TNX.net - Online Text Link Advertising Platform
TNX.net is an online text link advertising platform that’s offers website publishers the opportunity to monetize their websites by placing text links ads on them while at the same time offering a huge marketplace for advertises who wish to place links on TNX.net member sites in order to improve their ranks in search engines and improve traffic to their pages.
Registering for TNX.net is a quick, simple process and registering right now has many bonus benefits as seen here on the digitalpoint forum. Publisher and Advertiser registrations are incorporated into one easy process so once you register for TNX.net you get both advertiser and publisher privileges as seen in the sidebar of all user pages after registering and logging in.
Firefox 3 Beta 5 Released
The fifth beta release of the Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox 3 web browser is available with a slew of new features, updates and fixes. Many bugs have been worked out since the Firefox Beta 4 release but please note that release is only for testing purposes and there may be many bugs that have yet to be worked out. Download and evaluate the latest beta version of the popular open source browser in your native language at the Firefox website and be sure to read the official beta 5 release notes.
Release Notes Excerpt
Firefox 3 Beta 5 is a developer preview release of Mozilla’s next generation Firefox browser and is being made available for testing purposes only. These beta releases are targeted to Web developers and our testing community to gain feedback before advancing to the next stage in the release process. The final version of Firefox 3 will be released when we qualify the product as fully ready for our users. Users of the latest released version of Firefox should not expect their add-ons to work properly with this beta.
Internet Explorer 8 Beta Released
Internet Explorer 8 beta was release a few weeks ago and is intended to be used by web developers and designers to ensure that their web pages are compatible with the next release of the market leader in web browsers on Windows computer systems.
Internet explorer 8 intends improve on many of the faults of it’s predecessors, focusing more on increased security, web standards compliance and usability while adding new features to enhance the web browsing experience.
Internet Explorer 8 beta can be downloaded and evaluated from the off Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 page.
Technical Terms and Abbreviations Explained – Freeware
Freeware is a word formed by combining two separate words: “free” and “software”. Freeware is free software that is made available for use with no time limit.
Although freeware is without cost and can be used for a limited time there usually are some kind of usage restrictions such as free only for academic, non-commercial or personal use while there is a fee for commercial use usually with a few extra features.
Google Custom Search - Create your own Search Engine
Google custom search is a tool that allows website owners to create custom search engines which allow users to search through the content of their webpages. Google custom search is very similar to Yahoo Search Builder and Live Search Box but is easily the most popular due to Google’s dominance in the internet search market.
Customizable Search and Editions
Google custom search allows users to customize which sites or individual webpages are searched, the branding and even the colours of results to match the look and feel of your existing website. The standard edition generates an advertisement supported search engine while for a fee a business edition allows users to remove the advertisements on search result pages. Government agencies, universities, schools and non-profit enterprises are allowed to use the business edition for free.
Configuring Google Custom Search
Setting up Google up a custom search engine is as easy as signing up for a Google account if you don’t already have one and following a simple two step process for naming and customizing your engine. All custom search engines created are saved to your Google account and can be tracked and modified easily when ready.
Be sure to visit the Google Custom Search Blog for the lasts tips, news and updates directly from the Google custom search team.
Web Developer Toolbar for Firefox
The Web Developer Toolbar is a must have for any serious web professional especially those focused on the coding and designing aspects of web development. The web developer toolbar was and continues to be devloped by Chris Pederick and is easily one of the best and most powerful Firefox addons currently available.
About the Toolbar
The Web Developer Toolbar provides detailed information about any webpage that may not be useful for the average web surfer but for a web developer it makes their job very easier. Information about a page’s cascading style sheet, cookies, images, size and coding is easily viewed, enabled or disabled directly through the toolbar’s options.
The toolbar is available not only for Mozilla Firefox but also Flock and Seamonkey. Best of all it’s free and can be up and running on any compatible browser within minutes.
Entrecard - Social Advertising Network for Bloggers
Entrecard is an excellent new blogging service that appeared in the blogosphere in late 2007 and is described as a social advertising network for bloggers. Entrecard allows bloggers to advertise their blogs on any other blog currently registered with entrecard. Blogs are advertised by a single, easy to install widget that allows a 125×125px ad to be displayed. Blog owners have full control of the ads being displayed on their website, the sites they want their ads to appear on and each ad bought using entrecard “points” instead of cash are displayed on 24 hour terms.
Points are gained from dropping your entrecard on other blogs with the widget installed and receiving drops from other service users who visit your blog. The cost of displaying ads on your site and others are dependent on participation on the network – the more cards dropped and received the more points earned and the more expensive it is to advertise on your blog.
Small and Medium Sized Bloggers
Entrecard is primarily aimed at small and medium sized bloggers who are looking for exposure for their blogs and provides the perfect opportunity to snare new readers and repeat visitors from entrecard users stopping by your blog to drop their entrecard.
Not without Problems
Although entrecard is a wonderful traffic generating tool it is not without its problems. Abuse of the system by over exuberant users have resulted in a few overpriced spots are sites who register for the service but remove the widget without notice. It is left up to the creators of entrecard to implement measures to curb abuse of the system.
Caribwebdev.com Entrecard Experiment
Caribwebdev.com has recently started to use entrecard and will be experimenting with the program and reporting on the results in a few weeks.
Alpha Version of Wikia Search goes Live
Wikia Search is the highly anticipated search service from the founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales. Much is expected of the search engine as it’s creator has promised to shake up the search engine market and rival services by the major players in the search engine market.
Wikia Search ads open source software and wikipedia-like user editing to search and with this formula hopes to create more relevant and to the point search results for users, by users, free of any corporate influence. Wales noted that the Wikia search will need time to come into it’s own as volunteers help to refine the relevancy and quality of search results.
Netscape Browser Development to be halted
The Netscape browser was launched way back in 1994 and was for many years the leader in the web browser wars, but since being overtaken by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and then acquired by AOL in 1999 Netscape Navigator has slowly disappeared off the browser charts.
The latest browser usage statistics show that the once dominant Netscape now navigates less that 1% of internet traffic. Internet Explorer commands over 75% of internet traffic while the relative newcomer and Netscape Navigator’s spiritual successor Firefox has captured 16 percent of the internet browsing pie. Come February 2008 all support for Netscape Navigator will be halted.
Feed Validator for Syndicated RSS and Atom Feeds
Feedvalidator.org is a website hosting a feed validator for syndicated RSS and Atom feeds. Recently there were some problems with the Caribwebdev.com RSS feed and this feed validator helped to diagnose the problem which turned out to be a outdated plug-in for the website.
The feed validator is written in the Python programming language, is open source and can be run from any web server that meets the requirements. Visit feedvalidator.org to diagnose and fix problems with any RSS or atom feed.
