Well, after so many people were penalized with Google’s clamping down of bloggers writing paid posts and links, crispnetworks.com was not spare too.

Damn it Google. Now I have to find other online income without depending on Google’s PR.

Google, pagerank

I’m feeling the pains of the probloggers who previously rely much on the PR of their websites or blogs to generate high income. My blog’s pagerank was revised from promoted from PR0 >> PR3 and then demoted to PR2. Ouch..that really painful.

As a result, I loosing some opportunity to earn more money at PR3 than PR2. Well, many has blog about it. The recently PR update has been a shock to many of the bloggers. Google seems to have a new algorithm to penalized blogs or sites which sells links or write sponsored posts.

Anyway, like many of the problogger said, do be disheartened and just continue to churn out good content that keep your readers coming back. That’s the most important thing that bloggers should focus on. Other income opportunities will arise when the traffic is there. I totally agree with that.

Lets us move on.

How much has the recent PR update hurt your income? Share it with me by commenting.

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Great news for all! Google’s OpenSocial site is finally launched.

The idea behind OpenSocial is to have one common API for multiple sites. This help to increase interaction and connectivity among different websites. What it means for developers? You’ll have less time learning to build more applications which can be commonly used. Great, isn’t it?

For developers who wants to build applications for social networking sites, this site contains the official OpenSocial API documents, developers blog, featured community gadgets, and featured videos.

Here is the list of partners that has joined to be part it:

Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, Orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING

In the OpenSocial site, developers can also find some articles to kick start their development with OpenSocial.

1. How To Build Your First Social Gadget
2. Gadget Tutorial
3. Social Design Best Pratices
4. How To Read and Write Shared Social Data

For those who don’t know what’s Google OpenSocial is all about, here’s a screencast of it:

Google OpenSocial, social networking

Google Adsense’s click-to-play video ads has been launched one year. As to mark the 1 year anniversary, Google has introduced three new click-to-play video ads format namely the 728×90 Leaderboard, the 120×600 Skyscraper, and the 160×600 Wide Skyscraper. Previously, video ads were only enabled for the 300×250 Medium Rectangle, the 336×280 Large Rectangle, the 200×200 Small Square, and the 250×250 Square.

As it was previously, users will see a play button on these three ad formats when a video ad is available - this play button will appear on the right side of the Leaderboard and in the upper half of the Skyscraper formats. Once a user clicks the play button, the video ad will begin to play within the ad unit.

Google has not change the way of generating earnings with videos ads in these new formats. It will remain the same. When an advertiser has chosen to display the click-to-play video ad as a cost-per-thousand impression (CPM) ad, every valid impression of the static image will be paid to publisher, regardless of plays or clicks to the advertiser’s site. If the click-to-play video ad is a cost-per-click (CPC) ad, publisher will generate earnings from valid clicks to the advertiser’s site rather than clicks on the play button. In either case, publisher’s site visitors are free to watch the video. Please keep in mind that publisher need to be opted into image ads in order to receive video ads, but Google isn’t able to guarantee that video ads will always be available.

For more information, please go to Google Adsense Help Center.

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Quick NEWS: Rumours which was previous started by ex-TechCrunch UK editor Sam Sethi, are in fact true. According to TechCrunch which cites a “source close to the deal”, Google is paying Feedburner’s owners big fat $100 million in hard cold cash! The deal is expected to close in next two to three weeks.

Well, this is another strategy by Google to dominate the world-wide-web. They are EVERYWHERE nowadays. Previously, Google’s started its own feed advertisement but failed quickly. This is an obvious attempt by them to capture back the market.

What do you think of the development? Is it good for publisher, advertise or even normal blog readers? Leave your comments and lets discuss.

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