Google Adsense - This is defiantly the most popular program out there, easy to use and almost everyone is accepted, all you need to do is just implement the code they give you straight to your site, and you get paid a percentage of everytime someone clicks a certain advertisement, if you are not farmiliar with these type of ads, they are usually the ads on the side with 4 or 5 text advertisements.

Chitika eMiniMalls - Another popular advertisement program out there, many bloggers praise this porgrams for its great payout rate compared to google’s adsense, I for one think the difference is that big, however you do get slightly bigger payout, these ads are more graphical and display usually electronic products. (more…)

Googles just recently launched Picasa web albums, I guess they are trying to take on Flickr which is very similar to this.  Although this is still in preview, so you need to apply for an invititation it took for me about one week.  Its an oinline photo storage, with a web 2.0 look allowing you to add tags to your photos for better searching capabalities.  Something that Picasa has better than Flickr is that you can download the standalone Picasa 2 programs to organize in your desktop then upload to the web or just do it all online.  (more…)

Many people know about google maps, along with google earth, but some of us don’t really know that their are other alternatives for maps, for instance there is map quest, yahoo maps, but the biggest competition for google is most likely going to be from Microsoft. They recently made a map service called local.live.com The location I chose to compare is the Empire State Building in NYC, on 5 ave. and 34st. Detail Both Google and Local Live provide aerial satellite images, however only Local Live provides a birds eye view of the images, which is taken at an angle as opposed to Google that is just taken from above. (more…)

The Blog Joint.com list of the Top 10 open source programs. I guarantee that most of you used some of these programs in the past, and if you haven’t you probably will use it in the future and if you know any programming you can make it even better. Thanks to all those people working hard in the open source community. (more…)

If you use Gmail for your emails and have your own domain name, you will love gmail for hosted domains, which basically means that you can view your domain name email from the gmail interface with 2 gigabytes for each account and upto 25 accounts. This is one of those type of invites that you need to apply for in google. You can apply for a beta account here. Once you are accepted to this, google will give you all the steps needed to make it work all you have to do is just change a few MX records. (more…)

Google has yet launched another of their web products, but not officially. It’s the google spreadsheets. An Ajax based spreadsheets, which isn’t available to the general public yet, but you can try out if you ask for an invitation to try it out. For now their aren’t that many features however you can open up and save as an excel file or, import CSV, XLS, and HTML formats. You can have multiple people share a particular file, and chat with them through google’s services, and they can change the file and update certain things while still communicating in the chat feature. (more…)