Facebook would become the first social networking site to showcase apps in Hindi as it calls for entries in English and Hindi to showcase web development skills in two categories of Facebook apps & Facebook Connect Integrations
I have been using FrontPage SlideShow from JoomlaWorks on a number of sites, and would recommend it as a good CSS/PHP route to building a featured slide section that links to promoted content, articles, blog posts, groups, etc. One problem is that it is not free, the cost is around $35 for a license to use it on 5 to 10 domains. A second problem is highlighted by the example of releasing an installation profile for Drupal. We can release all of the code under GPL for the project except for FPSS. So, I began working on a conversion of our FPSS slides into Views Slideshow views.
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Can a blogger or independent publisher expect to cover the costs of managing their website through advertising? With shared hosting costing generally from $3 to $6 per month, and innumerable free blog sites available, unless your site is in the Technorati Top 100 blogs or frequently featured on the front page of Digg, the basic costs of site management should be minimal. Nevertheless, despite the “adSense Empire” stories that circulate on the web, and undeniable success stories of popular sites earning from PPC advertising, most blogs likely earn less than $10 per month in adSense revenue on average. This is a safe call, considering that the New York Times has reported that 95% of all the blogs on the web are abandoned.
WordPress Guru & Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg gave a speech at the recent GigaOm’s Structure 09 conference in San Francisco, where he spoke on cloud computing and wordpress.com’s server infrastructure. The speech was reported on by Rich Miller at datacenterknowledge.com. According to the report, Mullenweg said, “The biggest mistake we made with the WordPress.com infrastructure was actually buying servers… (buying servers was ) not a utility. Now we lease them all on a month-to-month basis.” According to the presentation, WordPress.com runs “about 5 million sites serving more than 1 billion page views a month. Automattic uses two data center providers, the dedicated hosting specialists ServerBeach (PEER 1) and Layered Technologies.”
