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John Chow - The Lord of the Digg

Posted by matt on Fri, 22/12/2006 - 11:15pm in

Many of you will already be familiar with John Chow, the man behind one of the leading tech review sites, TheTechZone.

Web 2.0 Fonts

Posted by matt on Thu, 21/12/2006 - 4:56pm in

I just read a quirky little summary of Web 2.0 fonts which have gained popularity lately.

The collection of fonts are often reasonably common, but some have been made popular by such sites as TechCrunch, 43Things, Bloglines, and Rollyo.

You can read more at ModernLifeIsRubbish

Social Bookmarking Links Generator

Posted by matt on Wed, 20/12/2006 - 6:08pm in

This is a great little online tool for easily creating a set of links to the various social bookmarking sites, such as del.icio.us, yahoo, digg.

PPC Keyword List Generator

Posted by matt on Wed, 20/12/2006 - 2:54am in

This PPC Keyword Tool is able to generate keyword lists from separate lists of words which you paste into it.

Google Adsense and Image Placement

Posted by matt on Tue, 19/12/2006 - 8:49pm in

Well it looks as though the Google Adsense policy team have finally gotten tough with their wording regarding the issue of placing images next to Adsense ad units.

Blend Ads with Wordpress Module - Adsense Beautifier

Posted by matt on Sat, 16/12/2006 - 4:43am in

Update!
Google has just put out a warning NOT to use images next to ads!


This looks like a very slick module for Wordpress, which lets you display easily custom image enhanced Adsense ads throughout your Wordpress site.

Google Logo Next To Adsense Ads

Posted by matt on Fri, 15/12/2006 - 5:42pm in

It looks as though Google is doing further testing of using images as part of their Adsense ads branding.

Page Curl Photoshop Tutorial

Posted by matt on Tue, 12/12/2006 - 8:40pm in

This is a handy step by step Photoshop Tutorial on creating a page curl effect.

Page curl tutorial

Contextual Advertising Tips From Jenstar and Shoemoney

Posted by matt on Thu, 07/12/2006 - 2:49pm in

At the recent Pubcon, Jennifer Slegg (Jenstar) and Jeremy Schomaker (Shoemoney) gave a informative session on Contextual Advertising, discussing both Google Adsense, and Yahoo's program YPN, which has been summarized here:

Microwave Weapons for the US Military

Posted by matt on Thu, 07/12/2006 - 1:35am in

They've been talked about for several years, during their 10 years of development by Weapons Manufacturer Raytheon, but finally microwave firing "non-lethal" weapons have been certified as being ready for use in Iraq, and forgoing further testing will likely be deployed shortly.

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