What we learned from Turkey National Team
By acca | July 3, 2008
European Football Championship is over. Spain won. But many of us will remember Turkey national team. We can learn a lot on them. Not only about football but about life and business, too. So, what’s so important? Here is what is. First, their game against Switzerland. Switzerland leads 1:0 in halftime. In second half, Turks are still thinking about winning, get 1:1 and in 90th minute they gets to 2:1. It isn’t over until last second. Next, Turkey vs Czech. 15 minutes before the end, Czech leads 2:0. There are lot of teams surended than, but not the Turks. They made makeover and won 3:2. Same with Croatia, than. 0:0 until 119. minute. Than, Croats lead but Turkey made draw in 122. minute. And won on penalties.
So, we can learn that game isn’t over until the end. Until last Read the rest of this entry »
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What Is Video Game Testing
By acca | July 1, 2008
With the high amount of sales in the video game industry testing is in large demand. There is no particular type of education or degree required for video game testing. Once a person acquires this job their opinion about video games may change especially if they are expecting it to be all fun. The problem is that the job will require playing the games over and over again to identify problems and mistakes. While some of the mistakes will not be hard to locate, others will be extremely difficult to find. Problems must also be documented. Testing the game repeatedly for sporadic problems is hard because they may happen only at a particular point during the game and that has to be repeatedly tested.
Video game testing takes someone who is goal-driven, has a passion for the game, and a high tolerance for exhaustion. Although the job may be Read the rest of this entry »
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Top 50 Chitika publishers traffic report
By acca | June 18, 2008
Blog advertising company Chitika made analysis of their top 50 high-performing publishers. Analysis was done for a period between
2nd to 8th June. And here are some facts they noticed:
Top 50 publishers had 56.88% of total traffic came from US, in average.
59.87% of their US traffic came from search engines.
And, for the traffic that came from search engines, CTR was 1.64% in average.
Hope, this informations can help you about better monetising your blogs and websites.
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AdSense for search improved
By acca | June 15, 2008
AdSense for search is now powered by Custom Search, meaning that Adsense publishers can take advantage of advanced customization options to refine your search results and ads. In addition, Adsense publishers can manage all of the options below directly within AdSense account.
Here are some of the new features in Adsense search:
• Selecting ad location: Now, Adsense publishers can decide where to place ads on search results pages - whether it’s at the top, bottom, or right side of each page. We recommend placing ads at the top and right side of the page, as we’ve found this monetizes the best for publishers.
• Refining searches with keywords: Search terms can have different meanings in different contexts, but now Adsense publishers can tune your search results and ads to what your users Read the rest of this entry »
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How Adsense for RSS feed looks like
By acca | May 6, 2008
Blog publishers or website with RSS feed owners with more than 100 feed readers who are already Adsense publishers can try Adsense for RSS feed beta. Google serves ads into your RSS feed contextual ads bellow every text. Ads are 468×30 pixels and they are not served as Javascript but as image maps. Here how Adsense for feeds looks like bellow one RSS feed text:
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Association and success
By acca | May 3, 2008
Another part about association and success from “How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success” book by Major A.R. Calhoon.
The old proverb, “Tell me your company and I will tell you what you are,” is as true to-day as when first uttered. In the preparation for success, association is one of the most powerful factors, so powerful, indeed, that if the associations are not of the right kind, failure is inevitable.
As one diseased sheep may contaminate a flock, so one evil associate– particularly if he be daring, may seriously injure the morals of many. Every young man can recall the evil influence of one bad boy on a whole school, but he cannot so readily point to the schoolmate, whose example and influence were for good; because goodness, though more potent, never makes itself so conspicuous as vice.
Criminals, preparing for the scaffold, have confessed that their entrance into a life of crime began in early youth, when the
audacity of some unprincipled associate tempted them from the ways of innocence. Through all the years of life, even to old age, the life and character are influenced by association. If this be true in the case of the more mature and experienced, its force is intensified where the young, imaginative and susceptible, are concerned.
Man is said to be “an imitative animal.” This is certainly true as to early education, and the tendency to imitate remains to a greater or less extent throughout life. Imitation is responsible for all the queer changes of fashion; and the desire to be “in the swim,” as it is called, is entirely due to association.
In school days, the influence of a good home may counteract the effect of evil associates, whom the boy meets occasionally, but when the boy has grown to manhood, and finds himself battling with the world, Read the rest of this entry »
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Character and success
By acca | April 23, 2008
We can learn a lot from old books espetially wroten by successful people. Here is part about character and success from “How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success” book by Major A.R. Calhoon.
That “Heaven helps those who help themselves,” is a maxim as true as it is ancient. The great and indispensable help to success is character.
Character is crystallized habit, the result of training and conviction. Every character is influenced by heredity, environment
and education; but these apart, if every man were not to a great extent the architect of his own character, he would be a fatalist, an irresponsible creature of circumstances, which, even the skeptic must confess he is not. So long as a man has the power to change one habit, good or bad, for another, so long he is responsible for his own character, and this responsibility continues with life and reason.
A man may be a graduate of the greatest university, and even a great genius, and yet be a most despicable character. Neither Peter Cooper, George Peabody nor Andrew Carnegie had the advantage of a college education, yet character made them the world’s benefactors and more honored than princes.
“You insist,” wrote Perthes to a friend, “on respect for learned men. I say, Amen! But at the same time, don’t forget that largeness of mind, depth of thought, appreciation of the lofty, experience of the world, delicacy of manner, tact and energy in action, love of truth, honesty, and amiability–that all these may be wanting in a man who may yet be very learned.”
When someone in Sir Walter Scott’s hearing made a remark as to the value of literary talents and accomplishments, as if they were above all things to be esteemed and honored, Read the rest of this entry »
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Screensavers.com changes
By acca | April 22, 2008
Screensavers.com, CJ.com partner, paid affiliate partners 60 cents every time an English speaking user from their website downloads a screensaver or wallpaper and accepts toolbar. That was till few days ago. Now, they made some changes in their policy. Screensavers.com are making some changes to their promotional strategies and will be expiring a large number of our publishers from the program during this realignment. Among other changes, Screensavers.com will no longer be accepting international traffic and wish to target only U.S. users going forward.
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Spottt Adbrite banner exchange
By acca | March 15, 2008
About a month ago, Adbrite launched Spottt, a service that makes it easy for websites (including blogs and myspace profiles) to promote each other. Spottt members display ads for other Spottt members. After joining Spottt, you will get html code and paste it into your webpage. There, other members ads will be displayed. Spottt ads are 125×125 pixels. Supported formats are GIF (including animated), JPEG and PNG (including alpha transparency). Every time your site shows Read the rest of this entry »
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E-gold more secure now?
By acca | February 29, 2008
E-gold made some modifications to the E-gold Account User Agreement as of 11 February 2008. Previous agreement version contained:
3.7.2. Unless (I) otherwise approved by User or (II) ordered by a court or arbitration body of acceptable jurisdiction, as determined by Issuer, Issuer shall not reveal Users contact or identifying information or transaction history to any third party.
And now, that part looks like:
3.7.2. Unless (I) otherwise approved Read the rest of this entry »
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