For all you WordPress for iPhone users out there, version 1.3 of the app is live. Seems like it pretty much just fixes some compatibility issues, but it should help with stability if nothing else.
Also, just fyi, there’s a strange version numbering problem with this release. Here’s how the WordPress for iPhone blog explains it…
Please note: Due to a strange glitch when submitting the app, the About page of the “1.3″ version will say version “1.21.1″. If you see that, you are running the correct version. We are working with Apple to understand why it would not accept “1.3″ as a valid version, yet displays that version in the iTunes store just fine.
According to a post on the WordPress Development blog today, there are finally some concrete GPL related answers regarding some fuzziness in the communities (and WordPress’s) understanding of exactly how themes fit into the GPL framework.
Long story short, the php (or at least the parts related to hooking into WordPress) of themes ARE required to be GPL compliant. The tricky bit is, the images and css are NOT. Meaning a theme could be partially GPL and still retain copyright of the artwork/design to some degree.
Here’s a snippet for you…
The PHP elements, taken together, are clearly derivative of WordPress code. The template is loaded via the include() function. Its contents are combined with the WordPress code in memory to be processed by PHP along with (and completely indistinguishable from) the rest of WordPress. The PHP code consists largely of calls to WordPress functions and sparse, minimal logic to control which WordPress functions are accessed and how many times they will be called. They are derivative of WordPress because every part of them is determined by the content of the WordPress functions they call. As works of authorship, they are designed only to be combined with WordPress into a larger work.
If you want more details, head over to the post on the Dev blog for the full situation, including some more fun legalese type stuff.
Starting a business online may be an exciting idea but are you ready for the challenges ahead? Putting up a website is not the start and end of it because you have to ensure that you sustain your traffic and sales once you begin. Deciding on your own may not be sufficient but with a mentor to guide through every step of the way, you can be sure to build your confidence going forward.
The Winners Circle membership site is one training program you can count on. I strongly recommend this especially to start up entrepreneurs. It’s easy to use and requires only a small amount from your pocket but the wealth of knowledge you can gain is more than your money’s worth.
The training program provided by the Winners Circle is not like any other because it makes use of case studies and actual experiences of internet experts. No other mentoring site has shared real case studies of businesses that have achieved success in the field of ecommerce. SEO specialist Gyutae Park, the man behind this membership program, made sure to share vital materials with those who care to sign up and take their business to the next level. Park is no ordinary internet expert because he has had vast experience working as a consultant in the past assisting major international companies including Nokia in their SEO campaign.
For those who take part in the Winners Circle training program, great features await you. Signing up is quick and easy and once you’ve logged in, you’re ready to take advantage of the truly valuable information available exclusively to members.
Case studies. Each week, a new case study is featured on the members area. But other than the new one, you can access all the previous case studies for your reference. These materials not only present the business models but go in depth in analyzing their strategies pertaining to market research and monetization of sites. With these detailed information, it’s easy to understand the ways that work to help push your business ahead than the others.
Interviews. Two interviews are featured every month. These involve successful internet marketers, bloggers and business oriented people who earn a living online. Wouldn’t it be great to hear the experts share their stories and learn from their lessons? It’s one opportunity that should not be missed.
Forum. What better way to connect and learn from other entrepreneurs but to interact on an online forum. Whether you have concerns or you want to share tips, the Winners Circle forum is the perfect avenue to exchange ideas and get the right support from like-minded people.
Bonus. For every person who signs up, you get a bonus from Gyutae Park. It’s a free copy of his Guide to Finding the Perfect Niche for your Online Business. This is particularly helpful to the newbies in the online business because choosing the right category is crucial to being easily located by your target audience.
What all these means is that for every successful online business, learning the ropes from the experts on a consistent basis is the right step to take. Join the Winners Circle then if you want to be a winner yourself.
If you don’t find using the default post editor in WordPress very efficient, or for whatever reason just want to be able to post to your WordPress blog without going to the admin panel, starting a new post, and going through the somewhat lengthy process of getting everything ready to go, then they are quite a few alternative methods to getting something posted.
Bloggerdesign.com currently has a great list describing many of them, including a fairly good list of desktop applications or browser addons.
Here’s a taste from one of the methods they discuss…
Press This is a bookmarklet that you can add to your browser. When you find something you want to blog about, select it and click the Press This bookmarklet. It’ll then open a small WordPress post window that is auto-populated with the selected text and allow you to put the finishing touches on the post.
Out of all the different ways I’ve tried in the past, that I like ScribeFire the best, but it really comes down to personal choice, and what you want to do with it. There are certainly enough other options that if you wanted to you could avoid the default editor forever and no one would be the wiser for it.
Are they any methods that people are using that weren’t included in the list? Let me know what you’re using in the comments. It’s always interesting to hear about how people are using the different tools available (or creating their own).
If you work, either full time or part time, for a company that might benefit from having a someone running a blog for them(and it would be extremely strange if that isn’t the case), you might be able to roll some blogging into your job, or maybe even make blogging for that company your ONLY job if that’s something you’d enjoy.
It’s not realistic – or even a good idea – for every employed person in the world to have a blog. For one thing, the blogosphere is cluttered enough as it is, and blogs that have no real purpose for existence will just muck things up even more. You should write a blog because you have a unique opinion on an industry issue and can establish yourself as a credible expert. Hone your perspective by reading literature and other blogs in your field and determining where there’s an unmet need.
Of course, that’s just the first step, you’ll have to head over to the full article for the other 5, and they are worth the couple of minutes it’ll take you to read them if you’re at all interested in convincing your employer to let you (or even pay you) to blog about the company you’re working for.
Found this video from Yaro Starak through JohnChow.com, and it’s well worth a look if you want some great ideas on how to get your blog some serious attention.
This is a guest post by Brad Leclerc, who can be found at BradLeclerc.com
The FTC is gearing up to extend it’s regulatory powers into the blogosphere, and I, for one, think it’s excellent news…sorta.
You may have read something about it in the last couple days, but if not, here’s a snippet from an Associated Press article on the issue:
Savvy consumers often go online for independent consumer reviews of products and services, scouring through comments from everyday Joes and Janes to help them find a gem or shun a lemon.
What some fail to realize, though, is that such reviews can be tainted: Many bloggers have accepted perks such as free laptops, trips to Europe, $500 gift cards or even thousands of dollars for a 200-word post. Bloggers vary in how they disclose such freebies, if they do so at all.
The practice has grown to the degree that the Federal Trade Commission is paying attention. New guidelines, expected to be approved late this summer with possible modifications, would clarify that the agency can go after bloggers — as well as the companies that compensate them — for any false claims or failure to disclose conflicts of interest.
On the face of it, they are essentially planning to crack down on false claims and undisclosed benefits (financial or otherwise) that a blogger might get due to their posting something about a product/service/etc, whether it’s in the form of an actual monetary payment, or some free stuff, or whatever else, as well as certain types of scam and “fake” websites that only exist to post affiliate links and other ads and pass them off as unbiased.
That is a good thing, in my opinion. Though I, like many others it seems, really don’t think the FTC will be taking the right approach. It seems sloppy and practically unenforceable to go after bloggers directly for the most part.
The reason I say it’s practically unenforceable is simply this: There is usually no way for the FTC to know if a blogger has a conflict of interest or undisclosed benefit to posting something unless that blogger has mentioned it on the blog…in which case it would have been disclosed, and so wouldn’t be an issue.
A much better way to go about fighting this problem would be to target the people and companies giving out the money and other benefits, instead of the bloggers themselves.
Arron Wall has an awesome post about just how sloppy and useless the FTC’s apparent approach to the problem is, called “FTC Going After Bloggers = Epic Fail“. He outlines a lot of examples of just how silly “bottom-up” enforcement of these problems is, and I completely agree with them. They need to “follow the money”, so to speak, and hit the problem head on at the source.
I’m sure it’ll have SOME effect (including likely harassment of a lot of perfectly innocent bloggers), but I don’t think it’s likely to actually help anything very much. It would be MUCH more helpful for these new regulations to target the sources of the services/products/etc that are instigating (or at least knowingly allowing) fraudulent and/or misleading content to be posted on their behalf, and paying for it.
This could be a really good way of fighting some of the more serious spam and deceitful content online if done right, but sadly I have serious doubts that the FTC is up to the job.
Cameron Chapman over on SmashingMagazine.com has just posted a great list of ad management plug-ins for WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, Movable Type, and some general ad managements tutorials and guides.
Here’s a taste…
Should you sell text ads or banner ads? Should you allow Flash ads? What about ads with sound, pop-ups or floating ads? People have so many decisions to make that they often just end up slapping on some AdSense code and calling it a day. And that’s fine.
But you have a ton of other options for displaying ads on your website, from using other ad networks to selling and managing banner ads yourself. There are plug-ins for virtually every CMS and blogging platform out there that allow you to rotate banner ads or insert blocks of ad code.
Whatever blogging platform you use, there’s something in this list to help you manage ad placement and management. Well worth a look, especially if you’re unsure just what types of ads you want to display on your site or what sort of ad networks are out there beyond Google AdSense.
Far from being the electronic equivalent of a hippie community filled to brimming with love and camaraderie, the internet can actually be quite a cut throat environment. This is most prevalent when you look at the fierce competition being waged by web site and blog owners to make their respective sites come out on top in various search engine results pages or SERPs.
The rise of internet marketing as an essential tool in the survival and growth of a web site is proof that things are heating up in terms of how one can make the millions of surfers take notice of a site. As a web site or blog owner, it is essential for you to market your site or blog or else all of that hard work setting up and operating it will be all for naught. Internet marketing tips and advice literally pepper the internet that it’s safe to assume that there is a glut of information that could be gathered just by using Google. The big issue though is determining which tips are worth taking and which ones should be considered as trash. Trial and error is the usual solution to this, but do you really have the time and, frankly the energy, to go through each tip or advice you see, implement it, and then make the necessary studies to find out if it was effective or not? Internet marketing is an important tool but it shouldn’t be a time-consuming, endless chore.
Gyutae Park — an SEO specialist, internet marketer, blogger and entrepreneur – has also made the same observation. He noticed that there is just a dearth of unfiltered information out there regarding internet marketing. it is becoming not only cumbersome for the site owner hoping to learn how to market his web site but potentially detrimental because no one is actually pointing out which information and advice to take.
This realization made him decide to compile The Winning Way – Ultimate Checklist of 500+ Proven Marketing Strategies. The new resource is designed to help web site owners and blog owners improve the visibility of their web sites. And they can do this without hiring expensive SEO specialists or companies.
The 118 page long resource compiles all of the best advice and marketing strategies taken from blog posts, e-books, marketing sites, internet marketing products and the trial and error experience of Park and other SEO specialists.
The checklist format of The Winning Way makes it very easy to use and each advice is accompanied by a short description or explanation to give you an idea why a particular tip will work. The best thing about this invaluable resource is that it is being offered absolutely FREE. The Winning Way has a $97 value and that is what you save when you download this handy resource. Park is so confident that you will get valuable information from The Winning Way that he even has a guarantee – if you do not find at least three new internet marketing ideas then he will send you $50 through Paypal. Downloading The Winning Way will also get you an internet marketing newsletter delivered right to your email.
The Internet launched the era of online advertising, transforming the landscape where businesses can promote their products and services. Businesses demand that ad networks place their ads precisely, targeting the particular types of customers and specific niche in order to generate a measurable response. With total ad spending for the first quarter of the year down by12%, according to Nielsen Co., more businesses are cutting expenses on areas that are not clearly beneficial in terms of sales. Advertising budgets are usually the first ones to be slashed since returns are not always clearly measurable.
Netpartner is a performance based affiliate network that helps both publishers and advertisers. It proposes to help advertisers promote products and services using the best strategy applicable for their target market. Netpartner is also ready to provide publishers with a wide network to look into and choose the best offers form top domestic and international advertisers.
An efficient affiliate network should be able to promote your products or services to the largest possible number of publishers all over the world. Netpartner recognizes that there are buyers and bargain shoppers out there swimming in the Internet and claims it will not just stop at providing exposure to your products or services but will work closely with publishers and network partners in ensuring that your exposure will primarily be to your target audience. And since Netpartner will only charge advertisers upon generating sales or leads this means you pay only when the results are in.
Netpartner promises to be advantageous, not only to advertisers but also to publishers. As it is efficient in ensuring that ads reach target audiences, it can also provide comprehensive reports, which contain all leads, conversions and referrals. This means publishers are able to monitor, manage and assess performances and how much commission should really be coming in. Aside from this, Netpartner’s policy of reviewing all offers if they are acceptable for advertising before passing on to publishers will ensure that the products and services to be advertised will produce high payouts.
Netpartner is easy to navigate. Its user-friendly interface ensures that publishers are able to go through thousands of advertising offers and choose the ones needed. In fact, after signing up and choosing from among all the offers, it is possible for publishers to start getting commissions.
Businesses who wish to advertise their products or services will find Netpartner easy to work with. Unlike other advertising networks, Netpartner promises to provide experienced marketing professionals who can guide your online business, whether for expansion or from ground up. As your business is connected to Netpartner’s wide network of publishers, your product or service gets to be promoted through websites, emails and search listings, among others. And all throughout this flurry of activities, their managers will be there to guide in setting up everything so that it is easy to monitor performances and eventually maximize sales.
Netpartner’s thrust towards ensuring that both advertisers and publishers is impressive. Providing an arrangement such as this means Netpartner is capable of listening to the needs of advertisers, publishers and the market. If you are looking for a partner in the Internet that will give high payouts and appropriate revenue share, check out Netpartner. It may be the online marketing partner for you.
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