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RapidShare, the world’s largest file sharing / hosting service, has made a new rule for its premium account holders. Before, if you have a premium account and you give it to your friend, then both you and your friend can download from RapidShare using the premium account altogether.

But now, only 1 IP address can download using RapidShare premium account at a time. This means, if your friend is downloading using the premium account, and you also want to download using it, your request will be declined. You must ask your friend to stop first, then you can do your download.

So, from now on, keep those precious RapidShare Premium Accounts for yourself!

Recently, I saw a lot of blog posts that mention the Busby SEO Challenge. What is it? After doing some reading, I found out that this is a big competition for the keyword Busby SEO Challenge.

The winner is the one who appears as number one for that keyword, again, Busby SEO Challenge on Google.com on 31st August 2008, 12:00 midday, Perth, Western Australia.

The competition started on June 1st, so attendees have 3 months to set up and optimize their websites to win it. Hmm.. is it too late to enter now? Yeah, it’s 1 month late, but better late than never, right?

Busby SEO Challenge, as its name states, is held by Busby Web Solution, an SEO Company that specializes on PPC search engine internet marketing, ecommerce web application development and web design.

In one of the rules, it says that each page must have a link with Arial 10 font. I guess it’s the Arial font with size=10. I try it, and here’s the result (it’s huge )

To be a Participant in the Busby Web Solutions Search Engine Optimisation Challenge, you must register first. And if you win, get ready to get $5000. But I don’t know if it’s US dollar or Australian dollar.

Who says Yahoo is going bankrupt? In fact, it now has a new feature on its popular free web-based email service. This is quite an exciting new feature.

You now can have @ymail.com and @rocketmail.com email addresses! And you’ll be using Yahoo’s award winning email service, the same as the usual Yahoo Mail. This service is still new, so you may want to grab your email address using your name before someone else does

Alexa rank goes back to normal again today. All of you whose blogs had “no rank” yesterday will have their ranks back on

My blog, which rank went up yesterday (284.588), go down back to its “original” rank (314.520). But strangely, the alexa widget on my blog still shows 284.588, while on Alexa toolbar and Alexa website it’s 314.520. How can the widget shows the wrong rank?

I don’t know what happened, maybe only the people in the Alexa team who know what happened. But I guess what happened yesterday was just an error in Alexa, and they realized it quickly. Hope the widget error will be fixed soon too..

What’s wrong with Alexa? Yesterday this blog’s Alexa Rank was 1.082.292, but now it has “no rank”! But my other blog’s Alexa Rank goes up to 284.588 from 314.520, now that’s normal, right?

I also have 2 other blogs which rank were 1.253.379 and 2.991.876, and now have no rank. I wonder what’s going on, after Alexa changed its ranking algorithm last month, is it going to be changed again?

Yesterday I got an email from Entrecard (well I think every Entrecard member will get the same email ), which told me about Entrecard’s new features. A few moment before I got the email, I couldn’t login to my Entrecard, the site says that it’s under maintenance.

It turns out the people behind Entrecard made an update, an essential one! Yes, now you can have a lot of blogs in one Entrecard account. Before this, if you have two blogs and you want to put an Entrecard on each, you must open 2 accounts, which means 2 email address. What if you have a lot of blogs? Really unpractical, right? The people on Entrecard realized this issue, and worked hard to overcome this.

If you already have more than one Entrecard account, don’t worry, you can link them so you can manage them without having to logout and login again. For details, read the email or the Entrecard blog. Oh, they have also released an ebook about the basics of Entrecard, how they work, and how to use it and take benefit from it for your blogs. You can download the ebook here: http://entrecard.com/static/entrecard_official_ebook.pdf

Ah.. this is just great!

One of WordPress 2.5’s new and very nice feature is its plugin auto update. On previous versions, when you login to your admin panel and then see your list of plugins, when there’s an update for a plugin, you will be notified, and you’ll have to update the plugin manually.

Now, there’s another option, you can update the plugin automatically! Just click the link, and the update is done for you in just seconds. That’s great, right? But remember, you can only use this feature on plugins that are registered on wordpress.org.

But you also must be careful when using this cool feature. A while ago, I was just using the WP-Postviews plugin by Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan. And when I entered the plugin list page to activate it, there was a notice below the plugin’s name and description that says like this:

There is a new version of WP-PostViews Widget available. Download version 2.20 here or upgrade automatically.

Notice that the words in bold make a link to update the plugin automatically. Because I’ve used the auto update feature and really like it, I just clicked on it and hoped the plugin was updated. But I was wrong! WordPress said that the update process was successful! But when I go to the plugin list page, the WP-PostViews disappeared! Even more strange, a new plugin appeared, it’s WP-DBManager! I just realised that the plugin auto update feature had updated the wrong plugin.

I then had to upload WP-PostViews again, and after I checked, there was no new version

So, if you want to use this cool feature, please just be careful. Look at the link first and see where it goes. In my case above, the link points to WP-DBManager, not to WP-PostViews, that’s why it got the wrong plugin. See the image above.

I think, everybody wants to get famous, especially women Well, there’s an opportunity to be famous now. If you’ve got the look, just go to http://www.lookoftheyear.com and participate. Upload your photo, fill in some information about yourself, and get voted! The one with the most votes wins.

To get a lot of votes, besides your look on your photo, you need to write something catchy. Visitors will not vote for you just because of your look, but they mix it with your profile. If they also like your profile, they surely will vote for you.

If you ask if it’s a beauty contest. Yes, it is. Look of the year is an online beauty contest. There are 4 categories where you can only enter one of them:

• Girls between the age of 14 to 19
• Women with the age of above 19
• Boys between the age of 14 to 19
• Men with the age of above 19

Each month a top 10 list is published for each category, and the 4 winners of 2008 will be published on December 31st, 2008. So, come on and participate now! Even if you don’t win, there’s a chance that a model agency will discover you and take a good look at you.

As you may already know, when you’re blogging on wordpress.com, you may not put ads on your blogs. And it’s been a feature that a lot of people love, while for other a lot of people who want to put ads on their blogs, it’s a disaster.

For more information, check the WordPress.com FAQ about ads here. Also, sometimes you may see some adsense ads on WordPress.com blogs, check the explanation by Matt here.

So, for you who want to make some money from your blogs, it’s very simple, do not use WordPress.com blogs! Instead, buy a domain name and a hosting on your own where you can freely put any ads you want. Or, if you still want free blogs where you can run ads, use blogspot instead.

Oh no! That’s what came out of my mind when I see this blog’s alexa rank. Its alexa rank now is 1.508.347, while it was 1.287.961 a while ago.

My other blog, which was just 2 months old and already had the alexa rank of 1.327.899, which is a very good rank for me for a new blog, has dropped to 1.894.733 And my blog in Indonesian which alexa rank was 391.293 now dropped to 433.851. What’s wrong?

I admit that I haven’t been browsing a lot these 2 days, because of my work that made me so tired. But does it really matter? Do I really have to browse a lot using the alexa toolbar to maintain my alexa rank? Am I the only one experiencing this, or do you have the same problem with mine?