We are currently in preparation mode; laying the ground work of next years plans. Much needs to be done here and we look forward to the potential for growth.

We plan on publishing our monthly statistics for the consideration of various advertisers and other persons of interest. We will also publish our findings on various aspects of the advertising companies we use. This page will be hosted off of one of our main domains and a notice will be sent out each month via email/rss when this file is available.
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NoBull widgets has just joined our advertising network. With the success of our TPCS web widgets domain I am left with high hopes for this little up-in-coming site.


NoBull widgets is gaining more traffic by the day! Since we have started using this domain for hosting our widgets we have found it to have a good deal of potential for widget based advertising.

• To visit NoBull widgets click here.


• To visit our advertising section click here.
  (If you want to advertise on our network use the above link)

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We are currently in the production phase of 25 new gadgets and web widgets that are scheduled to be released before the arrival of the new year.

The details of these new widgets are still under wraps. We have made some definite improvements to some of our more popular widgets and we have a few new ideas we will share with you too.

New Advertising ideas?

Yea, sort of. We recently saw a publisher using a common ad unit in a not so common manner. This is a great way to include effective advertisements into web widgets without them being such obvious advertising. We will include this idea in a few of our new widgets for testing. We will closely monitor the performance of these widgets and compare their financial outcome to other similar widgets.

I think the idea is a sound one and when we get a little more details we will share this idea with others for further input.
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"Windows-7x-large Microsoft has toned down the intentionally annoying User Account Control security feature introduced in Windows Vista. UAC is the feature that frequently prompts Vista users for permission to do something, sometimes more than once."

"But security experts say the streamlined UAC in Windows 7, launched Thursday, is being shipped in a configuration that may do more harm than good, in terms of leaving your Windows 7 PC vulnerable to cyber criminals looking to take control."

Read the entire article:
http://blogs.usatoday.com/technologylive/2009/10/windows-7-security-settings-may-leave-pcs-vulnerable-to-cyberattacks.html
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Recently Microsoft included a plug-in (bundled within their security updates) that caused complete system compromise to Firefox users.

That's right, true to their prior merits, Microsoft seems to have found a way to take a jab at their toughest competition. They have included a Firefox plug-in that has since been found to lead to complete system compromise simply by visiting a malicious website.

Firefox responded by blocking the plug-in and notifying Microsoft. Microsoft has since corrected the issue. Read more:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9139459/Sneaky_Microsoft_plug_in_puts_Firefox_users_at_risk
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Google has long been one of the top contenders when looking for web based advertising. One of the reason for Google's overwhelming success is their targeted ads. Google has recently taken their targeted ad network to an entire new level. This, as all too often is the case, is a two edged sword.


In itself this is a good idea for both the publisher and advertiser alike. The problem enters the equation when you add the 'Joe visitor' variable. You see, in order for Google to display ads to Joe that he will like, Google has to know what Joe likes. How do they gather this information. Simple - They have recently teamed up with many 3rd party advertising networks and created quite an infrastructure. Now, they place tracking cookies to track where you go, and all the data from these various companies are compiled together for a pretty complete profile of you.

How do we stop this?

Fortunately you can disable these cookies from the source. Google has even provided a Firefox add-on that will make sure your browser always remembers to block this cookie.

• To opt-out of the Google/Doubleclick tracking cookies click here.


• To opt-out of many 3rd party ad networks via the NAI (Network Advertising Initiative) click here.See below screenshot

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