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How would you like a little plug-in that shows your Adsense earnings on the statusbar, well look no further than here and download now. It’s a great little app for tracking your earnings within your Firefox browser in real time. You get total ad impressions, CPM, and total daily earnings. Sweet but geeky plug-in. Love it.

Recently I’ve been looking at generating more income from my own Youtube videos plus other video ads. I’ve compiled a great list of resources for anyone interested in this form of additional income for your blog or website:

Blog Marketing Journal

Webmaster Table

Digital Inspiration

Well I just discovered w.bloggar and it’s my new favorite tool when posting to my blogs. W.Bloggar is an application that acts as an interface between the user and one or more blog(s); in other words, it is a Post and Template editor, with several features and resources that the browser based blog editors do not offer.  I love this tool  because I can make a post and not be connected to the Internet and I can use it for both my  Blogger and Wordpress blogs. It also has a portable version which I’m just looking into put it on my Rally Drive and a way we go, love this tool.

Hope everyone gets a chance to celebrate the patron saint of Ireland today.

If you want to take in some traditional Irish dance and your in the Ottawa area music head on down to the new Irish Canadian Center (formerly St. Bridgit’s Church) tonight as my 7 year old daughter will be performing some traditional Irish dances. More info here Justabitofcraic II the Show!

Ok who doesn’t like a contest especially when you could win a Video iPod plus there’s over $11,000 in other prizes. It’s being held by the good people over at General Marketing Blog. With 30 different sponsors donating over $11000 this contest is pretty large. There will be 50 winners in total so your chances are good even better if you check out how to get more entries here.

Below are the sponsors making it happen:

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General Marketing Blog
1 x Video Ipod
Revolution Theme
1500 Entrecard Credits
3 x 125×125 banner ads
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The www Blog
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Mr Javo Dot Com
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GoStats
2 Yrs subscription to Gostats Pro

Internet Marketing Blog
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Make Money Online
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Making Money From Gaming
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Oxidize Your Blog
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One Buck Wiki
500 Wiki pages valued at $20 each

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Blog Money Wiki
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One Stop Shopping
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EYE EARN Marketing
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Rumbling Lankan
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Million Dollar Portfolio
$25 Visa gift card

Wayne Liew Dot Com
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My Blog Contest
1000 Entrecard credits

Bid2big.com
1 x 468×60 banner ad for 1 month
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1 Million in 365 Days
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My PPC Advertising
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Scribble & Words
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All prizes will be shared out amongst the 50 winners with the most prizes going to the winner and so on.

Good luck to all that enter

Contest ends @ 5pm GMT 31st March 2008

Steffen Mueller a former product manager with Google has a new project called Topicle which was launched this week. Mueller worked on such things as Google Maps, Froogle, and Google Web Search a Google. Well Topicle is his baby.

Most people are calling it a Google meets Wikipedia search engine and they’re not far off. Topicle relies on users input in collecting helpful web links. Voters use a 1-5 scale.

To use Topicle, the process is simple. You first search for a search engine, using their current database of human-created engines. If you find one that fits your needs, you can use it. If not, you can create your own engine or add to an existing one to make it more suitable.

If your like me and use Firefox exclusively as your web browswer you might want to check out the latest Beta version for a spin especially if your a MAC user.

Mozilla is saying there are about 900 enhancements all from users feedback among the improvements are a revised download manager; a full zoom facility; and integration with Vista.

Also - Mozilla has made the browser more Mac-friendly so that the new Firefox theme makes toolbars, icons, and other user interface elements look like a native OS X application.

Firefox also uses OS X widgets and spell-checker in web forms and supports Growl for notifications of completed downloads and available updates.

And integration with Linux has also been included.

Mozilla adds that the performance of the browser has been improved so that, compared to Firefox 2, web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office will run twice as fast in Firefox 3 Beta 4. \

We’ll have to take it for a test spin.

The more help and resources out there for small business when it comes to marketing is always great in my book. A new blog has come along lately to help us out. PRstoreminnesota.com is an education based blog to help small businesses better understand different marketing techniques through practical advice and real life examples. The blog provides sound advice to millions of small business owners who are frustrated with “what to do� to get more sales. Sound like good stuff to me wil defintely be checking it out.
The blog will focus on strategies for web, tradeshows, advertising, PR, market planning, brand building, corporate identity and any other real life situations

Recently at work we’ve been testing an application running on a PC with Windows Vista so I was interested in seeing what Vista had to offer as far as Microsoft’s new OS. To me so far it pretty much looks the same but definitely has a few more customization(icons, views) and a few more bells and whistles (side gadgets, scrolling windows). So what OS do you need if your thinking of changing I found a great article for you to look at:

The 4 OS used were as follows:

Mac OS 10.5.1: Four out of five stars
Windows XP: Three stars
Windows Vista: Two stars
Ubuntu: Four and a half stars

This according to the IZEA Blog, a great article on focus and branding. If you have a blog stick to one topic (”strictly topical”) and you’ll make the most amount of cash.

“Branding is associating yourself with a concept, and searing that in people’s minds”

A great read for those doing PPP or not definitely some good insight into brand marketing. So pick a subject and start a blog, good luck my friends.