Is anyone else seeing this? It looks like they integrated a Link Unit into the Banner (468 x 60).
See the screen capture below:
Click the thumbnail for the full screen capture:
UPDATE: It looks like others have seen this:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=424336
I wonder if/when they will fully release it as an option. Thanks for the link B.
Don’t waste money on a Xbox 360 Premium HDMI cable!
If you’re like me, you ordered the xbox 360 Premium instead of the 360 Elite because you wanted to save money. However, if you want HDMI going to your TV and Digital Optical to your surround sound, Microsoft has engineered the Premium in a way that requires you to purchase their HDMI cable with audio adapter for $49.99.
Because the HDMI and componet A/V cable slots are so close to one another, and the componet A/V casing is so thick, you cannot have both plugged in at the same time.
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= NOT FRIENDS
So the question remains, how can we stick it to the man and achieve HDMI video and Digital Optical audio without paying microsoft $50.
First, purchase a Hdmi Cable for less than $10.
Second, remove the plastic casing from the standard A/V cable. I did this by wedging a knife between the slit in the plastic casing and seperating the two sides. See the pictures below for the finished product:
Simple solution - cheap fix.
UPDATE: Someone create a Batman looking .gif of exactly how to do this. Check it out
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Build a plan to save for retirement. This tool takes a little while to complete but it is very powerful and provides suggestions for meeting your retirement goals:
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Google reached an agreement today to acquire DoubleClick, the online advertising company, from two private equity firms for $3.1 billion in cash, the companies announced, an amount that was almost double the $1.65 billion in stock that Google paid for YouTube late last year.
The sale offers Google access to DoubleClick’s advertisement software and, more importantly, its relationships with Web publishers, advertisers and advertising agencies… [read more]
Commentary:
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I was just watching family guy when I saw the most random ad ever… It showed two guys building a house in what looked to be a suburban type neighborhood. The screen then turned black and displayed the text [fade in] “Who will live here” [fade out] [fade in] “You decide” [fade out] [fade in] and then a vintage Defend Charlotte logo. Naturally I went to the Google to figure out exactly what this ad was about. Here are a few links and posts that attempt to answer the question:
http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=36679
“I took it to be an ad for Fox News. Just adding a little more drama to the Charlotte news”
http://www.carolinahuddle.com/forum/lounge/46829-wtf-defend-charlotte-ads.html
“I’m pretty sure its just an advertising ploy by Fox Charlotte. It only comes on during their newscasts in the evening. It may be in response or in support to all the whining people do in this city. Who knows.”
One thing is for sure - it is Fox news who is behind the ads:
More here. It seems they are just trying to get some viral going before they finally release what the “Defend Charlotte” campaign is aimed at accomplishing.
If you aren’t from the Charlotte area you probably don’t know what I am talking about - I am goign to contact them to see if they will send me the commercials and maybe some more info.
Thanks to Mike for sending a link to this on YouTube.
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If you’re the type that obsesses over Google’s Webmaster Tools, you’ll love Joost de Valk’s GreaseMonkey script that adds pagerank and anchor text info to your link of inbound links.
I have been trying off and on to increase the popularity of my blog and get involved more in the world of blogging. I have been very aware of the importance of a blog but I just never got around to doing one for myself. It has taken me a while to filter through all the worthless blog promotion tools out there but I believe I have a pretty good list of resources. Undoubtedly I will update this list and if you have anything to add, it would be greatly appreciated. I hope this helps anyone who is in the same boat.
SEO Tricks / RSS Syndication
1. Socialize your blog and optimize it with the rest of the blogosphere.
2. Add the buttons you see everywhere
3. Sign up for a feedburner account
4. Submit your RSS feeds (90 RSS submission sites)
5. Submit to as many blog directories as you can without going completely insane. Toprank also has a nice list.
6. Additionally - spend $1.99 and use feedshot
7. Sign up for a digg account and link to your digg account from your blog to make sure it gets indexed, once you have signed up start digging your blog posts
8. Sign up for a reddit account and link to your account from your blog to make sure it gets indexed, once you have signed up start submitting your posts
9. Repeat for netscape.
10. Start looking around for other blogs you like and leave good comments that make the blogger feel warm and fuzzy inside
Traffic Generation Tips:
Want to instantly get 100+ visitors to your site in the next hour?
(spoken in the infamous infomercial voice)
1. Sign up for a digg account
2. Wait for someone to post a picture that gets enough “diggs” to make the first page of digg.com
3. When the article hits the first page, quickly copy the image and post it to your blog (example)
4. This works under the assumption that being on the first page of digg will crash the site hosting the image.
5. Be one of the first to comment on how beautiful/vulgar/freakin awesome the image is and post a link to your blog - hosting the image.
Want to continuously get more traffic?
Do everything stated above and continue to look for new ways to promote your blog. Keep in mind that your titles are very important when it comes to creating posts. I would encourage you to use a keyword tool to figure out what keywords people use to query information related to your posts and develop your title’s around trafficked keywords (hence: 325- blog tips | 128- blog promotion | 25 blog trick). Ultimately, content is king.
