Why are there no non-US hosts listed on the Wordpress website? Is it that the "powers that be" have something against non-US providers? … [Read more...] about WordPress Biased?
Google Ads More Products
Google has added more products to the range of referral products for adsense publishers. According to the official adsense blog they have released Picasa and Google Pack. For some odd reason I can only see picasa... or you could go bigger with this one: Thanks to Darren for pointing it out! (as usual you get more options if you set your language to English US) EDIT: For some … [Read more...] about Google Ads More Products
Open Source In Business?
I'm scheduled to give a talk at the ICT Expo this Friday afternoon on "Linux and some of its friends in the enterprise " So what should I be talking about? Of course I have some ideas already formulated, but what kind of images / ideas spring to mind when someone mentions OSS and business? Are we talking about desktops? Servers? Mail? Web? Replacements for proprietary … [Read more...] about Open Source In Business?
Search.ie – Direct Links
Although I implemented direct links on search.ie quite some time ago I completely forgot to tell anyone about it! If you navigate to any of the detailed pages there is a clean link to the site in question ie. no "nasty" redirect scripts For example, this site is listed under the blogs category and you can see the link / site details here … [Read more...] about Search.ie – Direct Links
Improving Adsense Contextual Ads on Blogs
If you are running a blog with adsense you may have been plagued by the issue of the "blog" ads ie. all your posts regardless of their content display ads for blogs, bloggers, blog hosting etc. One simple way of stopping that is to remove all reference to the terms in your blog templates. The change may not have an immediate impact, but it will over time … [Read more...] about Improving Adsense Contextual Ads on Blogs