This is some cool news indeed.
WordPress 2.6 Release Candidate 1 is available from wordpress.
This means the imminent launch of 2.6 final is close by and that means a whole new world of blogging.
We are pretty amped about it and even though this blog runs an older version of WP2 we use the cutting edge stuff on some of our own personal blogs.
Vault9.net went PageRank 8 with the last google update.
This is a sign of good things.
Paul wrote a cool article on SEO for wordpress that you can read on his blog over at
http://www.pauldesousa.co.za/
We apologise in advance for any downtime that may happen over the next couple of weeks while we update the servers these holidays.
Have yourselves an awesome holiday and all the best for the new year!
We have been notified of the amount of spam blogs that are appearing all over - and we are doing our best to block these - we however need to be vigilant and ask all members and mods to help out and report them.
This includes those blogs that break the surf frame.
Thanks!
Hi All.
We have been working hard to update the credit allocation mechanism to best suit your needs - watch this space!
Web application design and implementation is a hell of a thing.
Kinetiq are definitely onto the right track and who knows? maybe with some cool ideas, we may see all sorts of new things in the months, years to come.
Wish us luck.
The Team
We’ve made a Widget for Vault9 - free for you to use however you’d like –
Hey BlogMad people!
Remember the fun we had with the Soccer World Cup?
Well, the ICC Cricket world cup has just started, and you can place bets using your blogmad credits on the games.
Go to www.blogmad.net/worldcup to join in the fun.
For those who do not understand or follow cricket, Here are a few hints and tips about each country that may assist you.
Australia - Have won the cup previously and are current holders, survive well under pressure
Bangladesh - suprising team, either do really well, or really bad but they will not win the cup
Bermuda - Not a great cricket playing nation, at all. Also lowest ranked for this world cup.
Canada - Should stick to ice hockey.
England - England have the team to win, however they can falter under pressure but are formiddable and when on top form are devastating.
India - India have a history of being an incredibly good cricket side, can take the cup
Ireland - Not a cricketing country and should lose most, if not all, of their matches
Kenya - Kenya are a team that most other teams love playing against, because records are set when playing against kenya, they wont even pull a small surprise.
Netherlands - Not a great cricketing country either but should win one or 2 matches
New Zealand - Surprising package, have never made it far in a world cup but have the right stuff, completely obliterated England recently in a series. Do not underestimate.
Pakistan - WERE a great cricketing nation, now without some of their star performers, Pakistan can and probably will go far, but not win the cup, Recently obliterated by South Africa in a series.
Scotland - Should stick to golf and making Scotch, will not win a single game.
South Africa - Top rated side for the cup, have come close but have never won. Current favourites.
Sri Lanka - Another surprise package, will go far but not win the trophy.
West Indies - Home grounds advantage. Could go far.
Zimbabwe - Without their best players, Political problems have destroyed their cricket prowess, can go far but wont.
Players to watch :
Adam Gilchrist (Australia)
Andrew Flintoff(England)
Anil Kumble (India)
Brett Lee (Australia)
Brian Lara (West Indies)
Craig McMillan (New Zealand)
Daniel Vettori (New Zealand)
Herschelle Gibbs (South Africa)
Inzamam-ul-Haq (Pakistan)
Jaques Kallis (South Africa)
Kevin Pietersen (England)
Kevin Pietersen(England)
Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka)
Makhaya Ntini (South Africa)
Mark Boucher (South Africa)
Matthew Hayden (Australia)
Rahul Dravid(India)
Ricky Ponting (Australia)
Russel Arnold (Sri Lanka)
Sachin Tendulkar(India)
Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka)
Shivnarine Chanderpaul (West Indies)
There we go, a quick run down of the world cup and who to watch.
Place your bets and have fun!
Greeting BlogManiacs!
This month is not only World Cup cricket month, its also a major milestone month with BlogMad reaching more than 10 000 members and we want EVERYONE to win so we have a number of different great things happening.
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Cricket World Cup - More ways to win
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eXlinks - The Low Down
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Progress on eXlinks is definitely moving forward! Many people have asked us whether eXlinks was a fly by night idea and there is no way we would let any of our members down by pulling a stunt like that! Darryl has been slaving away to get eXlinks ready for its alpha launch on the 1st of May 2007 w e’ll be sending another newsletter to the people that have joined eXlinks so far giving them insight as to how everything is going to fit together, including all the info on the features!
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New Credit Allocation
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The good news is that the new credit allocation system is functional and has been for the last 2 months. The bad news however is that still many people are using the old system which is not optimised for best results so we have decided to automatically move everyone over to the new system. Those that were not on the new system will find that the blogs have been set with default percentages and allotments.
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Win 5000 credits
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We are going to encourage everyone to participate in the World Cup cricket games and to make the action hotter, for everybet you place, we’ll give you a ticket into a draw, all tickets will be placed into a hat and one person who has placed a bet will win 5000 credits!
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Bonus lottery Credits
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Seeing as are having fun giving away credits, we thought we may as well not stop. During the month of April, any lottery winners are going to be blessed with an additional 20% of the jackpot in credits on top of their winnings!!! So that means that anyone who wins a lottery in the month of April is guaranteed extra credits!
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Earn Free Credits for your feedback
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We have had some excellent feedback in the past where people have given us a few ideas for features, now we want to pay up, email us your best ideas and if we like em and use em, we’ll credit you with 500 credits!
We wish you all the best with the betting, have fun and keep on blogging!