July 21st, 2007
Did I miss something? Was there a recent "upgrade" to MyBlogLog?
I didn’t realize they now automatically add you to communities THEY feel you frequent often. It’s kind of funny because they just added me to THEIR community. I thought that was a little odd since I’ve probably ony visited their blog twice since I joined.
Hmmm…are you community spamming me MyBlogLog? I got my eye on you……
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July 19th, 2007
As an affiliate marketer it’s imperative to remain abreast of the latest web technologies. You don’t necessarily need any programming or design knowledge (although it helps) but understanding how these technologies work and how they can be integrated into your online business is a must.
Affiliate marketing is all about seperating yourself from the pack and dominating a niche. Static web sites can still pull in good revenue but rich media sites are far more aesthetically pleasing to your potential customers..just don’t overdo it.
Check out what these web technologies can do for your business and brainstorm some ideas on how you can uniquely implement them into your web real estate.
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Apollo is a new cross-platform desktop runtime being developed by Adobe that allows web developers to use web technologies to build and deploy
Rich Internet Applications and web applications to the desktop. Essentially it moves web applications outside of the browser. Stay on top of this one.
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CodeIgniter (CI) is a powerful open-source PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. CodeIgniter is an MVC framework, similar in some ways to the Rails framework for Ruby, and is designed to enable, not overwhelm.
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Dojo allows you to easily build dynamic capabilities into web pages and any other environment that supports JavaScript. You can use the components that Dojo provides to make your web sites more usable, responsive, and functional.
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Microsoft® Expression® Web is a professional design tool to create modern, standards-based sites that deliver superior quality on the Web. Sure, it’s Microsoft but you should take a look at it!
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If you’re not using FireFox yet you should be. Firebug is a FireFox extension that allows you to debug and edit JavaScript, CSS and HTML almost effortlessly. Great little extension.
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No surprise here. Adobe Flash, or simply Flash, refers to both a multimedia authoring program and the Adobe Flash Player, written and distributed by Adobe, that uses vector and raster graphics, a native scripting language called ActionScript and bidirectional streaming of video and audio….blah, blah, blah. It’s just plain cool and you know it!
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Flex 2 allows you to build slick Web applications with rich, client-side Flash interfaces. Really like this one.
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I REALLY, REALLY LIKE THIS ONE! Endless applications. Ruby on Rails is an open source web application framework written in Ruby that closely follows the Model View Controller (MVC) architecture. It strives for simplicity, allowing real-world applications to be developed in less code than other frameworks and with a minimum of configuration. A powerful and effective competitor to commercial alternatives.
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Based on the revolutionary sIFR, comes a new Flash replacement technique that allows you to replace an image within your HTML and apply effects to it. swFIR is VERY slick.
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Yep, I know everyone knows about this one too but it’s still one of the best blogging and content management systems on the web. With the vast array of plugins and customizations that can be implemented on this platform it is my #1 recommendation for blogging. Upgrade it with the Semiologic Pro package and it turns into an even greater traffic magnet.
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[tags]web technologies, affiliate marketer, programming, design, online business, rich media, web real estate, apollo, codeigniter, dojo toolkit, expression web, firebug, flash, flex 2.0, ruby on rails, swfIR, wordpress[/tags]
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July 18th, 2007
Back in April Google made a massive online wave when they acquired the DoubleClick advertising network. This was a well placed boot in the backside of Microsoft…and Microsoft is still rubbing their behind and rightfully so.
With the aquisition of DoubleClick for a meager $3.1 billion Google has secured a huge claim in the banner advertising market. No longer is Google purely the reigning champ in contextual advertising.
Microsofts legal counsel, Brad Smith, claims that the combined Google/DoubleClick networks will handle more than 80% of all online advertising. So, who wants to play monopoly! 
LOL. In my opinion though there is still a vast untapped market for Microsoft to regain some market ground. With millions of online publishers selling as much ad space as they possibly can the market is still wide open. Cheer up Microsoft!
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[tags]Google, Microsoft, DoubleClick, advertising, advertising network, banner advertising, contextual advertising, online advertising, untapped market, online publishers[/tags]
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