A couple of days ago, I was telling a friend that many AdSense publishers have been complaining of a drop in revenue and I wanted to know if he had made any from the Eli Wong nude photo case.

He told me that his AdSense account has been terminated due to click fraud and that he noticed about 30 extra clicks per day prior to being informed that his account had been terminated. This is clearly sabotage, I think.

I asked him if he made an appeal because I read that we could fight the decision if we really didn’t commit click fraud and Google will reinstate the account if found to be a mistake.

My friend says that he couldn’t be bothered because he doesn’t want to seem like he’s begging and that he could still survive without AdSense. To me, this isn’t begging or that he will die without the revenue. It’s a matter of justice but he doesn’t look at it this way. Oh, well!

bout ten days ago, I read on the Gmail blog that the developers have come out with a feature that allows Gmail users to read Gmail messages, reply to them, star, label, delete and everything that we do to our email while online, to do all these offline.

I think this is pretty exciting times because not everyone has an internet connection 24/7 and even though I AM usually connected 24/7, there are also times when my connection is down. I opted to try out this feature once it appeared in my Gmail Labs. So far, I don’t have much of a chance to use it because I am not travelling but I can see that it is pretty promising.

However, I don’t think that this is safe enough to use on public computers. I don’t know about you but I don’t relish the thought of people accessing my email on a public computer if I failed to clear the cache of the computer, either because I forgot, because there was a glitch that caused some remnants or for whatever other reasons.

I read with amusement a recent study which was conducted on Facebook users which showed that Facebookers had an average of 100 contacts on their friend list but only keep in regular contact with a handful.

This study showed that for men who have 500 friends, they would only keep in touch with ten while women will keep in touch with 16 out of the 500 friends. For men who have 120 friends, they would only keep in touch with four while women keep in touch with six.

Well, growing up with the internet, of course I have made many friends online but some remain just Facebook friends, or whatever website, message board or social community network I fancied.

Some on the other hand, became good friends. So obviously we are not expected to be close to everyone on our list, right?

When I decided to build a charity website last year, it was more difficult than I thought. Of course I knew that building a website is different from building blogs but I didn’t even know where to start!

I asked many friends; well, I thought there were friends. A few were helpful but most asked me to check on the web. That got me angry because if I knew where to look, I wouldn’t have asked. Frankly, I didn’t know how to create website even though I read through the instructions a few times. I am just not technical minded at all!

Just now, I was recommended this awesome point & click, drag & drop website creator from BlueVoda that was made with the noob webmaster in mind. I love it that they have ready templates, logos, icons, graphics and many other freebies that we could use as we build our website and the best thing is that we do not need to know HTML or have experience with CSS.

For such awesome one-click website publishing software, I was thinking that it must be very expensive but I was wrong. This looks like freeware but the only catch is that we need to have a hosting account with BlueVoda in order to successfully publish our website.

Wow, how time just seems to fly by. I remember when Yahoo! first made its way into the mouths of everyone. That was back in 1995. In fact, Yahoo! Mail was my first web mail account and I was a chronic Yahoo! Chat user. I used to play Yahoo! Games and found that the site was a whole lot friendly than MSN Games.

Till today, even when I don’t use Yahoo! so much anymore, particularly its search engine and no longer have time to play games, I still am maintaining my old Yahoo! Mail account and in fact, created two other @ymail.com accounts.

The other product of Yahoo! that I continue to use today is Yahoo! Messenger. Although a lot of my friends were quick to hop over to MSN, I still stuck with YM and those who wanted to chat with me had to install YM as well.

It’s amazing how technology moves. I remember the days when we did not have mobile phones let alone internet connection. A friend of my father’s generation said that he would “die” if there was no mobile phone. I guess I would say the same if I did not have internet access!

Besides the fact that I run an online business, I am also a chronic online shopper and try to encourage everyone I know to shop online, especially older people who may have difficultly going out to local stores, or those who are beset with mobility problems.

This group of people could independently shop online, no matter if they are stocking up on home medical supplies like knee brace or even groceries!

I wrote that my father participated in Google’s Project 10 to the 100th by submitting an idea to Google at the end of last year. The voting was supposed to start in February, 2009. So the other day, my father was asking me if Google has already selected a winner. LOL Frankly, I don’t even remember about it!

So off I went to check the website of Project 10 to the 100th and realized that the voting has been postponed to March 17th, 2009. Knowing me, I will totally forget about it again and have submitted my email to receive an email alert to vote.

Of course, I will be voting for my father’s project because I believe in it. Let’s hope that Google believes in it too!