Someone who wants to defame me has been commenting on other blogs using my name and insulting the blog owners.

For your info, I rarely comment on other blogs. I know who is after all this, but I won’t mention his name until I get solid proof.

The first blog I found the fake comment on was Robert Scoble’s blog.

The comments are on this and this post.

The fake comments on scobleizer looks like this

Please visit my blog at http://johntp.com for TechNews, Reviews and other Great stuff

Comment by JohnTP — October 3, 2006 @ 4:31 pm

This is nonsense. I never tried to promote my blogs like this and will never do.

I contacted Robert and let him know about the fake comments on his blog.

Continue reading ‘Watch out for Fake Comments in my name!’

For a few days I had been hearing news about Google acquiring Youtube which I believed was just a rumour, but now Google announced the acquisition for $1.65 billion.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., October 9, 2006 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube, the consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos through a Web experience, for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction. Following the acquisition, YouTube will operate independently to preserve its successful brand and passionate community.

I spend some time on YouTube almost daily and this is great news for me as I expect Google to improve YouTube’s service a lot more. Google Rules!

What’s your opinion on Google acquiring Youtube?

The official Google Blog was hacked this weekend and a fake post was published claiming that Google discontinued their AdWords click-to-call test.

Later Google removed that post and explained here that it was a bug in Blogger that enabled the unauthorized user to make a fake post on their official blog.

A bug in Blogger enabled an unauthorized user to make a fake post on the Google Blog last night, claiming that we’ve discontinued our AdWords click-to-call test. The bug was fixed quickly and the post removed. As for the click-to-call test, it is progressing on schedule, and we’re pleased with the results thus far.

found via Google Blogoscoped

Google announced today that you can now ping their blog search service here to let them know when you have updated your blog.

If you own a WordPress blog, you can ping them automatically everytime you post by going to ‘update services’ under options/writing and adding http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 to a new line.

Note: Doing this may increase the time to publish a post.

found via ProBlogger

EA today released a demo of their upcoming game Need for Speed Carbon on the Xbox Live Market Place. The demo is free and 1.06 GB in size.

It includes the following cars and race modes for you to enjoy:

Cars:

• Mitsubishi Lancer EVOLUTION IX
• Lamborghini Gallardo
• Camaro Concept

Race modes:

• Circuit Race
• Canyon Duel
• Drift Race

I wonder when the PC demo will be released

found via VGCore and Neowin.net

Signups for the November 1st Reboot are now open. Register for a new account here

Atlast! I have been waiting for this moment for many months.

What is the CSS Reboot?

The CSS Reboot is a community event for web professionals and enthusiasts. Every November 1st and May 1st at 18:00 GMT, Rebooters from all over the world launch their standards based website redesigns simultaneously; bringing traffic, interest and a little respect to their sites. There are no prizes or arbitrary winners, just great exposure and the knowledge that we all participated in something great. Read more about the CSS Reboot history.

Will you be participating?

Many Bloggers these days want to get their blog posts to the frontpage of Digg so that they can increase their traffic and popularity of their blogs. Some are ready to go almost any extent to get diggs such as making fake usernames and asking friends to digg for them.

Yesterday, I had a chat with one of the Top 10 Digg users and he shared a few tips with me. If you really want to get on digg frontpage, here is how you do it…

Continue reading ‘Tips from a Top 10 Digg user on how to get to the Frontpage’

Here I share my story on how I got into Blogging…

For many years I had wanted to own a website. On October 2005, I read an article about PHP Nuke and Google AdSense on a popular Indian Technology Magazine.

I soon logged onto their Forum (I was already a member of that forum) and asked the members there to suggest me a good Web Host. Their suggestion was Web1 Solutions and since the owner of the company was the Administrator of that Forum then, it was easy for me to contact him.

Continue reading ‘How did you get into Blogging?’

The Undersigned had put up a Blogging Survey yesterday asking 20 questions to make a little survey about blogging. Here are my answers to the questions.

1. When did you start blogging?
2005
2. Average, how often do you blog?
Once or more a day
3. How do you host your blog?
I host it myself
4. What blogging application/service do you use?
WordPress
5. Do you use an application to blog directly from your desktop, rather than from your blogs administration?
No, but I look forward to try out Live Writer soon

Continue reading ‘Blogging Survey at The Undersigned’

I just came across this thread in Digital Point Forum that explains on how to increase your AdSense Revenue by 200% by filtering Made-For-AdSense (MFA) sites.

Two weeks ago, I discovered a great site showing the MFA site’s url. I added the links to my Competitive Ad Filter since there was no url before. I check my AdSense revenue daily and found out that my earnings were increasing. Since the number of clicks were not increasing, then, I realize that by filtering MFA sites I can earn even more per click.

All you have to do is go to AdsBlacklist.com and scroll to the bottom where you are asked to select your site’s Categories. Select them and click ‘Generate my new list’ to generate the Top 200 MFA sites for your Categories.

Now login to your Adsense account and enter these MFA sites to your Competitive Ad Filter to block them.

Now stay back and watch your revenue increase

AdsBlackList will teach you how to seek, recognize and filter low paying google ads which, in most cases, link to MFA (Made for Adsense) sites AND we will provide you with tools that will help you to substantly increase your AdSense revenue, all for free. Why would you seatle on taking $0.01 when you can boost it over $0.50 per click and double or triple your earnings ?!

I just added the MFA sites of my category and so don’t know if there was any improvent in the earnings.

Here is another tip on how to fight MFA sites.

Please do let me know if you see any improvement in your Adsense Revenue after using this tip.