Monthly Archives: May 2006

Wordpress Plugin: Corrector

By Bish | Published: 25/05/2006 – 20:40 | Posted in Software, Wordpress | Comments (0)

Derek over at 5ThirtyOne, pointed out this quality Ajax spellchecker for WordPress. Corrector, from Vanus01.net, is quite simply an excellent, must have plugin. Simply download and extract the zip into your plugin directory, upload and activate from your plugins panel on the dashboard. Available in 27 lingual flavours there really is no excuse for badly sletp posts again.

Ebay and Yahoo Collaboration

By Bish | Published: 25/05/2006 – 20:27 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

It seems EBay and Yahoo are pairing up, in what looks a mutually beneficial venture. Certainly if the share prices are to be regarded at least the investors believe so.

Under the terms of the agreement, EBay will incorporate Yahoo into their toolbar which has been downloaded over 4 million times. Further Yahoo will become the sole source for ‘graphical advertising’ on the site and provide some search based advertising. In return Yahoo will use Paypal, Ebays online payment service, as the preferred solution to their storefronts, shopping and subscription services. There is also a likely collaboration into click based advertising using the recently acquired Skype telephony service.

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Delicious Homepage Reorganised

By Bish | Published: 25/05/2006 – 20:00 | Posted in News, Software, Web | Comments (0)

Delicious, the social bookmarking site, have a new layout on their homepage, reorganising what’s hot on the web. Personally I preferred the original one and maybe added this as a hot list page, but hey, at least they are innovating or at least changing things and keeping Delicious fresh. Maybe I am just stuck in my ways…..

Google Video Ads?

By Bish | Published: 25/05/2006 – 19:48 | Posted in Design, News, Web | Comments (0)

Google Inc. will begin distributing online video ads for the first time later this week, continuing the Internet search engine leader’s effort to diversify beyond the static written messages that generate most of its profits.

A little late but heres my two cents…..

For me the great thing about Google’s adsense or any other text based advertising is that while it undoubtably generates revenue, it is un-obtrusive. Text based ads can be designed to integrate into a site, do the job they are intended for and not put people off browsing your site. For the same reason that Google’s image ads are far less frequently seen (well depending on your browsing habits) Googles’s introduction of video will not be used by the majority of sensible designers or site owners.

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Firefox Extension: coComment

By Bish | Published: 17/05/2006 – 19:43 | Posted in Quick, Software, Web, Wordpress | Comments (0)

coComment have released an extension that automatically tracks your comments to your account, eliminating the need to click on the bookmarklet. Additionally it also notifies you when people have commented on the same posts as you with an icon in the status bar at the bottom of the browser.

This excellent service’s value just keeps increasing in my opinion. Typically with a real sense of community; Amit recently released a Wordpress plugin making it even easier to integrate this service into your blog. Take a look…..