New Version Beta FriendFeed
FriendFeed released new beta, as you can see above, the interface looks similar to Twitter. Check out the new version of FriendFeed at http://beta.friendfeed.com.
Google Invests Pixazza: AdSense for Images
Pixazza: AdSense for Images
Google invests $5.75 million to a start-up, Pixazza, which is trying to do the AdSense on images rather than text as Google do.
Pixazza allows publishers to advertise on their images. When the user mouses into the images, Pixazza displays imformation of the products in the price. So that users can easily buy products they like in the picture. Pixazza also has an Experts system to help link products in images to the right shop, Experts earn commission from every deals they helps.
Over 180,000 Free High Quality Wallpaper to Download: Hebus.com
Hebus.com is a wallpaper community offering 184209 hight quality images with 111039 membres. This is a French website, the design is cool, kinda similar to my WordPress theme BlacknWhite. Most of images are unique and special. I am not a wallpaper guy, but I stayed on this website for over an hour, just looking at the pretty images. I found so many creative art work and photographs. If you’re an artist or photographer, you will love Hebus.
While visiting Hebus, you may encounter some ad pages, just click “Continuer vers hebus.com” on the right top to skip it.
Free Online Mind Mapping Tool: MindMeister
The first time I heard of mind map, I really think it’s very powerful and creative. I tried to use mind map for a while, until I started to use computer for most of my work. You know, it’s not convinient to draw mind map on computer. And later, I found some softwares designed for mind mapping, but they are all very expensive. After several years, we can have free online mind mapping tool: Mind Meister.
MindMeister brings the concept of mind mapping to the web, using its facilities for real-time collaboration to allow truly global brainstorming sessions. Users can create, manage and share mind maps online and access them anytime, from anywhere. In brainstorming mode, fellow MindMeisters from around the world (or just in different rooms) can simultaneously work on the same mind map and see each other’s changes as they happen.
Twenty Tips for Bloggers
These twenty tips are from IdRatherBeWriting, they are very inspired, so make a list of all the tips for myself. you can find the details of the post here.
- Pick a topic for your blog.
- Encourage comments.
- Make it easy to subscribe.
- Include an About page.
- Present your ideas visually.
- Keep posts short and to the point.
- Use subheadings for long posts.
- Link abundantly.
- Make headlines descriptive.
- Archive by topic.
- Include a list of related posts beneath each post.
- Allow users to contact you offline.
- Present your real viewpoint.
- Write for your future employer.
- Include a Top Posts section.
- Provide an index.
- Get your own URL and match it to your blog’s title.
- Include a Recent Posts section in your sidebar.
- Reward commenters for commenting.
- Post often.
Summary of The Essential Guide to Growing Your Blog on Minimal Time
I am reading Leo Babauta’s post on Problogger.net. Leo Babauta is the blogger of Zen Habbits, and the author of The Power of Less. The title of this post is The Essential Guide to Growing Your Blog on Minimal Time, very catchy to blogger, right? I’d like to mark down some points for myself to make sure if I learn something from this post.
- Set limit of time for daily blogging, one to two hours would be the best. So that you can focus on the most essential tasks.
- Write outstanding articles. You know, the 3 most important thing of a blog: content, content, content.
- Linking, and link-bait: link to other blogs and write some linkbait posts, like “Top 50 Producitivity blogs”
- Write guest posts on blogs bigger than yours.
- Commenting.
- Email and networking.
There are two parts of Minimize Non-essentials and Focus left, I am not gonna summarize them, because these 6 points above are the essential part of the post, and worth to be remembered.
Video Tutorials for New Bloggers
It’s kinda to late for me, but maybe useful for new bloggers. BecomeABlogger.com offers some FREE videos to help new bloggers, if you are new to blogging world, you should check it out. And here is the first video from BecomeABlogger.com
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