Yeah yeah I know, I’m a bit late with the February report. I’ve been busy with real life stuff the past few weeks so I gave this report update low priority until I would have time to do it – which is now, so here you go…
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January 2011: Blog Summary & Income Report
2011 is the number of the year which means bye bye to 2010 and also bye bye to December. I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year and I wish you all a happy and prosperous New Year as well. There’s no way around it, you’re probably here to read the December … Read more →
5 Tips To Make Your Site Mobile Friendly
With the increasing trend in mobile platform, there are limitations of the website being displayed in the actual HTML format as designed for your web browsing over a PC or a laptop. These HTML formats could be made more amicable to make your website supportive and adapt efficiently to work well on the mobile platform. … Read more →
December 2010: Blog Summary & Income Report
2011 is the number of the year which means bye bye to 2010 and also bye bye to December. I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year and I wish you all a happy and prosperous New Year as well. There’s no way around it, you’re probably here to read the December … Read more →
EU’s Cookie Law still being chewed on – might end up requiring users to “opt-in” for browser cookies…
A year ago we wrote about a new European Union cookie law which would require user consent before placing cookies on a computer. A month later we wrote how the cookie law crumbled as it wasn’t carried into effect yet because of issues with the original wording of the Act. In this case, a cookie … Read more →
Facebook to launch webmail service? Would you trust them?
Facebook has been working secretly on a project known as Project Titan which the public first heard something about in February. According to TechCrunch, Facebook will announce the project on Monday. But TechCrunch knows more than that – they claim that according to reliable sources, Facebook is about to launch a webmail client, a “Gmail … Read more →
Infolinks vs Kontera for contextual in-text advertising (split test)
TechPatio is around 14 months old/young and back in the days when I first started this blog, I tried out contextual in-text ads. Initially I went with Kontera but I never got it to work so I had to do Infolinks instead. After some time, maybe a few months I guess, I decided it wasn’t … Read more →
Intro Offer: Advertise on TechPatio – $10/month
I don’t know what to call this, a bargain, a steal? Either way, I’m pretty sure that $0.33 CPM is rather cheap for either a 468×60 upper right corner header banner ad or a 160×600 skyscraper middle right banner ad, am I right? Let’s be honest here, I’m new to this whole advertisement business but … Read more →
Three New iPhone Ads – Backpacker, Dog Lover & Family Man
Three new iPhone ads have come from Apple this past week, “Backpacker”, “Dog Lover” and “Family Man”. Backpacker The “Backpacker” ad shows a college graduate making a trip to Spain and we get to see how iPhone apps assist him on his trip. The app that translates spoken English into spoken Spanish seems very cool, … Read more →
Apple Releases Thre New iPhone Ads: “Commute”, “Concert” & “Shopper”
Apple has released two three new iPhone ads. Last week, we saw “Commute” and this week a new one has aired, called “Concert” (and yet another one, “Shopper”). The girl in the “Concert”-ad has some serious impulsive buying issues – going from listening to a good song to instantly buy their entire album and go … Read more →
First Windows Phone 7 Ad (+ Fun Bonus Video)
I don’t watch that many Microsoft TV ads. Maybe because they’re mostly shown in the US or UK? I rarely see them where I watch TV, but every now and then, Microsoft release an ad that’s so bad it’s a must-see. Like the one with Microsoft Songsmith. If you haven’t seen it yet, you can … Read more →
Funny Commercials – Images
I’m sure you have seen one or two of those images already, but I received those in my e-mail and found most of them so funny that I just had to share them with you all… I don’t know if they are photoshopped by some creative people or if they are actual commercials from the … Read more →
Do You Want Facebook To Use Your Photos In Ads?
Chances are that with your current privacy settings, you’re allowing Facebook and it’s partners to use YOUR PHOTOS in their advertising material, i.e. some of the ads you see in the right column of Facebook. There’s two things you can do about it, unless you don’t care: 1) Add a watermark to all your pictures, … Read more →