Opera 9 has been released after a long time in beta. The new version offers many new features such as a built in bittorrent downloader, tab previews and widgets. Download Opera 9 and take a look at the new features offered.

via TechCrunch

Yahoo Messenger 8.0 beta has launched today for Windows. They are also releasing a software development kit to allow third parties to create content plugins that users can add to their Yahoo IM. Plugins can be built using javascript, flash, or both.

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A forum is a good place to discuss stuff and make friends. Having a sucessful forum on your site can help you both in getting traffic as well as in earning a good revenue. One of the things you should look for before starting a forum is traffic.

Without good traffic on your site, there is no use in starting one. Is traffic enough to start a successful forum? Well no, you need to work hard, post quality content and make the forum active.

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As you may know Microsoft had decided to offer Windows Vista Beta 2 to the public for free. You are given two options-download the file or order a DVD. The download is about 3.2 GB.

Due to heavy downloads, Microsoft’s servers are under severe strain and they are now strongly pushing the DVD option. Microsoft, of course, has chosen to ignore the most efficient file distribution method in existence - bittorent. Chris Pirillo and Jake Ludington have, without any endorsement from Microsoft, created VistaTorrent with instructions on downloading the file through Bittorent. They also point to the Microsoft site that will generate a key for the software.

Now since Windows Vista Beta is available on BitTorrent, I might consider downloading it. What about you?

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If you downloaded the latest version of WordPress (2.0.3), you will encounter the “Are You Sure” Bug when you edit comments in the WordPress Administration Panel. When you are finished editing comments, it asks you “Are you sure?” and when you click OKAY, it takes you to the wrong page and screws up your comments by inserting a slash before every quote mark.

To fix the problem download the new WordPress Plugin, upload it to /wp-content/plugins/ and activate it.

Found via Lorelle’s blog

Feedburner has announced a couple of updates to what they are offering in their free stats package including ‘Live Hits’, the ability to see the last 25 hits via your feed and how long the 25 hits were over and what agent they used to read your feed and ‘Yesterdays News’ ,the ability to track your subscribers on different platforms historically.

You can find more info at their blog

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Steve Rubel reports that Yahoo Finance will begin testing a new widget that will allow bloggers and other websites to put real time stock quotes and charts on their sites.

Initial testing will begin in June. Publishers will be able to select any combination of quotes, charts and news. Up to ten companies can be included, and there are at least two options for customizing the chart.

I am not so interested. What do you think?

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Online photo sharing web service and community Flickr has made the leap from Beta to Gamma. New features include a majorly redesigned interface, a new Organizr and a Person menu. You can see what everyone is talking about on the Flickr blog.

Adbrite on their blog said that they are going to launch a bunch of new stuff starting with Inline Ads.These are ads that appear within the text of your site. Certain words will be double-underlined, and when the user rolls their mouse over one of these words, a targeted ad will appear.

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Below are some of the torrent sites I visit. I am sure there are plenty more and I would like you to share the sites you know and help the list to expand.

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