Shout out for beginning bloggers
If you are starting or thinking of starting a blog or have a blog at one of the free platform, take a look at Ades Free Domain with Free Hosting contest going on. Together with Ades, we belive that if you want to be successful one of the key points is to have your own branded domain and your hosting.
But most starting bloggers think that they should try to make money online with free platforms such as Wordpress.com or Blogger and if they are successful they eventually move to a seperate domain. Ades has blogged of the common mistakes of a new blogger and I must say that I totally agree.
So, if you are a starting a blog, moving from free blogging platforms leave your name and your email address and you will be counted in the contest.
The prize is domain name of your choice( Sponsored by Ades ) for two years and a free webhosting ( sponsored by me ) for two years as well.
Help Gmail to improve SPAM filtering
I found out there is a new feature in Google’s Gmail service, you can now report the SPAM emails to the Gmail anti-SPAM team.
Here’s the screenshot of it:
This means that Google is to improve their already good anti SPAM filtering. Thats good news for all of us! Let’s celebrate New Year with less viagra and free porn sites 
GoDaddy promo codes
I am posting this as a personal memo, so that I don’t have to google it everytime. Please enjoy variety of discount codes. I would appreciate if you could drop a line with the outcome of your coupon, did it work?
- OYH3 - $3 off / $6.95 any .COM (renewals too… just used it)
- YH1 - 10% off whatever
- BTPS7 - 20% any order of $50 or more
- BTPS20 - 25% any order of $100 or more (expires Dec 21st)
- BTPS4 - 10% off anything
- OYH2 - $5 off a $30 purchase
- chill1 - 10% off
- chill2 - $5 off $30
- chill3 - $6.95 .coms
- hash1 - 10% off
- hash2 - $5 off $30
- hash3 - $6.95 .com registration
- gdd1101c - 10% off any order of $40 or more
Pointless and boring presentations
Art Lebedev is a leading design studio based in Russia with many other office worldwide. Artemy Lebedev, he is the founder and the head of the studio write a lot good articles on various topics.
One of the latest article he wrote is about pointless presentations. Note that the article is in Russian, however they will publish in English later. So to cut short, here’s the list of what I understood:
- Be prepared, know your topic - don’t just memorize
- If you are presenting some text on your slide show, make it shorter. Write a few words then talk the rest in your words. Don’t let your audience read your long text.
- If you let your audience read the text, don’t repeat and read it again yourself.
- Don’t mumble/ramble and be confident.
- 99% percent of all presentations are boring, decisions are not made after the presentations.
What’s your opinion about the article and in presenting in general? Please leave in the comments.
Year 2007 for Linux and Open Source
Let’s sum up and see what were the biggest Linux moves in the year 2007.
- GPLv3
- Asus Eee PC
- OpenMoko
- Ubuntu 7.04, Ubuntu 7.10 = lots of fork distros
- GNOME 2.20
- Pidgin 2.0
- KDE 4.0(postponed to Jan 2008)
- Xfce 4.4
- Google Desktop
- Fedora 7, Fedora 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Mplayer 1.0 RC2
- Adobe Flash Player 9
- OpenOffice.org 2.3
- Linux is preinstalled in Dell, Lenovo and HP PCs
- Wallmart and gOs = Everex
Did I miss anything?
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