Gmail is down
… and Twitter is speaking about it. More than 400 messages per minute about the fact that Gmail is down!
Later update: The Google Group called Gmail is down is full of pr0n.
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Archive20.com won the NameCheap Big Game Video Contest
Yes, it’s public. Rumors about other participants being envy are also public on Twitter :-).
Couple of weeks ago, I have done 2 videos in order to win the NameCheap Big Game Video Contest and guess what! One of them made me a winner and in few days, I’ll be a proud owner of a Creative Vado HD camera.
Being a winner participating for the 1st time in my life in a video competition, make me feel like I won one of Emmys or Oscars :-). Ok, ok, ok, I’ll stop now. I don’t need more twitter envy over my head.
Let’s see the winning footage:
Live Air Traffic
Believe it or not, there is an website that shows us in real time the air traffic. Here is a video presenting the global air traffic (simulation over 24 hours). The airplanes are all those yellow points on the map.
Download WordPress 2.7.1
Wordpress 2.7.1, the publishing platform archive20.com is using and maybe the most used blog platform in the entire world is now available to download.
2.7.1, the first 2.7 maintenance release, is now available. 2.7.1 fixes 68 tickets. You can automatically upgrade from 2.7 to 2.7.1 via the Tools->Upgrade menu, or you can download the package and upgrade manually.
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Google AdSense for feeds bug?
3 years ago I wrote a spanish gossip blog. It helped me understand a lot of things about local Google search engines from South America to Spain and also learn about how different blogging portals may help you grow your blog instead of spamming as an alternative :-).
For different reasons I had to close it and after a while start another one and redirected the traffic from the old blog to the new blog. I had to redirect also all feed readers (~8-900 in those times) and I used Feedburner to do it.
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The NameCheap commercial contest (Part 2)
As my previous video for the The NameCheap Big Game Video Contest was removed by Youtube at Madman Entertainment request (I was using images from Black Cat, White Cat) I decided to make another one and win that Creative Vado HD Pocket Video Cam.
It took me 1 hour of driving throug Bucharest to shoot some interesting footage for a nice commercial that will make you buy domain names! In the end, I have used 15 seconds from a 2 months old movie with my cat, Grigore, to render another clip for NameCheap. :-)
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Darren Rowse, sharing his expert tips on AdSense optimisation
If you are into searching for new advices in how to improve your Google AdSense earnings, you may want to listen Darren Rowse, pro-blogger at Digital Photography School (external link) and ProBlogger.net.
Some of you are already knowing almost everything you may know about AdSense but I think that sometimes it worth spending 3 minutes and listen things you already know. Darren is not reinventing the wheel but it putting some of the most important AdSense advices together.
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Is WordPress 2.7 actually separating pings from comments?
At least on Archive 2.0 it doesn’t do it at all.
I have noticed that my blog didn’t liked track-backs in terms of share some love and actually show them on page and I had to search the entire Google to find why the following code is not working:
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Searching for expensive domain names?
Rhetorical question, I know :-), but it looks like even there is an international financial crisis, people are interested in expensive domain names.
TechCrunch published a list of very expensive domains after the recent purchase of toys.com domain name by Faculty Lounge with $1,15M in an auction organized as a result of
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