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Yahoo to Test Finance Widget

Yahoo Finance will begin testing a new widget that will allow bloggers to put stock quotes and charts on their blogs. Bloggers are allowed to select a combination of charts and Quotes.

I would say it would be another good source of income if Yahoo decide to inculde some form of contextual ads together with the widget. I guess this feature would be somehow limited to only a few financial blogs that discuss about the current markets up and downs.

It would be nice if Yahoo is able to built a widget that display the incoming links, counter stats, search this blogs and live chatting and shoutout box… all in one. This would be great for bloggers like Blogspot. A all in one tool.

K2 Blogger Template

If you’ve download the previous version of K2 Blogger Templates, I strongly suggest that you download the latest version at K2 Blogger Templates. One of the major issue solved is the comment error, where weird strings of code appear at the name and url form. Solved it thanks to ijack.

With the updated K2, there would be no more comment error asking the readers to reload the page for the comments to appear.

New Adsense “change ads to about” Feature

This is the newest adsense made available to the public yesterday, not a permenant feature from the adsense team. Its still inbeta mode. I guess it’ll be made public very soon.

This could mean that they have been testing them for 18 months in an ongoing way or it could be that they’ve widened their testing and/or are moving towards releasing them into normal circulation.

According to Darrel Rowse, this has been going on for th epast 18 months. I would say its a unique feature but not a very good one. Google adsense should devote more man power in tackling the click fraud issue.

Clickbots vs AdSense and Others

One of the problem faced by Google Adsense is click fraud. Google still monitors clickthrough rate. That’s one of the reasons you are forbidden to ever reveal your clickthrough rate to anyone. I guess in the near future, small publisher that generates little traffic is going to lose their adsense account.

“PandaLabs has detected a network of computers infected with the bot Clickbot.A, which is being used to defraud ‘pay per click’ systems, registering clicks automatically and providing lucrative returns for the creators. According to the data collected so far, the scam is exploiting a global network comprising more than 34,000 zombie computers (those infected by the bot).

The bots are controlled remotely through several Web servers. This allows the perpetrators to define, for example, the web pages on which the adverts are hosted or the maximum number of clicks from any one IP address in order not to arouse suspicions.”

Source : HNS

Radio Hanolulu Blogger Template

Currently am coding a 3 column blogger template for blogspot. Its tired when you have to dangle bewteen work and hobby. What this blog needs is contributors, contributors that able to contribute blogging / computer / gadget articles.

A summary or Quoted from their blog would be nice. But with Google Adsense around, money is what people think of. Sebastian have to scout for contributors among his friends. Wish us luck. Radio Hanolulu would be an interesting blogger template. Stay tune.

Web and Blog Translator

There is over 65% of web users speaking a language other than English, which means that bloggers like us are targeting only 35% of the web user. The market share for English sites and blogs are getting smaller every year, and that is something bloggers like us should be worry about.

Fear not, there is various tools that provide the means of translating websites with English content to another language, its a very useful tool but sad to say that its not accurate. Language is like art, created by man and it can’t be translate from words to words. Anyway, its better to have something than nothing. The list :

Yahoo / Astalavista Babelfish
Google Translator
SDL International

Yahoo Systran Translation can convert English content pages to Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Dutch, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Greek, Japanese, Korean Portuguese and Russian. If you happen to have a steady traffic from countries that speaks language other than english, this is the closest solution you can find. Currently GeckoandFly.com is considering providing such a feature.

Source : Digital Inspiration

Blogger Survey - Talk To Us

Blogger.com are conducting a survey, they are collecting information about the user. After completing the survey there is a small little empty box that allows the user to drop their suggestion.

If you’re a blogger.com user, I would suggest that Blogger include the Categories or Tags feature into blogspot, or the ability for people to code plugins for Blogspot. If security is the main concern, it can be resolve by allowing to select a list of plugins made available by default - no installation and uploading, it comes by default. That would be nice.

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