As I’ve expand my website & blog network over the past couple years, I’ve learned what could be the most important rule: only develop sites that you would visit. It’s true. I could easily create a decent blog about knitting, but I have no interest in the subject… Let’s just say it would be a […]

John Chow has definitely earned the title of the “root of all evil” with his tricks to make money on the internet. But is John having a change of heart? Is he losing his edge as the root of all evil? In his latest blog contest he is giving away a brand new Microsoft Zune […]

A new CPA (cost per action) ad network, Auction Ads, has been generating a lot of buzz on the web lately. Auction Ads sounded promising, so I thought I would give it a try. After all, I have to reach my goal of beating last month’s blog earnings.
How it works
When you sign up as an […]

It’s true, Google is playing around with the AdSense font. The strange thing is that I am only seeing the new italic ads regularly on this blog, whereas my other sites aren’t getting any Google love.
I wrote about the new AdSense blocks several days ago, but didn’t have a screenshot to show for it. It […]

The social news and bookmarking site Digg.com is one of the most powerful tools to drive traffic to your website. However, many popular websites and blogs have been banned from Digg, usually by the members, for unknown reasons.
Today, it appears that a lot of unjust bans have been lifted. Among the unbanned is one of […]

When Google announced they were acquiring YouTube for $1.65 billion, everyone had one question on there minds: why? Google already has a flourishing online video service (ala Google Video), so how did they plan to integrate YouTube with their services? Well, we finally have some answers.
Google is all about search and connecting people with information. […]

Wikipedia has always been a gold mine for web developers. Wikipedia serves up massive traffic, and articles usually have a high Google PageRank. So getting linked from a Wikipedia article has been one of the best ways to beef up your site.

However, Wikipedia will no longer be a very effective tool. As of now, all […]

WordPress version 2.1 is scheduled to be released tomorrow. 2.1 is the first major release since the 2.0 line was started. Not only will 2.1 include security and bug fixes, it will introduce tons of cool new features.

So what’s new in WordPress 2.1?
Auto-save Posts
WordPress 2.1 adds an autosave function that is automatically implemented when writing […]

WordPress 2.0.7 was just released this evening. The update contains some bug fixes and patches a serious security hole.
This version includes the following updates:
Security fix for wp_unregister_GLOBALS() to work around the zend_hash_del_key_or_index bug in PHP 4 versions less than 4.4.3 and PHP 5 versions less than 5.1.4 with register_globals set to “On.”
Feeds now properly serve […]

I promise this will be last of the self-referential posts for a while. I was pleasently surprised today when I found that Ontora had been featured on WordPress.com’s Blogs of the Day: Growing Blogs… I had to say something.
There is no question that Ontora has been growing quickly lately. It’s good to see that people […]