Entries from March 2007 ↓

Publishers Scholastic in the USA and Bloomsbury in the U.K. have released covers for the seventh and last book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. From left to right are the U.S. version, the U.K. adult version, and the U.K. children’s version. On the front of the wraparound cover of [...]

One quirk of WordPress (starting at version 2.1) is the interaction between the ‘more’ tag and the RSS feed. Even if you choose ‘Full Text’ under Syndication Feeds | Reading Options and then use the ‘more’ tag, your post gets cut off after the tag. There are no options to disable this ‘feature’. Why is this [...]

Amazon (AMZN: 72.00 +0.78%) has just announced beta release of contextual PPA links. Dubbed ‘Context Links‘, the new feature will automatically identify and link relevant phrases within page content to Amazon products. Setup is via the Associates admin panel, Associates Central->Build Links->Context Links. After you embed one simple JavaScript in your pages (usually placed [...]

If you are like me, you’ve probably wanted to link to items on eBay - but found the eBay affiliate program too complex to deal with. Well, now there is AuctionAds! Auction Ads (aka, AuctionAds1) allows you to run eBay ads on your site without signing up directly with eBay. Bloggers get a portion [...]

After a simple one-time registration process to link their TiVo and Amazon.com accounts, TiVo owners can now select a TiVo DVR as a RemoteLoad™ download destination for purchased or rented videos. In addition, if you register your Tivo DVR for Unbox on TiVo by April 30th you will receive $15 in free videos [...]

I saw this AdSense ad on my sidebar earlier today. It appeared in my prime 200×200px ad spot. The add code for that spot allows either image or text ads. To my surprise, Google served up what appears to be combination text/image ad. The image is reduced in size leaving room at the top [...]

Google AdSense ads are a great source of income for many web site publishers. Google delivers the ads live relevant to the content of the web page. The ads are delivered from the inventory of ads they have available. What happens when no ads are available at the time? AdSense delivers non-profit (non-paying) [...]