I’ve just noticed that the Advertising Programs link on the Google home page is not working and is returning a 404 Error! And that’s not all Gmail is down for me. Yesterday they have blocked my Gmail account for few minutes after sending two mails with 20 MB attachment each. I wonder what these guys are doing out there.

One popular piece of advice you may hear when investing is to "diversify your portfolio".

How can you put this advice to use in affiliate marketing? Simply put, your affiliate program is your investment and there are some basic things you can do to make sure your investment is a solid one. Smart money uses diversification as a strategy when managing advertiser relationships. View these relationships similar to the way stockholders view their portfolios. You balance the risk between your affiliations in the same way you would high- and low-risk stocks. Only with this balance can you achieve long term success. Here’s how:

Build a Solid Foundation

Publishers often fail to ask themselves the basic yet critical questions. One such question is: Who are my advertisers? It sounds simple, but the answers may surprise you. There are some publishers who focus on one advertiser relationship and hope that it will grow their business for them. Perhaps it’s the lure of a trend or a super hot product. And just like a high-risk stock, it may pay off in the short run. However, when the trends change or the hot new product is old news, those publishers are forced to abandon their efforts. This kind of "all your eggs in one basket" strategy will seldom bring success in the long term.

On the flip side there are publishers who have tried to join with every advertiser in our network only to succumb to disorganization and missed opportunity. There’s a difference between diversification and disorganization. Trying to be too many things to too many advertisers lacks focus and an inbox overflowing with messages will only result in missed opportunities.

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Google has just announced its official blog the launch of the beta of its AdSense for games, known as Google In-game advertising. With this development, Google intends to follow in the wake of advergaming, in which Microsoft seemed to have won the game.

For now it seems that the AdSense system for games is only available in sets of pages whose traffic originates in 80% of the U.S. or the UK. The game in question must receive at least 500,000 items daily. The system seems simple, because the ad was loaded before playing, going from level or after the Game Over screen. This leaves Google as a choice of carrier. In addition, ads can be either graphics or in text and even video. Internet advertising seems to be copada in its entirety by the same company. We will see what lies ahead. Here I leave with you the promotional video of AdSense for online games that appear on the official Google AdSense blog.

If there is anything on the web where users spend time, Google will eventually offer the possibility of its advertising system there AdSense for online games can become a form of advertising that cares less user experience of those who have learned, interstitial allows up before you play, during or after.

Curiously, in the field of video games is Microsoft who takes the lead after the purchase of Massive, articulating a system of traditional ads within the game and not on the "casual games flash on the web" as Google has done.

The Blue Screen of Death (also known as a stop error, BSoD, bluescreen, or Blue Screen of Doom) is an error screen displayed by some operating systems, most notably Microsoft Windows, after encountering a critical system error which can cause the system to shut down, to prevent damage.

So you believe that you are the only one who is getting that error screen? You’re not alone!

Wow! 39,161 Days And 10 Hours to copy a single file on Windows Vista! Microsoft! What exactly have you done to Vista?