to read articles on WSJ? That’s the question!

Maki of DoshDosh says in this regard:

It is important to keep in mind the reasons why you are publishing blog post after blog post, all full of ideas and information and giving them away.

Do you know that you might generate more income by creating content and packaging it into the form of an affordable eBook, or perhaps a membership site? In terms of earning efficiency, premium/paid content might be a more lucrative venture than the act of simply giving away all your content away. source

Bloggers churn out thousands of new blog posts everyday — all for free. Even the “make money online” blogs give away free blog posts to make some money on the advertisements ;)

As for Maki, his reason for blogging for free is to build a brand, as he explains in the last part of h

Blaze Media Pro v8.02August 22

Blaze Media Pro is powerful, all-in-one media converter, editor, burner, and ripper software application supporting all popular media formats.

It has been my favorite software since 2004, being listed on my software pick page before (software pick section is no longer available though) and now on my shared folder (in favorite sharewares).

It supports two-way conversion for both audio and video files. You can convert DVD to AVI, MPG, WMV for example. Formats supported for audio conversion include CD, MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG, MPEG-4, AIFF, M4A, AAC, AC3, FLAC, and ALAC.

Other advanced features include video capture, video creation, combining, and extraction, video editing, copying of music CDs, audio and video merge (joining), MusicID audio recognition, lyrics search, audio tag editing, FreeDB support etc.

On top all these Blaze Media Pro is also a CD burning software, as well as