Once with Alexa’s new ranking system announcement, a lot of blogs have lost their rank. The reason is that Alexa is now based on more informations, not only the surfers that have Alexa toolbar installed. Now websites and blogs that had a tech savvy audience have lost rank, Alexa becoming more accurate and not advantaging them anymore. A lot of popular websites and blogs have met a drastically decrease in rankings, like Problogger ( 3xxx -> 12xxx ), Digitalpoint ( 3xx -> 9xx ), Shoemoney ( 2xxx -> 19xxx ). [...]

WordPress has just released a new great version, with improved dashboard, uploader and it comes with gravatars, internal gallery and more. You can watch the screencast for a better view of what i am talking about. Get it now.

I just logged into Feedburner to check my Blog’s subscribers and i see that three of my blogs went to 0. It seems like Feedburner is having an issue again and unfortunately lately it has had issues quite often. Hopefully they won’t just lose track of my subscribers and solve the problem, as i am losing both visitors and my subscribers might unsubscribe if they aren’t receiving news from my blogs. Last month i’ve noticed something opposite from now, when my subscribers went up with more than 100% for one [...]

WordPress 2.3.1 has been released, but doesn’t bring any features, just security and bug fixes, as you can read: Tagging support for Windows Live Writer Fixes for a login bug that affected those with a Blog Address different than their WordPress Address Faster taxonomy database queries, especially tag intersection queries Link importer fixes Download WordPress 2.3.1.

After Paypal has accepted Romania only to send money, a few months ago, now they’ve also allowing romanians to receive money from other accounts and also withdraw. This is a great news for Romania and it seems also Bulgaria, that was also accepted to receive only at the same time with Romania, can now also receive and withdraw. You can check the accepted countries here. This great news from Paypal came right after Google Adsense added the option to receive the money through Western Union, in one day, without fees. [...]

WordPress has released their latest version that i was waiting for, but currently i’m afraid of the bugs and security issues that it may have, so i will wait until a new release or for some feedback until upgrading. This version has brought us some new things, as you may read from the WordPress official website: Native tagging support allows you to use tags in addition to categories on your posts, if you so choose. We’ve included importers for the Ultimate Tag Warrior, Jerome’s Keywords, Simple Tags, and Bunny’s Technorati [...]

Blogrush has made a lot of buzz in the industry lately and a lot of A bloggers have posted about it. By curiosity i have been trying it for a few days and raised about 44,000 credits from which i got 15,000 impressions, but just 8 clicks. That’s not useful at all and until now it seems to be using the space from my sidebar without me earning anything from it. Today, on the Blogrush website appear an announcement that states the CTR is that low because of the users [...]

There were rumors that Netscape will shut down their social news website and redirect the Netscape.com domain to the netscape.aol.com news portal. Now it’s official that the social news website will move from Netscape.com to Propeller.com and rebrand. Currently we don’t know how long it will take until the website will move, but Netscape officials stated that they are working hard on a smooth transition. In it’s first months, the website won’t be as good as the Netscape.com was for the websites that post news on it, because of it’s [...]

WordPress has released version 2.2.3, that doesn’t bring any new features, but fixes bugs and security issues. It is recommended to upgrade immediately, as there are two important issues fixed in this release. You can download wordpress 2.2.3 here.

I got tagged by Bobby Voicu and i have to post where you can find me online, on social networks. Here you are: Stumbleupon Digg Sk-rt Netscape Reddit Newsvine Hi5 Shoutwire Thanks for the tag, Bobby. Now i have to tag others: Alex Ion, Mihnea