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Download.com announced latest chart of the most popular software downloads. In the chart, we can see that anti spyware is most downloaded software. 4 out of 10 top downloads are anti spywares.

Beside anti spywares, the P2P softwares are very popular too. 3 out of 10 top downloads are various P2P softwares.

My two cents

Can we conclude that Windows users are mostly annonyed by spywares, and their main activity is downloading files(movies, softwares, etc) from P2P network?

bittorrent, bt, download, p2p, software, spyware

Popularity: 3% [?]

The top 3 movies in Summer 2006 are “X-Men: The Last Stand”, “The Da Vinci Code”, and “Over the Hedge”. AOL’s Moviefone has a chart for current top 5 movies.

I would like to watch “X-Men” and “Over the Hedge”. I don’t have any interest in “The Da Vinci Code”. My dad bought the “The Da Vinci Code” book but I gave up reading the book after just a few pages.

[Thanks, Mike]

davincicode, movie, overthehedge, x-men

Popularity: 2% [?]

When I told you that I received my first Text Link Ads payment, I didn’t know how they calculated the price for each text link ad. With the new Text Link Ads Calculator, I have some clues now.

You only need to fill in a simple form and select the text links position, then it will calculate the monthly value of a single link. The position map is a clone of the Google AdSense heatmap.

Calculating factors that contribute to how much a link is worth:

• Traffic of your website based on Alexa ranking
• Number of incoming links (and quality links)
• Website category
• Number of links
• Sitewide or single page placement
• Link location on a page

Text Link Ads Calculator

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Popularity: 3% [?]

FirefoxIE has been updated to look like an Internet Explorer 7 browser, and changed its name to eFox.

eFox is a customized Mozilla Firefox to make it look and feel more like Internet Explorer. It’s also faster and more secure.

FirefoxIE

browser, efox, firefox, ie7, mozilla, software, web

Popularity: 4% [?]

Previously, Google released AdSense Video Ads but a lot questions were unanswered. Google AdSense blog published an AdSense Video Ads FAQ.

From the AdSense Video Ads FAQ, we learn that:

• Video ads do not automatic playback.
• Video ads are either site targeted or contextually targeted.
• For contextual video ads, you get paid when visitors click on the display URL at the bottom of the ad, or click on the video itself while it plays.
• Video ads do not earn you more money.
• Video ads can be up to 2 minutes long.
• You can watch the video ads appearing on your site.

My two cents

I do not think AdSense video ads are good. The CTR for AdSense Video Ads will be low because TWO clicks are required to get paid, same as AdSense Link Units. But, we can’t filter video ads to show only text and image ads.

ads, adsense, advertising, faq, google, video

Popularity: 2% [?]