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Creating a new AdSense Ad and Channel

March 29, 2010

I have done this many times but I only have a vague recollection on what I did. I’m sure some of folks are like me, create the ad, post the code and forget about it. If we want to re-use it, just copy the same code and paste it into another site.
AdSense has evolved over [...]

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Know your enemies and know yourself

March 26, 2010

know your enemies and know yourself, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss.
Sun Tze
In order to become a effective finance aggregator on the Internet, I must first know what similar sites are doing so that I learn from their strength and exploit their weakness. Below is the list of the most popular [...]

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Beating the big boys

March 24, 2010

After a long and hard thought, I have come to the conclusion that I can’t. However, that doesn’t mean I should throw in the towel. Let’s take the analogy of a small time investor versus the big time investor. In a bullish economy, the big time investors with their millions and billions will almost make [...]

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Ask not what the web can do for you but what you can do on the web

November 16, 2009

This tagline suddenly pop up in my head while looking for some information on the web. We know that the possibility of the web is endless but what can we do to harness this endless possibility?
It has been a very busy month, juggling between a new course, projects and travel plans. I shall not [...]

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How do I make the permalinks for post titles open in a new browser window?

October 23, 2009

A. This is easily done by editing your WordPress template files to give the post permalinks a target=”_blank” attribute. (You can edit template files directly from the WordPress administrative interface using Appearance –> Theme Editor, or you can edit them in a text editor on your own computer and upload them to your theme directory.)
The [...]

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Step By Step Guide To Creating A New Finance Aggregator Site

October 21, 2009

FeedWordPress Plugin Customization
1)  Download and installed FeedWordPress Version 2009.0707
2) Require to upgrade of MagpieRSS after activating plugin (normal).
3) Syndicated a test feed (http://thefinance.sg) and found a whole long list of unwanted code appended to each post. After testing on other feeds, realized that the rest are ok and the problem is only on my feed.
4) [...]

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Exploring RSS Aggregator Plugins

October 19, 2009

Monday 19 oct’09, 12:44pm (GMT +8:00)
- Installed FeedWordPress.
- Encounter the problem when activating plugin.

- Click Upgrade and upgraded successfully. “Congratulations! Your MagpieRSS has been successfully upgraded to the version shipped with FeedWordPress.”
- Go to http://feedwordpress.radgeek.com/ to understand how the plugin work. Registration is required.
- Entered three feeds and waiting for them to appear. Not sure [...]

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How can a small time blog aggregator hope to compete against the big boys?

October 19, 2009

It has been two years since I set up my Finance aggregator blog. It started with my interest in reading local finance blogs because I am able to relate to them as compared to those written by the professionals. As the number of blogs that I read  grew, I experimented on different RSS feeds readers [...]

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Wordpress Migration 101

October 11, 2009

I have recently migrated my wordpress site to a new webhost and although my web-host provided me with a quick start guide, it will still be beneficial for me and other Wordpress users if there is specific set of instructions for Wordpress migration. As an IT geek, we call this “Documentation” and this is something [...]

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Thesis Theme Discount Code

October 11, 2009

In my earlier post, I  mention that we should make full use of discount coupon/ code. Unfortunately, as of this moment, there isn’t any for Chris Pearson Thesis theme for wordpress. Kind of makes me wonder why is there still a coupon code text box.
However all is not lost. Being such a popular theme, there [...]

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