Revolution Theme goes open source
October 30, 2008
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Brian has done this to align himself with the entire WordPress open source movement.
There are 10 themes available currently.

WordPress 2.6.3 released
October 24, 2008
WordPress 2.6.3 has been released today with a fix in the Snoopy library.
This is a low risk vulnerability, but I would still highly recommend that you go ahead and upgrade your existing 2.6.2 installation with this release.
The good part is that only 2 files need to be replaced if you want to do a quick upgrade.

Free Web Hosting at 000Webhost
October 18, 2008
I got to hear about 000WebHost from a Twitter Friend that I follow. Its an interesting hosting service. Read on…
Founded in December 2006, 000webhost.com has a free hosting members base of over 60,000 members. It offers professional quality hosting, support, uptime and reliability.
The free service provides you
- 350 MB of disk space
- 100 GB of data transfer
- PHP and MySQL support with no restrictions
- cPanel control panel
- Website Builder
- Absolutely no advertising!
So, if you are looking at starting off an experiment and don’t have any funds to invest, 000Webhost could be just the ideal starting point for your web hosting needs.

Notify social networks with PingPressFM
October 18, 2008
PingPressFM is a free WordPress plugin, that allows you to notify all social networks supported by Ping.fm of your new blog posts.
This is the quickest way to alert all your social networking friends. Just focus on writing, and leave the rest to this plugin and Ping.fm!
The plugin was developed by SoldOutActivist.

AdBrite lays off 40% of its staff
October 17, 2008
AdBrite, one of the leading web advertising platforms, is layoff off 40% of its staff as reported by TechCrunch.
I use AdBrite extensively on many of my websites, and this is indeed sad news for me.
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Lijit launches Ad Network
October 8, 2008
Many blogs use Lijit as the search engine on their blogs but there was no way to monetize this compared to something like Google Custom Search Engine.
Lijit has answered back with the announcement of their Ad Network that will enable publishers to earn a share of their ad revenue as well.
Existing Lijit Users: To start capturing your share of revenue from the Lijit Ad Network, log in to your Lijit account and at the top right of your profile page, click the “Start Now” button.

Google launches AdSense for Games
October 8, 2008
Google announced the beta launch of its new AdSense for Games program. The marks the entry of Google into the Gaming industry! The technology in use is from AdScape Media which it acquired back in February 2007.
AdSense for Games will initially target Flash based games and also games from some of the bigger titles. [via cnet]
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lab209 launched today
October 7, 2008
I’ve launched a new blog called lab209 today. The blog still in its infancy focuses on technology & science related topics. You can expect several posts a day covering software, gadgets, science, corporate news, etc.




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