Tweetizen.com, create and share Twitter groups

As Twitter becomes more and more popular, lots of new tools, games, add-ons and related sites emerge to make our life easier and more fun.

The newest kid in town is Tweetizen.com, a website that allows you to create groups for your followees, and that’s not it. You can embed the groups with a widget that can be easily added to your website.

Yes, yes, keep them Twitter related developments coming, but meanwhile don’t forget what Twitter shouldn’t be. You can see that here :)

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:

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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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!
source The NameCheap commercial contest

So I played a little with Adobe Premiere Pro and this is it! Ta-daaaaaa:

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You’re insulting my intelligence

This blog is kind of new on the internet. I started it couple of months ago using a sub-domain of downloadwin.com but I’m writing an article once in 2-3 days.Yeah, I know. This will not stand me out from the crowd, as John Chow advised us to do, but I’m trying to make faster steps and share more things here.

Anyway, RW. There are no more than 200 pages indexed in Google. There are 55 articles with 47 comments. There are no drafts :-) (unusual, if you ask me!) and some functions are not working properly (showing trackbacks, showing article views, etc.).

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Upgrade to WordPress 2.7 is a must!

I just waited to see if this new version of WordPress is stable and I see a lot of A-list bloggers that updated his online homes to 2.7.

Reminder :-)
On downloadwin.com you can download, share your opinions and write tips and tricks reviews about WordPress 2.7

John Chow, for example, wrote about the new WordPress 2.7 making also his own video. I didn’t have the time to make any video about this (I have embedded the official video anyway) but I want to talk about one thing.

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