On Advertizing in Freeware

In the news today the analytics numbers of PinchMedia are widely discussed. PM claims that the average user doesn’t use free software for long and hence using advertizing to make some money isn’t your best choice at all.

After reading this I gave my ownnumbers gathers since late october last year a closer look and in fact it looks alsmost identical to the graph PM is showing. If you spread the money I made by advertizing over the units downloaded I got around 2 US-Cent per Unit, leaving about 1 cent after taxes! Wow…impressive, isn’t it? ;)

On the other hand the money I made with advertizing was three times the mones I made with the ad-free version of Awake. Well but if you consider that Awake itself is one of the better suited applications for advertizing since you probably use it several days a week repeatedly, this whole advertizing-experiment is a big failure in my opinion.

Right now I’m thinking about combinig both versions of Awake to just one that is sold for $0.99 only…maybe that’s the best way to go. We will see!

We are moving

well, okay. To be exact it’s not physically ‘we’…or biologically ‘we’. Our providers are moving to a new building and our server is moved provider during the night from 19.2.09 to 20.2.09. In the time between 1 and 6 c’clock (GMT+1) in the morning it could be possible that our site is not available. 

(For the US-Westcoast this is about 9 hours earlier between 4:00 and  9:00 pm. On the US-Eastcoast this timeslot falls between 9:00 pm and 0:00 am.)

Small changes to the website

After a bit of testing and struggeling I finally got the Twitter-Plugin working so, instead of having only blog-posts from time to time you may now follow me on twitter if you like and keep a tap on the development of Software-Diner’s titles. :-)

We are still alive!

Hi everone…it’s been a bit silent around here lately so I thought I just give you a small proof of life here.

We are still alive and busy working on the next releases of our software. Up our sleeves is a new offspring of MeinBudgeT that will also be available in countries other than Germany, we just released a new update for TouchScan and are allready working on the next one there. Rumor has it that there might be a completely new Version coming, something more like a succesor than an update…

Awake and Awake Plus will also learn a new trick soon: by popular request we will add the possibility to change the port. This might be of use for you if you happen to have high ports closed on your router for security reasons. If you don’t understand what I’m talking here, you probably won’t need this feature. ;-)

Comments temporarily deactivated

I just deactivated the comments function due to extreme spamming over the holydays. If you got questions, feedback or wishes for features in our apps just write an e-mail to Andreas (Skippy, Mein BudgeT) or Markus (TouchScan, Awake, Pinguin Timer).