Comments on: Advertlets – now with Geolocation!

By: lynnx01

lynnx01 — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 05:50:48 +0000

How about if my readers are mostly Malaysians who study abroad? By right, they should get the ads too, right? Since they are not permanently staying abroad. They come back often and most of them come back after they have graduated.

By: Redesign Malaysia: For Better Broadband, For the Rakyat. - Internet, Broadband, Malaysia, WiFi, Wireless, WiMax, Streamyx, Jaring and more… » How can Advertlets.com and RedesignMalaysia.com help make broadband here better?

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:34:15 +0000

[...] RedesignMalaysia.com Partner Website Features Links How can Advertlets.com and RedesignMalaysia.com help make broadband here better? by Josh Lim April 6 2007 || 5:27 am News Articles RedesignMalaysia.com TM Net TM JaringMaxis DiGi Time dotCom NasionCom Streamyx Broadband Heroes Advertlets.com Hi guys – sorry, there hasn’t been much updates these few days. We’ve been very busy on another project (which is relevant to this site, more details in a bit). Yes, we’re still arranging interviews with the WiMax winners (good question suggestions!) – most are keen to be interviewed, but its hard to find available dates. We will keep you posted. As some of you might have noticed, there’s a new thing in the local blogosphera and it’s called Advertlets.com. Besides being made by the same team behind RedesignMalaysia.com, here’s why its interesting: It’ll help you make money with your blog…its good for advertisers to reach a market that watches increasingly less tv, listens to less radio, and doesn’t read much of the papers. And yes – it’s not just by the same team behind RedesignMalaysia, these projects are affiliated. Thanks to one of our volunteers (a charming and intelligent MIT graduate!), and the work of our team, we have managed to compile, match and process a list of IP address ranges from virtually all Malaysian ISPs, including: TM Net, DiGi Internet Exchange, NasionCom, MaxisNet, Airzed, Time Telekom, NTT MSC / Arc Net, Jaring / MIMOS (MIX), CNX Solutions, EB Technologies, Bizsurf, and more. With these IP range addresses, we can detect which ISP site visitors are using. You can read more on how its used with Advertlets here. Why is this great for RedesignMalaysia.com? 1. We know what ISP you are using – and can measure popularity of ISPs. 2. In future, when this IP address database becomes larger, and we can geolocate more effectively (eg whether IPs are from Kelana Jaya or Ampang)…we can recommend you the best ISP available for your area – automatically, just by detecting your IP and matching it with other visitors in the area. This can be a combination of consumer ratings (manually submitted by the users), and also automatic speed tests of visitors accessing this site (logging in their page load time, area they are in and ISP used) [...]

By: Joseph

Joseph — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:01:09 +0000

Hi,

First and foremost, I think this geolocation is a great system that can detect which blog visitors / ad clickers are from Malaysia.

Apart from that, I think in the long run, we can get better results or satistic with this system.

Last but not least, I hope Advertlets will keep on growing and growing.

Thanks.

By: Josh Lim

Josh Lim — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 07:08:39 +0000

Hi Adam – our purpose in doing geolocation isn’t to restrict Bloggers outside of Malaysia from signing up, but to give assurance to local Advertisers (in Malaysia) that their money is well spent, and targeted at the right people (in Malaysia). I hope that you don’t get the wrong idea. Thanks!

By: Syaf The Geek

Syaf The Geek — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 14:19:10 +0000

Cool, now I can tracked my readers from Malaysia too.

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:43:32 +0000

I guess that leaves a lot of Malaysians overseas out of the equation. More than 60% of my visitors are still from Malaysia even though I am in the UK right now.