Archive for October, 2005

10/31/2005 ↓

  • WP Theme: fScreen

    WP Theme: fScreen Dark Two column Next(Step) like theme for Wordpress. (0)
  • BloxPress - a modular ajax wordpress theme

    BloxPress - a modular ajax wordpress theme: Found this one quite by accident. Bloxpress starts out being an AJAXified Wordpress theme but promises to extend much futher with extra themes, widgets and the like. I really like the moveable menu items. However, AJAX scares me to some extent. (4)
  • Another Wordpress Theme Browser

    Another Wordpress Theme Browser I had not seen this one yet, but it looks like this one is stocked with close to three hundred themes with nice thumnails for each and is paged. Thanks Blogging Pro (1)

10/29/2005 ↓

  • College life, powered by Google

    College life, powered by Google: Google pichting themselves to the College kids (as if they didn’t know about Google already) but with all the tools hooha’d in one place. Thanks WiredPod who themselves are in the center of a trademark dispute with Wired Magazine. (2)

10/28/2005 ↓

  • Forbes Magazine goes after Bloggers

    Forbes Magazine goes after Bloggers No target is too mighty, or too obscure, for this new and virulent strain of oratory. Microsoft has been hammered by bloggers; so have CBS, CNN and ABC News, two research boutiques that criticized IBM’s Notes software, the maker of Kryptonite bike locks, a Virginia congressman outed as a homosexual and dozens of other victims–even a right-wing blogger who dared defend a blog-mob scapegoat. Read more here and here and here (4)

10/27/2005 ↓

  • Anil wants Flickr to pay

    Anil wants Flickr to pay: Is user generated content worthy of remuneration? In that case, does every site one visits and helps to make popular, owe a part of their revenue to the user? I might be mocking the concept, but micropayments are not just theory anymore and this could be the beginning of something big. I am sure some blog enterpreneur is already hatching up a plot. Would you visit weblogtoolscollection more often and pay closer attention to the content if you were going to receive something in return for doing so? (4)
  • VideoEgg, TypePad Team on Video Blogging

    VideoEgg, TypePad Team on Video Blogging Hoping to spur more bloggers into using video for their online diaries, VideoEgg Inc. is integrating its video publishing technology with blogging company Six Apart Ltd.’s TypePad service. Interesting. Video blogging could be demanding on many different arenas but has always interested me. Thanks Google Alerts. (1)

10/24/2005 ↓

Wordpress Programming Competition #2: Calling all judges 3comments

Author: Mark Ghosh Category: General

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After running around like a chimpanzee with its head cut off (check out the animatronics chimp from WowWee, thus the similie) with the last Wordpress Plugin Competition, I would like to be better prepared.

We are about to embark upon another Wordpress Programming Competition (notice the change in the name) starting at the beginning of December and lasting through the end of May next year. Much of the competition will remain the same but I would like to give authors the chance to strut their stuff and get their code together and published and advertised for everyone to make a good determination.

However, this post is about the judges. If you would like to be considered as a judge, please send me an email with a list of stuff that makes you eligible. Mark the subject as “Wordpress Programming Competition Judge”. Though the judges’ names will not be made public, I do expect you to be responsible, available for a reasonable amount of time (I try to be as accomodating as possible) and try to follow the requested schedule. You will be asked to judge every entry into the competition (be it 10 or a million) but there will be adequate time for everyone to carry on with their lives. I know some of the previous judges expressed eagerness to judge again, if you still feel the same way, please drop me a small note.

It is never too soon to start asking for help in funding the competition. So if you would like to be involved in making this possible financially (aka donate your money/time/resources/advertise/sponsor) please send me an email at mark @ wltc . net

  • Budget Launches Blog-Based Treasure Hunt

    Budget Launches Blog-Based Treasure Hunt In a first, Car rental company Budget has launched a blog-based, four-week, 16-city treasure hunt, called Up Your Budget, which offers a total of $160,000 in prizes. To win, participants must find a sticker which has been placed in a public location in each of the 16 cities, call the number on the sticker and provide photographic or video proof they’ve located the sticker. Renting a car anytime soon? (0)

10/21/2005 ↓

Wired News: Cliff Notes From the Blog World 3comments

Author: Mark Ghosh Category: Blogging News

Cliff Notes From the Blog World “I have 400 feeds, and reading those takes me four hours — and I was doing that every morning,” Arrington said. “Since Memeorandum, I use my feed reader significantly less.” I completely agree. The mish mash of live news from the technology world along with a good smattering of code and usability has made Memeorandum a favorite of mine. Now only if I could get WeblogToolsCollection to become one of the sites that Memeorandum caches and gets its news from. Anyone know how? ;)

10/20/2005 ↓

10/19/2005 ↓

  • Free eBooks from Apress

    Free eBooks from Apress Including “A Programmer’s Introduction to PHP 4.0″, “Writing Perl Modules for CPAN” and “COM and .NET Interoperability”. Thanks again Slickdeals (5)
  • McDonald’s Dips Toe In Blogging Waters

    McDonald’s Dips Toe In Blogging Waters Last week, the company began an internal program that introduced corporate blogs, available only on the corporate intranet, behind the firewall. While this is seen as a small first step, it’s an important one in a company the size of McDonald’s, said Steve Wilson, senior director of global Web communications for McDonalds. Wilson spoke to a crowd of bloggers and curious marketing folk at Monday’s BlogOn social media summit in New York. (4)
  • MYdbPAL Free Download

    MYdbPAL Free Download: I am not sure of this program and you are on your own to figure out how this works but from my initial reaction, though the user interface is hideous, it can be a useful database education tool and provide good insight into existing database schemas. Thanks SlickDeals (0)

10/18/2005 ↓

Chitika Minimalls Signup 2comments

If you were ever thinking of running Chitika MiniMalls like the one showed in this post, use this referral to signup. (I do get some revenue from your referral). The ads were at an inopportune time for me and tended to produce about twice as much as Adsense in a given day over the small testing period I had setup. I might use them again in the future.

Various different blog posts, sites and programs will help you tweak these ads to get the best results. Please understand that it is legal to run both Chitika Minimalls and Adsense on the same page as long as Chitika is set to be non-contenxtual.

Link to signup for Chitika Minimalls

10/17/2005 ↓

10/16/2005 ↓

  • Submit a splog

    Submit a splog All the hoopla about “Splogs” has people taking notice. In a perfect world, I love the idea of a “spam blog blacklist” but can you imagine the headache of maintaining one of these lists? The poisoning that could happen, the existance of innocent blog posts that are being used as splogs and the inherent danger for a blogger to use such a blacklist are enormous. (2)

10/14/2005 ↓

eBay Fraud 10comments

Author: Mark Ghosh Category: General

I saw a new kind of email scam for eBay that was amusing. I had someone email me the following…

Hello,
I am interested and will like to know the shipping from Chicago IL, handling and your form of payment!!!
Thanks!!!

and since I was not selling anything on eBay and fraud, internet, media and everything in between is my business, I was intrigued. Of course, the link pointed to some IP in france and not eBay but thats the boring part.

Needless to say, ebay needs to find a new way to deliver messages to their customers, one that does not include logging in or sending information via email. How about including some sort of an “email secret” with every email? If that does not show up inside the message, it can easily be deemed to be invalid. PGP comes to mind, but judging from their track record and the pain of installation, it would never fly. I also hear that with the recent acquisition of the Verisign PayFlow business by eBay, they are supposed to buy some tokens (approx. 1 million) from Verisign to assign to Paypal customers. Interesting turn of events.

[Cross posted here and elsewhere]

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