SiteTalkZone is a discussion forum focused on webmasters. Webmasters can discuss on various topics from General Marketing to Website Programming, monetization techniques, etc.

The forums are quite active. STZ has recently launched its first contest where you can stand to win $250 in cold cash! The prizes up for grab are:

1st PLACE
- 250$ cash in Paypal.
- 3 month Ad spot on Sitetalkzone.

2nd Place
- Any available TLD of your choice.
- 1 month Ad spot on Sitetalkzone.
- 6 months of free hosting.

3rd Place
- Any available TLD of your choice.
- 1 month ad spot on Sitetalkzone.
- 3 months of free hosting.

There are various methods to earn points to increase your chances of winning the goodies. The contest is open till 28th October ‘08.

Entrecard has made some changes to their system. In an email sent out by them, this is what was captured:

Buy credits for less: Entrecard is now selling 1,000 credits for $6.00.

More pricing increments: Instead of prices doubling every time, there are now a few more steps. The new price points can be found on the Advertising page in the wiki

Members are not allowed to sell credits

Credit transfer limits: Members are allowed to make a maximum of 14 credit transfers a week, up to a maximum of 1,000 credits, whichever comes first.

Transfer tax: From now on, all transfers, including transfers made with our new payments API, will be taxed at a rate of 12.5%. The taxed credits will be sold to members (see #1).

Blogs cannot be unlinked: Once you link a blog, it’s there for good unless you ask us to delete the blog from your account. This prevents linking/unlinking to get around the credit transfer limits, and it also stops you losing access to a blog if you unlink it in error, which happens a lot.

No more coupons: You are no longer allowed to send coupons.

Shop closed: Except for Entrecard upgrades (Featured Status, Fast Pass) the Entrecard Shop is now offline until further notice

Its interesting to see how some of this will be taken by the Entrecard community.

You might have noticed that I do not use Entrecard any longer on this blog. I’ve used it for long, and did not find it worth the real estate space it was taking up, hence I removed it a few days ago.

Just a few days after the release of Firefox 3.02, Mozilla has rolled out a mandatory update — Firefox 3.03. This update fixes just 1 bug where users were unable to retrieve saved passwords or save new passwords.

Just “Check for updates” using Firefox, and it should download this update, if it has not already done so.

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InfoLinks provides in-text advertising solutions for your blogs and websites.

I have been using int on several of my websites (excluding this blog!) with great success. The payments have always been on time and their support is just great!

I was pleased to learn that they have recently launched an Affiliate Program. This is a wonderful way to increase potential earnings from InfoLinks.

So, if you have not yet evaluated in-text advertising solutions for your website, or want to switch over from your existing provider to InfoLinks, this is the time!

For each publisher joining the Infolinks network through clicking your personal referral link, you will be entitled to a one time referral fees of up to $1,000 per new publisher, as follows:

• Small Publisher - $25 (up to 10,000 average net Infolinks page impressions per day)
• Medium Publisher - $100 (up to 100,000 average net Infolinks page impressions per day)
• Large Publisher - $1,000 (over 100,000 average net Infolinks page impressions per day)

The link below is an affiliate link, so I do get paid if you sign-up. But, what I can do further is to ensure that I will provide you assistance from my side when it comes to optimizing the usage of InfoLinks on your site.

Sign-up now and gain that benefit!

Text-Link-Ads has jumped onto the in-text advertising bandwagon with the launch of inLinks.

inLinks is TLA’s answer to in-text advertising and to jumpstart their launch they are offering 15% OFF ALL ADVERTISER PURCHASE of inLinks for existing TLA users. inLinks is available for Wordpress, Drupal, and Moveable Type sites. Just login to TLA to grab the code for inLinks.

For now, I’m sticking to InfoLinks

I started using InfoLinks about 6 weeks ago on one of my websites. I actually switched over from Kontera to InfoLinks on that site.

Today, I received the payment for August 2008 from InfoLinks into my PayPal account.  Its pleasing to see, that they are keeping up to their commitment of paying up within 30 days of completion of the calendar month, as mentioned in their signup form.

Given below is the proof of payment. I have grayed out the relevant numbers though. (Click on image for a larger sized image)

Mozilla released an update to Firefox today, Release 3.0.2. This releases fixes several security and stability related bugs. You can view the release notes for complete details. You can download this version of Firefox from here.

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IntenseDebate has been acquired by Automattic for an undisclosed amount.

We should see features from the IntenseDebate plugin making it into WordPress.com and WordPress in their future releases. This is surely making WordPress a more complete and all-rounded package with some great features delivered right out of the box.

For the time being, IntenseDebate is re-entering Private Beta so that they can rework on their integration with WordPress.

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