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Upon invitation by PITA(Palestinian Information Technology Association of Companies) and PICTI (Palestine Information and Communications Technology Incubator) and working with  the U.S.-Palestinian Partnership (UPP), Case Foundation and USAID, Google hosted a GPals day in Ramallah. On March 24th and 25th a Google team from around the world, provided cutting edge skills to more than 300 software developers and entrepreneurs.

The GPals day was spread across two days. The first day focused on pushing the boundaries of web applications using Google developer technologies. The day was also about bringing brilliant developers together to share their own ideas. Whereas day two was focused on a full review of Google product demonstrations for small or medium sized businesses to help spur innovation and entrepreneurship in the region which included a discussion on  how to create Arabic content using online tools, and how to use free Google applications (such as Google Docs) to better manage businesses. continue

Here’s an extremtly nice pluign I found mentioned in AdesBlog. This Wordpress plugin turns your normal search string from: continue

If you are generating revenue off your website or blog, chances are you serve banner ads and they are either updated manually by adding the images and URLs into the source codes or with the help of external ad-serving scripts like OpenX or OIO Publishers.

Google has a similar web service, call the Google Ad Manager. In a nutshell, it is a simple (and free) web service that helps you manage banner ads. It also comes with a pretty complete inventory report module. Ad Manager integrates with AdSense, therefore webmasters have the ability to serve AdSense ads if there’s no banner for any particular slot. Here’s a quick look into advantages of Google Ad Manager: continue

OpenX Technologies, has announced that the company has experienced significant growth across its various product lines and in the size of its publisher community. As of December 2008, more than 300 billion ad impressions now run through OpenX’s open source software monthly. In addition, the company’s recently launched OpenX Hosted (Saas Version of OpenX) product has already achieved a more than 1 billion monthly ad impression run rate and generated 2,500 new publisher sign-ups, while the newest version of its core OpenX Ad Server has more than 10,000 active downloads and has achieved a 25 billion monthly ad impression run rate. The company also announced that the OpenX community now has more than 35,000 total publishers, a 25% year-to-date increase, and those publishers power more than 150,000 websites across the Internet. continue

In the previous article of my i have addressed the some key issues of Google Ad Manager service . now i have found some pictures from monetizelab. currently this service is available only for some limited publishers only. Google ad manager service has a very good user interface as compare to Google’s current Ad sense interface. Google ad manager has one very good feature now publisher can put ads of other ad providers by using this service.

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1. Write something great about your niche and email other bloggers to let them know – there’s a good chance they’ll link to you.

2. Have a signature link in forums that  points to your site.

3. Post links to your pages to social        bookmarking sites.

4. Leave comments on other people’s blogs and link back to your site (tip: look in the digg upcoming section for blog posts about to get a lot of traffic).

5. Have the opposite opinion on everyone else on a popular topic. Everyone will link to you saying your wrong.

6. Answer questions on Yahoo Answers.

7. Post in Yahoo and Google Groups with a link to your site in your signature.
8. Make a 404 page that redirects to your homepage – no point losing visitors.

9. Have an opt-in form – trade links with someone else who has an opt in form on your confirmation page.
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You may have noticed that in certain business and marketing circles there exists a “backlash” against the design community. Despite the rise of attractive, user-friendly solutions, in such circles unattractive designs have somehow managed to remain at the verge of acceptance. You’ll hear ideas being thrown around like “design is a waste of time — we have a really ugly site which outsells our competitors 3 to 1″ or “we are not worried about the design, we’ll outsource it or use a free Wordpress theme, let us focus more on the product”.

You can almost sense a little bit of pride in how ugly their web-site is, or that they are treating design like a commodity. However off base these types of thoughts might be, there is clearly a lack of respect for designers in the business community at times. I’d like to address how you can shatter this barrier and talk to business folk in a language they understand.

This article provides you with 5 guidelines you can use as a designer to “speak business” — even if it’s just to get your foot in the door or land a big project. continue