I know the title is a little weird, but the competion between the top three in search advertising is such. Google and Microsoft have spent billions of dollars to buy new ad companies. Yahoo too is not far behind, but surprise of surprise how does Yahoo get some of its advertisers, any guesses. By advertising with Ad words, isn't it funny that Yahoo itself is using Google Ad Words as a platform to sell their advertising platform. I am not sure how the Yahoo guys agreed to do this but this is a total irony when they are competing against each other.

Web2.0 logos have become a fad now and I see many websites making use of Web2.0 logos. Even Techie Buzz spots one :). But were buttons far away. Well lets ...

Backups save you a great deal. Just suppose your entire database crashed and you do not have any backups of your data, or your hard drive crashed and you lose your entire data. The importance about backup has been well documented by numerous site and many people do religiously backup their data.

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Weblog Tools Collection is conducting its second plugin contest for wordpress plugins. I have created a plugin earlier called Better Comments Manager which allows you to reply to comments without having to visit the post and also allows you to sort all comments by post.

Search Engines. Feed Readers. Digg. Stumble Upon. Social Bookmarking sites. Start pages. Link Love. Referrals. Trackbacks. Pingbacks and more. Ok I am not talking gibberish :). What I was highlighting is that these are many of the ways readers land up on your site. But what about the age old method of typing in your URL into the address bar. It has almost been long forgotten and very rarely do users use this option.

I was doing about to search for avoiding duplicate content with wordpress when I saw the suggestions that Google gave. Check out the screen shot below The suggestions clearly indicate that ...

I just came across a email today and probed it further to see what it is all about. My investigations led me to unearthing a new scam to make money using Google Adsense Referals. What exactly is this scam. I recieved a email from [email protected] to download New Firefox 2008. Now this is not a email from Firefox but a email id that is spoofed and has been send from a different domain altogether, check screen shots below.

But wait what if you could send a regular paper letter mail using just your computer. You heard that right, using Easypost.ca you can send regular paper letter mail to anyone in Canada. Easypost.ca will print your letter on premium white letter-size paper using high-quality laser printer and send it to the recipient through the Canada Post System.

Darren from Problogger has just announced a meetup for Bloggers on the 9th of June. The meetup will be held in NYC and all are invited. The meetup is sponsored by Chitka and will have from free finger food snacks and a free drink to the first 100 people.

Time to give another Desktop software the boot. With so many free and easy to use online picture editors avialable it is bye bye photoshop for me. Though the online picture editors are not yet up to the mark to be used by professional designers, for folks like us who just want to create some snapshots for our blogs, these could prove to be quite useful.

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Starting today, you do not have to worry about getting to the top commentators list to get a link back from the site. Techie Buzz is now using the Dofollow plugin ...

If you have a site that writes about a certain niche then you are basically targeting people who want to read about it. Job-a-Matic allows you to show your readers job oppurtunities that will cater to those readers. For e.g. If you write tutorials about programming then you are bound to have a huge readership from Programming readers. Now with Job-a-Matic you can easily display job listings to show to your readers, many of which will be looking out for new jobs.

Orkut the popular social Networking site from Google Stable is widely used by many users from India and Brazil. Orkut is quite popular for scrapping which means leaving short messages on your friends profiles. To read the scraps you have to login to you Orkut account every time, I usually spend around 15 minutes a day sending and reading my Orkut scraps. But wonder of wonder here is another time saver which not only helps me read my scraps but also allows me to use my favorite Feed reader to do that.