Anyone here own iGoogle Gadgets?




Jeremy


Just wanted to know if you've noticed google putting the cpc down for adsense on these gadgets.


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"Putting the CPC down ..." -- what exactly do you mean?

There's no gadgets yet where you can declare to the whole world your Adsense stats such as CPC. It's now allowed -- Adsense only allows you to tell the world your earnings but not other metrics such as CPC

But if you are invited to use the beta version of Google Ad Manager https://www.google.com/admanager/login/en_US/index.html -- this tool allows you to set a minimum eCPM that you can accept for Adsense. With this tool, you can weed out lower paying advertisers on your site and make sure your site only shows the advertisers paying well on your site

What is the neatest fishing gadget(s) that you currently own?




redheat


Mine is a Quarrow Turtle Multitool fishing pocket tool with an flashlight. Bought it for 10 bucks and so far I am impressed that I could carry half of my fishing equipment in a t-shirt pocket


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Red, my gadget is nowhere as useful as the pocket tool you speak of, though I have what I think is a similar unit from Cabelas, and it's quite useful. But I'm gonna focus on the word "neat" in your question. This word does not connote usefulness or trustworthiness or high value. It just means interesting or pleasantly quirky.

My wife and I were sitting on the couch one day last November. She was reading a book and I was reading a fly fishing magazine. I came across an ad for a rather purposeless little gizmo. I am not a connoisseur of gizmos, and in fact I can be rather disdainful of them. I do not need knot-tying gizmos or hook-threading gizmos (I guess I am at an advantage -- I have fingers). Anyhow, I looked at the ad in my magazine and chuckled a little. I don't remember what I said, but it must have been something ambiguous like, "Huh, look at that." My wife looked over and looked at the ad, taking my remark as a sign of interest. A short time later while Christmas shopping for me, she spotted the abovementioned gizmo for sale at the fly shop and bought me one for my stocking.

The gizmo spoken of is as close to useless as you can get. It has never helped me catch a fish (and it never will). It is not worth any of the 10 bucks my wife paid for it. I never asked for it, never really wanted it. But I'm glad I have it and I carry it around, maybe for that reason -- it's not useful, nor mission-critical. It's just kinda... neat.

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