Monday, February 04, 2008

A new form of advertising: Pay Per Play

Well, this was very interesting and such a late post by me is pitiful.

A few days back ,I received a mail from John Wasilewski about a new form of advertising that would ensure 100% on my traffic and for further information I contact him.


We have a new media source that is 66,000 advertisers strong and we are interested in opening up ad space on any websites that you control without taking up any of your web page real estate.

We will do this by serving a "single" 5 second audio advertisement to website visitors on any and every page of your websites where it would be appropriate for a visitor to hear a 5 second audio ad.

These ads are extremely professional. Best of all the ads will be related to the content of each web page of your website.

Our advertisers will buy ad plays on your website for each of your visitors. In essence you will be paid on a CPM basis and the effective CPM that you receive will be determined by our automated bid management system. This bidding system will always work to ensure that you are getting the highest effective CPM possible.

Bids will vary from market to market.

Test this on some of your web properties. The code that calls the 5 second audio ad is a simple javascript code that you paste anywhere between the <body></body> tags of any web page where it is appropriate for visitors to hear an audio ad.

No web page real estate is consumed. The ad is invisible and is only heard.

This form of advertising is known as Pay-Per-Play and can add a substantial amount of revenue to your bottom line without acquiring additional traffic.

To hear some sample ads ,follow this link:

http://www.netaudioadvertising.net/samples.htm

They officially soft launched on 1st of February.

I think this is very promising. Infact the support and the follow ups were simply amazing.

Sign up here

I temporarily removed my Google Adsense too. Look forward for more template changes.

Saturday, February 02, 2008

WindowsTransparency XP :The smallest transparency software ever

Welcome to WinTransXP. Less than half an MB, this is the smallest transparency software I've got to use.

Well, this site(or blog, whatever you wanna call it) will be the official support site for this software.

Official Site:
http://wintransxp.googlepages.com/

Download the program from here:
http://wintransxp.googlepages.com/downloads

Written by Bharat Kumar Molleti, this is now in Version 1.5 .Quite some bugs were solved since Version 1.1 but some are yet to be resolved. Bug Reports would be greatly appreciated.

Mail me here.

Friday, January 04, 2008

Google Talk on Pidgin for Dummies ,on Windows

To use the clichéd sentence, it's been a long break.

Well, it is nice to be back and thanks to some good friends who were bent on asking me how to set up Pidgin ,and too lazy to find out themselves, herez a "for Dummies" post.

Straight to work.

And oh, I'm setting this up for Google Talk.

Start Pidgin and this is what appears (assuming this is the first time).



1. Choose "Add" on the "Accounts" window.
2. And in the resulting window ,choose Google Talk as the protocol from the drop-down menu (You might as well choose XMPP) under Login Options.
3. Give your Google Account user name as Screen name and enter the password in the appropriate field.
4. Choose "Remember password" if needed, and choose your User Options.
5. Now goto Advanced tab and check "Require SSL/TLS". This is required
6. Fix the proxy settings (if you use your University/Institute connection ,like I do, proxies exist by default, ubiquitous ? ;) )

At the end of it all, it will look like the pic below.



7. Click "Save".
8. Done . :P

Oh well, this post is dedicated to all those who bugged me and made me write this, phew.

Update: The same on Linux, using Pidgin 2.5.3

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

" Setup failed to launch installation engine RPC Server unavailable"

Here is a solution to the BIG bugging error "Setup failed to launch installation engine RPC Server unavailable".

Normally, this is an indication of the Sasser worm or its variants. If you are using Windows XP without SP2 ,immediately install Service Pack 2 for Windows XP or atleast the patch for the Sasser Worm.For more technical info on that problem and how to remove the worm ,it would be helpful if you visit Microsft's Knowledge Base (extensive it is , I might add) here

On the other hand ,if you are using Windows XP with SP2 and still facing this problem, do the following.


  1. Verify that the Remote Procedure Call service is running.

    For this, goto Start>Run and enter services.msc and in the right pane ,find a service called Remote Procedure Call (RPC). Make sure the 'status' is Started.If this is not the case , just right-click and press Start.

    Retry the installation.

    Note: Generally, this service cannot even be stopped as it is an 'essential' service.

  2. In case this doesn't work, make sure another service called "DCOM Server Process Launcher" is also started.

    Recommended: Goto Services as described earlier and right-click on Properties. Under the General tab ,set the startup type to Automatic.

PS: Also recommended that you scan your system with Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool(KB890830).

Friday, September 21, 2007

Update to Psi faqs Part1 : From the PsiWiki

In one of my previous posts , i talked of how to solve the SSL/TLS problem with psi for Google Talk .

Here is what the wiki for Psi has to say.

** Linux users must ensure that they have the QCA-TLS package installed first. SSL encryption will not work otherwise and you will not be able to connect to your Google Talk account.


And about the stupid help at Google's website(ya, they do have a section aptly titled "Why are these instructions different from Google's instructions?"

The answer: Google uses psi 0.9.3 for their instructions. The method described here is for psi 0.10.

As of writing the post, psi 0.10 is the latest release and 0.11 is put up for testing.

A must for all psi users: Visit Psi's Website and the psi Wiki