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1800 Flowers-- I loved your ads

2008-08-20T20:49:00.002-04:00

Today, I received notification that my 1800-Flowers affiliation has been temporarily suspended. Since I have never sold anything-- [though it bothered me a little-- I like the ad], I continued to enjoy my afternoon sitting beneath a Panera Bread umbrella. My office away from the office. I am in the process of removing the 1800-Flowerslinks from WiredPages. I wanted to provide this public

Web Hosting-- incentives, incentives...

2008-08-05T14:12:00.005-04:00

Hosting-Q-- QiSoftware's web hosting service offers clients great incentives. Included: Free Blogger Calendar with JSP sign up Free Business Listing in the WiredPages Business Directory for family friendly businesses. And new: A free ProfessionalProfile listing. Prices for services offered Other hosting incentives: Check out the plans. Technorati Tags: Hosting-Q, Blogger Calendar, web

WNBA Scores-- Oversight

2008-07-25T10:06:00.001-04:00

The sports scores widget on the WiredPages Sports [lower] page has been updated to include WNBA scores. The illustration below shows today's scores as rendered by the widget on WiredPages-- The WNBA season runs from May thru September and I am sorry for this oversight. Technorati Tags: WiredPages, WNBA, QiSoftware, Q's Wire... Join BusinessBlogs Today

Ordered Business Cards

2008-06-19T16:23:00.005-04:00

Yesterday, I ordered new business cards. What do you think? I know, the look is entirely different from any of the looks on my sites however, I have decided being a little eclectic is okay these days. If you are looking for great deals on business cards check out-- VistaPrint or ooprint.com. For those of you who read Q's Wire, you may be asking-- Regina ordered business cards? I have

Flex, JavaFX and ActionScript

2008-06-16T08:58:00.002-04:00

As you may recall I have been experimenting with ActionScript mainly used in Flash development efforts. Innovations are coming online everyday. I recently added the JavaFX module to my NetBeans installation and this looks like a promising choice for quick declarative GUI development. Here is an interesting article on Flex, JavaFX and ActionScript if you would like to learn more about these web

Where is your bio page?

2008-06-08T15:17:00.008-04:00

I am in the process of trying to generate more interest in the ProfessionalProfiles service. To that end, I am adding 30 day complimentary listings for those professionals I come in contact with-- who provide me with a business card and for whom I can easily find bios. Do you maintain an "about us" page on your site? Oddly enough I do not-- which is surprising since that is what I am looking

Just Spoke With Shea

2008-05-29T17:09:00.010-04:00

I just spoke with Shea from DoubleClicks. She explained that they are now owned by Google and email addresses were updated. She seemed to be concerned with the fact I was not more concerned with the number of visits. If I am not getting credit for impressions, nor sales why would I be concerned with the number of visits? For both urls, where I currently show the New York Times Best Sellers

Emailing Affiliate Support

2008-05-29T10:52:00.002-04:00

I recently wrote to an affiliate program concerning a problem with impression and sales credit for one of my affiliate advertisers. I provide links to the the New York Times Best Sellers and show the book covers with my affiliate links. I thought the book cover images would show the credit. Apparently not so I added the 1x1 pixel graphic the other night. Still no credit. The original

World Weather Tool Update Successful

2008-05-07T15:13:00.006-04:00

I reported on Q's Wire yesterday, that the World Weather widget located on WiredPages was not providing weather information-- see here. Happy to report that yesterday, while debugging the AP feed code-- I also corrected the problem with the weather tool and it is now working correctly. Weather.com did not provide the same license and key that they provided in 2003 when I first signed up. This

Stupid Me...

2008-05-06T17:35:00.004-04:00

Yes, I did leave a door open-- with the last round of updates. A very small one. Mistake mine. There is no door open now. AP Feed on the WiredPages home page-- my error. That said I do not owe an apology. They get why. I think they want to play hardball. Go count hits. That is the hardball. Not whether or not you can count 2 spaces. Regina Thomas QiSoftware.com Technorati Tags: Get

Serious Mistake #2

2008-04-24T15:55:00.001-04:00

I changed the code last night making it impossible for this trace-back to occur. FBI-- Someone has tampered with my sites, again. I am not even angry. When the idiot that has no life gets finished we can give it an idiot toy to see if it can break that too. FBI/DOJ-- you have a problem. You need to give that idiot with access to my sites-- its toy now and keep it out of my site. I can

Serious Mistake

2008-04-16T23:09:00.001-04:00

US Justice Department-- someone is making a serious mistake. The AP feeds-- watch the traffic from all arenas. They should cease and desist at once. I do not care which tart- VIP or demi god/dim wit. Get them off my site. NOW. I am not kidding. This mistake is not mine. PROMISE. Technorati Tags: Get your Sloop off me, WiredPages, < QiSoftware, Q's Wire... Join BusinessBlogs Today

DirMania-- Web Directory

2008-04-09T19:04:00.004-04:00

Have you ever gone through your web site stats and analyzed where your site visitors are coming from? Often, site submission to web directories gets a lot of the credit. There are many web directories available for web site submission-- however, most require a monthly or annual fee. Finding a free web directory with Pagerank [PR] that does not require a monthly or annual recurring payment is

Bloggers Help Everyone...

2008-04-03T14:32:00.003-04:00

The Google PR debate aside-- why would services like PayPerPost be so controversial? One answer: traditional publishers are concerned that bloggers are taking their advertising dollars. I think the internet spawned a lot of "new" business-- specific to its very existence. The dollars that traditional publishers are concerned about are not from the traditional source pool. These are new

Investigating Affiliate Management Programs

2008-04-01T12:15:00.004-04:00

Earlier, I had an interesting conversation with a marketing representative from a new affiliate network. I am investigating whether or not to offer affiliate partnerships to publishers to help promote ProfessionalProfiles. Over the years I have partnered with several advertisers via affiliate networks where I was the publisher. The percentages offered me in some cases were good [i.e., web

WiredPages Sports Scores

2008-03-26T04:09:00.004-04:00

Recently, I have been adding new features to WiredPages. The latest-- sports scores to the Sports page. The application [Java Servlet] will generate a table of games for each major league with current seasonal games. Leagues include: Major League Baseball NBA NHL NFL College Hoops for both men and women I have been looking for ways to add interest to the Sports page for a long time and I hope

New York Times Affiliate Interface

2008-03-14T08:59:00.005-04:00

I integrated an interface that provides the current top 15 New York Times Best Sellers. Visitors click on the affiliate link-- and are taken directly to the purchase page. The interface-- installed on the WiredPages Libraries page is a servlet and can be customized for any site-- given you have an affiliate partnership with a retailer selling books. In this case, the partnership is not with

Business Focus...

2008-03-09T21:18:00.001-04:00

I have been focusing on in person networking and upgrading my work environment. New Macbook and Verizon FiOS Internet two areas that have enabled me to leave my office and explore mobile technology innovations. I will of course be getting out more as spring nears and hope to meet many in my area via business networking events. QiSoftware offers advertising, hosting and advanced software

Pagerank & Advertising Observations -- Code Links?

2008-02-09T16:43:00.000-05:00

Of late, observations about pagerank, advertising and blogging have been discussed in a lot detail and I am sure my recent observations have already been noted-- however, I thought I would recount them anyway. I have been an affiliate for a certain online retailer for a long time. The ads run mostly on WiredPages however, I have been known to place an ad or two on my personal blog, Q's Wire.

When to say yes?

2008-02-06T14:18:00.001-05:00

Recently one of my LinkedIn contacts sent me an email about a new service he offers. I really like the service and think it could be very useful. The problem? Though some areas of the service are free others are not - and since I would be providing free promotion, I debated whether to provide the write up. The other problem with the service I noted? it could be exploited. In the end, I

Remote Access & Management

2008-01-20T09:35:00.001-05:00

I have been testing a lot of remote venues for work, blogging and just for a change of scenery. I love WiFi. Un-tethered access to all the things I work on from any location makes me feel like I can do anything from anywhere. New innovations and ideas come to me all the time. Now I can put them into action anywhere. While marveling at my new found freedoms I came across a product by Uplogix

AdSense---You cheated me. You should not have done that.

2008-01-12T08:09:00.001-05:00

Removed the last remnants of AdSense from all new posts to this blog. This is a Blogger [Google] blog which resides on a qisoftware.com sub-domain. What this means? Not all posts were republished with the new template format so Adsense ads will appear on older posts. If they want the feed for quickmaps, blogger calendar, etc. and me to discontinue using their services I will be more than

Business Depends on Batteries

2008-01-10T12:41:00.001-05:00

I am getting a new laptop computer for business so I have been doing a little research into the accessories and software I will need. I have owned notebooks before and the biggest problem-- extending the life of the rechargeable battery. Almost all of the gadgets I use for business; notebooks, cameras, phones, etc. use some sort of rechargeable battery. The digital camera batteries seem to

Barnes & Noble.com Affiliate Interface

2008-01-10T10:43:00.001-05:00

Awhile back I developed an interface for the WiredPages Entertainment page that took Billboards Top CDs and searched Barnes & Noble coupling my affiliate information so that I would get credit when users clicked on their CD selection. I loved the interface but it was dependent on two resources; Billboard and the Barnes & Noble affiliate network. I removed the interface because Barnes & Noble

iTunes on WiredPages...

2007-12-31T16:23:00.001-05:00

I have added the Top Ten iTunes [just songs] to the WiredPages Arts & Entertainment page. It is in the lower right corner and duplicates the feed found on the Q's Wire store page. I also reinstalled the auto maker pull on the shopping page and updated the copyrights. I hope to add one or two additional features in the near future. I would love to get your feedback so please leave a comment