As you know, I serve Google Ads on my blogs and there’s this advertisement by Tales of Pirates (URL unknown because I don’t click on my own ads and am too lazy to Google it) that has been running on my blog for ages but only today did I notice something amiss.

Look at this screenshot carefully and do you see what is wrong? The word DOWNLOAD is spelt wrongly. Don’t they have a proofreader? Don’t they have friends who let them know upon seeing this ad? Won’t staff of Goooooogle Adsense let them know or don’t they check the ads that are served by their system?

It is said that the human brain can work out words as long as the first and last letters are in place while those in between could be jumbled and we could still understand the message perfectly. This is proof of the theory!

The other day, I was looking for chat rooms for my friend to while away time since she messaged me that she as bored. I found her a couple of chat rooms but I have no idea how interesting they were, she just have to find out for herself because I don’t have the time to chat 😀

Anyway, while I was searching, I came across a website with adult and teen chat rooms. This site is different from the chat rooms that I have chatted in. Well, I used to spend the whole day in chat rooms so I do know quite a bit about chat rooms. Those were the days!

Idol Me is a forum-style chat room and not real time chatting. Last time, I loved real time chatting because the reaction is instant and the atmosphere is very different especially when there are many people chatting at the same time and although these people have never met each other before in real life, they still felt a sense of camaraderie especially for regular chatters.

Now that I no longer have so much free time to chat, I prefer forum style chat rooms. This is because all the posts would still be there for me to catch up on whenever I log in. Also, I do not have to stick around the room if I wanted to ask a question. I could just post it on a chat room like Idol Me.

While Idol Me is primarily set up to chat about American Idol, there are also other interesting topics of discussions like politics, religion, television, sports and not forgetting JOKES. We need our daily dose of humor, don’t we?

Now that I browsed through the chat rooms, I recall visiting Idol Me before a few months ago when it was newly set up and I remember thinking that there is no section for Malaysian Idol. Boy, I am surprised that within a short time, there are so many members now on Idol Me chatting away! I think I’ll be visiting Idol Me more often now!

Just now as I was surfing the internet, I was surprised to come across a company that deals in mailing lists. This company has a huge database of email addresses where these people have opted in to a newsletter or Mailing List. I think this company is very smart in collecting these data and sorted them according to their interest and what they would like to be updated on. If messages are sent to people who are interested in a certain product, they would be more than happy to click on the link in the email.

Some people may think of these as spam though, but I believe that they are the ones who have forgotten about signing up with certain companies. I know it happened to me many times before.

Anyway, they must be doing something right that they are now the largest mailing list provider in America. They could even offer their clients customized lists so that a majority of the people on the list will willing convert into buyers. This in turn increases the sales of the clients.

If I were running a business, I too would opt for a customized mailing list because it will then safe me a lot of time on approaching the wrong people.