Pimp My Blog Week 1 Progress
Some good advice has been posted for Andrew and www.spittoon.biz so far. If you haven’t left some feedback for Andrew then please go here now, or just to see if you can pick up some tips.
If you want your site to be considered for a future Pimp My Blog, then add your site here [...]
Friday Fun: Waterboy Gets His Chance!
The waterboy with Adam Sandler, has got to be one of my favourite films. I know it is very, very silly but I loved it so much when I watched it on TV, that I brought the DVD.
I still watch it every now and then, and it’s definitely his best video.
I’m not going to [...]
Please Digg This Story – It’s For A Very Good Cause
Please help get this story on the Digg homepage and help 8wishes raise money for various charities. Through their Producer Awards, Metacafe pays $5 for 1,000 views. Paul is donating all of the money raised to children with learning differences and dyslexia (www.dyslexiacenter.org).
More: Digg
Poll: How Much Did You Make From Chitika Last Month?
I’ve gone Chitika mad this month as despite hardly making any money in the past, I thought I’d give Chitika one last big push this month by adding 2 banners, a Related Product Units, a Shoplinc search box and Shoplinc deeplinks.
So far the results haven’t been very good, so I want to poll other Chitika [...]
Is It Right For Jason Calacanis To Keep Blogging About Weblogs? Yes!!!
Update: All Weblogs stats are in the public domain – see Jason’s comments below (Sorry Jason)
I’ve never been a big reader of Jason Calacanis’ blog before, but I’ve been paying more attention to it since he left AOL. What I’ve noticed that I find surprising is that he still frequently blogs about Weblogs [...]
I Have 4 Invites For Tape It Off The Internet (TIOTI) To Share With Readers
I’ve just received an invite from Tape It Off The Internet (TIOTI) for their beta trial, and I’ve got 4 invites left that I want to share with Connected Internet readers. If you haven’t heard of TIOTI I featured it back in November. Tape It Off The Internet allows users to share TV shows that [...]
From The Forums: 10 Tricks To Play On Your New iPhone
I logged on quickly to check my stats, and I found this forum post via the digg traffic coming in, rather than via the original post.Tony our resident comedian has posted ‘10 Tricks To Play On Your New iPhone‘. Number 10 is my favourite:
10. Interrogate your iPhone”An ambient light sensor automatically adjusts the display’s brightness [...]
How Many Digg Friends Do You Have?
I don’t have many Digg friends, but I’ve started to add a few.
If you want to add me as your digg friend then add ‘toomuchi’
Can Anyone Sponsor Me On BlogAds?
I’ve wanted to join Blogads for a while, but I need a sponsor. Can anyone sponsor me? If you can, can you please drop me a line in the forum.
It’s Here – The iPhone
Apple finally announced the iPhone yesterday, and I was very impressed as it is way sexier than I thought it would be. I can now can see why it took so long to launch as Apple needed time to work their design magic.I was expecting something along the lines of the motorla handset, but [...]
New WS ToolTips Plugin – I Wish All Plugins Were Like This
I’m very tired tonight, so I wasn’t going to do any posts as I can hardly hold my head up, but I just spotted the launch of the WS ToolTips Plugin in Google Reader. All I had to do to add this plugin was to activate it, and now cool looking cooltips are displayed over [...]
Pimp My Blog: Week 1 Update
The pimping of www.spittoon.biz got off to a slow start yesterday, because the forum was down for a bit while I was migrated to my new server. So far, we’ve had 3 responses for Andrew to think about.
If you can provide Andrew with any tips to improve his blog, then please click here. [...]
From The Forums: See What Happens When You Gossip In The Office….
Tony, who seems to be making a habit of posting funny videos and jokes has just posted one of the funniest short clips I’ve seen in a while in the Forums – I laughed so much when I saw this! The shock on the lady’s face is comical.
Successfully Moved To My New Server
Well, the move has just been completed and apart from some site loading speeds, all seems well. For those that are interested here’s my new server spec:
Pentium D 830 3.0ghz Dual Core
4GB RAM
3ware 9550SX-4LP RAID card with two Maxtor 7V300F0 300GB in RAID1
Dedicated Maxtor 7V300F0 300GB backup drive
If you are looking for advice with [...]
Added Chitika Related Product Units (RPU) To My Site
I’ve just added my final Chitika unit to my site. In addition to my Shoplinc store and the manual product deeplinks I’ve created with the custom shoplinc alinks module I wrote, I have just added the Chitika Related Products Units (RPU) to my site. I think these units could work quite well. You [...]
Pimp My Blog Week 1: Spittoon.biz
Welcome to the start of Pimp My Blog! Kicking off the series we have www.spittoon.biz belonging to Andrew. Andrew said that he would like to get his blog pimped and help with:
Ad placement
Increasing the CTR of his ads
increasing readership
Please have a look at his site before adding any ideas in the forum. [...]
Amazing Football Juggling Videos
My regular readers know I love my football. Here are two great videos showing off some crazy mad football juggling skillz. I’m not sure what the tune is on the second video, but the first one is “DJ Mummy vs. Sean Paul “Nuttin No Go So bubbling RMX”.
The double back-heel in the first [...]
Roundup Of Last Week
Just in case you missed them, here are the top posts from last week:
The Best Of Connected Internet In 2006
Eliminate WordPress Comment Spam Without A Plugin!
Update: 10 Useful Firefox Extensions That Don’t Get Glamorised
New Site Features
Submit Your Site Now For Free SEO And Revenue Generation Advice!
What Do You Use For Your AlternateUrl?
Videos Of Amazing New [...]
24 Season 6 Leaked On BitTorrent
AsiaTeam, a Spanish language group known to regularly upload TV shows and movies to BitTorrent, have uploaded the Season 6 Premiere DVD that was due to be given to journalists on January 16th, which contains the first 4 episodes of 24 season 6.
I’ve Really Lost Faith In The Digg Community Now
Some of the idiots who stalk Digg and leave inane comments have gone too far now in my view. Spencer H. Kim, father of James Kim who tragically died last year, posted a story in the Washington Post laying out some criticisms of the way the search was conducted for his son and family.
The story [...]
