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ScribeFire 3.0 is out with QuickAds

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ScribeFire, the famous FireFox Add-on for bloggers (Click here for more info) just released the 3.0 version today.

I think that I personally 100% switched from my former favorite free blogging tool “Windows live writer” to a full time blogging through ScribeFire.
Here are the new features available with this version:

Works with:

  • Firefox:
    2.0 – 3.1b1pre

New Features

* QuickAds integration

Bug Fixes

* Tabbing from the subject now gives focus to the editor
* Added support for certain responses from LiveJournal
*   is no longer converted to a blank space.
* Fix for https:// blogs
* Fixed validation of element

QuickAds is a fully automatic Ad Network Optimization:

ScribeFire QuickAds is the first service to enable
publishers to serve fully optimized banners ads on their sites with
point and click functionality. ScribeFire’s patent pending technology
simplifies banner-space maintenance and optimization by requiring no
code additions to websites.
Your days of seeking out multiple
banner ad partners are over. ScribeFire QuickAds brings reputable ad
partners to your doorstep to maximize revenue in the quickest way
possible.
Leverage Scribefire’s relationships with over 100 ad networks to ensure
that you are receiving the maximum revenue from every impression you
serve.

Announcements, Blogging, Blogging tools, Cool Toys, Social Marketing, Social Networking, Tools, Web 2.0

Ping.fm is now open beta to the public

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The fun and extremely useful service is now open to public beta.
As some of you may know, I am a member of 67 social networking services, that means 67 online profiles that I have to maintain regularly, Do you you how hard it is do do so? You probably do.
That was until I discovered the best tool of 2008 in my opinion, www.ping.fm and until September 2nd, it was an invite only beta service.
Well now it’s open to the public, still in beta, but open to all.
What is Ping.fm?
Let’s say you have multiple online profiles, like me, you might want to update all of them almost everyday.
Before Ping, I would manually go on my twitter, facebook, plurk, pownce, linkedin, tumbler, identica, brightkite, freindfeed, jaiku, plaxo, bebo, hi5, kwippy, xanga and rejaw to update my status, sometimes twice a day for each one.
After I got my special beta invie code and signed up with Ping.fm, set it up, I can update all the above and more in one shot, whether I am updating from web, phone, email or IM, it’s all in one shot, life became way easier 🙂
Now here is the best part: (Warning! geeks content follow)
Ping was built with open API calls, meaning if you hire a nerd like myself (And you can!) to set it up with your blog or RSS feed, guess what? You know it. More organic exposure. I even setup some of my affiliate feeds to go there immediatly and I can’t tell you how much I love getting those extra commision checks in the mail.
Ping.fm is more than just status update, you can even setup your wordpress blog so you can blog through Ping.
I advice everyone to get an account (Now that it’s open to all) and enjoy everything Ping offers.

Update: I have some Brightkite invites, comment on this article and I will email you an invite. (Hurry I only have 10 invites and I will send it to the first 10 commenters only).

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Google’s Chrome: A new era for web browsers

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Yesterday, Google released the beta of their new open-source web-browser Chrome. A Google blog post from the previous day contains an explanation of their design philosophy behind it, together with an introductory comic strip, which explains matters a lot more. I’d encourage people to check it out (well, the comic at least).
Basically, it seems this browser is different from others in that
rather than the browser session being the ‘main unit’, processes are split
down by individual browser tabs. As far as I understand this means
that, for example, a crash or slow script or page in one tab shouldn’t crash or
hang your other ones. Which would be convenient! The flow of the tabs
is also supposed to lead to improvements in security as they are
restricted in what they can see and do (e.g. communication between
tabs) more than in other browsers. I suppose we will have to wait and
see what impact this has on the browser world. As it’s an open-source, I think something really good may be scooped up by future versions of
Firefox and so on.
I also read that Mozilla is not worried about the announcement and that CEO John Lilly said: They feel that they can make a better browser by starting from scratch–advances in browsers are good.

UPDATE: Download Google Chrome here.