So today I decided to play with AdSense. I found this cool wordpress plugin.I am trying different things so as to not be so intrusive with ads. What do you guys think?
Trying a fix for uploading images. Is the thumbnail big enough now?
Wow. I just found out about this awesome idea. The meebo me widget! The little IM thing on the top left on my site is a live IM widget. This means that if I am connected on meebo, you can chat live with me! Isn’t that cool??!? Now I just need to figure out html so that the widget doesn’t get refreshed everytime a link on the site is clicked because this causes the meebo widget to relogin.
Any idea how to do that? A frame?
The best thing is that even if I am not logged in, all IMs are stored on the backend and displayed once I log in. This is freaking awesome.
Except the meebo UI is really slow. This ajax thing needs optimization…
In any case, mark my words. This company is not backed by Sequoia Capital for nothing. This is huge. You can bet this is going to be on every MySpace page in no time.
How do I invest in this company !?!?
Update: The novelty faded and I decided to remove it from the page for now.
Update2: I found out today via Om Malik’s blog that this company, which does the same thing and even more, just got acquired by AOL.
So I have been pretty busy the last week-end. I have decided to look into how Mozilla plugins work. So I have started to learn about XPCOM, XUL & JavaScript and it’s damn cool! I was able to write a Mozilla (Firefox) component using the gecko sdk. I found some really cool tools:
– A Firefox extension to debug Javascript
– An Eclipse plugin to write Javascript (haven’t tried it yet though)
I am slowly becoming a Web 2.0 expert. Who knows what the future lies in front of us now!
K. has been complaining about the spam she gets in Comments in her blog so she turned off the Comments which is kind of a shame. So I decided to install akismet. Of course, it required WordPress 2.0 and she was still running 1.5. Somehow I never installed her blog using the dreamhost goodies so I had to upgrade myself…
First, found and installed a nice plugin to backup the database, made an extra copy of the entire folder, installed the new WP 2.04 and followed instructions. Pretty simple. Of course, 2.0.4 doesn’t work with K. theme so it’s all busted. They also removed some features like being able to choose the picture thumbnail size during upload which is LAME!
While messing around with dreamhost, I also accidentally forced wordpress on Plutinosoft to be upgraded to 2.0.3 which of course broke a few things like the StatCounter plugin for WordPress 1.0. After playing around with a new theme, I figured it out so I should be able to get statistics again. I was getting worried. No traffic yesterday! Well I haven’t posted anything new and fun anyways…
Meanwhile dreamhost has been very flaky these last few days. Apparently they had 2 major power outages judging from the email I received and their blog.