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Monthly Archive for June, 2006

Sites using AdAdvantage

What can be more pleasing to a theme developer than people using it?

I came across a few sites using my K2 3 column scheme.

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Relaunching Openology

Openology.Org

Openology is an opensource project that I started quite a while back. The idea was to develop a PHP framework that could quickly build applications.

That was then.

It never took off. There were many frameworks and many more came online. Recent frameworks quickly borrowed ideas from the wildly popular Ruby-on-Rails.

The project was in hiatus for many months and I’m now picking it up again. I’m also throwing some of my offline business resource at it, now that I can affort.

After some rethinking, I’m transforming it from being a framework to something I can use immediately. The goal is to make Openology a backend platform where other applications can be build or integrated.

All these do sound pretty vague at the moment but I plan to luminate the purpose as the project proceed.

In the current incarnation, Openology allows you to install WordPress, FUD Forum and Wikka Wiki. Nothing fancy and no integration yet.

I invite you to take a look.

links for Jun 05-11

Making a list of popular PHP based opensource projects.

Researching some blogging clients

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Using phpAdsNew to serve Ads

phpAdsNewI had been experimenting with phpAdsNew for while to serve ads. Although there are still may functions I have not discover, the basic functions are powerful enough to provide numerous control over the ads I’m serving.

Here’s an introduction of how to use phpAdsNew to serve your Ads (such as Adsense) and some ideas of how I’m using it.

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links for May 29-June 4

This week I am spending time looking at website monetizing. Plenty of links and surfing related to that.

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What you search is what you write

Running out of ideas to blog? Try this.

Take note of what topic you had been searching for and write about those topic.

Why it works?

When you search for a topic, chances are some people are also searching for the same topic. This works especially well if the you cannot find any good answer for the topic.

Let me share my experience.

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Pieces falling into place

Still in the refocus mode.

One thing that I think about often is how many things I am doing (many!) and how they can eventually fall in place, forming the BIG picture.

Maybe you know what I mean, maybe you don’t.

To sidetrack a little. It is not coincident that this site is named 59 ideas. “59″ is to be read as “finite”. Finite Ideas. Yes I try to keep my ideas finite, countable.

Seeking revenue online and building my business offline, that’s what I’m doing. In between I slot in a few more things.

Believe me I do have a vague picture of how things will come together but the destination is an ever changing one. Some say it is the journey not the destination.

The line between the online and offline is getting blur. What is on-line and what is off-line?

Yet in reality, the world, the people that I meet on and off line are so different that segregation is still a must.

How will all the pieces of ideas fall into place? That’s my thoughts and the common theme that strings the random posts in this blog.

Read a well researched article. For a change

Tired of your usual blog read? Try Benjamin Edelman’s website for a refreshing change.

If you are more impressed by fact than fantasy, then you will be impressed by what you read. Compared the usual blog rant supported by half-baked facts, Benjamin Edelman pieces are all well researched and succinctly presented.

A PhD candidate at Harvard University, his interest covers online advertising, click fraud, spywares. Stuffs of much interest to many of us.

Take for example the latest piece, authored with SiteAdvisor, tells us how unsafe all those search engine ads are. Think twice, triple before clicking on a google ads. Then again, it spells bad news for AdSense publishers.

SiteAdvisor study - Google Results, by Individual Keyword