The feed is already pointed over there and this site will be left up for archival purposes, but the action has moved. And if you’re sharing some link love, please consider changing the link over to Blog Hacking.

Hope to see you on the other side - Chris.

During the transition we didn’t have much downtime and the handoff appeared to go over smoothly which is blessing.

Feedback is welcome and encouraged

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While this may be a good thing for most, it would be nice if they start off or develop some technology that would work with growing Mac user base other than Windows Media Player.

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“AOL’s chief technology officer Maureen
Govern, who oversaw the division responsible for accidentally
releasing search data for more than a half a millions users, has
resigned from the company, according to an internal company
memorandum.

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“This upgrade is focused on improving the quality of content for advertisers and bloggers,” stated Ted Murphy, Founder/CEO of PayPerPost. “We have introduced a variety of features that will allow our service to naturally improve itself and provide the best Web 2.0 advertising experience for both bloggers and advertisers.”

The core feature upgrade of this version of the blog advertising service introduces the concept of ranking and flagging. PayPerPost reviewers will still be responsible for accepting or rejecting advertisements based on meeting overall criteria, such as length and proper links. However, advertisers will now have the ability to rank the approved blog based on their personal perceived value. In a similar fashion, bloggers will be able to rank advertiser opportunities based on their perceived value.

Bloggers and advertisers will also have the opportunity to “flag” each other. This feature will allow both advertisers and bloggers to block transactions with lower quality participants in the program.
“Our goal is to provide a high quality service,” said Murphy. “Ranking and flagging will make our users pay more attention to the way they interact with the system. This two-sided ranking is a unique approach
to achieving quality in online advertising. We will be incorporating many more Web 2.0 conventions like this into our system in the future.”

In addition to these features, PayPerPost.com has made a number of other refinements including a new AJAX dashboard for bloggers. PayPerPost will be selling display advertising within the dashboard to those advertisers looking to promote their blog advertising opportunities more heavily.

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Google Inc., announced today that registration is now open for Google Code Jam 2006. Google’s annual
online coding competition presents participants with a series of challenges that they must use their programming skills and creativity to solve. Programmers ready to match their skills against the world’s
best can register at http://www.google.com/codejam2006. The top 100 contestants win an all expenses paid trip to New York City to compete in the finals at Google’s New York Engineering Office.

“The Google Code Jam is an incredible opportunity for the most talented and fastest computer scientists in the world to come together and compete on an international stage,” said Alan Eustace, senior vice
president, Engineering, Google Inc. “Google is proud to support these amazing coders as they take on some of the world’s most challenging programming problems, and we’re pleased to have the chance to introduce them to our research and development offices around the world.”

“Google New York is very excited to be hosting Google Code Jam 2006,” said Craig Nevill-Manning, director, Engineering New York, Google Inc. “It’s an incredible opportunity to introduce the best of
the programming world to our New York Engineering office in downtown Manhattan and demonstrate the incredible diversity of experiences that Google offers engineers all over the world. If you can make it in Code
Jam here, you can make it anywhere!”

In addition to the trip to Google’s New York Engineering Office, finalists will also divide $155,000 in prize money.

The money is cool - but the job offer and stock options would be even better.

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