Written by EarnBlogger on December 23, 2007.
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth has launched her own channel on the popular video-sharing site YouTube. The channel went live just after midnight and named as “The Royal Channel“. The Christmas Broadcast or ‘Queen’s Speech’ for 2007 will appear on this channel at approximately 3pm GMT on Christmas Day. I am sure this channel is going to become a big hit of YouTube.
The launch of “The Royal Channel” marks the 50th anniversary of the Queen’s first televised festive address in 1957. Presently the channel features recent and historical footage of the monarch and other members of the Royal Family in 18 different videos.
Announcing the launch of the channel, a spokeswoman for Buckingham Palace said:
“The Queen always keeps abreast with new ways of communicating with people. She has always been aware of reaching more people and adapting the communication to suit. This will make the Christmas message more accessible to younger people and those in other countries.”
You can view the Royal Channel here.
Written by EarnBlogger on December 23, 2007.
Looking for a stylish free WordPress theme? Check the Dilectio WordPress Theme from Elena of Design Disease. This is a new 3 column WordPress theme specially designed for the readers of the Smashing Magazine. This theme won my heart at first sight! Take a look at the screenshot below. I am sure, you are going to love it!
The name ‘Dilectio’ comes from the Latin Language and it means “love, solicitude, esteem”. Truly, the theme design reflects this meaning. The Dilectio Theme is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. You can freely use and modify it for your personal and commercial blogs, provided you keep the proper credit in the footer.
Main Features of Dilectio WordPress Theme:
- Clean, stylish and user-friendly design.
- 3 column theme, with two side bars.
- It is ready to accept your interesting widgets!
- Integrated with WP-PageNavi, Recent Posts, Recent Comments, Gravatar and FlickrRSS plugins. No need to install them again!
You can download the ‘Dilectio’ theme here! Enjoy your holidays with this great theme. Don’t forget to thank the guys in Design Disease and Smashing Magazine.
Written by EarnBlogger on December 23, 2007.
Another Sunday, another set of ‘Sunday Links’. Follow the links to discover some good articles from the Blogosphere. From advertising to real meaning of blogging! I discovered these articles while browsing through different blogs. I hope, you will find them interesting!
If you want me to include your interesting articles in coming “Sunday Links”, feel free to contact me at earnblogger (at) yahoo.com. I will try my best to spread your voice!
Written by EarnBlogger on December 22, 2007.
The Open Web Awards, are the first ever online, open collaboration awards event, to recognize the best online communities representing Web 2.0. The voting for 13 categories was open from December 17th till December 20th. And now, the final results are out. Mashable has announced the list of Open Web Awards winners. Congrats to all winners!
Take a look at the list of Open Web Awards winners:
1. PEOPLE’S CHOICE:
2. JUDGE’S CHOICE:
Written by EarnBlogger on December 22, 2007.
This is a beautiful Story of Stuff! An interactive 20-minute long, fact-filled movie, created to give a better look at the underside of production and consumption patterns of stuffs. The Story of Stuff movie may make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.
The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. Watch a teaser video of the Story of Stuff. You can also download the full movie from here.
Written by EarnBlogger on December 22, 2007.
WordPress by default doesn’t come with any stats or reporting tools. So, in order to know how many people visited our site, which pages they viewed, or where they came from, we need to rely either on the raw web logs or a third party tracking service. Now, to help you, a new plugin called “Google Analytics and Feedburner Reports plugin” has arrived!
As the name says, the Google Analytics and Feedburner Reports plugin can generate Google Analytics and Feedburner reports for your blog. The generated report contains a 7 day overview of your blog’s pageviews, visits, referrers, etc. You can access the report right from your Admin area.
To use this plugin, you need Google Analytics and Feedburner accounts. If you don’t have Google Analytics and Feedburner accounts, open them today! Both of these services are free and reliable.
Features of this Plugin:
- Provides you with a birds-eye view of what’s going on with your site
- Retrieves data from Google Analytics and Feedburner
- Reports are represented visually with graphs
- Choose the reports you want to view
- Ability to automatically install the Google Analytics tracking code for you, along with optional outbound link tracking.
- Includes a WordPress widget to display your most popular content.
- Automatically check for updates to the plugin
How to use this Plugin:
- Download the plugin.
- Unzip and upload it to your wp-content/plugins directory.
- Activate the “WordPress Reports” plugin from your WordPress Admin area.
- Click on the new “Reports” tab, and click “Setup” subtab.
- Follow the instructions and enter the proper details for Google Analytics and Feedburner.
- Click the “Reports” tab again to view the traffic summary for your site.
Mind it, this plugin generates overview reports for last 7 days. So, for extensive site reports you need to log in to your Google Analytics and Feedburner accounts manually.
Written by EarnBlogger on December 21, 2007.
WidgetBucks has released new ad widget styles for it’s publishers. Now each widget units have two display options. The new ads are noted with a “B” (“B Series”) in the pull-down menu of the “Customize Your Widget” page. Now publishers can also adjust the product rotation intervals. The default rotation is 3 seconds, but can be set anywhere from 1 to 10 seconds per item.
Now, the “B” widgets for 300×250 and 660×330 sizes offers search boxes within them. This is a cool feature. Then, one “C Series” widget of 300×250 size, provides a simple top 10 product list without product images and reviews.
According to the WidgetBucks blog, the top five popular categories are MP3 Players, Laptops, Game Consoles, Flat Panel Televisions and Cell Phones, respectively. And the top performing widget sizes are 160×600 wide skyscraper, 728×90 leaderboard, 300×250 medium rectangle, and 468×60 full banner.
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