Geekzone Blog Ad Delivery solution
Geekzone Blog, posted: 28-May-2007 21:31
Some of the Geekzone bloggers have asked for the ability to deliver and manage advertising through their Geekzone Blog. This is now released for all to use and I am sure will please the crowd.
The idea came out because some of the Geekzone Blogs have a large readership and some companies have shown interest in advertise to specific market segments.
It's simple to use: create or manage and adverts, create or manage a List and its contents and we take care of the rest. You can specify size, geo target (specific country or all countries), maximum number of impressions, maximum number of clicks, start date, end date and weight. You can even pause the ad delivery during a certain period.
The ads and rates are negotiated directly between the blogger and the companies, and we don't take any participation on this operation.
Conditions for the Google AdSense banner, Google AdSense AdLink, Amazon links and Amazon Omakase do not change.
The idea came out because some of the Geekzone Blogs have a large readership and some companies have shown interest in advertise to specific market segments.
It's simple to use: create or manage and adverts, create or manage a List and its contents and we take care of the rest. You can specify size, geo target (specific country or all countries), maximum number of impressions, maximum number of clicks, start date, end date and weight. You can even pause the ad delivery during a certain period.
The ads and rates are negotiated directly between the blogger and the companies, and we don't take any participation on this operation.
Conditions for the Google AdSense banner, Google AdSense AdLink, Amazon links and Amazon Omakase do not change.
Geekzone Moderators meeting
Geekzone Blog, posted: 6-Feb-2007 11:21
This is more of an internal thing, but I thought it would be good to let the cat out of the bag: we are planning a Geekzone Moderators' Meetup in early March.
The plan is to have all current Geekzone moderators (bradstewart, chiefie, cokemaster, sbiddle, tonyhughes) here in Wellington for a weekend and talk about our on-line community.
Topics I see being discussed involve planning Geekzone 2007, how much moderation we are supposed to put on, review of procedures, jokes, and the mandatory dinner at Flying Burrito Brothers (as demanded by Brad Stewart).
If you have any suggestion of topic we should discuss that you see as important for your experience here (yes, anything), post in the comments here or contact us.
The plan is to have all current Geekzone moderators (bradstewart, chiefie, cokemaster, sbiddle, tonyhughes) here in Wellington for a weekend and talk about our on-line community.
Topics I see being discussed involve planning Geekzone 2007, how much moderation we are supposed to put on, review of procedures, jokes, and the mandatory dinner at Flying Burrito Brothers (as demanded by Brad Stewart).
If you have any suggestion of topic we should discuss that you see as important for your experience here (yes, anything), post in the comments here or contact us.
Chris DiBona session at Summer of Code, Wellington, New Zealand
Geekzone Blog, posted: 26-Jan-2007 10:49
When our friends Peter Smith (letuseit.co.nz) and the folks at Creative HQ asked us here at Geekzone if we could sponsor one of the Summer of Code sessions with Chris DiBona, we jumped at the opportunity straightaway.
Chris DiBona (wikipedia entry for Chris DiBona) is the guest speaker at the special session Geekzone is sponsoring. Chris is the open source program manager at Google (Mountain View, CA). Prior to joining Google he was an editor at Slashdot.
The Summer of Code is a programme to help students gain real world experience by helping start-up companies build new technologies. The Creative HQ Summer of Code students are working on research projects for the participating technology based companies over their summer break, November 2006 till the end of February 2007.
The session is on 7th February, 11.30am through 1pm, Victoria University on the Old Government Buildings, LT3 (Wellington). More information at the official Summer of Code Blog.
Chris DiBona (wikipedia entry for Chris DiBona) is the guest speaker at the special session Geekzone is sponsoring. Chris is the open source program manager at Google (Mountain View, CA). Prior to joining Google he was an editor at Slashdot.
The Summer of Code is a programme to help students gain real world experience by helping start-up companies build new technologies. The Creative HQ Summer of Code students are working on research projects for the participating technology based companies over their summer break, November 2006 till the end of February 2007.
The session is on 7th February, 11.30am through 1pm, Victoria University on the Old Government Buildings, LT3 (Wellington). More information at the official Summer of Code Blog.
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A small update to the Geekzone Blogs code
Geekzone Blog, posted: 4-Jan-2007 14:01
If you have a Geekzone Blog and use a customised stylesheet, please note that because of the addition of a DTD declaration you might need to update a couple of items...
First make sure images are not affected. If you are using the default template you don't need to do anything. But if you are using a custom template and notice extra space around images or wrong image alignment, then check the following updated tags:
Also, make sure you have an "#" before any background-color code (or any color) declaration. We have noticed some blogs "lost" their background colours with the new DTD. For example, this is the default colour in the background:
Also new is the ability to add code to the HEAD section of the generated HTML. This is useful for tags, visitor tracking, etc.
First make sure images are not affected. If you are using the default template you don't need to do anything. But if you are using a custom template and notice extra space around images or wrong image alignment, then check the following updated tags:
img {margin:0 auto;border-width:0px;padding:3px;vertical-align:middle;}Note that these are the new default values. You can use the new values as is, or add your own.
.miniicons {font-size:10px;padding:0px;margin:15px 15px 0px 15px;}
Also, make sure you have an "#" before any background-color code (or any color) declaration. We have noticed some blogs "lost" their background colours with the new DTD. For example, this is the default colour in the background:
body {background-color:#B0B8A0;margin:25px;font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;word-wrap:break-word;}
Also new is the ability to add code to the HEAD section of the generated HTML. This is useful for tags, visitor tracking, etc.
Juha Saarinen joins Geekzone
Geekzone Blog, posted: 2-Jan-2007 14:04
Welcome to 2007... We hope you all have a great year ahead. We are also planning some interesting changes here at Geekzone, and the following announcement is one of the many things we will see during this year:
Geekzone boosts editorial: Juha Saarinen joins
JANUARY 2, 2007— WELLINGTON AND AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND
Geekzone, the most popular technology site in New Zealand according to Nielsen/NetRatings is pleased to welcome Juha Saarinen as editor and contributor. Juha is a well-respected technology journalist and reviewer, having written for publications such as Infoworld, PC World, Computerworld, PC/Computing and Virus Bulletin as well as dailies and other magazines around the world.
“With a decade and a half behind him as a tech writer, Juha brings with him a great mix of hands-on knowledge and journalistic experience”, says Mauricio Freitas, owner of Geekzone. “We are currently experiencing massive growth and Juha’s professionalism will help us produce the high-quality content our visitors have come to expect,” Freitas adds.
Juha will be editing Geekzone material, contributing reviews and news and advising on content production, starting immediately. He currently writes the popular The Techsploder blog on Geekzone which was quoted in the New Zealand Parliament after being the first in the country with news about Telecom New Zealand being unbundled.
Geekzone was founded in 2003 by Mauricio Freitas, and specialises in mobile technology but covers ICT news and events as well. According to Nielsen/NetRatings statistics, Geekzone is the most popular New Zealand-based technology site by a large margin. The site is currently seeing four times as many unique browsers and over three times the number of page impressions as its nearest three competitors, XtraMSN, New Zealand Herald/Technology and InfoTech.
For further information, please contact:
Mauricio Freitas
Geekzone owner and admin
www.geekzone.co.nz
www.geekzone.co.nz/freitasm
Juha Saarinen
Geekzone Editor
www.geekzone.co.nz
www.geekzone.co.nz/juha
Snap previews for URL links now available
Geekzone Blog, posted: 17-Dec-2006 20:18
We have just added another feature to Geekzone that should be useful: Snap previews for URLs. The Snap previews work with Javascript and give you an instant thumbnail preview of the page that is linked to in a URL. The advantage of this is that you can get an idea of the page behind the URL without having to navigate away from the current page, or opening up a new one.
Try them out by hovering your mouse pointer over a URL. It'll look something like:
Impressive, huh?
The Snap feature is enabled throughout Geekzone, including the forums and blogs.
Please let us know what you think of it.
Try them out by hovering your mouse pointer over a URL. It'll look something like:
Impressive, huh?
The Snap feature is enabled throughout Geekzone, including the forums and blogs.
Please let us know what you think of it.
Tips for Geekzone bloggers
Geekzone Blog, posted: 26-Nov-2006 19:24
If you have, or are planning to have, a Geekzone Blog or any other blog, then I recommend you read the series of posts entitled "Reader tips". One of the most important tips is "Proofread".
You should also check our series of posts "The Geekzone Blogging Guide" (Part I, II, III), a series of posts with tips on how to get the most out of your blogging.
Readers form opinions about your blog based on the quality of your content. However, even if your content is great, if your readers have to stop in mid-paragraph to perform some sort of mental gymnastics to determine the meaning of a poorly written sentence, they’re not going to get the most out of your work
You should also check our series of posts "The Geekzone Blogging Guide" (Part I, II, III), a series of posts with tips on how to get the most out of your blogging.
Geekzone tops Nielsen//Netratings - thanks everyone!
Geekzone Blog, posted: 24-Nov-2006 09:58
This week's Nielsen//Netratings "Top 10" list for New Zealand looks at the Technology sites, and we here at Geekzone like the results (number of unique browsers):
Thank you everyone who take time on your busy day to visit Geekzone!
Thank you everyone who take time on your busy day to visit Geekzone!
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Welcome WorldxChange to Geekzone
Geekzone Blog, posted: 11-Nov-2006 10:15
This is a kind of a celebration post. The reason for that is because we see one New Zealand operator getting into the "community" thing with our readers.
Many times our users here on Geekzone asked why we don't have someone from Telecom New Zealand, Woosh Wireless or Vodafone New Zealand "officialy" visiting the Geekzone Forums and answering some of the questions raised by users (this actually applies to any other company!).
Many times I reply that I have indeed invited both operators to participate in the group discussions. Except for a few employees, who cannot be officially linked to the companies while posting, there's no presence of the big ones here.
Some time ago a discussion started about a new VoIP service provided by WorldxChange. After a few days the whole group was surprised with the answers provided by an executive of WorldxChange, on an open discussion with everyone.
The feedback was so good that we agreed with WorldxChange in creating their own WorldxChange Forum here on Geekzone. The idea is that in the future we might even create a private forum for beta testers, as explained here.
One of the benefits of having a forum is that WorldxChange will be answering questions, but the whole community can help, as explained in this post.
Great stuff. I hope this can be an example to other providers around here.
Many times our users here on Geekzone asked why we don't have someone from Telecom New Zealand, Woosh Wireless or Vodafone New Zealand "officialy" visiting the Geekzone Forums and answering some of the questions raised by users (this actually applies to any other company!).
Many times I reply that I have indeed invited both operators to participate in the group discussions. Except for a few employees, who cannot be officially linked to the companies while posting, there's no presence of the big ones here.
Some time ago a discussion started about a new VoIP service provided by WorldxChange. After a few days the whole group was surprised with the answers provided by an executive of WorldxChange, on an open discussion with everyone.
The feedback was so good that we agreed with WorldxChange in creating their own WorldxChange Forum here on Geekzone. The idea is that in the future we might even create a private forum for beta testers, as explained here.
One of the benefits of having a forum is that WorldxChange will be answering questions, but the whole community can help, as explained in this post.
Great stuff. I hope this can be an example to other providers around here.
Please take our RSS feed survey
Geekzone Blog, posted: 12-Oct-2006 11:43
It would be of a great help to us if you could reach out and fill the survey added to our RSS feed. The survey is also linked from all Geekzone Blogs RSS feed. You will find a link to the survey under each post.
You will probably need to subscribe to the feed(s) to see the link, or simply open the link on Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox.
By doing this you will help us measure the quality of the feed, our audience, marketing preferences, etc. All this information will be used by our RSS feed aggregator/provider/manipulator FeedBurner to do something with it.
Of course you only need to fill the survey once.
Thanks!
You will probably need to subscribe to the feed(s) to see the link, or simply open the link on Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox.
By doing this you will help us measure the quality of the feed, our audience, marketing preferences, etc. All this information will be used by our RSS feed aggregator/provider/manipulator FeedBurner to do something with it.
Of course you only need to fill the survey once.
Thanks!
