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I’ve got two Wordpress.com invites to give away - they expire within about 5 days so I will give them to the first two people to comment asking for them. Of course I don’t really see the point in the invites any more since you can get them for free by using Flock, and now that you can get them for free without using Flock they’re worth even less.
Oh well - the offer is there if you want it.
Wow - pure genius. It’s a promo for TV1’s re-runs of Knight Rider but don’t let all that advertising nonsense get in the way of you, living the dream. His chest rug has had loads of exposure in the past, now you can clean it up for good.
As I mentioned a couple of days ago I managed to find out what was going on with the Wordpress.com api keys.
The big announcement is that Akismet has been released. Akismet is a comment spam blocker for blogs.
Developed by the same team as Wordpress, Akismet is a new approach to spam comment detection - and initial impressions are incredibly promising. Akismet learns (much like a lot of junk mail systems) so as new spammers appear, and new spam techniques are tried it evolves to continue catching them.
When a new comment, trackback, or pingback comes to your blog it is submitted to the Akismet web service which runs hundreds of tests on the comment and returns a thumbs up or thumbs down.
For Wordpress users like myself it’s incredibly simple to set everything up. Just download and install the Akismet plugin, enter your api key into the …
If you have a wordpress.com blog (like me) you will have a wp.com api key. This is a key that can be used for… something.
I’m going to be using the wp.com api key on this blog sometime today, unfortunately I need more traffic to really make it worthwhile. I guess we’ll see how it goes.
I don’t want to spoil the suprise for those who haven’t worked it out. I’m sure it will all be revealed soon enough.
Earlier this year I mentioned the experimental gamplay website. The site is run by a university and the next years students are now creating their own games.
As an added bonus you can now submit your own games, provided you follow their rules of course.
I haven’t had a chance to try any of them yet, but will be sure to play them soon.
I found out about a new search engine the other day (can’t remember where… sorry). Like all good products, in fact like pretty much every Google app, it’s currently in beta but it’s showing some early promise bringing some cool new features to the world of search.
The most obvious improvements are the categories and the screenshots. When you make a search it categorises the results so a search for ‘Games’ gets split into various categories such as arcade, puzzles, casino, previews, Xbox Gamecube, and a number of others. When you search you also get screenshot previews of each page in the results which means, if you’re looking for a site you’ve been too, you can find it very easily.
Anyway I’m suitably impressed, and will be using it quite a bit in the coming weeks to see …
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