Say hello to the new Google Maps app

Explore new places, discover local favorites, and navigate your world with the new Google Maps app. Available on Android phones and tablets with a simple, easy-to-use design. Learn more athttp://google.com/maps/about.

Note: The update will be rolled out gradually over the next few weeks (starting July 9, 2013).
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The most popular Google searches of 2012

Number one – Whitney Houston

She went to death by drowning at the age of 48, and she was the most popular search of the 2012 searches on Google. The famous singer Whitney Houston was brought to fame by her strong voice, this helped her amaze the world with one of her famous hits “I Will Always Love You”.

The second most searched thing had a lot of lost in devastation. Hurricane Sandy left a huge impact on our lives, the hurricane left thousands of people on the East Coast either without power, transportation, or homeless.

The election of 2012 was an all out brawl for the White House, this over took the television for even months before the election. There was a great importance of the election, btu this was known as the third most popular search during the year.

Suzanne Collins is only a young adult, she had the will to struggle to get her novels published. She wrote the Hunger games, this had begun a big strive for reading during 2012.

Not many Asian Americans are able to play in the NBA, but Jeremy Lin had shot into game in 2012 being the fifth most searched on Google that year. He went from being a nobody into an everybody by bringing the New York Knicks into a winning streak, the Houston Rockets of the NBA signed him.

In 2012 the Summer Olympics was attention of the world, which was held in London. The most medals that were taken home was by USA, there were 46 gold, 29 silver, and 29 bronze, which lead to a total of 104. This was the sixth most searched thing during 2012.

Naked pictures are effecting today’s society. The seventh most searched thing in 2012 was of a Canadian teen who had send pictures of herself to someone, and they had got around. No one cared to pay attention to her until she had committed suicide. Her name was Amanda Todd.

Number eight in the Google searches of 2012 was of the most popular video on YouTube. This video had over hundreds of millions of views, a K-pop song sung by a South Korean artist PSY, “Gangnam Style”.

Michael Clarke Duncan, the ninth most search in 2012. He was a lovable actor, and known for big parts in movies such as “The Whole Nine Yards,” and “The Green Mile,” and a recent television series known as “The Finder.” He died in September 2012 with a girlfriend known by the name of Omarosa Maniqault.

The tenth most popular search of 2012 was Kony 2012, which was a short film made by Invisile Children, Inc. It went viral with millions of Youtube Views, a video based off of a Ugadan criminal fugitive, Joseph Kony, Arrested.

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The Running of the Bulls

The Running of the Bulls

Today at 8:00 AM local time, the running of the bulls took place in Pamplona, Spain. The running of the bulls is the highest profile event of the San Fermin festival, which is held July 6-14 every year. Eight runnings take place over the course of the eight-day festival. Runners start each bull run, or encierro, singing a benediction at the statue of the event’s patron saint San Fermin, shouting together ¡Viva San Fermín! Gora San Fermin! ("Long live San Fermin" in Spanish and Basque). A rocket then signals that all six bulls have been released and the 826 meter sprint begins.

Runners must be over 18 years old and traditionally carry that day’s rolled-up newspaper in hand to draw the bulls’ attention. Every year, between 200 and 300 people are injured and 15 people have been killed since record-keeping began. While many people turn out for the running of the bulls, the tradition is not without controversy, as many animal rights activists oppose and actively protest the event.

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Top Paying CPM Advertising Network

In 2013 you need to try a few more channels to earn more money from your blog. There are lots of ways to earn money from a blog and you can monetize blog in different ways. For some blogs PPC Ads work great, for some affiliate ads work and for some CPM Ads work.

I think you have tried both PPC and Aff

If you pay attention to the types of traffic you are getting in your website or blog, you should be able to tell if most of them are organic traffics from search engines, or direct referrals. Organics traffics from search engines convert good to CPC, but visitors who visit your site on regular basis (the direct ones) will hardly clicks on these CPC ads. To convert this type of traffics to revenue, using CPM ads are one good solution.

CPM (Cost Per thousand Impressions), generally on publishers’ point of views are how much one can earn when an ad gets 1000 impressions on the website. Some ad networks pay $3/CPM, some $4, but the average is about that. If you have 700 regular unique visitors generates about 1000 impressions a day on your site, these people are not likely to click on CPC ads, so I’d say CPM ads are probably a better way out. Here’s few of the top paying CPM ad networks that I’ve come to know, used or heard before. If you have more, I’d be happy to add them in. Full list after jump

Adpepper

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Ampira Media

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Bardzo Media

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Canep Media

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Casale Media

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CPX Interactive

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Gorilla Nation

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InterClick

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RealCast Media

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RealTech Network

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Tacoda

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Tribal Fusion

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ValueClick Media

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Vibrant Media

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Note: These ad networks may also offer CPC (Cost Per Click), CPA (Cost Per Action) or other formats of ads and comes in various payment method. Some of them also have a minimum requirements in terms of site traffics. Be sure to read the FAQ thoroughly before submitting your application.

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Chitika - the best alternative for adsense

'Chitika
Chitika is an online ad network that caters over four billion strategically targeted ads each month to a network of over 300,000+ sites, making it the second largest network of its kind. Chitika ads are known across the industry for their ability to perform unlike any other, leveraging its proprietary targeting and optimizationtechnology - a delicate blend of “Art + Science”- to ensure delivery of intent driven ads to the right user, at the right time and in the right place. Chitika’s advertising partners include; Yahoo!, SuperMedia, hibu and HomeAdvisor, among others, and are leveraged by publishers in the network to drive audience engagement andboost revenue.

History

In 2003, co-founders Venkat Kolluri and Alden DoRosario started Chitika after leaving their jobs at Lycos. Since launching it's online advertising service in 2004, Chitika has added a Mobile advertising Division as well as a Real-Time Bidding Division.

Partnerships

In 2013, Chitika announced a multi-year extension of its partnership with Yahoo!. The agreement includes off–network search syndication, monetization of Yahoo! owned and operated properties, and mobile ad serving and monetization. 

In 2010 Yahoo! closed their AdSense competitor Yahoo Publisher Network Online (YPNO) and recommended publishers migrate to Chitika as a replacement.

In 2009 Chitika began a partnership with the b5media Network.

Awards and recognition

• 2013
  • Boston Business Journal: Healthiest Employer 2013 Finalist

• 2011
  • TiE Boston: Chitika CEO Venkat Kolluri Awarded "Crystal Award." The Crystal Award is given to a TiE Charter Member for building and growing a company from the ground up with no external funding.^[6]

• 2010
  • DPAC Award Finalist for Best Mobile Advertising Network Innovation^[7]

• 2009
  • Red Herring: Top 100 Global 2008 Finalist
  • Red Herring: Top 100 Global 2008 Winner
    Past award winners include: Google, Yahoo!, Skype, Netscape, Salesforce.com, and YouTube

• 2008
  • AlwaysOn: Top 100 fastest-growing companies in the Northeast
  • Red Herring: Leading private technology companies in North America
  • MITX 2008 Technology Awards: Finalist, Marketing/Customer Relationship Technologies Category

• 2007
  • Inc. top free services for generating revenue on your website: Best For Promoting Ancillary Products

Controversies

In December 2005, some publishers reported a reduction in revenue after auditing between 25%-90%.

In June 2008, Chitika reportedly changed its revenue payout without notifying publishers or responding to their complaints.

In 2010, Chitika removed their ads from thousands of websites. The company stated that the sites they had been doing business with were all suddenly placed under "Pending Review" or "Pending Further Review" status. This meant the company would no longer show ads on the sites. Many dropped the advertising service.^[13]

On March 16, 2011, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") appeared before the United States Senate Commerce Committee and announced its first behavioral advertising case, filed against Chitika for use of a deceptive opt-out mechanism. According to the FTC, Chitika's cookies that opt users out of behavioral tracking were expiring in ten days rather than the stated ten years. A settlement was reached under which Chitika was forbidden from making misleading statements about the extent of data collection about consumers and the extent to which consumers can control the use of their data. Further, the settlement required that Chitika link all its advertising to an effective opt-out mechanism in future. It has been commented that, “[t]his requirement of a hyperlink embedded in online advertisements is a good indicator of the type of Do Not Track mechanism that will be acceptable to the FTC if “Do Not Track” becomes mandatory.” According to a press release by the company, their opt-out cookies have been set to ten years since March 2010 when the FTC began their investigation.Chitika subsequently claimed to have made only a total of fifty-five cents from the ten day opt-out expiration.

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D7100 Firmware C: 1.01

D7100 Firmware C: 1.01 

 

Nikon just release firmware update for D7100, here the list of enhancement:

• When images captured using a flash in Manual or Repeating flash flash mode were played back with the “Overview” display enabled, flash output level was displayed in the flash compensation portion of the display.  This issue has been resolved.
• When the AE/AF lock button was pressed with Special Effects mode enabled, Selective Color selected, and the view magnified with selective color options displayed in live view, the image did not change while live view was active.  This issue has been resolved.
• An issue that caused the Viewfinder Virtual Horizon to freeze when certain operations were performed has been resolved.

• When images captured with white balance bracketing enabled were played back, a white balance fine-tuning value of 9 (steps) was displayed even for images captured with a fine-tuning value of 10 (steps) applied.  This issue has been resolved.
• An issue that prevented cursor movement when certain operations were performed in calendar playback mode has been resolved.
• The size of some text displayed in calendar playback mode has been modified.
• Display of focal lengths in 35mm [135] format recorded in image Exif data has been corrected.
• With movie recording at 1920 × 1080/24p in M exposure mode, subject brightness did not change, even when shutter speed was adjusted.  This issue has been resolved.

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The best PC games of 2013

The best PC games of 2013
Watch Dogs





Publisher: Ubisoft

Release: Late 2013
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Though in recent years, Ubisoft has been happy to milk the Assassin’s Creed licence until its ruddy teats squeaked, let us not forget that the space-wizards-thru-history mega-franchise was born of huge creative risk: a new IP that cost so much develop that, rumour has it, sales didn’t cover the cost of development until its sequels were on shelves. Now, the same gigantic studio, Ubisoft Montreal, has unveiled Watch Dogs – a game with no smaller a scope than Assassin’s Creed, combining the complex sedition of information warfare with brutish third-person action and, it is suspected, with some sort of clever multiplayer/singleplayer crossover. It’s not only a showcase for the kind of polygon-crunching power the cutting edge PC can generate (finally loosed from the shackles of last-gen cross platform releases) but it also establishes a fiction that Ubisoft hopes will see it through the next decade.
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dead space
Publisher: EA
Release: February 8
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The sudden appearance of a co-op mode in this venerable space-horror franchise may sound like the marketing department got a little trigger happy with the back-of-box checklist, but there are reasons to be optimistic. Firstly, didn’t we all the say the same gloomy things about Mass Effect 3’s excellent multiplayer? Secondly, Dead Space already showed it could deliver terror to a twosome in its (actually terrific, sadly undersold) Wii light-gun game. What’s more, the game’s roots have hardly been forgotten: it’s still perfectly possible to play the game on your tod. This one promises to add themes of insanity and perception to the traditional jump-scares and body-horror.

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