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Xomba : "Xomba is sort of halfway between Squidoo & Helium with the potential of making money by revenue sharing with Google Adsense ads.  " 'via Blog this' I got this email after submitting my registering form at Xomba: Thank you for registering at Xomba. Your application for an account is currently pending approval. To join Xomba please follow these steps. 1. Reply to this email with the username you created. 2. Please let us know what subjects you plan to write about. 3. Please copy your first article in your email. If you are approved, we will contact you with instructions on how to log into your account. Thanks, --  Xomba team

Docstoc is an online documents sharing website, simimlar as scribd.  DocCash is Adsense revenue sharing  program of DocStoc. I registered an account two years ago, and uploaded several documents. I associated my Adsense account and set up tracking URL for docstoc. Recently I noticed that it shows up in my adsense performance reports everyday, but with 0 pageviews, N/A clicks and N/A earnings, but I check stats in docstoc, the view number is bigger than zero. So I wrote to ask the reason, and got a reply shortly, and I am told by the customer care team that my account has been deleted: Dear Valued Customer, I'm here to tell you that your Docstoc account has been deleted.  Since your account is deleted, all your information has been removed from our system. If you change your mind, please feel free to visit our website, where you can easily create a new account within seconds! Account deleted and my information removed without giving me any rea...

There are two kinds of 'Youtube  Partners': Youtube Partner is a Channel that gets lots of video views and lots of subscribers; while an Individual Youtube Partnership means a specific video of yours instead of  a whole Channel, which a Partner may set up banners or change channel settings restricted only  for Youtube Partner, and monetize all videos. If you are invited to link your Adsense with Youtube, and have to monetize your video one by one, then you're an Individual Youtube Partner. You can't track Adsense revenue from Youtube by Custom channel or URL channel, because when you try to add URL channel, you get an error message: "URL cannot contain a Google host." So there seem to be no way to find out if your video is making money for you or not. But, some say that "Content Host" refers to the in-video ads of Youtube, a little bit weird of course,  and if you don't have other site(s) which enabled for mobile contents, then "AdSense fo...

My Ubuntu freezes my mouse when I'm typing Chinese, and this makes me believe that Chinese Input Method Editor causes this problem. But when I searched for answers, there seem to be many reports of this problem. This morning, I was interrupted by a telephone call when my mouse freezes again, when I return back to my computer, the mouse has already became normal. Next time it happens, I just ignore it, it turns to normal again in couple of seconds.

I have spent hours to customise my blog tonight, but when I almost felt satisfied with the result, I noticed there are new series of  templates called Dynamic Views. I can't help trying them out. They looks awesome. But the blog readers might have not  been familiar with these types of browsing methods.

Vosao for App Engine is the Content Management System (CMS) for Google App Engine, easy to install and update, and free to run. This CMS is currently in active developing and update frequently, seems very promising. Vosao latest version has a default template Coolblue10 for you, so it now looks like a "REAL" website. Steps to install: Download App Engine SDK for Java, if you don't have Java installed, you shall download and install it first. Download Vosao and extract to local folder. Find the file WEB-INF/appengine-web.xml and change the application name to your appspot application name.  Upload the CMS application by issuing the GAE SDK command line:  (Linux) $ {SDK bin directory}appcfg.sh update {unpacked war directory}  ( Windows) ; {SDK bin directory}appcfg.cmd update {unpacked war directory>} Beware that the admin login is admin@test.com, and password is admin. Do remember to change you password.

A simple and very nice forum for App Engine , simple to install and free to run. Steps to install: Download python and install it. Download App Engine SDK for python and install it. Download the Fofou, and extract it to a folder, and edit app.yaml, change the application name to your App name. Run SDK. File --> Add Existing Application. Click Deploy button. You will be prompted to input your email address and password. Login to your forum as admin, create the first forum. Now here is the trick for Adsense. When you create a forum, you add Adsense code to the Sidebar, for Sidebar is displayed in the left column. HTML allowed.