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An Idea a Month

Since the last domain name giveaway, I had been thinking of what other free giveaways or creative promotion ideas that I can do.

Then I think why not make this a regular event. The pressure will keep me thinking and the regularity let reader know what to expect.

Well I am launching another “exciting” giveaway in a few more days. Watch this space!

Quick sort using Google SpreadSheet

Today, I was doing a post on filtering low paying Adsense ads. There was a list of sites and I wanted to sort them.

One of my notebook RAM burnt-out in the hot summer a few weeks ago and it was left with 256 mb. A few applications was already open on my desktop already so I was very apprehensive of opening up OpenOffice Calc.

Then a quick flash and I thought of Google Spreadsheet. What a quick way to do sorting!

Using google spreadsheet for sorting

Less to talk and more to come

Now that I have a few more sites running, I have less to talk about here. A random rant about spam and the collection of links from del.icio.us

I talk about Motorcycle, Online Revenue, Investing, Analytics, Free Business Softwares elsewhere. If you share similar interest, drop by.

Why so many blog? Check out my original goal.

So there are more sites to come, if you have some interesting ideas about what sites to build, I like to do it with you. It is getting less fun doing alone.

And we have the winner!

The winner just sign in. After a few days of waiting, I’m thinking there might be a redraw.

Thanks everyone you have commented. Drop by again soon. I have another give away in the plan.

If you come across any good giveaway ideas, let me know.

Making good my Free Domain promise

Many months ago, eon in Internet time, I tried a free domain giveaway idea. The response was pretty ok but it actually didn’t reach my target of 20 requests. As time passes, I forgotten about it and so do others.

In the last few days, a few more readers found their way there and I remembered it. So now I want to make good that promise.

How do I choose?

I copied all the requests into OpenOffice Calc and use the random function to select a name. The person was notified by email All participants were notified by email. The winner receives a separate email informing him/her about winning. If he/she does not reply in a week, I will choose another.

Good luck!

ps. If you are the winner, leave a comment.

My first donation on the way

Keeping with my promise. I’m making donations to opensource projects each time I get a cheque for Adsense.

This will mark the first of many to come hopefully.

List of projects in consideration for donation: (not in any order or preference)

Relaunching Openology

Openology.Org

Openology is an opensource project that I started quite a while back. The idea was to develop a PHP framework that could quickly build applications.

That was then.

It never took off. There were many frameworks and many more came online. Recent frameworks quickly borrowed ideas from the wildly popular Ruby-on-Rails.

The project was in hiatus for many months and I’m now picking it up again. I’m also throwing some of my offline business resource at it, now that I can affort.

After some rethinking, I’m transforming it from being a framework to something I can use immediately. The goal is to make Openology a backend platform where other applications can be build or integrated.

All these do sound pretty vague at the moment but I plan to luminate the purpose as the project proceed.

In the current incarnation, Openology allows you to install WordPress, FUD Forum and Wikka Wiki. Nothing fancy and no integration yet.

I invite you to take a look.

What you search is what you write

Running out of ideas to blog? Try this.

Take note of what topic you had been searching for and write about those topic.

Why it works?

When you search for a topic, chances are some people are also searching for the same topic. This works especially well if the you cannot find any good answer for the topic.

Let me share my experience.

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