Category | News

I’m finally 18

Posted on 22 March 2007

Ok, so the day has come, i am finally 18, now i can drink, drive ( not both on the same time ) and do a lot of stuff legally, thought it was more nicer when i was stepping a bit over the line
The one reason i’m happy is that i met the legal […]

MySpace News - A Threat For Digg ?

Posted on 10 March 2007

MySpace will release in the second quarter of this year a news service running on the community rating system that Digg uses in combination with the Google News system, of course, a custom made one. It is much probably it will be a big competition for Digg and Digg-like websites because of it’s huge membership […]

Italicized ads from Adsense

Posted on 25 February 2007

Lately, Adsense has changed a lot in their ads, including video ads, ads branding, with the G logo in the ads instead or alogn with the Ads by Google text, the google shopping cart icon in the ads and now is testing ads with italicized heading.
Those new ads aren’t chosen by the webmaster and appear […]

Wordpress 2.1.1 Released

Posted on 23 February 2007

Wordpress has released a new version, but there aren’t new features in it, only 30 bug fixes and a few improves. Anyway, it is recommended to upgrade to be sure you don’t have any trouble with the bugs in 2.1.
Download wordpress 2.1.1 

Wordpress 2.1 released for download

Posted on 22 January 2007

Wordpress 2.1 has been finally released for download. This new version has a lot of improvements, like the autosave and other great features.
Download wordpress 2.1

Adsense has no fear of competition anymore

Posted on 20 January 2007

This month, Adsense has changed it’s Terms of Agreement and now allows other contextual advertising systems to be placed on the same page with it. They must only not look like it, so they can be confused with Adsense.
So you can use Adsense in combination with Chitika eMiniMalls, Kontera, InteliTXT, Amazon Contextual Ads, Clicksor etc.

Yahoo Acquired MyBlogLog for $10 million

Posted on 09 January 2007

It’s now confirmed that Yahoo has acquired MyBlogLog for $10 million, so it seems the rumors in November were true. More here.

Microsoft Wants To Patent RSS

Posted on 25 December 2006

The majority of feeds used to get news from a blog or news site to a reader, like Mozilla Thunderbird or bloglines are RSS  ( really simple syndication ) feeds. Microsoft states that it invented RSS and wants to patent the technology, but it’s a long shot and there are very much chances that it […]

Myspace Breaking Copyrights

Posted on 19 November 2006

Universal music sues Myspace for breaking copyrights for thousands of artists and the estimated price for the copyrighted work is at $150,000. Universal states that links for downloading it’s artists music are available on Myspace even before their launch on the market.
As an response to this, Myspace provided a copyright protection tool for helping content […]

Google offers customized home pages for small business users

Posted on 14 November 2006

Google Apps is offering something like Outlook, from Microsoft Office or Lotus Notes from IBM and lets schools, organizations companies to set up Google home pages with customized feeds, calendars, the rest being defined by the users.
This is another step in Google’s way to substitute Office.