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Bidvertiser WordPress Plugin and FeedBurner Solution

21. January 2008

Earlier this month Bidvertiser added RSS advertising into their lineup of services and gave Bidvertiser publishers and advertisers another monetizing option. With the success of this new ad avenue, Bidvertiser announced today that they have added a WordPress plugin and FeedBurner solution that will help bloggers keep their current feed address if they choose to run Bidvertiser ads on their feeds.

WordPress Plugin to allow you to seamlessly embed the BidVertiser Ads in …

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Weekend Roundup #16

20. January 2008

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Been very busy the past few days but I’m never too busy for this weekly feature. Hope you guys had a good weekend. Here’s this week’s roundup of links from across the blogosphere. Enjoy!

Earlier this week, the guys from Automattic launched a new blog called the Publisher Blog which aims to help publishers get the most out of WordPress.
Publishing a blog post is easy but getting comments isn’t. Here’s a simple way to …

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MacBook Air Parody

18. January 2008

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When something new comes out or becomes popular, a parody is bound to happen. Take for example the Apple iPhone. Just a few days after it was launched, a parody popped out in the Internet. This time, it’s the MacBook Air’s turn to be parodized. Check it out!

Btw, the popularity of the MacBook AIr is also making the Philippines popular. …

Yahoo Joins OpenID Bandwagon

17. January 2008

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Last week, TechCrunch reported that Google, IBM and Verisign were on the late stages of discussion with people from the OpenID Foundation regarding joining OpenID 2.0. Well, earlier today Yahoo announced that they have already joined OpenID bandwagon.

Yahoo brings with them around 250 million user IDs which triples the current number of valid OpenIDs which previously only amounted to 120 million OpenIDs. Yahoo’s OpenID service will be available for public beta on the 30th of january. However, it is not yet known whether Yahoo would allow users with third party OpenIDs to login to Yahoo.

Dreamhost Billing Nightmare

16. January 2008

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Yesterday, while I was checking my inbox I was surprised when I got an email from Dreamhost saying that they’ve already billed me for the next cycle. As far as I know my next bill wasn’t due until like 3 months from now and I also noticed in the email I received that the date was wrong - today’s date: 2008-12-31, so I knew it was an error. I immediately sent an email to Dreamhost’s billing department telling them about the error.

WP Theme Review: WP Premium

15. January 2008

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Following the success of his first premium WordPress theme WP Remix dubbed as the “master theme”, R. Bhavesh was inspired to create and share this free WordPress theme called WP Premium.

With the slow but steady success of The WordPress Master Theme - WP Remix, I am inspired to release a free but quality Wordpress theme. And as promised few days back, The WP Premium theme is going public today. “WordPress Premium” is an elegantly designed, 2/3 column, feature packed, widget ready theme that comes with three color-scheme options.

Weekend Roundup #15

13. January 2008

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If you’ve been waiting for the Weekend Roundup, pardon the delay. No, I’m not on hiatus neither have I forgotten about it. I just changed the schedule for posting this weekly feature. Previously, I published it at the start of the weekend but then I noticed that I don’t have that much time to do it on a Friday so I decided to do it on a Saturday night or Sunday morning here in the …

2008 Philippine Blog Awards

10. January 2008

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Time flies so fast! It feels like it was only yesterday when JaypeeOnline was nominated and became a finalist in last year’s Philippine Blog Awards. Earlier today, the organizers and staff has launched the 2008 Philippine Blog Awards. Although nominations are still closed and the details of the event haven’t been announced yet, the staff already unveiled the new design for this year’s blog awards.

Gizmodo Plays Nasty Prank at 2008 CES

10. January 2008

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A few hours ago, the guys at Gizmodo posted a confession about a nasty prank they played in this year’s CES at Las Vegas. Armed with TV-B-Gone clickers, Gizmodo bloggers went around and started shutting off TV displays of different company exhibits or booths, even turning off a whole wall of TVs. The nastiest part was interfering with Motorola representatives while doing their presentation.

FeedDemon and NetNewsWire now FREE!

9. January 2008

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Earlier today, the folks at NewsGator announced that FeedDemon, NetNewsWire and all other RSS reader products are now available for FREE! Aside from that, all NewsGator products include free web-based synchronization to other services. With synchronization, users will be able to view their RSS content the same way no matter where or when they read it. Ain’t that neat?

Here’s a complete list of NewsGator’s products that …

Affordable Mac Computers

9. January 2008

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The Apple Macintosh computer which was first produced in 1984, was the first commercially successful computer to have a mouse and graphical user interface (GUI) instead of the command line interface. Present day models are called Macs and are known to be expensive computers compared to other PC brands. Although Windows based computers are more popular and hold a large share of the market, there has been a steady increase in the use and purchase …