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RSS2Gif – Creates Instant Images Right from your RSS

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RSS to Gif is a free service, currently in public beta testing. RSS2GIF creates images on the Fly from any RSS feed sources. It's an interesting way to display RSS as Images. See below, just provide the RSS feed url and how many items to display, it'll generate the code for you. It can be implemented as interactive ads or just simple image to display your topics. They have plan to make RSS2JPG and RSS2PNG  also.

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Generated Code to display RSS as Image
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Written by Ruhani Rabin

June 7th, 2006 at 10:00 pm

Google Adsense API – More money making flexibility for WebMasters

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Google has open their adsense api for the public. Using the AdSense API, you can enable users to perform a variety of AdSense functions without ever leaving your website. Users can create or manage their AdSense accounts, modify their AdSense ads, and view ad performance and earnings reports. The AdSense API is ideal for developers whose users create their own web content through web hosting, web publishing, blogging, and social networking applications.

Flexible and Functional
Using the AdSense API, you can enable users to perform a variety of AdSense functions without leaving your website, including the following:

– Create an AdSense account
– Manage an AdSense account
– Create and modify AdSense for content ad units and link units, AdSense for search boxes, and Referrals
– View detailed reports to monitor performance and earnings

Multi-Language Compatibility
To make your programming environment even easier, the AdSense API utilizes SOAP and WSDL, which support a growing number of languages – including Java, .NET, Perl, PHP, Python and XML.

This is a great oppurtunity from google adsense api to manage and develope custom ad formats and securely manage your stats. Additionally, as the developer, you can optimize your ad's placement, color, and format to increase your users' earnings–and your users don't have to do any additional work to display optimized ads.

Incase you're interested and i'm sure you are. If you want to apply for an Adsense developer API membeship you need to meet some minimum requirements such as, your site need to have a minimum of 100,000 hits, your site must register users who then maintain their web content through your site. The types of sites are eligible are web hosts, blog hosts, Wiki hosts, forum hosts, and web publishers.

Have a look at Official Adsense Announcment for Detail or you can visit the official google code site. Also if you meet the requirements why not apply for it.

Written by Ruhani Rabin

June 2nd, 2006 at 1:22 am

WordPress Just Got Updated

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Our favorite blogging platform WordPress just got updated to v2.0.3 including security fixes, performancing boostup and enhanced features for importing.  Updating is very easy, just overwrite the old files with the new files then access your admin panel, it'll prompt you to update your database.

get the updated stable release of WordPress 2.0.3  

For the curious, this release includes:

  • Small performance enhancements
  • Movable Type / Typepad importer fix
  • Enclosure (podcasting) fix
  • The aforementioned security enhancements (nonces)

via WordPress Release Blog

Written by Ruhani Rabin

June 1st, 2006 at 9:43 pm

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Buttonator – Create Cool Web Buttons Easily

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Drag and Drop Web Buttons

Buttonator is not about mid 90's online button creation; it has taken a simple idea and made it useable for real web users and designers in the year 2006.

Buttonator is becoming a tool that designers want to use!

Q. Why would I use this, its just a simple button generator? I use Photoshop to create my buttons.

A. We are not proposing you use this website as a serious designer to create your web buttons. What we are proposing is you can create a free account and upload your own button designs to now have the ability to create your specialised buttons anywhere, anytime and without Photoshop.

Q. I don't want everyone using my buttons; they are my hard work and labour!

A. The general public wont have access to your buttons, the buttons you store are against your account, and only you will be able to access them to create your buttons in seconds!

Buttonator  

Written by Ruhani Rabin

May 25th, 2006 at 3:47 am

FeedCollector – make your collection of Feeds

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Feed Collectors is a new web tool that collects and socializes your feeds.

Feed Collectors is now in private beta .

Whether it's blogs, podcasts, video podcasts, or news feeds, we can collect it. Rather, you can collect it. Request an invitation today to start sharing your collections.

A collection is simply a group of blogs or other RSS feeds that a user reads on a regular basis. This collection of feeds could be used to define a world as the user sees it

If you are curious about Feed Collectors, you may request an invitation .

Written by Ruhani Rabin

May 25th, 2006 at 2:31 am