Category — Web

The frozen message:

A sad message:

Matt is a life saver if you have multiple twitter accounts! You log in once, add all your accounts and you can start writing messages.

When a message is written, you must select a twitter account where you want it to appear (picture above) and press go go go. Piece of cake, right?

Approx. 2 weeks ago the new Facebook profile layout was announced and you can test it. Yes, right now! If you want to see your own profile click on http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php otherwise just put new. before facebook.com and see the new, clean and (at least for me) usable layout. All those app boxes are gone, gone, gone and there is more space to do what you usually do on Facebook. No more clutter and long downloading time.

Today I was gathering the numbers of facebook.com users across the countries.

And the numbers are quite interesting. Here you can look at the spreadsheet with number of users (+ male and female) across the countries. The numbers were gathered with facebook’s advertising tool that shows the approximate number of the target group.

Here are two quick facts:

There are over 77 million active facebook users (who logged in in the past 30 days) and 51.940 out of them are from Slovenia.

See the data for your country!

ToboAds is a Slovenian contextual based ad network (similar as Google AdWords and AdSense). It enables various ad formats that contain text and text with image.

Here is an example:

It has an interesting concept of charging for displayed and clicked ads. In general advertisers pay 0.2€ CPC (Cost per Click) and 0.0002€ for confirmed ad and publishers get half of it, therefore, 0.1€ CPC and 0.0001€ for every ad that has been viewed for at least 2 seconds. But here comes the question how to know the sistem is working on your site? Maybe your number of displayed and seen ads is low and you want to check how and when your ads get confirmed by ToboAds sistem.

First of all you have to know that (besides clicked ads) the confirmed ads also get you money (0.0001€) so try to optimize the position of the ad spaces on your web side.

Here is an example from princessdesign.net:

I have marked the browser content area (which can be seen without scrolling) in yellow. These ads get a chance to become confirmed if the visitor sees them for at least 2 seconds. If they get confirmed, you get 0.0001€.

On the other hand the ads positioned lower on the web page are regarded as displayed ads. The visitor cannot see them yet and they cannot get confirmed unless the visitor scrolls down.

How to see if the confirmation sistem works?

1. First download the Firefox add-on FireBug.
2. Install it and restart Firefox
3. Then open FireBug (Tools - Firebug-Open Firebug) and go to a web site with ToboAds, for example http://www.princessdesign.net
4. In Console tab the request is displayed after 2 seconds any you can clearly see when your ads get confirmed.

Here you can see that in this particular case the time was not 2 seconds but rather 240ms. While testing I have also seen cases when the number was between 150ms and 250ms.

What is your experience?