Dec/090
Image Space Media Newsletter: December 2009
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IMAGE SPACE MEDIA News for December 2009 
Welcome to Image Space Media's newsletter for December 2009. HAPPY HOLIDAYS EDITION!! WIN THIS CAMERA! As usual, a big thank you to our publishers using Image Space Media's technology in beta, and for your feedback. Your input helps us identify what areas we need to improve upon. With your help and feedback we've been steadily working to improve our technology. If you have any comments or questions please send them to info@imagespacemedia.com. in this issue:
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Dec/090
Publisher of the Week: Fashion Copious
This week, Image Space Media would like to recognize Fashion Copious as Publisher of the Week. "A fashion blog peeking behind the shutters", Fashion Copious states that, "from the creative mind comes the extraordinary, the exuberant, & the artistic events of fashion!" Updated frequently, filled with vibrant pictures, you can find the latest fashion information on art, designers, models, magazines, and news.
This blog is a must read for any fashion lover! Click here to visit Fashion Copious.
Dec/090
Publisher of the Week: Illusion 360
This week, Image Space Media would like to recognize Illusion 360 as Publisher of the Week. "Launched on September 29th, 2008, Illusion 360 is the entertainment blog of award-winning online magazine, Scene 360."
Illusion 360 showcases different types of unique art, design, technology, and video. “Our goal is to combine various art forms into one site, showcasing an eclectic group of talented individuals, thus making use of the uniqueness on the Internet and providing a resourceful guide for all readers.”-Scene360 Team
Click here to visit Illusion 360's blog.
Dec/091
Publisher of the Week: Dwell Blog
This week, Image Space Media would like to recognize Dwell Blog as Publisher of the Week. Dwell Blog's website is sleek and clean; each post only contains a title and photos of stunning modern homes and fixtures. These photos show the inside and outside of apartments, condos, single-family homes, and cool gadgets to add to your decor.
Click here to experience Dwell Blog - "Cool Modern Living | Get Inspired"
Click here to follow the Dwell Blog on twitter
Dec/091
Who is more likely to click on online advertisements?
Erick Schonfeld
Chitika, a search advertising network, has compiled data showing that Microsoft users are more likely to click online ads than any other users. Chitika analyzed users based on their browsers and operating systems. As a result, it found that Microsoft's Internet Explorer users are roughly 40 percent more likely to click ads than Firefox users. Also, Firefox users are 50 percent more likely to click ads than Apple Safari users. These numbers are based on over 134 million impressions on 80,000 sites.
Based on operating system, the trend was somewhat the same. Windows users are nearly twice as likely to click ads than Linux and Mac users. Although it is a very large sample, the data is only compiled from one ad network. However, it is still a very significant trend that I am sure will be studied more in the near future. For now, it seems as if Microsoft users are the ones to target for online advertising.
Dec/091
Is Chrome the Best Internet Browser?
The title of best internet browser has long been given to Mozilla's Firefox - but the times, they are a-changin'. Google announced today that its Chrome browser is available for Mac and Linux, and opened it up to user customization with over 300 extensions. Marshall Kirkpatrick, the lead writer of the ReadWriteWeb blog and a self-professed Firefox fan, pronounced today that Chrome "may be the best browser on the market."
Alongside the new availability of extensions, Kirkpatrick says that Chrome is faster and more stable than Firefox. Since it runs separate processes in each new tab opened, one slow or crashing tab won't affect any of the others. Who using Firefox hasn't had to deal with a slowly-loading YouTube video affecting the rest of your tabs? I know I have. The fact that Chromium, the developer version of Chrome, can run as much as 10 times faster than Firefox is certainly persuasive.
Having tried both Firefox and Chrome, I have to admit that I'm not 100 percent sold. Yes, the Chrome interface looks awesome, especially as compared to Firefox, and the browser has been running well - even on my lumbering, past-its-prime laptop. But the fact that Chrome lacks the separate customizable search engine that is separate from the address bar that's on the top-right of my Firefox browser is, for now, a deal-breaker. What do you think? Are there any features exclusive to either Firefox or Chrome that you can't live without? Or are you just looking for a fast, reliable browser?
Dec/090
Publisher of the Week: The Design Mag
This week, Image Space Media would like to recognize The Design Mag as Publisher of the Week. The Design Mag is perfect for all skill levels of web, graphic designers, and/or people interested in learning more about new design trends and techniques to the design community.
The site is updated several times per week, with helpful articles dealing with all different subjects in the web and design world. Archived posts are organized under the following subjects: CSS, Design, Featured Articles, Fonts, Freebies, Icons, Inspiration, Showcases, Tools, Tutorials, Typography, and Wordpress.
Click here to visit The Design Mag's website & here to follow them on twitter!
*Author and founder of The Design Mag, Thomson Chemmanoor, wrote an article on, "21 New and Fabulous Retro Style Photoshop Tutorials." Within this article was the topic, "Creating an Awesome Retro Collage", and the photo below was the finished collage.
Dec/090
Delivering Pay-Per-Click Conversions
Are you satisfied with the performance of your Pay-Per-Click advertising?
Entrepreneur.com just posted an informative article on putting the "pay" back in pay-per-click. The entry offers great tips on delivering conversions --not just click-throughs which can add up for new publishers.
The article outlines several different factors that contribute to poor conversion rates.
The most critical seems to be "Click Fraud"
In our experience, some of the smaller PPC search engines deliver clicks but no conversions. Check the clicks-to-conversion stats for every search engine you use, then stop using any where the results are seriously out of whack compared to your PPC performance on the other search engines.
Other culprits include:
-Content networks
-Lack of keyword research
-Scattergun ads
-Irrelevant landing page
-Sticking with the same old ad
Continue reading to learn more best practices to PPC advertising here.