Do you know about Digital Restrictions Management (DRM)?
If you’re into anything electronic, you’re bound to have bumped into DRMed content, at one point or another.
The basic intent of DRM is to limit people’s use of digital content, wether it’s for books, music, video or any other type of content,
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The average computer user seldom stops to think about who owns the rights to the fonts they use.
Ubiquitous fonts like Times New Roman, Arial and Courier New are from Microsoft so even though they’re used freely, they’re not open sourced. Actually, those fonts are closed sourced and Microsoft has
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If you’re a web publisher or an online merchant and you happen to sell to people who like to pay for small products or services with their phone, their cellphone or even their credit card, you may benefit from micropayments.
The name says: the payments are small and meant to
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Those who shop or sell online have become familiar with PayPal and by all means, it’s an amazing service.
However, not everyone wants to pay using a credit card or a bank account transfer. A large number of individuals prefer paying small amounts with their phone or cellphone, using an
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Wether you’re looking to promote your own customized clothing store, your affiliate network or best of all, your own online web services store, you need to have as much visibility as possible.
One of the many ways you can get visible in front of lots of targeted people is to
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There used to be a time when forums were “it” and now, they’re barely getting any action, at all.
What happened?
I’ll tell you what happened: social networking.
Consider the following open source forum scripts, for PHP / MySQL:
PHPBB 3
SMF 2
MyBB
…and many others.
These forums represent the finest codesets for forums and yet,
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You’ve heard about CommissionJunction and how it’s hard to make a penny there and perhaps you’ve decided to move away from “cost-per-action” (or “CPA”) ads because of them but they’re not the only player in town.
Meet Neverblue.
They’re probably what you were expecting (but never got) when you signed up
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If you’re familiar with pay-per-click advertising, as a publisher, you already know part of your business model hangs on wether your visitors are interested enough by your Google AdSense ads to actually click on them.
And if they don’t, your revenue tanks through the floor… and you have no fun!
It’s
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Web publishers know how much work goes into a single web site, never mid an entire network of web destinations!
So imagine that on top of actually building the sites and convincing people to click towards them, publishers need to handle advertising. Fortunately, Google AdSense came up with a short
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There used to be a time when a Google AdSense ad was something of a novelty and everybody wanted to try it.
Several years later, every single web user has clicked on a pay-per-click ad, from Google or any other PPC ad network. People just aren’t compelled to click like
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