To Bloggers

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Do you like football? Do you know European Football Championships? Do you want to get the real time reported news and information about European Football Championships? Do you want to get more communication with other football fans? Now YouTube 23days’s Channel give you the chance to get involved and create your own Fan-Videos during the 23 days of the European Football Championships.

There are 3 categories for your fan video:

1. All about the football; your tricks, your highlights or the goal of the day recreated by you. Show a magic moment in football history in your own special way.
2. Fans in action – show us the highlights from the streets and at home: the best costumes and decorations.
3. Football reporter – want to report live from Austria, Switzerland or anywhere with excited fans? Send your interviews and insights as well as your football pieces of games analysis made by your friend, grandma, sweetheart…

Let’s enjoy the big football feast!

The official FeedBurner weblog announces that they will be rolling out Adsense for feed to a small group of publishers, in anticipation of a full launch to all FeedBurner and AdSense publishers “coming soon”. This operation will start next week, and you see “Ads by Google” on an ad in a feed somewhere.

Publishers already in the FeedBurner Ad Network will continue to see premium CPM ads directly sold onto their content, but with the added bonus of contextually targeted ads that will fill up the remainder of their inventory. So you can earn money from both FeedBurner Ad Network and Adsense. If you are not placing ads in your feeds and meets the requirements to join the AdSense program, you can use Adsense for feeds. You will be able to manage your feed ad units directly from AdSense Setup tab, and track performance right on the AdSense Report tab.

This is really good news for bloggers who have a large amount of subscribers. The more subscribers you have, the more money you may earn. Adsense is a steady stream of money maker for your blog. It is easy to operate. You customize the ads, place ads on blog, and then Adsense do the rest and show you money. But money is based on traffic, and traffic is based on content. So the most important thing you should do is writing unique fresh content. Content is king. This will never be out of time.

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From the WordPress ticket #6965, we can see that WordPress2.6 will get Google Gear support. The original description is:

First run. Support for Google Gears managed offline storage. The patch adds all static files used in the admin interface to a single offline storage. That speeds up page loading a lot, as it serves virtually all requests for static files from the computer’s HD instead of the network. So instead of 50-60 requests to the server on some pages, there are only 2-3.

What is Google Gears?
Google Gears is an open source browser extension that lets developers create web applications that can run offline. Gears provides three key features:

• A local server, to cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) without needing to contact a server
• A database, to store and access data from within the browser
• A worker thread pool, to make web applications more responsive by performing expensive operations in the background

Generally speaking, Goolge Gears does this by storing information on your machine allowing you to read, edit and update “data” from the internet without actually being connected. And then, the next time you connect to the internet it synchronizes with the website, uploading any changes you’ve made, and downloading any changes/updates that have been made on the site.

Google Gears make WordPress faster
Since you installed Google Gears Plugin for your browser, and enabled “Google Gear”, your browser would download all the information it needs so that WordPress doesn’t need to connect to the internet for certain information. Your blog runs “offline”. No request to the server, less loading time.

Make your blog compatible with Google Gears
WP-Offline is a WordPress plugin that lets your readers cache your entire blog for offline reading using Google Gears. The plugin was released June, 2007. You can find more introduction from the original page.

As a blogger, we all want our blogs indexed by many search engines and get a lot of visitors. When you launch a blog, you firstly should submit your blog to the search engines. Once the search engines index your blog, it means that your blog is open to potential visitors from all over the world. Orangesubmit is such a tool that helps you submit your blog or site to search engines, and it is free. You can easily submit your site to Google, Yahoo, MSN, and other search engines with Orangesubmit. You only type your site information one time, and then Orangesubmit do the rest for you.

Orangesubmit site link: http://www.orangesubmit.com/

AtMail is an open source webmail client written in PHP. They aim to provide a elegant Ajax webmail client for existing IMAP mailservers, with less bloat and a focus on an intuitive, simple user interface.
The open source version of AtMail provides users with a lightweight, yet powerful webmail client. The software can be installed on a variety of platforms with ease and without the hassles that most webmail platforms impart.
Traditional desktop mail clients are in decline; the future of email is via a web interface. AtMail is poised to deliver the next generation in Open Source Webmail.

Features of AtMail Open include:

• Lightweight Ajax Webmail Interface
• Video Mail
• PHP source code
• IMAP support
• Live Spell Check
• Address Book
• Apache 2.0 Open Source license

Atmail Demo and download

Text2Mindmap is a web application that creates a mind map out of a list of words.
For example, the text

Seasons
	Winter
		December
		January
		February
	Spring
		March
		April
		May
	Summer
		June
		July
		August
	Autumn
		September
		October
		November

can be converted into the mind map:

To create your mad map, firstly you should type your text in the text area. Select the words you write down, use the TAB key to indent and Shift+TAB to outdent. I have written Tobloggers categories down for example. Then convert text to mad map. You can set the text font size, color, line color, etc. Finally you can download the map to your computer.