Geeky Corner

AJAX in 30 seconds… forget about it. It will take you longer than 30 seconds to absorb the great Rasmus’ 30 second AJAX Tutorial but you just have to read it if your are new to AJAX. It’s easy to start with classic “foo bar” example, and start building from there.

According to Nothing Ventured there are seven types of RSS buttons:

Elegant
Behind the times
Could do better
Big and Beautiful
Trying too hard
Attention seeking
Complete amateur

My RSS button is Big and Beautiful. How is yours doing? Take a look at What your RSS button says about you.

NBA’s Dallas Mavericks have launched a site to allow fans to offer their personal experiences at Mavs games - MavsWiki.com. A new moderated, informational website that is the first of its kind in professional sports, is powered by MediaWiki - the same software used by Wikipedia.

According to Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, the Internet pioneer […]

WireFly, the #1 seller of cell phones and wireless plans on the Internet, paid me for this review.
Are you looking for a new cell phone or have you planned to get a new mobile connection? Would you like to know which are the most popular service plans and find the details of the service plans […]

CNET has posted a detailed comparison and a round up review of various RSS readers.
Read the full article at Make your own headlines.

I will not write about the $1.65 billion Google YouTube deal. The deal is done - who cares?

Google Gadgets were previously available only for Google Desktop or Homepage but now can add them to your website. They can help make a site dynamic and rich with content.

Google Gadgets are miniature-sized objects that offer cool and dynamic content that can be placed on any page on the web. They range from Google Maps, […]

AOL has opened a powerful video meta search tool. The SearchVideo tool aggregates results from YouTube, MSN Video, Google Video, BBC’s web site, Reuters, Rocketboom and much more. In addition, they have created a suite of tools for developers to use.

Given the rising importance of video this is an essential site for marketers and PR […]

Lonelygirl15, homeschooled teenage girl with overly-strict parents who reaches the outside world through video postings on YouTube, has been exposed. As it turns out, she was too good to be true.
Pictures of the actress, Jessica Rose, were posted yesterday in a video called Lonelygirl15 a.k.a Bree a.k.a Jessica Rose Exposed. So far it has received […]

Eric Giguere from GeekAffiliate published his top 10 reasons why geeks often fail miserably at online marketing. Doesn’t matter whether it’s affiliate selling, content monetization, or product creation and promotion Eric’s tips and ideas are a must read for every geek out there dealing with Internet marketing.
The main reasons for not succeed in the Internet […]