Xenocode Browser Sandbox is a great tool to test web pages in different browsers. You need not use 3 different machines to test websites in IE6,IE7 and IE8. You can run any number of browsers from your machine.
All you have to do is go to www.xenocode.com/Browsers , click on the browser’s icon which you have to run. They will prompt you to install a plugin (spoon plugin). After installing the plugin, restart your browser and click on the browser’s icon again and the browser will be started.
You can run IE6, IE7 and IE8 simultaneously.
Plus Points : Great tool. Saves a lot of time. You can start the browsers from Firefox also.
Drawbacks : They frequently update the plugin. So you will have to install the latest plugin frequently. And the plugin exe will be run every time you start Windows. You will have to manually remove that from msconfig. And some text boxes in IE6 wont work properly when run through Xenocode. I have seen IE6 crashes also.
Here is a very short review of Ozone Media Ad Network which is based in India.
For Publishers : If you are trying to replace Google Adsense with some other high paying Ad Networks, then do not go for Ozone Media. Their CPC and CPM rates are too low to mention.
This is my personal opinion. May be for a website with huge traffic, the rates will be different.
There are some problems with the banner ad placements also. Sometimes the banner wont be positioned correctly in the page. I noticed that the text banner ads were shifted towards left side. And some 728×90 banner ads were shifted downwards.
Here is a short review of Komli Media‘s audience measurement service Vizisense.com
The easiest way for an India based web startup to know the visitors demographics and audience characteristics is to use Vizisense.com
We can look up the details of most of the popular sites in India by visiting vizisense.com
For more accurate traffic details and for getting listed in vizisense.com(if you are too small), add a small Javascript script to every pages of your website. Read vizisense methodology.
The following data are available from vizisense.com
Demographic Data
- Gender
- Age
- Marital Status
- Income
- Education
Traffic Data
- Geography
- Top Cities
- Top States
- Countries
- Site Visits
- Page Views
- Visits
- Unique Users
See the traffic and demographic details of Bikes4Sale.in
Once you sign in you can add the Advertising and Sales information of your website which will be available for advertisers. And for advertisers, you can create different advertising plans using vizisense Media Mix.
Pluspoints : Very very easy to use (even better than Google Analytics). Gives an overall information about the website without digging deep into minor details. For small publishers, vizisense data can be added to their media kit. Advertisers can easily find the best sites based on category and target group.
Drawbacks : Sometimes the vizisense tags increase the page load times. They do not provide any information about the users browsers and operation systems. And the product is still a little buggy. May be thats why it is still in beta.
And they publish the Top Sites in India across different categories every month.
