Interactive Gadget Ads from Tumri

Posted on May 7, 2007 by vrreddy

Tumri is offering publishers to create interactive gadget ads which they call AdPod. Publishers can create ads based on site or blog niche, or select from pre-defined stores. When you paste these ads on your web pages Tumri will rotate the categories you select. Your site users can interact with the AdPod by selecting categories or by searching on AdPod, ads will rollover in real time. These AdPods are written in Ajax for interactivity.

How It Works

When you join the Tumri merchandising network and put a AdPod on your web page, you immediately start earning revenues as your web site’s visitors interact with the AdPod. Your AdPod will advertise product offers from hundreds of leading internet merchants, who pay commissions for customer referrals. Tumri collects those commissions from the merchants, splits them with you, and then sends you a regular payment for your share of the earnings.

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Automattic Stats plugin for self hosted wordpress blogs

Posted on May 6, 2007 by vrreddy

If you are a WordPress.com user ever probably you know that they have a beautiful stats plugin for wordpress.com blogs. The plugin is released for self hosted wordpress blogs.

You need a wordpress.com API key to use this plugin, you can get that from wordpress.com by registering at wordpress.com. If you are using Akismet plugin then you already have the API key you can use the same API key for this plugin too.

Just Install the plugin from plugins administration, enter the API key and wait for few minutes to see your stats. It takes 20min to see your first stats and after that stats are updated for every 3mins.

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Create social lists with FlexLists

Posted on May 6, 2007 by vrreddy

FlexLists is a social software for creating lists and sharing with others. With FlexLists you can create lists of any kind like Tasks, Addresses, To do lists and share it with others or keep it yourself.

Lists created with FlexLists can be exported to CSV or paste on your blog as widgets and monitor them with RSS. You can allow others to edit your lists, add new information to your lists.

You can start creating the lists by registering at the site, you can use pre made list types or you can create a template for your lists with web based forms.

Visit FlexLists home page or try out a demo

How to upgrade PHP version from WHM

Posted on May 6, 2007 by vrreddy

I have upgraded my PHP version on my dedicated server recently from php 4.4.4 to php 5.1.4, i will explain how i did that here, hope it might be useful to someone else. Some of the scripts we use may be upgraded to PHP 5 version, in that case it is always better to upgrade your server php version. The best way to do is from your WHM (Web Host Manager) installed on your server, i dont know how to do it from shell, there may be a way but i am scared that i may broke the server.

In most of the Linux servers php is installed as apache module, so we have to build apache by selecting the version of PHP you want to install.

First Identify the PHP version installed on your server, you can do this by creating a phpinfo file on your site, here its a good idea to note modules installed with php from the result of the phpinfo file. This is useful if something goes wrong after upgrading.

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Google Image Labeler

Posted on May 6, 2007 by vrreddy


Google Image Labeler is a new feature of Google Image Search for improving Image search in Google. It relies on users to label the images randomly to improve the quality of their image search.

Any one can contribute to this feature, all you have to do is label the images shown by Google with relevant phrases.

How it works:

When you start using this feature you will be paired with an online user and then Google will show you same images to both of you over a two minute period. You and your paired user have to provide as many labels as possible to the set of images you see. When your and your partners labels match you will earn points. After you finish labeling it will show you the images you labeled with site url and your partner’s labels.

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Create your own social bookmarking site with scuttle

Posted on May 5, 2007 by vrreddy

Scuttle is a free open source software for creating social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us. You can create a social bookmarking site in minutes using scuttle for your personal or for community use. Scuttle code is available from sourceforge.net.

Scuttle supports most of the del.icio.us API, so you can modify the del.icio.us tools to work with scuttle.
Import your existing bookmarks from browsers or from del.icio.us.
Scuttle is Ajaxified. It generates RSS feeds.

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Technorati Facelift for Blog Profiles

Posted on May 4, 2007 by vrreddy

Technorati has introduced some changes to the system. The blog profile pages have some new look, on the left bar it shows a thumbnail image, a search box and below that thumbnails of people who favorited your blog and tags for that blog. Now blog posts occupy the right side of the page with more visibilty. Overall the page looks very simple and clear.

The blogs show an authority score, earlies they used to show number of favortites, links and rank for that blog. Now it shows authority score with rank.

Manage Your Online Identity

Posted on May 4, 2007 by vrreddy

Tired of registering with so many websites and remembering those passwords, with OpenID you can manage these registrations with one ID in all OpenID enabled websites. Some of the sites which accept OpenID authentication are Livejournal, Ma.gnolia and Technorati.

What is OpenID:

OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity.

OpenID starts with the concept that anyone can identify themselves on the Internet the same way websites do-with a URI (also called a URL or web address). Since URIs are at the very core of Web architecture, they provide a solid foundation for user-centric identity.

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Print your Flickr Photos as Notecards

Posted on May 4, 2007 by vrreddy


Moo notecards, originally uploaded by megpickard.

Moo has released a relased a new product calles Notecards. You can print your Flickr photos as Notecards with Moo. Check out the new product here, they are really great. Each photo print is 100mm x100mm with a flap they measure 142 x 100mm.

The front side will come with your photo and the back side you can personalize with your own message of up to 6 lines.

You don’t even need to wait for an occasion – sure you can send them as birthday cards or invitations, but why not send one just to say ‘hello’, or ‘I miss you!’ or ‘thanks for the cake’. Make someone feel special again.

Yahoo Photos Shutting Down

Posted on May 4, 2007 by vrreddy

Yahoo Photos to shutdown soon in favor of Flickr, the social photo sharing website TechCrunch reported. Yahoo acquired Flickr in March 2005, flickr has become popular with its photo sharing features with other members of the site. Flickr is planning to add video sharing capabilities in the near future, Butterfield Co Founder of Flickr confirmed.

Yahoo Photos shutdown process continue a few months and in this time users have given a choice to upload their photos to flickr in one click or they can move these photos to other photo sharing sites like Photobucket, Snapfish od Shutterfly.

Yahoo Photos reportedly has large number of Photos than any other photos sharing site with 2 billion photos, flickr has 500 million. But the popularity of Flickr might have made Yahoo to take this decision. There is no piont in continuing Yahoo Photos and Flickr under the company as both of the sites provide the same services for the users.

….There has long been an issue at Yahoo where newer services have competed with older services, and Yahoo has finally taken some strong action to getting their house in order with a consistent set of product offerings. Garlinghouse has been one of the stronger proponents of this strategy.

…Flickr is also growing much faster than Yahoo photos and coincidentally has just exceeded Yahoo! Photos in traffic, according to Comscore.