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Finding Photos to Use on Your Blog — Picapp Shuts Down

Chris Jacobson — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:30:06 +0000

A popular photo service for bloggers and webmasters-alike ceased image-sharing operations earlier this month and it has created a huge blow to how royalty free images are found and used online. Picapp.com was a favorite of mine for its easy access to sports, entertainment, news and stock photos from agencies like Getty, Reuters, WireImage and [...]

How to Speed Up Your Blog for 2011

Chris Jacobson — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:23:44 +0000

With the New Year comes many goals and plans for blog owners that they may have put off the past year. Besides running their business, generating an income, development contacts and ensuring they’re on track, backend maintenance to an entrepreneur’s website is just as important. While you could easily hire someone to do it for [...]

REVIEW: Why You Should Join T3leads Affiliate Network

Chris Jacobson — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 18:22:05 +0000

It’s been a while since I’ve used T3leads to set up affiliate campaigns, but after the company recently launched a new third generation lead optimization platform, I’m giving them another look. So far, I’m very impressed. T3leads is known for providing quality pay per leads and market opportunities to benefit both their merchants and publishers, [...]

WordPress Releases 3.0.1, Comes Out with Quick Fix

Chris Jacobson — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:54:46 +0000

It seems like just a few weeks ago WordPress came out with a new version — that’s because it was. It’s been just 43 days since WordPress 3.0 was released, and already the developer has come out with an upgrade. Late Thursday night, WordPress 3.0.1 starting appearing in bloggers’ dashboards. WordPress says it’s a small [...]

WordPress Feature Can Publish Blog Posts via Phone

Chris Jacobson — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:29:53 +0000

Bloggers on the go now have yet another way to publish posts to their WordPress blog — via telephone. WordPress announced earlier today the ability to post audio to your blog up to six minutes at a time. So, while you can post from your desktop, e-mail, BlackBerry, iPhone, iPad and Android, there’s now another [...]

WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” Released

Chris Jacobson — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:55:51 +0000

The latest stable version of WordPress 3.0 was released today, bringing to a close the months of beta testing with previous releases. Among the highlights is the ability to manage multiple blogs running WordPress all within one installation. Another feature is the option to customize your admin username for security reasons. WordPress also included a [...]

John Chow Releases Blog Profit Camp

Chris Jacobson — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:06:14 +0000

John Chow has released a second eBook all about making money online, and it contains much more information than the first. The best part, of course, is that the book is totally free. There’s 60 pages of goodness on everything from why bloggers don’t make money and how to differentiate yourself from being a blogger [...]

Facebook Fixes Privacy Options — Is It Enough?

Chris Jacobson — Wed, 26 May 2010 14:45:24 +0000

After being hammered the last several months over the confusing privacy options users were faced with, Facebook decided to simplify things today. The social media giant rolled out new privacy settings which they say are easier to understand. The general census from around the blogosphere is that not much has changed. Being faced with a [...]

Sunday Chatter – 5/23

Chris Jacobson — Sun, 23 May 2010 14:40:01 +0000

Google Launches TV Platform Google came out this week with what they simply refer to as ‘Google TV.’ The search engine giant has teamed up with Intel, Sony and Logitech for the technology, which works alongside your existing cable or satellite box. The idea is to be able to pull content from the web anytime [...]

Target Your Competitors with Google AdWords

Chris Jacobson — Wed, 19 May 2010 21:15:44 +0000

Competition exists in any industry, but where it’s particularly prevalent is in the online marketing world. It’s an extremely cut-throat business to be in, and you sometimes need to play a little dirty to get ahead. I’m not talking about any blackhat techniques here, but some may argue that the following method falls into a [...]