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4 Mar // php the_time('Y') ?>
In search to make my blog more popular via link exchange services, I’ve found BlogRush and registered for the service.
BlogRush states itself as a “Cooperative Syndication Network” — a network of blogs that run a small “widget” on their pages. Each time this widget is loaded it will contain 5 clickable headlines which are the blog post titles to other users’ posts. Clicking on any of these links will open a new browser window and load the blog and full post.
BlogRush is completely free but requires each blog to meet certain quality guidelines. Every new blog is manually reviewed by a content specialist; this helps BlogRush maintain a high level of quality and stops spammers and others from trying to abuse the network.
Like Spottt, users earn “credits” based on each time their blog loads the widget and each time any of their referrals (users that signup after clicking the “add your blog posts” link on the widget) loads the widget. More intelligently, they also earn additional credit based on all the activity through 10 generations of referrals.

You are required to add title, feed URL of your blog and select a category in which BlogRush will syndicate headlines among blogs. (I choose “Internet Startups & Web 2.0 Companies” category - not exactly the main focus of my blog but I find many interesting news in this channel.) Then, the service generates a script to display BlogRush’s widget and asks you to integrate it into your blog for verification. FYI, you may have to press verification button a few times until it verifies that the script has been added. Now, just wait for approval in about 12 to 48 hours and if your blog is approved you’ll see headlines appear on the widget.
Of course, you can login to management panel to view credits earned, traffic to your blog or change widget settings (get insight of BlogRush’s system from this video clip).

On the other hand, you may want to check out TrafficJam.com, a nice idea by John Reese, which shows the most visited posts on the Blog Rush network so it gives you a running count of what content, across a wide variety of topics, is popular. I like its objective:
TrafficJam.com was designed to give exposure to great blog posts regardless of the size (or current traffic level) of the blog. Some of the best blogs in the world are currently undiscovered and don’t have large advertising budgets to drive traffic — so many of them will never be found.

Please note that number 1 is the most popular headline and there is no voting system like Digg. Watch this video to learn more about TrafficJam.
2 Mar // php the_time('Y') ?>
"I'm sure what most of you care the most about are the facts, and so I've compiled the results of the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark test for each of the different browsers. All of the tests below were performed on the same Windows machine, and the Firefox 3 nightly builds definitely came out on top." reported Ryan from CyberNet. "It's important to ...
27 Feb // php the_time('Y') ?>
If you are going to start a business, you may have some ideas of your biz name and logo. I have no advice for the name because it is your business, no? :) But you can try to create a logo by yourself with two cool online tools: one is completely free and the other costs around 100 bucks for ...
26 Feb // php the_time('Y') ?>
As you may notice, I've created a mobile version of this blog using service from WireNode.com. I'm very impressive with the simplicity of the service - it took me only about 5 minutes to do everything. Now you can read JustTalkAboutWeb DOT com from any mobile phone (optimized for iPhone too) via the link: http://justtalkaboutweb.wirenode.mobi/ To get more info about WireNode, ...
25 Feb // php the_time('Y') ?>
Mads B. Westmark and Jesper Rønn-Jensen have some great quotes for the agile project wall. The quote below is what Jesper likes best: "Small agile teams where we can show and tell - make working software and prototypes very fast in close collaboration with clients." And here are some other interesting quotes: "Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses ...
23 Feb // php the_time('Y') ?>
This is another useful JavaScript function by Matt Snider used for number formatting. For JavaScript being considered "the world's most misunderstood programming language", Matt tried to explain how number is treated in JS (read more here). Here are build-in functions of Number object supported by different IE and Firefox versions. method IE FireFox Explaination toExponential 5.5 1.5 Returns the expotential value of the number. toFixed 5.5 1.5 Returns a number with a ...
22 Feb // php the_time('Y') ?>
As the latest report from spreadfirefox.com, the Firefox browser has been downloaded over 500 million times by now. No surprise! The browser has around 17% market share worldwide and 150 million active users as stats early this month. Firefox has been my default browser for long time. 55.5% of visitors to this blog use Firefox against IE usage of 34.7% (see ...
21 Feb // php the_time('Y') ?>
A few days ago I wrote about how to use Spottt and adGridWork for free advertising. Here is the latest update on performance of these networks. Spottt plays nicely It's really interesting to see a variety of ad banners appearing on my blog, some are very creative and appealing. Spottt exposed the best performed ad after 2 days was for pud.com, simply ...
20 Feb // php the_time('Y') ?>
For a heavy JavaScript web application, one of the most important things you should do before making it public is to obfuscate and compress JavaScript and CSS. The reason to do that is obvious: your app will be faster and safer. When the web code is not optimized, it makes your visitors waste bandwidth and wait longer for the page to ...
19 Feb // php the_time('Y') ?>
Kontera -- in case you haven't heard of it yet -- offers advertisers and publishers in-text advertising solutions. After placing Kontera's JavaScript in your code, their system will automatically create in-text ads all through your site (I know the network after reading this post by John Chow). Ideally, the in-text ads should be created in post content instead of sidebar content ...
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