Real or Fake? Kobe Bryant jumps over Aston Martin!!!
April 12, 2008 at 2:09 am | In gizmoojo | Leave a CommentWith his Nike Hyperdunks on foot, Kobe does the unthinkable…I can’t tell if its real or not! SCARY.
Simplebucket: Simple, Ad-Free Image Hosting
September 15, 2007 at 9:40 pm | In gizmoojo | Leave a CommentSimplebucket was made entirely using Ruby on Rails–apparently as part of a 48-hour challenge. It’s remarkably well polished for being put together so quickly, and offers a number of features that make it more attractive than even some paid services or other image-hosting sites that plaster your photos with banners and text-ads.
Gizmoojo is CSSRebooted and many great things to come.
November 1, 2006 at 12:49 pm | In Sponsorship, Web 2.0, cssreboot, gizmoojo, web2.0 | 1 Comment
If you ‘ve been to the site, you should have noticed that we had a major makeover for Gizmoojo! And yes, we love our new design and we can’t wait to relaunch Gizmoojo with some really cool stuff that I ‘ve been thinking about. Nevertheless, the current version of Gizmoojo has some bug fixes but overall, there are no new features that went in.
We would like to thank our sponsors – Railsplayground for provding the best ever Rails hosting for our users and also Dave Zentgraf from Kunststube for the redesign of Gizmoojo!
To allow us to keep you informed of our upcoming relaunch, I would encourage you to create a new user account and I promise, we will relaunch with some really cool features to come!
Gizmoojo on Diggnation
October 20, 2006 at 4:58 am | In digg, diggnation, gizmoojo | Leave a CommentIf you haven’t seen the latest episode of Diggnation, the video podcast of Digg’s founder, Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht from Ctrl-Alt-Chicken video cast, YOU NEED TO. Well, you might ask why? And I telling why now. Gizmoojo was mentioned on the video cast as the submitter of the biggest news of the week on Digg. With 6619 diggs, Its confirmed. Google buys youtube for $1.6 billion, this was the first topic that Kevin and Alex talked about. It’s so cool to hear Alex try to pronounce “Gizmoojo”. Really cool….!
The rumored Google Rs
October 5, 2006 at 8:03 pm | In Web 2.0, gizmoojo, google rs, web .0, web2.0 | 1 CommentThis morning, some mysterious Google screenshots – including what appears to be a mock-up for a Google Web Office product, called Google RS were posted on Google groups for Google reader. The screenshots were at this location, but have since been taken down.
So I managed to save them just before they were taken down. So from these screenshots, Google Rs actually looked very cool. If it was materialized, we can see some stir-ups to the web 2.0 startups over might just be overshadow by Google. Take Kiko for example. Google integration of calender into Gmail practically took their growth out. So if Google Rs is really released, we should see quite a few smaller web 2.0 startups dropping into the dead bucket. (Digg it)
Gizmoojo…. whats up
September 7, 2006 at 10:37 am | In Web 2.0, gizmoojo, railsplayground, widgetbox | 1 CommentIf anyone of you asked “What’s going on guys… its been a while since Gizmoojo had any updates or news.. so whats up?”… We’re sorry. We are buzy … buzy making Gizmoojo better and greater. We will have several good news to break lose to the community once we feel its approprate.
One thing for sure .. its all good. Here a great piece of news to share for now….
We are ditching our host provider – Dreamhost.. Yes… Bye Dreamhost..Thanks for all the nightmares… we are moving on. Your servers are for kids and we have grown. We like to tell everyone about our new host provide. – Railsplayground. Kudos to Railsplayground!!!! Great people, wonderful plans…Apache+Mongrels 
Best support in its class. We would highly recommend them if you are looking specifically for Rails hosting.
Second piece of news that we are sharing – we are widgetized. Gizmoojo adgent is now on widgetbox and you can easily integrate widgetbox into your blog and site. You can find Gizmoojo adgent under the money makers category, and hey..not bad for being the most subscribed under the money makers category. widgetbox is now open to public.. so go get your widgets…
We are moving towards version 0.6 and hopefully we can start 0.6 with a bang on our new host provider!!!!
Introducing Gizmoojo Adgent -Plain text contextual advertising may not cut it anymore
July 31, 2006 at 11:31 pm | In adgent, amazonecs, gizmoojo | 1 CommentIf you have been running contextual advertising, such as google adsense, on your website, blogs, etc.. You might want to rethink about it. Especially with google adsense, you might not be getting what you are at least worth for a user click. If you have a high Effective CPM, As google defines it as:
“Cost per 1000 impressions. From a publisher’s perspective, CPM is a useful way to compare revenue across different channels and advertising programs. It is calculated by dividing total earnings by the number of impressions in thousands. For example, if a publisher earned $180 from 45,000 impressions, the CPM would equal $180/45, or $4.00.”
then I would say good for you, Plain text contentxual advertising does work for you, you do not have to read on because you are indeed getting what you deserve from your website, blog, etc. But if you are only getting say $0.01 eCPM and you have like 2000-3000 page views or impressions per day, well I say you deserve better! Why? Because in the yesteryears of online advertising, you can considered getting any money from running ads as a great achievement but not with today’s online advertising market. 2500impression * 0.01eCPM would give you say what ? $0.25/day. That is ridiculous! You deserve better a better advertising provider!
Content publishers need more choices and control to what type of Ads they should run. For one simple reason, just because your blog/content did not talked about Ipod does not mean your readers/visitors to your blog or site are not interested in Ipods. That is why Gizmoojo adgent has decided to give that power back to the content publisher. You manage your own Ads, you decide what product Ads you run on your blog/site.
So what is Gizmoojo Adgent? Gizmoojo adgent is an advertising widget that allows easy integration of interactive Ads into your blog or site and direct clicks to Amazon.com and thus allowing you to earn the comission payout from Amazon.com. Interactive is the key to driving product Ads, if you are advertising Ipods, how many version of Ipods are there? Gizmoojo Adgent widget allows you to include up to 5 different product ads. Interactivity is key, so being able to read about how good the product is drives the potential buyer to just proceed beyond the click. It increases the buy-it rate if the user clicks on the Ad and moves on to Amazon.com.
So base on 4% commission on a single ipod sale comission (0.04 * $275 = $12). That is $11 if only just 1 visitor to your blog or site clicks on the Ad and bought the Ipod. That’s 44 days of google adsense revenue if you are getting $0.25/day for CPM ads.
Since wordpress.com does not allow embedding of iframe html elements, head on out to http://adgent.blogspot.com for the live demo!
Gizmoojo.com Beta 0.5 released
July 19, 2006 at 6:33 pm | In Startups, Web 2.0, beta test, gizmoojo, startup, web2.0 | Leave a Comment
With all the server issues behind my back, I decided to spice up Gizmoojo.com with a little small update. If anyone is curious why we had this release as 0.5, its because this is ver0.5 of Gizmoojo software. You see, I have tagging my development code with release version so that I can easily know what version of code is where and what is fix and what is added to the version of software Gizmoojo runs on, and when we had our first public beta, it was release 0.3. So I thought, why not include the release version on the mainpage and shortly also a link to the release notes (software engineering stuff – basically a table of what is fix, new features,etc)
With this release, I’ve changed the site mainpage a little to just always show the Portable Audio Players + a random selected department. Bare in mind this is no way how the mainpage will be, I’m sure it will be evolving as we move along and feedbacks from users. So get out there and write your very own Gizmoojo page now.
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