Interestingly, out of Gmail, Yahoo Mail! and Hotmail, only the first one does not append advertising messages to actual emails. I am rather surprised by this, given we just started with the year 2008. I remember back when Hotmail and other webmail services were just starting, it was a common practice to monetize on advertising … Continue reading The webmail observation
I went through a few comment-related plugins in the WordPress plugin directory. It’s amazing how much cool stuff is written and uploaded over there. Here are just a few to give you an idea of what you can find and install on your blog: WP AJAX Edit Comments – this plugin can be used to … Continue reading WordPress comment-related plugins
It was almost half a year ago that I wrote these words: Google AdSense is gone. I’ve been planning to do this for a long time but never got down to it. I don’t want to have any ads on my personal blog anymore. And, it wasn’t making me that much anyway. As a tribute … Continue reading Google AdSense blocks are back
Yesterday I came across a bunch of my old files. Some things dated back to one of my first jobs in 1999. Others were slightly more recent, but almost forgotten about. One of these recent collections of files was the beGucho project. I did it with a few friends of mine (Michael, Slava, and Igor … Continue reading Memories : beGucho
I don’t know exactly how all those online shops do during the Christmas seasons (probably they are blooming), but I can show you what two weeks or so of Christmas and New Year’s holidays can do to one’s blog statistics. Here is a screenshot of weekly stats for my blog: X-axis shows a few last … Continue reading Christmas season and blog stats