October 2007

Further to yesterday’s post about BlogRush, they must have heard me, as their new Dashboard is now in place. I’m glad it’s there now, as it’s shown me what a waste of time it’s been having it on my sites. I mean, 1 visit from 15,000 impressions is not terribly good, is it? And that was one of the good ones!

So, farewell BlogRush. I’m now removing it from the 3 blogs I’ve been trying it out on. It’s really not worth all the space it takes on the blogs, given the very tiny amount of traffic it’s bringing my way.

Better luck next time.

Well, here we are, about a month or so past the point where the amazing new BlogRush dashboard and features were due to be launched and what do we have?

We have the BlogRush blog, which hasn’t been updated in the past 9 days and on which they have disabled comments - I guess they don’t believe in “there’s no such thing as bad publicity” - we have no new dashboard and we really have absolutely no real idea about whey might be doing which, on the surface, appears to be absolutely nothing.

I’ve so far survived the culling of blogs, although posting this might well add me to their list. Has anyone else tried it out? I’m still getting a small trickle of traffic from them, but nothing to write home about.

I’ll give them another week or so, but after that, I can’t see the point in flogging a dead horse.

Further to my previous post on WidgetBucks, they’ve now updated their code to speed up loading. I’m not convinced it’s that much quicker, but it’s good to see they’re trying to resolve the problem. WidgetBucks sent out an email to users last night:

One of the concerns we’ve heard from many of you has been the slow loading times of our widgets. We really appreciate your feedback and comments in helping us improve in this area. So, today we addressed this issue by rolling out new code that ultimately delivers faster loading widgets.

You need to re-install your widget code to take advantage of the changes.

I’ll keep an eye on it and report back in a week or so.

Is it my birthday? So far this week we’ve had IMAP added to Gmail, the 2.4 release of The Gimp and now Opera has added “Opera Link” to their browsers.

Opera has long been my favourite browser (you can read my review to see why) and it just goes from strength to strength with each new release. Today, they have announced the addition of Opera Link to their browsers. With Opera Link, all your bookmarks, speedlinks etc are synchronised with your My Opera account. So, if you have Opera at work and Opera at home, any bookmarks you add in one place will be reflected on the other. Even better, the sync also works with Opera Mini Beta 3, so your mobile device will always be up to date with your most recent links.

Need to use a different browser but still want access to your links? Simpy go to the Opera Link page of your My Opera account and they’re all there for you. And it looks like sharing is on the way, too. Watch out del.icio.us?

You’ll need Opera 9.5 to take advantage of Opera Link on your desktop and Opera Mini Beta 3 for your mobile device.

Keep up the good work, Opera.

It must be my lucky day. First, Google adds IMAP support to Gmail and now Gimp 2.4 has been released

It’s been a long time coming and by the look of how slow their web site is performing, half the planet appears to be downloading it. It doesn’t look like the Windows Installer is ready just yet, but you can get the source from the Gimp web site.