gHacks technology news » anniversary http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:43:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Ghacks Two Year Anniversary http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/03/ghacks-two-year-anniversary/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/03/ghacks-two-year-anniversary/#comments Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:40:53 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/03/ghacks-two-year-anniversary/ What began as a blog to promote a software that a friend of mine has written turned to be into something bigger – much bigger. I never thought about the possibility to make a living from blogging in the beginning but I can tell you that much: it is possible to do that.

I met a lot of friendly, nice people on my way. I don’t have the time nor memory to mention all of them but I would like to take the time and thank several people in particular who have helped or supported me in one way or the other. In no particular order, here they come:

Individuals:

You I would like to thank you, each and everyone of you who support me by visiting my blog, commenting on articles, sending in tips, reporting errors or any other way of aiding my journey into problogger heaven. I would not be here without your support.

Everton from Connected Internet My blogging partner. We share the knowledge we gather. Be it new advertising schemes, plugins, tricks, tips and everything else. I would not be where I’m without him.

Tobey He is sending in lots of interesting stories that I publish at ghacks under my name. His interests are a little different from mine and I’m happy that he supports me especially when I’m on holiday ;)

Thunder7 Sends me interesting links from time to time which is a real help as well.

Alain Mevellec a nice and helpful guy who helped me create the old ghacks logos.

Syber Wo is running the Chinese version of Ghacks. He is doing a tremendous job translating almost any article into Chinese. A real workaholic.

Jonathan is translating my articles into Spanish on the Spanish version of my blog.

Eddie Corbano A friend who recently began blogging with whom I discuss everything related to blogging.

Sammy and Stefan Colleagues from work. We discuss a lot of blogging related matters there.

Companies:

Google I would not be where I’m without Google. They send the majority of traffic to my site and pay me the most money from advertisement.

Text-Link-Ads< A friendly helpful company that I love to deal with.

Tribalfusion A cpm company that I’m a member of.

Intellitxt The links with double underlines ? They are my second biggest earner and I’m looking forward to implement their code on my other websites.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/03/ghacks-two-year-anniversary/feed/ 16 Anniversary coming up http://www.ghacks.net/2006/09/08/anniversary-coming-up/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/09/08/anniversary-coming-up/#comments Fri, 08 Sep 2006 07:06:04 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/09/08/anniversary-coming-up/ I’m ready to celebrate the first anniversary of my website in less than four weeks with you. Without you this site would be nothing, what good is a blog that no one reads, that no one comments on ? I would like to tell you more about yourself, as stupid as it sounds – I took a long glance at my sites stats and will present some interesting figures, believe me.

My readers love firefox, 54.7% of you are using Firefox with another 2,6 using Mozilla or beta versions of the upcoming Firefox 2.0 browser. The Internet Explorer makes it to 34.1% and Opera to 4.2%. The large number for Internet Explorer comes mostly from search engines, if you are a visiting my site regularly you most likely are using Firefox.

85.5% are using a Windows operating system, 8% Linux and 4.7% Mac Os. Most are using Windows and I do not see that this will be changing in the near future. I plan to buy a new pc at the end of this year and this one will solely run on either free bsd or a linux distribution. I will create a blog about it, my steps into the Linux world and write about all the problems and solutions I have faced.

Most of you stay between 0 and 30 seconds, reading one article I presume but about 5% of all visitors stay more than 30 minutes on my website. Not sure if they are simply forgetting to close it or are really using my website though ;).
I would like to remind everyone that the Ghacks First Anniversary Competition is still running. To sum it up: Write an article, I publish it, the best three articles recieve a paypal payment of 50$, 30$ and 20$. This competition ends the day before the anniversary which is 2. October 2006.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2006/09/08/anniversary-coming-up/feed/ 13 Ghacks first Anniversary Competition http://www.ghacks.net/2006/08/09/ghacks-first-anniversary-competition/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/08/09/ghacks-first-anniversary-competition/#comments Wed, 09 Aug 2006 07:05:48 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/08/09/ghacks-first-anniversary-competition/ Our first anniversary is approaching fast and I thought it would be a nice idea to have a competition to celebrate this event. I hope we see lots of people participating in the competition. Let me give you a rough overview of what I have in mind:

Write an article for ghacks.net

Write an article that has a minimum of 200 words and submit it to my email address (will be listed at the end of the article). The article that you submitted will be posted on ghacks.net if it meets the guidelines (no spam, illegal, gambling, sex and the like). I will contact you asap if the article was rejected and will state the cause.


If the article gets approved it will be immediately published, full credits will be given to the author at the end of the article. This is a great way to promote a website as well. I post your name and a link to your website if you have one on my site.

I will select the three best articles who will receive each 50$, 30$ and 20$. The money will be transferred using paypal because this is the system I´am using. I can also send it to you by snail mail, highly insecure but nevertheless a solution if you are not using paypal.

The competition ends 02.10.2006, one day before the first anniversary. Winners will be named on the day of the anniversary. Everyone else will be thanked for their contributions as well. That is, if I receive more than three, hehe.

email to send contributions to: ghacks (at) mysega (.) de

If you have further questions or need advice on an article feel free to contact me at the same email address.

Let the Games Begin.

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