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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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Bill Gates releases mosquitoes at tech conference
Bill Gates, the billionaire founder of Microsoft and a renowned philanthropist, let loose a swarm of mosquitoes at a technology conference in California to highlight the dangers of malaria.
‘Malaria is spread by mosquitoes,’ the Microsoft founder yelled at a well-heeled crowd at a technology conference in California.
’I brought some,’ he added. ‘Here, I’ll let them roam around – there is no reason only poor people should be infected.’
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Google Analytics hack - Reduce the bounce rate of your blog
Google Analytics, like any other online service that you might use to measure your website’s traffic and demographics, is not free of bugs.
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The NameCheap commercial contest
Think you can create a better commercial than our competitors? Well here’s your chance to let your creative juices flow and win some prizes to boot if yours is chosen. We’ll also feature the winning commercials on our site! We’ll select the top five into a final round and have our users select the final winners!
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So I played a little with Adobe Premiere Pro and this is it! Ta-daaaaaa:
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