Squidoo blissfully posted $1.56 to my PayPal account on April 7th last year. Cool. What can you buy for $1.56? I'll tell you. A 2-liter of Pepsi... that's about it. Still, it's cool to get paid and see the system in action.

Since then, for reasons that escape me, I have done next to nothing on the site and my earnings are already at a staggering 92 cents. I wonder how much I could make if I put any effort into the site.

Anyway, I am looking forward to my next PayPal payment. From what I understand, when you ask PayPal to send funds to your checking account, you can usually access your money within a day or two.

Some people make a pretty decent living from Squidoo. Squidoo handles all the boring stuff so you can focus on creating content. Squidoo then splits the profits with you 50/50.

Seems like they have a good thing going. Their current worldwide rank is 272.

Brandon

The latest version of Knowledge Base is now available from the download page! This version has some expanded search features. The one I am most excited about is -- when clicking Search a window displays a small breakdown of your search results instead of showing a message stating how many articles were found.

Here is a screenshot from 2.9.91:




I am excited about the latest version. I am preparing to release Version 3.0 soon. So stay tuned for that. As always, let me know if there is something you would like to see in Knowledge Base.

Stay tuned!
Brandon

DoyleSoft started to see an increase in organic search results in April. Traffic was consistently spiking to double what it normally was. I did some checking and the site's Page Rank was 3 at the time. After April it fell back to 2.

Well, it is at 3 again. When the Page Rank is above 2 interesting things can happen like being the 7th result for knowledge base software and the 98th result for simply knowledge base. And yes, I did get hits for the search term knowledge base despite being on the 10th page of the search results. Amazing. If the Page Rank stays at 3 or higher this year there will be a big increase in traffic.

On an unrelated note, Mrs. Doyle just brought a Wii and Wii Fit through the Front Door. Merry belated Christmas I guess. I'm not so sure about the Wii because... what if I like it? You will never get me away from the damn thing. ; )

Happy New Year!

Stay tuned.
Brandon

There, I feel better.

Gross Sales for the year are up 17% over last year.

My biggest breakthroughs came during the last few weeks.

I am looking forward to a successful 2010.

I introduced one additional product on DoyleSoft.com.

I am still working to get the "DoyleSoft store" out the door.

Good things are in store including the web portal for Knowledge Base (the PHP based ODBC connector opened a BIG world of possibilities) so stay tuned!

- Brandon

Another semester is coming to a close. I am pulling for a A- from two of my classes. Math, well we'll see how things go next week. I remember a little algebra from high school but nothing like this!  So I will be very busy working on Math this weekend. Sleep might have to take a back burner.

In the meantime, I am beginning to learn a little more about PHP. I am learning about logins and secure sessions to build up the Admin portal. The search portal shouldn't be too hard to finish. I should have a workable web interface for the database soon. It has taken me MUCH longer than I thought. It will be exciting when it is finally ready.

I also learned about port forwarding on my router. I can open port 80 on my router directed to a local IP on my laptop or a virtual machine and I can connect to the database from an external IP. It's good stuff. I like. So, I am just reading up on security to find out how to run penetration tests and make the database as secure as possible when it's ready for the web.

I am also planning to add a new feature to the app called Public. The User can choose whether the Knowledge Base Article should be an internal only article or a public article available for the world.

The web interface will be the perfect compliment to the Desktop app. Now, no matter if the user is running Linux or Mac OS, he or she can still benefit from DoyleSoft Knowledge Base.

Stay tuned for good things in 2010.
- Brandon

Issue 25 of the DoyleSoft Newsletter is now available!
Check it out.

Brandon

These are my favorite visitors. They are actually running DoyleSoft Knowledge Base on their machine and they clicked the Order link on the Menu Bar on the Main Screen.

It's a simple and effective way to gets prospects back to your site... hopefully with credit card in hand. : )

Note: I took out the visitor's IP address for privacy reasons.

Brandon

Well, as I suspected, it was very easy to implement drag and drop for file attachments. It took me about an hour. I am excited about how easy it is to use. You can literally attach 10 files to your Knowledge Base article in the matter of seconds. I also backwards tested drag and drop with Windows 98 and it works like a champ! It should work fine on any version of Windows.

It's good stuff and it's a giant leap forward in helping business owners manage their information and knowledge and that's the whole idea!

Feel free to check out the latest version @ http://doylesoft.com/download
Brandon