Entrecard link love – week 7
moneyrelations :: Jan.27.2008
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It’s week 7 of Entrecard link love. It’s that time again to give shout-outs to the blogs that have appeared in my widget for the past week. Let’s begin…
Invest with Dax – Dax believes that Annaly Capital Management is a good candidate to profit from the Fed cuts and he’s made a play on it. He might have mistimed it though as Annaly issued new shares which was not well received by the Street. Let’s see how it plays out. Good luck, Dax!
Make Mad Money Work is a blog that follows Jim Cramer’s Mad Money show on CNBC. What I found interesting in the show recaps is that Cramer believes that the market has bottomed out and it’s time to buy… Read what Cramer recommends.
Toast & Egg Me is one of the more popular blogs in Entrecard. I had the advantage of advertising on his blog when it was cheaper and it was one of my best traffic performers. Read what the effects of dropping 300 cards a day has done for him.
I ran across a very interesting video on the Sound of Gold blog. It is an interview that Warren Buffett had with Charlie Rose. Among the many things that I’ve flirted with is the idea of buying a baby Berkshire share. I believe I’m enough of a fangirl that I should put my money where my mouth is. What has held me back is the fact that the man is old! But watch the video at 22:52 min. to hear what Buffett said about his successor. Gives me more comfort that Berkshire will be in good hands after Buffett is gone.
Free Forex Training is a blog authored by a full time trader, fund manager and mentor. This blog is a wealth of information for those who want to get into currency trading. His latest post was on Fibonacci retracements.
Trainee Trader comes back this week with another great tutorial on how to simulate a financial portfolio with Google Finance. This stuff is free, so why not?
High Stakes Living just keeps on coming up with really neat stuff to buy if I were rich. My cool pick of the week? Alienware’s curved monitor! I don’t play games anymore but I could be persuaded to cast a healing spell on a meat head warrior as that thing is just SICK!
And that’s all for another week. Thanks all!
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See, the problem with a monitor like that though is that it’s still stuck at it’s native resolution or it looks like garbage. What happens when you play a 4:3 game that doesn’t support widescreen resolutions? It either stretches it or you get big black bars. Also, I would call them out on a .02ms response time, maybe if they timed how long it takes the signal to get from the PC to the monitor traveling at the speed of like, and not anything useful.
Also, you’ll now need a video card and PC that can render (2880*900*60) 155,520,000 pixels a second reliably in order to have any fun playing games. Since according to Toms VGA charts a single video card setup at 1920×1080 playing dark messiah will top out at around 45FPS, and that screen is something like 20% smaller than a 2880×900 screen then you’re in for a choppy ride.
I think for productivity, performance, and price (I assume) sake I would much prefer a setup where you have a wide-screen main panel that runs at 1920×1080, and then 2 4:3 side panels in portrait mode (so 1200×1600) running on a cheap dual head video card. This way, instead of having 2592000 pixels you get 5913600 pixels instead, but your games and things will run better and still be pretty huge.
After reading this article I clicked on the link “dropping 300 cards a day”. It was intriguing to look at the stats and I am now considering trying to drop that many cards a day. I never would have found this if I hadn’t read the article. So basically, thanks!
Thank you, and thanks again for the link love
@ Traciatim
Hey, thanks for the reality check. Hardware wise, if you’re willing to drop that kind of cash on a that monitor, a new PC and card that would run optimally with it would not be an issue. But with the games… It’s been so long since I actually played anything I don’t know what ratio these new games play at or if they will adopt widescreen. But the post does say hardcore gamers so maybe they are the ones that would push the industry.
@ Selene
Entrecard is becoming a strange beast with the growth… I was one of the early adopters when there weren’t many blogs or what you could do with the credits so we kept on advertising on each others sites… even if it was about a “monstruo monstruoso”
My personal experience with EC… yes, those popular blogs will generate a lot of traffic and I got a huge overinflated price of my widget recently when all my ad placements were going at the same time. Those popular blogs themselves advertise a lot so eventually chain droppers will funnel to your site and enhance the CTR for your own advertisers.
But even the chain dropping model might change now with Sitehoppin which allows you to chain drop without going through the widget itself but randomizes a new EC blog for you. In other words, why pay so much for an ad spot since those clickers are EC members and not organic? Also, with Sitehoppin, you don’t hit the same advertisers as much resulting in a “dead end”. I can see hard core droppers doing it.
In any case, I’m doing a little experiment where I’m not going to advertise anymore and just rely on daily card droppers and see how my traffic ends up.
I apologize in advance to my own advertisers but I do try to link love every week
@ Chris
Welcome!