Today I finally got me something that an online entrepreneur really needs: unlimited mobile internet

I’ve been thinking about it for a while now because I hate being dependent on WLAN hotspots. First of all, you have to know where exactly you will be going and how you get an internet connection there before you leave. Locating WLAN hotspots while being offline can be a challenge.

Secondly, even though I’m paying them enough fees already, airports or hotels usually require you to pay extra for a lousy internet connection. And then it takes you ages to get going there because you will have to follow an order process first. Nope, been there, done that, got rid of it.

For 25 euros flat fee per month you can get real UMTS mobile internet access with BASE or E-Plus in Germany. It’s a 24-month contract but who cares. You can’t beat that price. I’ve been thinking about going with Vodafone because their coverage is a lot better in rural areas. But they were a lot more expensive. So BASE is it.

The Huawei E800 card works just fine with my Vista laptop. When you insert the card the computer also recognizes it as a CD-ROM drive. So there is no separate CD, the software is on the card itself. I’d never seen this before. Anyways, after two minutes of driver and software installation I was ready to go online. I have no clue if this card and the software work with Linux. But I really doubt it.

So, if you’re in an urban area in Germany and want to mobilize your office, feel free to click on the affiliate link below and get it yourself

mocoNews reported that the Google AdWords Conversion Tracking doesn’t work properly for mobile ads. This is something that I had told Google over a year ago already. The Google AdWords Conversion Tracking is hardly suitable for the mobile internet. Why? Because it’s based on cookies.

These days roughly half of the browser handset in use do not support cookies. If you were Google, how would you know which keyword and ad triggered the conversion without cookies? Exactly, you simply wouldn’t know. Yes, as mobile phones get replaced regularly more phones will support cookies. But as pay-per-click is often a narrow-margin business Google’s conversion tracking becomes useless for mobile.

The Javascript in the Google conversion code might be another hurdle. But firing the pixel in the noscript image tag is enough to transmit the conversion to Google. It seems to me that the Javascript code is there only to display a Google ad and to collect more user data. That’s why they make the full code mandatory (see their terms & conditions).

But what’S the solution to the problem? Either Google offers their advertisers a batch-tracking service. Or the advertisers will have to use a third-party tracking service that records the click and conversion data and matches them through the AdWords API.

The best things in life are free, don’t you agree? The following is a must for anybody running their own root server: MidpSSH

Have you ever wanted to log onto your server without having a computer? Here is a cool way to do it from your mobile phone. MidpSSH is an SSH client for mobile phones. It’s a Java application so it runs on most modern handsets. It’s only a few hundred kilobytes small and available for free download at http://xk72.com/wap.

Granted, running the Midnight Commander on your cell phone screen doesn’t really make a lot of sense. But being able to start and stop services or the whole machine from almost anywhere is still a big plus. Today my Postfix email server died on me and I restarted it while shopping in the supermarket.

Today belboon made their mobile reporting interface available to affiliates. 2008 is definitely going to be the year of the mobile internet. I wish more networks would enable their affiliates to check their status with a WAP interface.

Google hat eine neue Version des Adwords Editors veröffentlicht. Endlich können mit dem Adwords Editor auch Handy-Anzeigen verwaltet werden. Eine komplette Liste der Neuerungen gibt es hier beim Google Adwords Editor.