I've been trying a number of ways to drive a little bit of new traffic to my page boonbot.com. Decided on searching the web a bit for websites offering free advertisement in exchange for having their ad put on your site, thus creating a network of people sharing ads. There's a number of possibilities but it's not a very big business it seems. I couldn't find any page that seemed really professional about it.

Many of them have some crazy return ratio such that you'll have to display two ads for every one time you can have your displayed somewhere. At a few of them, it's more fair, but none of those I have tried were any good. Some networks will display almost as many of your ads as you've displayed of theirs but wont drive traffic your way. I have been displaying ads from the service "Spottt" for a while now. I have shown 117 ads and generated 5 clicks in a few days. My ad was shown 90 times and not clicked once and many of the sites I seem to be exchanging with are placing their ads in places where visitors will rarely see them, and that's even against the rules of the service. It also matches me up with a bunch of totally unrelated sites. I write about culture, food and travel and it puts up ads for websites on how to take care of your dog or fish.

So I have decided to try it out myself. Since it doesn't seem like there is any good big website for creating a decent free advertisement exchange network, I might as well try it out. Not that I expect great things of it, but if I can get it rolling, it might be fun.

I put up a website on my old domain zunavi.dk (don't go there, it might be broken.)
It's on the subdomain http://ads.zunavi.dk where you can find the website. I just made it in a few days so it's not aesthetically pleasing and needs a lot of features, but I made it work fine and put up ads on my website boonbot.com.

Here, I'll put up an ad unit here and you can see it:

If you think it sounds interesting and want in, go see if you can figure out how to use it and be welcome to write me some feedback here on my blog. Link below:
Zunavi Ad Exchange.

I made a new blogpost, but it is on boonbot.com. Click the picture below to go there:
Keelung Peace Island

I've been getting some work done on boonbot.com and it now links around and allows me to put up blogs and images pretty easily. I also changed the style slightly on the site. I'm still not satisfied: The design is kind of temporary. I've been borrowing a lot of the style but really want to make my own: Most of all for the menu. But the outline should stay somewhat the same, that is: Menu should be in the same place, contain about the same things (and perhaps a little more). Structure of the blogs and photos and info should remain the same, but sometime soon I'm going to change the feel of the site to something more personal. Also, colours need to be used better.

All my blogposts have been put in there already and photos that are included in a blog will link to it. Kind of like trackback of a different kind. It's possible to comment, which should leave out the problem there has been with blogengine that this blog here runs on with the website not accepting comments sometimes. I programmed boonbot myself and it shouldn't have so much stuff to clock up in. If there's a problem anyway, I will be able to fix it with ease as it's my own code.

Be sure to put some comments onto my new site!

Seems the competition for reasonable .com domains is big, so I decided to take the chance and grab boonbot.com while it's still there.
I'll be moving over stuff there soon. The portal-thingy-thing is already there, so all images are now funneled through that one instead of portal.zunavi.dk that should be redirecting people to the new place.

I don't know if the name will be effective for whatever online doings I am going to put it through, but at least it should be somewhat easier for people to remember. Well, just a little compared to zunavi.dk plus subdomains. Hopefully I can soon start up some google Adsense on it so that I can be more slack on my online investments. Also, I'd like to have some fun with the portal thing soon.

For now, here's just a link to get started: boonbot.com. There's just pictures from my taiwan trip there now, but hopefully I can stuff in other stuff when I get some more work on it. For an example integrating this blog using my own coding could be nice.

What do you think of the name? Was it a waste of money? Should I have picked sandertams.com instead?

It is clear to anyone who knows what Google Wave is, that there has already been written numerous of blogs about it.

However, that is not going to stop me from doing it too. I love originality, but Google Wave is just too awesome. People have to know about it ASAP! :D

Oh oh oh! Don't leave the blog post already, if you think some of what I write sounds nerdy, Google Wave is going to be a powerfull and very userfriendly tool when it is done - For everyone to use, very likely instead of using E-mails and Instant Messenger Application.
Of course: As of right now when Google Wave is still a project, you got to be a little tuff on internets to understand most of the information you can find on this subject, but you should really give it a try because at least it seems to me as a very exciting thing, Google Wave.

So yeah: Two days ago I bumped into some webpage i don't remember, which wrote about Google Wave. I didn't really read the article (it was probably another Blog), no I searched on google for Google Wave and came to this site: http://wave.google.com/. Logically, Google is the creators of this, and since they own YouTube, they just posted a 1 hour 20min "HD" video with their presentation of the upcoming open protocol.

I have had my doubts about google, really.
They are kindof cool because the things they make are very usefull and usually free to use. They especially help webmaster like me alot with all their search engine stuff, APIs, gadgets and more.
But they are, after all, a giant commercial corporation. And giant commercial corporations usually can't be trusted too much, especially when they are about to buy up so much of the internet. The list of (rather popular) websites and companies Google own is quite long.

But over these few days where I have been watching the presentation of their under-development-project Google Wave, I've been really amased about Google.

Thing is: Google Wave is open source. And furthermore, it is also open protocol.
Because what Google is trying to do, is reinvent e-mail in a form that can support: Live Updates (through AJAX), Instant Messaging, Live Webpage Integration, Collaborative Document Editing, Plugins of all kinds like an Advanced Spellchecke, Google has also made in the process and then of course a lot of APIs.
The Wave which is the core feature of Google Wave is pretty extensive: It might be a little hard to figure out what some of the things I wrote in the above short resume looks and works like i reality, so I'm just going to urge you: See the YouTube video on their webpage please. It is awesome (and there are Danish people talking english pretty good in it aswell.)

And just to clarify a bit: Open Source means that all the code in the project is going to be publicly available for everyone to edit and use on their own websites: Actually it sounds like Google is going to give away some packages (completely free of charge), which has all the functionality, Google built into it so far, for anyone to just snatch and use on their own website if they like.
Another thing is: It is also open protocol: This means that Google will let anyone program their own application from scratch, which works somewhat similar to Google Wave, and can even exchange Waves with other Wave enables products. (Just like you can get a tonne of different e-mail server software, yet they can all send e-mails to each other. It doesn't have to be the same server software for users to be able to e-mail each other.) Imagine the possibilities. :)

Sounds wicked, doesn't it?

I don't know if this is going to be the future facebook/twitter/blog/e-mail/document-editing/online-conferencing/cooperative-project-tracking/and-everthing-ing protocol, but it could very well become a great milestone in the life of the internet. At least: I hope it is going to be really widespread.
Thank you Google. I'll be excitedly awaiting the launch of the finished version.

BTW: My blog is at http://sander.zunavi.dk/, should you be looking at this blog post from somewhere else, like facebook or feedburner.