Archive for June, 2007
Let’s play backgammon
If you want to know how to play backgammon online, you should pay a visit to this website called Backgammon Masters. They are now offering games with no rake (house commission). If you know nuts about the game, don’t worry. The rules of backgammon are simple: the object of the game is to “bear off” all of your checkers from the backgammon board before your opponent. Each player can prevent the other from advancing. The object of the game is the same whether you play face-to-face or online.
Successful blogging
There are more than seven million blogs on the World Wide Web and only a small fraction of them are bloggers who earn part of the online internet advertising pie. There are some bloggers who do not believe that one can earn through their blogs but many are already earning an income from their blogs via paid postings, PPC programmes and other online advertising ventures. I feel that this is a good step towards eventual capture of the internet advertising market via blogs. The future would be when good blogs command a good share of the advertising cake and are able to influence public opinion through their blogs the same way traditional media does. This post is sponsored by Navtej Kohli and check out his profiles on Digg, Facebook and Linked In.
The machine is us/ing us
Pretty much a 5 minutes guide to the history of the Internet and the rise of Web 2.0, by a professor at a Department of Anthropology in a university in Kansas. Interesting video, reminds me of the time when I saw an advertisement on New Jersey hair transplants. Don’t ask.
One way or reciprocal links?
There are a lot of confusion in people’s mind about one way links and link exchanges and their effect on the rankings. People often ask which one is going to give me better results, reciprocal links or one way links. Reciprocal linking means you to link someone, say, about La Jolla restaurants, and he links back to you with a related topic. However, Google and most of the other major search engines are looking for organic linking, therefore they do consider these type of links as less important. Whereas one way links are the incoming links to your site from the sites to whom you don’t link to, this type of links are seen as natural by the search engines and thus they give you more importance.
Upgrading to WordPress 2.2.1
So WordPress has issued a call to those using their system to upgrade to the new WordPress 2.2.1…yet again. I really don’t mind upgrading as upgrading to the latest WordPress version is easier than going for rhinoplasty in Virginia, but it does get annoying if it becomes too frequent. More so especially if you have more than five blogs, like yours truly. Imagine having to upgrade each one of them every time a new update is issued!
Which is what I am going to do in the next few hours. Sigh.