One of the traditional boons of blogging is the whole comment thingy. Meaning leaving a comment and having the possibility of getting extra visitors to your blog, or receiving comments, and therefore not feeling like it’s just a one sided conversation. I wouldn’t think of any blogger who wouldn’t appreciate comments on their blog. The… Read More »
Pinging is an essential part of the blogging process although it isn’t nearly as effective today as it was 3 years ago. Back then, a simple ping could bring in an extra few hundred visitors to your totally brand new blog. Those days are probably over. However, it doesn’t mean pinging is ineffective anymore. In… Read More »
Google Adsense is probably the most widely used affiliate program on the Web for the past several years, and you don’t even need a website or hosting to set it up. The simplicity of Adsense has been its appeal all this while, but can too much of a good thing be bad? A few days… Read More »
Many people go around sprouting the term Web 2.0 without ever knowing the real definition of it. It’s a little funny, because it implies there was a Web 1.0, when in reality, there was never one. So how different is Web 2.0 from the older version? If I recall, 2007 was the year that Web… Read More »
My New Year resolutions? I have none. Not really. New Year resolutions never work, because unfortunately, no one really keeps them. If there is one resolution worth having though, it is becoming more time efficient. If you can accomplish more in 5 hours what would take someone 10 hours, you’d be miles ahead. But there’s… Read More »
Web hosting is such a good, renewable business model that even big search engines offer it. The web hosting industry is huge. Choosing a good web host is such a preoccupation with some people, that they spend entire days or weeks drifting from one review site to another, chatting with web host chat operators, or… Read More »
Imagine if each poor kid in the developing world had access to computers. That’s what the OLPC project hopes to achieve. For those who have not heard about it, OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) is a project to manufacture cheap laptops to be used by poor children in developing countries. They’ve come up with a… Read More »
Google is finally moving away from being just a search engine to a content provider with Knol, their Wikipedia-like encyclopedia. The main difference between Knol and Wikipedia, is (in the case of Knol), highlighting and financially rewarding the invited authors (whomsoever gets chosen), with a portion of the ad revenue share. I would describe Knol… Read More »
There is an ongoing poll at Mashable which the guys named the Open Web Awards. It’s described as ” A contest to find the best sites on the Web.” I thought it looked interesting to see the results, so I spent some time voting. Although many good sites were not in the nominee list, it… Read More »
WidgetBucks has finally come round to realizing that non US/Canada traffic is after all, still lucrative enough not to be ignored. So, they’re now paying for that traffic with CPM ads. After being lambasted last month for seemingly not paying out to non US publishers, this appears to be their latest work around. It (finally)… Read More »