The Store Front on my website got a - much needed - redesign:
Binding Designs, LLC - Store Front
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Campaign Update
An Amazon sale of $140.00 just went through and it is up to 5 items ordered so far. I have invested $27 into advertising to date and the commissions from Amazon should be around $10-15. This is still a loss, but probably mostly from the earlier few days before optimization of the ad campaigns were completed. The ads showing now are only costing about $2-3/day with about 10-15 clicks. There are many impressions for lower cost max CPCs, but not many of them yet received clicks. This needs to be left for the long term to see if it profits or not. If it returns any profit at all (ROI), then they will remain. The ads should be adjusted accordingly to help optimize these campaigns.
Also, Ads were placed on my Quiz Apps from Facebook. There will be about 500-800 impressions per day for these Ads. This seems as though it would out-perform the SocialMedia ads that were there previously. The SocialMedia ads seemed to take a real plummet over the last several months. It is averaging out to less than $0.01 per click for earnings with a low CTR. That is unacceptable. It would not even be worth placing the ads there at all.
Details of this experiment will be posted back here every few days. Be sure to check back.
Also, Ads were placed on my Quiz Apps from Facebook. There will be about 500-800 impressions per day for these Ads. This seems as though it would out-perform the SocialMedia ads that were there previously. The SocialMedia ads seemed to take a real plummet over the last several months. It is averaging out to less than $0.01 per click for earnings with a low CTR. That is unacceptable. It would not even be worth placing the ads there at all.
Details of this experiment will be posted back here every few days. Be sure to check back.
Amazon - Developer Resources & Featured Solutions
Developer Resources
Here are a few highlights and new additions to our Developer Resource Center.
Making Secure Requests to Amazon Web Services
Ensuring the integrity of requests to our APIs is of the utmost importance to AWS, as is maintaining your trust and confidence. This article provides detailed information about making secure requests: 1. Always use SSL-protected API endpoints. 2. If you are not using SOAP, use Signature Version 2, a new method for signing requests for Amazon SQS, Amazon SimpleDB, and Amazon EC2. These methods will be required as of September 30, 2009 so we urge you to read this article and migrate your applications as soon as possible.
Security is always a nice feature to have built into a system.
Manager for Amazon CloudFront
A Windows application for uploading files to Amazon S3 and distributing them through Amazon CloudFront.
Easy to use?
Stock Quote Example: Using Amazon SQS for Scale
This article shows how Amazon Simple Queue Service can be used to build a highly reliable, highly scalable application.
Interesting article.
Featured Solutions
Check out what your peers have built with AWS. These solutions include interesting web applications built on top of AWS as well as tools that help you integrate with AWS.
Vembu
Vembu StoreGrid's online backup software now supports AWS. Now you can start an Online Backup Service with your backup server running on Amazon EC2 and using Amazon S3/EBS for storage.
I am assuming this is not fast to access as it is aimed for back-up.
RunMyProcess
RunMyProcess delivers a cutting edge and ergonomic "BPM as a service" platform, enabling rapid SaaS integration and workflow applications design.
Business Process Management as a Service?
Dropbox
Dropbox is a desktop file sharing tool that makes it easy to store, sync, and share files online. Dropbox automatically backs-up files to Amazon S3 and is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
This is nothing new except that it automatically backs up files to Amazon S3.
Amazon Anouncements
Anouncement/Response
EC2 Crosses the Atlantic
Developers and businesses can now run their Amazon EC2 instances in the European Union (EU) to help achieve lower latency, operate closer to other resources like Amazon S3 in the EU, and meet EU data storage requirements when required. The new European Region for Amazon EC2 contains two Availability Zones enabling you to easily run fault-tolerant applications with the same scalability, reliability and cost efficiency achieved with Amazon EC2 in the US.
The servers offered by Amazon sound very appealing for companies. I personally do not have enough traffic.
Public Data Sets
AWS has announced the availability of public data sets hosted in Elastic Block Store (EBS), part of Amazon EC2. These data sets are available for free, with only EC2 runtime charges for accessing and using the data. The first data sets come from various biology, chemistry, and economic sources.
This information could be very valuable to do scientific research. This data could highlight trends in human behavior in order to make some prediction on what will happen.
Requester Pays Option for Amazon S3
Amazon S3 has released the Requester Pays feature that makes it easy and cost-effective to share data stored in Amazon S3. You can now configure a bucket to bill the requester, rather than the bucket owner, for both request and bandwidth fees. Also, when used in conjunction with Amazon DevPay, you can sell access to data stored in Amazon S3 either as a subscription or by marking up individual request fees.
This is not really applicable to me as I do not get nearly enough traffic to even slow down my own server running through DSL.
New SQL-like SELECT API for Amazon SimpleDB
To make it even easier to get started with SimpleDB, the SimpleDB team has released the SELECT API, which is very similar to the SQL syntax. The introduction of this query option allows developers to quickly become productive using the web service without sacrificing the intrinsic benefits of the SimpleDB model: scalability, flexibility, and high availability.
This is interesting. It reminds me of Facebook's FQL.
Featured Case Study: Channel Intelligence
In commercial applications, automated subjective intelligence is neither cheap nor easy to implement. Using Amazon Mechanical Turk, Channel Intelligence was able to leverage human intelligence around the globe and decrease task-specific costs by 85%. Read the full story.
It is always good to share intelligence!
The Office - An American Workplace
The HTML can be customized in Blogger to allow for different width body and side-bar.
For the Template that I used "minima by Douglas Bowman" (the first in the templates to chose from as of now), the variables to change are the 'width' for both main-wrapper and sidebar-wrapper:
#main-wrapper {
width: 510px;
float: $startSide;
word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */
overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */
}
#sidebar-wrapper {
width: 120px;
float: $endSide;
word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */
overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */
}
I adjusted mine so that a video from Amazon can fit in the main body and a tall, skinny ad can fit in the right side bar.
View the blog: The Office - An American Workplace.
For the Template that I used "minima by Douglas Bowman" (the first in the templates to chose from as of now), the variables to change are the 'width' for both main-wrapper and sidebar-wrapper:
#main-wrapper {
width: 510px;
float: $startSide;
word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */
overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */
}
#sidebar-wrapper {
width: 120px;
float: $endSide;
word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */
overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */
}
I adjusted mine so that a video from Amazon can fit in the main body and a tall, skinny ad can fit in the right side bar.
View the blog: The Office - An American Workplace.
Blogger Data API
Developer's Guide: Protocol
Campaign Performance
| All time | ||
| Clicks | 4,468 | |
| Impressions | 2,219,575 | |
| CTR | 0.20% | |
| Avg. CPC | $0.07 | |
| Avg. CPM | $0.14 | |
| Total Cost | $318.87 |
Monday, January 5, 2009
Wikishare - Software
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Software is a general term used to describe a collection of computer programs, procedures and documentation that perform some tasks on an operatingsystem.
Computer software
Computer software, or just software is a general term used to describe a collection of computer programs, procedures and documentation that performsome tasks on a computer system.
Software (album)
Software is Grace Slick's 1984 album.
Software (disambiguation)
Software can refer to:
Software (novel)
Software is a 1982 cyberpunk science fiction novel written by Rudy Rucker.
Software plus services
Software plus Services describes the idea of combining hosted services with capabilities that are best achieved with locally running software.
Software 2.0
Software 2.0 is a term derived from Web 2.0 used to describe a second generation of software development methodologies.
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Software
Software is a general term used to describe a collection of computer programs, procedures and documentation that perform some tasks on an operatingsystem.
Computer software
Computer software, or just software is a general term used to describe a collection of computer programs, procedures and documentation that performsome tasks on a computer system.
Software (album)
Software is Grace Slick's 1984 album.
Software (disambiguation)
Software can refer to:
Software (novel)
Software is a 1982 cyberpunk science fiction novel written by Rudy Rucker.
Software plus services
Software plus Services describes the idea of combining hosted services with capabilities that are best achieved with locally running software.
Software 2.0
Software 2.0 is a term derived from Web 2.0 used to describe a second generation of software development methodologies.
Wikishare - Theory
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Theory
The word theory has many distinct meanings in different fields of knowledge, depending on their methodologies and the context of discussion.
Theory and Event
Theory and Event is an electronic academic journal founded in 1997 and devoted to contemporary questions in political theory, particularly those relatedto sovereignty, territory, government, identity, and the politics of representation as it appears in a variety of fora including elections, consumerism andhigh and popular culture.
Theory (brand)
theory (marketed in lower-case letters) is a New York-based men's and women's contemporary sportswear fashion label known for its clean-line andluxuriously simple clothes and accessories.
Chess theory
The game of chess is commonly divided into three phases: the opening, middlegame, and endgame.
Theory (disambiguation)
Theory may refer to:
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In mathematical logic, a theory is a set of sentences in a formal language.
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Theory
The word theory has many distinct meanings in different fields of knowledge, depending on their methodologies and the context of discussion.
Theory and Event
Theory and Event is an electronic academic journal founded in 1997 and devoted to contemporary questions in political theory, particularly those relatedto sovereignty, territory, government, identity, and the politics of representation as it appears in a variety of fora including elections, consumerism andhigh and popular culture.
Theory (brand)
theory (marketed in lower-case letters) is a New York-based men's and women's contemporary sportswear fashion label known for its clean-line andluxuriously simple clothes and accessories.
Chess theory
The game of chess is commonly divided into three phases: the opening, middlegame, and endgame.
Theory (disambiguation)
Theory may refer to:
Theory (mathematical logic)
In mathematical logic, a theory is a set of sentences in a formal language.
Wikishare - typographical
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Typography
Typography is the art and techniques of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs.
Typographical Association
The Typographical Association was a British trade union.
Typographical conventions in mathematical formulae
Typographical conventions in mathematical formulae provide uniformity across mathematical texts and help the readers of those texts to grasp newconcepts quickly.
Typographical error
A typographical error (shortened as typo) is a mistake made during, originally, the manual type-setting (typography) of printed material, or more recently,the typing process.
Typographic ligature
In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes are joined as a single glyph. Ligatures usually replace consecutive characterssharing common components, and are part of a more general class of glyphs called "contextual forms" where the specific shape of a letter depends oncontext such as surrounding letters or proximity to the end of a line.
Typographical Number Theory
Typographical Number Theory (also known as TNT) is a formal axiomatic system describing the natural numbers that appears in Douglas Hofstadter's bookGödel, Escher, Bach.
Typographical personification
Typographical personifications are usually better known by a myriad of colorful and fanciful names, such as Typo fairies, Typo demons, and the like.
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Typography
Typography is the art and techniques of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs.
Typographical Association
The Typographical Association was a British trade union.
Typographical conventions in mathematical formulae
Typographical conventions in mathematical formulae provide uniformity across mathematical texts and help the readers of those texts to grasp newconcepts quickly.
Typographical error
A typographical error (shortened as typo) is a mistake made during, originally, the manual type-setting (typography) of printed material, or more recently,the typing process.
Typographic ligature
In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes are joined as a single glyph. Ligatures usually replace consecutive characterssharing common components, and are part of a more general class of glyphs called "contextual forms" where the specific shape of a letter depends oncontext such as surrounding letters or proximity to the end of a line.
Typographical Number Theory
Typographical Number Theory (also known as TNT) is a formal axiomatic system describing the natural numbers that appears in Douglas Hofstadter's bookGödel, Escher, Bach.
Typographical personification
Typographical personifications are usually better known by a myriad of colorful and fanciful names, such as Typo fairies, Typo demons, and the like.
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