If you live in Singapore and you are quite active online, I am sure you have heard of a little greedy company called Odex by now. Yes, that’s the Singapore company going around “suing” everyone they can lay their hands on for downloading illegal anime from the P2P networks. It looks like we have our very own little Rambus right here in Singapore! What they do is to get the IP addresses of downloaders from some sort of tracker in the US, then go to Singnet and other ISPs and get the actual physical address of those IP addresses, after which they send threatening letters to those addresses. Yes, this is now the latest breed of Singapore Entrepreneurs. All you have to do is to sue or threaten.

I am actually quite ashamed of these people. They are lacking integrity. I mean using the law (or the lack of it) to get cash if your business is not doing well is kind of low, even for a Singaporean businessman.

Nowadays you don’t have to think of a great idea to start a business. Heck, you don’t even need to do anything innovative. Just buy old unwanted stuff that nobody wants and try to sell them. And if nobody buys them, blame it on illegal downloaders and threaten them for cash. So now if your business is not doing well, this gives all of you “businessman” something to consider. Just threaten others with heavy fines and jail times! What’s easier than that. You may even make more money than from legitimate businesses. Think of this, if you send 1,000 letters, telling them to pay you S$5000 each or else and since most will pay since they don’t want any more problems, that would be S$5 million dollars in the bank at the cost of a few pieces of paper and the services of a photocopier shop. I mean, sure you need to get the IP addresses first, that may cost you a bit. But hey you could do even better, start your very own Bittorrent software and trace the IP addresses yourself.

I think I will start a software company myself selling old outdated software for the DOS operating system and try to market it to the dumb ass Singaporeans. And if Singaporeans don’t buy, I will claim that our prices is already so low and with that, it means that it is not the software I am selling is crap but there are a lot of people illegally downloading software. I will then start to send threatening letters to households telling them to pay me S$5000 or else I will raid their homes. And just when you thought that Singaporeans do not have any entrepreneurial spirit, they surprise you completely.

I don’t want to shock you guys or anything, but it’s true. I hardly get any money from Adsense (the little advertisements at the bottom of the top post)! Yes, this super high traffic blog with superbly written blogs and articles doesn’t get any money from it’s advertisements! I am not lying to you at all. And if I don’t get any money from that super rich Google, I get very grumpy when I get no love. You have no idea how grumpy I get. Sometimes I bite off the heads of rabbits and bunnies that comes along my path.

So, to save all those cute little furry animals, what can I do to ease this grumpiness I have? I can take a long holiday to some beach in Hawaii or maybe a trip down to Bali? But then again, how do I find money to finance these trips? How about I try other advertising companies? That would be a better choice for me right? I mean, if I don’t have money, I can’t spend it at all. So being a very nice guy, I have complied a lits of known advertisers (usually Per-per click kind of system). They are arranged in no particular order.

1. Quigo’s Adsonar For Publishers -Maybe a more exclusive group to get into, they have few publishers. I think they should pay somewhat better than Adsense but you need to hit a certain figure each month for them to keep you on board. Well, that’s what I heard anyway.

2. Clickstor - This is a very adsense type of system. So if you are familiar with adsense, getting used to Clickstor shouldn’t be a problem. I had heard good things about Clickstor but you still need to be aware of these advertisement businesses.

3. AdBrite - Another one of those adsense styled web services. You get text and graphic banner ads. It seemed that AdBrite has quite an array of publishers and advertisers in their fold.

4. Targetpoint - Seemed to have quite a number of options for publishers like Adpoint (normal content relevant advertisements), Exitpoint (very likely advertisement pop-ups when someone leaves your site), Imagepoint (visual ads) and Underpoint (pop-up ads which everyone hates).

5. Bidvertiser - Looks like Adsense styled advertisers are all the rage on the Internet these days. So you now have Bidvertiser. What is great about Bidvertiser is that they will pay you through cheque monthly even if you only US$10.

6. Chitika - Slightly different contextual advertiser. They offer different ways for you to get money from them like eminimalls (sort of like an online shop in your own website), related products unit (should be like an contextual ad), ShopLinc (just like a product endorsement) among others. Good for Chitika to think of new ideas to help improve the crappy online advertisement industry.

7. AdEngage - Claims to pay publishers 75% of all the income generated from them selling ads. But how do we know how much the company is making from selling ads in the first place?

I am pretty sure there are many other online advertisement businesses like Yahoo VPN and so on, but we are interested in only the less famous ones. If you find out that is good or at least reputable enough, then give us a heads up on it. We are always looking at good alternatives to Google Adsense. Or if you have any experience with these companies, we would very much like to hear about it. Please share it with the rest of us.