Back at Techcrunch, Michael Arrington confirms that Google has acquired YouTube. My thoughts: There was word that although YouTube has dominated the online video sharing market, its founders Chad Hurley and Steven Chen aren’t making serious money out of it and are actually living on credit. YouTube’s only future is to be bought out by… Continue reading Google Buys YouTube
Name Dropper WordPress Plugin
Just a very straightforward and unobtrusive social bookmarking plugin for WordPress that allows your visitors to submit your blog posts to select bookmarking services. Includes StumbleUpon, Digg, Del.icio.us, Spurl, Simpy, Furl, Dzone, Reddit, Yahoo! and Newsvine. Uses text links instead of icons as seen on this blog. Plugin Name: Name Dropper Description: Plugin that allows… Continue reading Name Dropper WordPress Plugin
Isulong Seoph Winners
Marc Macalua just posted the winners of the Isulong Seoph contest which ran from June 1, 2006 to September 30, 2006. My congratulations to the champ, Gio, whose entry IsulongSeophil.com stayed solidly on top. Pic after the leap.
Blue Eagles Shelling!
Is it just me, or did the Ateneo Blue Eagles completely suck in the last two games of the 2006 UAAP championships? Forget about my earlier post on them. The UST Tigers deserved this championship more than anyone.
StumbleUpon It! WordPress Plugin
Here’s a treat for StumbleUpon.com members! The Stumble Upon It! WordPress plugin allows your visitors to submit your blog posts to StumbleUpon.com’s bookmarking service. I’d like to thank StumbleUpon founder Geoff Smith, who was cool enough to work on the interface to make this possible! Plugin Name: StumbleUpon It! Description: Easy plugin that allows your… Continue reading StumbleUpon It! WordPress Plugin
WordPress Theme Preview
Here’s a little preview of a WordPress theme called “Future Cargo” that I’ll be releasing very soon:
Pagerank Boost
Cool! Alleba Blog now has a PR 5! Up from a 4. Other pages on this site also enjoyed a boost. Again, I ask… how did your sites do?
CrazyEgg Errors
I decided to put my blog to the test using CrazyEgg‘s heatmap visualization after all the rave reviews it got from the likes of Matt Mullenweg, David Hansson and TechCrunch. Unfortunately, since I inserted the required Javascript code, I’m getting errors from both Firefox and IE. Screenshot after the jump.
JNB Web Promotion Sucks
I don’t want to make a bigger fuss out of it than it already is. But yes, John Bertrand, you suck. You are SEO’s version of George Bush. You’re old, you’re stupid and no one gives a shit about what you have to say. More: JNB Web Promotion is a Freeloader
Google Adsense Updates
Google Adsense emailed its publishers with a ton of cool improvements to its service. Most notably: AdSense for search results on your site Search results are now served on your site via IFRAME. This means your visitors don’t have to veer away from your page every time they search.