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The team behind Clicksor has launched a new online advertising marketplace. They call it AdPreference. AdPreference is still in Beta but you can sign up both as an advertiser and advertiser.

AdPreference is not similair to Clicksor. It’s basically works just the same as AdBrite’s Interstitial ad. The differences between the AdPreference interstitial ad and AdBrite’s interstitial ad are that you will be re-directed back to the publisher page after 10 seconds, you can also click a “skip me” button. AdPreference also shows just an ad and not your site like AdBrite does. This has both its downsides and upsides.

If you are already using Clicksor you might want to check AdPreference out. If not, just go with AdBrite.

The results of the Best of Brit Blog Awards 2007 are in!

From the adventures of two friends travelling the world, to the everyday lives of a coop of chickens, the cream of the British blogosphere has been recognised in the Metro/Ask.com Best Of Brit Blog Awards. The awards aimed to recognise the best online writing talent across eight categories – with shortlists drawn from over a thousand nominations by Ask.com and Metro readers.

The categories included Arts & Entertainment, Politics, Sport, Fashion, Technology, Travel, Youth and Weird & Wonderful. Links to winners and runners-up in each category are included.

This is just low. Really low. Lower than Glocalnet (only people from Sweden will understand that one). AOL with their big budget will soon launch AOL.com 3.0 with a new website design. And guess what? Instead of making their own website design they go and copy Yahoo!’s brand new website design.

You can compare the two designs and be the judge. Check out AOL 3.0 Beta and the Yahoo! homepage.

My favourite social news media site, Newsvine.com, has been “relaunched” today!

Call it a redesign. Call it Newsvine 2.0. Call it whatever you want, but today Newsvine is proud to announce the first major overhaul of our site since launching a little more than a year ago. It’s an exciting thing for the team and for the now 600,000 people who visit the site every month because it not only provides a hugely enhanced front page but also showcases a lot of the great technology we’ve been building behind the scenes over the last several months.

The biggest change you will notice is the front page. You can now add modules and boxes and all kinds of things in a true web 2.0 spirit. You decide how you want the front page to look like. This is great because I know a lot of people, including me, who have complained that the Newsvine front page has been too much centred on USA and their local news.

Other new features include:

• Modules!
• Local Headlines and Weather
• Newsvine Live
• The News in Pictures
• Newsvis
• External RSS Feeds
• Newsvine Group Showcase
• Top Seeds from Source
• Super Widescreen

The last feature there called “Super Widescreen” is something users with big screens will love (and yet again something that includes me). It let’s you make the front page bigger in width to “whopping 1300 pixels of width”. Lovely!

Read more about the new features and the brand new “Evergreen” at the official Newsvine blog.

Neil Patel on pronetadvertising.com talks about how too many social bookmarking icons will confuse and distract your readers.

I guess the question is, why shouldn’t you be giving tons of options to your website visitors? It may seem like a good idea at first, but your ever so curious visitors will end up clicking on random buttons which will take them to sites that they are not familiar with and then they will not bookmark your content. Even your most tech savvy readers don’t have accounts at most of these social sites, so why drive them to sites where they will not bookmark your content.

The blog post is really basic common sense. So if you feel you have too many icons go read it! But, before that I would just like to add one thing. If you use the AddThis bookmark and feed buttons your readers and visitors can easily choose which social bookmark site they want to use. They just need to choose the “Please don’t ask me every time” option.

So you want to start blogging but should you go with a hosted or standalone blogging platform? In this post I will explain these two options and the upsides and downsides of them. Please share your thoughts and ideas by making a comment.

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This is one of those funny but pretty pointless tools out there. (Another one was the “Create a Web 2.0 Logo” tool (too bad that site is down now).) With this tool you can create stripes textures to use on your websites or as a pattern in Photoshop.

Check it out! http://www.stripegenerator.com

Happy Earth Day Everyone!

We can – and must cut CO2 emissions by 50 percent by the year 2050. You can help save the world. Learn how to save the climate with this personal how to guide from Greenpeace.

Learn more about Earth Day and it’s history over at Wikipedia.

Check out Yahoo’s own earth day site: http://events.yahoo.com/earthday07/

Let’s start living our lives in a more climate-friendly way – now!

Answer Tips, Webmasters, bloggers, you can now add an answer tips box to your site that allows users to get information of any word located on your web pages just by double clicking. A box will open with information about that word plus more if they desire. It can be installed by simply inserting the html code into your template. I have installed it on my site, FREE PIMS and now the question; is this a good idea or not?

You’ve probably heard of Ron Hornbaker’s Statsaholic (formerly Alexaholic).

You probably know that the name change was forced by Alexa (Amazon), who didn’t like the fact that (i) the service was getting popular and (ii) Alexaholic has Alexa in it.

Okay, makes sense… right? Not really. Alexa is now blasting the same person they praised just over a year ago!

They’ve now SUED Ron! Crazy! This Scribd doc from Mashable has the actual court document.

He got rid of the Alexa… he complied. Now they sue him anyway.

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Now, just a few days ago, Alexa announced that they’d be getting rid of their current API for graph use in favor of “widgets” that includes an AdBrite BritePic advertisement at the top. Ugh.

Many people have called for a boycott of Alexa. Well, I’m joining it. Who needs Alexa? Their data is blatantly wrong half the time anyway.

You may be wondering–who would take the place of Alexa? Here’s a roundup of the major competitors at this point.

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