Reading a good article about facebook I realized that facebook is the better google and the new mahalo. It gathers content from everywhere to one place. If that content would be searchable and usable for everyone, without registering, they will rise above myspace in traffic and pageviews.

Windows Live Writer is a great tool if you want to escape the hassle of having to save all the time and check out how your post will look in page.
I really like it, despite it’s problems.

A few days ago i started asking myself if there is a way to insert tags automatically using WLW, withouty having to go through wordpress. After some digging, the answer is yes. I found a great tutorial on this. And it really works on other wordpress plugins, not just UTW.

Happy posting!

Someone contacted me the other day for a paid post. he wanted me to write about his “great service”, because he needed some attention. I said that if the service is so great, I will write about it for free.

I signed up for it and rambled around for 20 minutes. The service sucked. It was not focused or thought through. I told the guy about it and he said he knew, but he said he just needs some publicity, ’cause he didn’t care too much about it. I politely refused and went about my day.

I don’t want to put my stamp on bad services. I will end up being labeled as dumb or greedy. I choose to be true to myself and not greedy.

50% of romanian phone buyers are not interested in the iPhne because it has no 3G and a lame camera. But 80% of romanians don’t have 3G on their current phones. Just a friendly reminder.

Google Adsense is a great tool for both publishers and advertisers. Is a great tool that needs to be understood and used more carefully.

I was on a respected site the other day and they had the adsense changed to match the links and fonts of the site. Most people do that, there is a common belief that users will click the links thinking it’s a part of the site. This particular site had the adsense right above the text, no space between them. If this is they way some people do business, I am in the wrong place, i thought we publish nice things and people will come. Not that they will come and then we will trick them to click the money links.

Why? Well, mostly because after he gets cheated a few times, he will leave the site or block the ads. That does not matter, right? Others will come…

About 6 months ago I got this crazy idea of renouncing at categories and use just tags. Various reasons for this, mainly because a lot of categories needed to be created and I hated that.

So I started using tags. At the beginning it looked fine. But what about old posts without tags? How can I tag them? After some searches, I found an easy fix.

I used the Search and Replace plugin to add embed tags to key words like youtube and digg. I would simply go to the plugin, select only the content, main word youtube replaced by [tag]youtube[/tag]. I did this for all the important words. It is not a time effective technique, but it will pay in the end

Then I used Ultimate Tag Warrior’s feature of importing embed tags and i got all the tags i created before.

After this, i got a bunch of tags. And, because i don’t like embed tags (i think they are somehow confusing), i went to Search and Replace again and deleted [tag] and [/tag].

Be careful and backup your database before. Better safe than sorry.

Got up this morning, and seems the world has stopped. Not so many news in my feedreader. Well, except the terrorist attacks in Glasgow. Could they be all playing with their iPhones?