Friday, June 30th, 2006

Recent Google News Bites

Along with the recent Joel Comm saga has been a slew of interesting blog posts, announcements and rumors related to our two favourites, Google Search and Google AdSense:

“Vertical Image” Ads, a.k.a. Image + Text = New Ad FormatGoogle is having an international beta test on its new ad format, where a contextually-relevant image is placed […]

Friday, June 30th, 2006

Joel Comm’s “Made for AdSense” Saga

Leave a blog for a few days, and thousands of interesting stories pass by. One of the most interesting throughout the past week must have been the hoo-hah over Joel Comm’s upcoming “Made for AdSense” programme, i.e. Instant AdSense Templates.
If you want some background on the issue, I suggest reading the extended coverage by […]

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

Free Blogger Templates: The “Definitive” List

Despite the rather negative stance of many bloggers against Blogger (or Blogspot) given its many limitations and uhmm… spam blogs, a large number of bloggers still use Blogger - a service which is pretty effective for many purposes, and is ultimately free.
This, of course, is reflected by the considerable number of Google searches coming this […]

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

Misleading Post Titles: Just a Rant

While there are times that you are allowed to deliberately use misleading post titles to attract attention (a.k.a. pull in more eyeballs), more often than not, it is an intolerable practice - especially for bloggers that read hundreds of RSS feeds (or used to do so) and thus, especially depend on somewhat accurate post titles […]

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

Blogging Provides Non-Web Opportunities

A few days back (three to be exact), Paul Stamatiou blogged about how he landed a gig with Yahoo as a Blogging Intern.
It might not be a full-blown job offer like the one Steve Rubel received in February, but there’s little doubt that you’re talking about a great experience and networking opportunities in a […]

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

Google Finally Launches CPA Ads?

According to a contributor over at SeekingAlpha, Google has just started putting a Cost Per Action (CPA) advert model (a.k.a. affliate marketing) on trial with selected publishers. This comes after speculative discussion over at the Digital Point forums on the issue.
For those who are not completely sure what CPA ads are, they are adverts that […]

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

More Drupal 4.7 Themes

If you need more Drupal themes than are provided at the Drupal CVS, the Drupal Theme Garden, or even the Drupal theme generator, you can now check out coffee.geek.nz’s Drupal template repository.
Over there, various web templates from sites like Open Web Design have been ported to Drupal, but given that some of these templates were […]

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

Drupal 4.6 Themes: Feature Comparison

Over at adminfoo.net, there’s a feature comparison between the various Drupal 4.6 themes available at the Drupal theme repository. I’m not sure how many of you Drupal bloggers already know about this resource, but due to my lousy search engine skills, I only recently discovered it myself (even though it’s been published since like forever). […]