Finally a Blogging Platform for the Mobile Web (WAP)

Most of the time I browse internet for reading blogs, checking emails etc.
I do it on my cell phone. One day I thought why not create a mobile website
or better yet blog, and started searching around. What did I find? Well, nothing
much useful. In this big world and yet bigger web, to my disappointment, I couldn’t
find any website offering free blogs like we do on the normal (desktop) web.
Moreover, those that offered mobile websites, I just didn’t like their
service. You just have to spend so much time to just have a single page up!

What I had in my mind was a service that’d offer free blogs, let me register
it from the mobile phone, let me post from the mobile phone, in other words
a service that’d let me operate the whole thing right from the mobile
phone itself. Days passed and then, rather than me wanting these services I
thought of offering them to others instead, of course for FREE. Therefore I
took a nearly a month off and created what I wanted myself. Here it is MyWapBlog.com
(You need a mobile phone to access it. Not accessible form desktop
browsers except Opera, and FireFox with addon)

A picture is worth a thousand words, here area a few of them:

MyWapBlog.com Homepage

Registration Page - You'll get your blog at your-name.mywapblog.com

After registration/logging in you'll see your dashboard like shown
above

Your blog looks like this using the "Default-2" theme

You can choose between the three themes available now for your blog's layout.
More themes will be added soon.

While I’ve sorted most of the bugs that I could find in
ten-days testing period, there might (sure) still be quite a few of them. Therefore,
the only thing I’d like to ask for is to use the Feedback Form (on Dashboard
Page) a lot!

Thanks a lot for reading! Go get your Free
Wap Blog Now!

RevResponse, Offer Freebies to Earn Money

This is sort of a paid review. You don’t normally find me doing this
but since I truly liked RevResponse at the first sight, I’m writing this.

Overview

RevResponse
(aff. link) is one-of-a-kind of affiliate network that pays you for promoting
Free Magazines, Technical Whitepapers, Software etc the topic of these materials
range from Agriculture to Software Development and from Bio-Technology to Transportaion
& Logistics. This means most content based website/blogs won’t have
much problem finding relevant offers to promote. Since all magazines, whitepapers
etc. are free, it’s kind of a Pay-Per-Lead affiliate network. The magazines,
that many presume to be SPAM, are not at all spammy rather are really useful
and informative. And as those are all free, it means great source of information
for your visitors and income for you!

Sign-Up

The Sign-Up
(aff. link) process is pretty straightforward and doesn’t require you
to fill any lengthy forms once you are done with that, they would contact you
within a few days (in my case less that 24-hours) to tell you whether your application
is accepted or not. If you have an informative blog/website, you won’t
have any problems getting accepted even though your website/blog is on a free
host.

Promotional Materials

Image Ads: Basic ads in all standard sizes.

Text Ads: Plain text ads. They also provide pre-written paragraphs.
It’d be best if you personalize it.

Flash Widget: Beside normal image based ads they also provide
interactive flash widgets. Catches eye and would prove to be useful for your
visitors.

Co-Branded Site: Really great, like Amazon’s astore,
RevResponse provides you with a customizable website with the same look as your
existing website. It is hosted on tradepub.com. It could be customized to create
your very own Magazine Catalog.

Earning Potential

If you choose the offers wisely and promote them using genuine reviews, in
other words to give genuine value to your visitors, there nothing stopping you
from earning, at least, more than traditional advertising (AdSense etc.) they
pay between $1.50 - $20 (as far as I’ve heard), which is great. Another
great thing is unlike many other networks, RevResponse accepts leads (subscriptions,
downloads of the offers you promote) from international visitors too!

Conclusion

Pros:

• Company behind RevResponse is quite old (since 1996)


• Great affiliate managers, support and “personal” feeling. They
  have a blog and a forum to share and get ideas.


• Payment via PayPal and Check.


• Accepts international leads.


• Offers that you can promote are FREE.

Cons:

• Net-45 Payment scheme which means you’re paid 45-days after the month
  you earnings reach $50 (minimum payment threshold)


• Web is so cluttered with spam that some people don’t bother for “freebies”
  anymore

I’d genuinely recommend RevResponse
(aff. link) to anyone having a content blog/website. Do check it out!

Reason For The Lack of Posts These Days...

Today I’ve got a bad news for you guys. It’s that I won’t
be able to blog for almost a month. Sorry guys, it’ I know it’s
happened in the past but this time I’ve got a pretty good excuse –
EXAMS. That’s right my exams starts 10th July and guess what, I haven’t
studied much yet! It happens…always happens…

Hope you’d understand my problem, in the mean time you may want to read
some of my recent posts that got good readership:

• 
  

  Installing
  Apache and PHP on your PC

  
  


• 
  

  Designing
  a Simple Order Form Application in PHP

  
  


• 
  

  Designing
  a Simple “Quote of the Day” Script in PHP

  
  


• 
  

  Creating
  a ‘Contact Us’ Form (E-Mail Version)

  
  


• 
  

  Designing
  a Simple ‘Shout Box’ Script in PHP

  
  


• 
  

  A
  Complete Note Keeping Application in PHP

  
  


• 
  

  Creating
  a Simple Poll Script in PHP

  
  


• 
  

  New
  Working Method of Making Blogger Title Tags SEO Friendly

  
  


• 
  

  Basic
  Web Scraping: Pulling Out Data From Google Search Results

  
  

Enjoy!

Electronics Hobby Shop Launched

You
may skip this post if you’re not a resident of India

Microcontrollers such as AVR, PIC from Atmel and Microchip are fast becoming
the choice of hobbyist for their projects. Now instead of many conventional
ICs hobbyists are rather using a single MCU (MicroController Unit) for their
projects due to many advantages they have.

In the recent years MCUs have become cheap too. Now you may easily get
a fully functional MCU from Atmel at under Rs. 70!

Sadly that is only one dimension of its popularity if you don’t reside
in those big cities, leaving some big cities MCUs are not that easily available
let alone the remote areas. There are many resellers but they either deal in
large quantities or at high prices both not being suitable for average hobbyists.

Seeing this, my brother has come up with a new Online
Electronics Hobby Shop for average hobbyists. He has planned
to make available everything (Development Boards, MCUs, LCD Displays, Programmers,
and Controller Chips etc) which are otherwise not easily available to everyone.

The site is still in its infancy (Launched on 8th March 2008) so you
shouldn’t expect everything to be available right now.

At present Microcontrollers,
USB
Programmers, Displays
etc. are available.

Let Us Grow Our Community

Click
Here to Submit Your Article

I guess many sites/blogs don’t talk about it too often but I am ;-)

These are the number of articles that I’ve posted for the respective
months, it’s clear that for 4-5 months I’ve not been able to post
much. Although there is a thing about quality over quantity but I don’t
think it makes as an excuse. Does it?

Amazingly though, the number of visitors and page views have increased
months after month.

In the span of about 9 months with 112 articles, we have somewhat formed
our own community.

I know that many of our visitors are good programmers and have the ability
to share their knowledge and expertise.

If you feel like you have/know something that you’d like to share with
thousands of other peoples on our community, then please submit your articles
to us. We’ll post it here and give you the platform.

Along with the articles, a short note about the author (including author’s
website and e-mail address) will also be published. So it’s also a nice
way to build links and traffic to your site?.

Guys what are you waiting for now, write about anything you know (related to
programming), our community needs it.

P.S. You may write article on just about anything, ex. example program, algorithm,
problem solving and in any programming language (C, C++, Java, C# etc.)

Thank You

Click
Here to Submit Your Article

!!Happy New Year - 2008!!

Merry Christmas to Everyone

Easy Freeware Downloads - My New Blog

Q. What is this?

A. This is the screenshot of my new blog Easy
Freeware Downloads.

Q. What was it about?

A. It is pretty much a freeware (software) archive. It is a
blog hence new freeware are added with brief description and feature list.

Q. Why is it named so?

A. For each freeware we list, a direct download link makes
downloading easy with just ONE CLICK, hence the name.

Q. Is it worth visiting now?

A. I guess so, because I am announcing it after having working
on it for more than a month.

It has 60+ freeware listed (as of 28-Oct-07).

Click Easy
Freeware Downloads to visit.

Hurray! My 50th Post

I am so glad to inform you all that this is my 50th post
on this blog. In the span of 57 days this blog has grown in terms of both content
and readership.

I won’t take much of your time saying it out loud
but I would like to thank all of my readers and subscribers for their valuable
response and co-operation!

Thanking You

Arvind Gupta