Some useful links for the day:

• Mashable has an article on AdBrite serving advertisements for Facebook applications. This gives Facebook app developers a new option for monetizing their efforts.
• I came across an article on “Gray Googlers“, older people who are earning sizable income from AdSense. Very interesting indeed!
• Microsoft’s answer to Google Analytics is called Project Gatineau and is now in Private Beta for US users. Get your invite here.
• DownloadSquad has an article on Disqus which helps you manage your blog comments. It seems interesting as per what is mentioned on DownloadSquad. I did visit the Disqus website only to keep getting “Oops, that wasn’t supposed to happen.” errors! :-(

The data isn’t something that is out of the blue, but it is a very nice consolidation of metrics that one would otherwise obtain from multiple websites.

Check it out…

I have been using Kontera ContentLink on most of my websites and can vouch with confidence about their service, support, and the wonderful pay checks that you can get month after month!

On this blog, all the double underlined links in orange are generated using Kontera ContentLink.

If you have not signed up with Kontera yet, do so right away and reap in rich rewards. There are minimum program entry requirements which you can check on their website.

I am not sure about the credibility of this “top list” though.

Jim Kukral’s long awaited Scratch/Back has been launched. You can see the “Top Sites” widget on the right sidebar of this blog. Its an interesting concept built for “fun” as Jim has mentioned at the ScratchBack blog. Its still in Beta though. The website interface is simple and easy to use.

All links created do not pass an “page rank juice” since they are all “nofollow”. This ensure that these links do not come under the category of “selling text links”.

I’ve installed it with 10 “spots” available for purchase for just $1.00 per link.  Yes! You heard that right. So go ahead and get into my “Top Sites” widget right away.

Online Presence has progressed from a PR3 blog to PR4. Not all the data centers show it as PR4 yet, but I’m hoping it sticks! :-)

One of the concerns we’ve heard from many of you has been the slow loading times of our widgets. We really appreciate your feedback and comments in helping us improve in this area. So, today we addressed this issue by rolling out new code that ultimately delivers faster loading widgets.

It is very important to note that this update will require action on your part. You will need to update code of your existing widgets for the speedier load times to take affect on your site, blog or network. Know that changing the code will not impact earnings for any of your widgets.

Here are the two steps you’ll need to follow:

1. Sign-in to WidgetBucks and go to My Widgets
2. For each active widget, simply edit and re-copy the code block into your site or blog (the same steps you went through when you created the widgets originally)

Another option for updating code is to utilize the new categories and ad sizes we’ve incorporated over the last few weeks. Modifying a widget’s size or category — or creating an entirely new widget for that matter — will generate the new code that can then be re-copied to your site or blog.

I updated the code for one of my websites, and unfortunately I’ve not really seen any improvements in load time. :-(

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