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Ramon`s Jukebox has moved

Today I`ve moved my music/video blog from Google`s Blogger service to my own WordPress setup. The main reason is because YouTube support for blogs has stopped so I had to copy each movie by hand.

The domain still stays music.ramoonus.nl but the main difference you`ll notice is the theme.

All posts and comments remained intact by using WordPress` built-in updater.

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OpenX Ad Server: Beginner’s Guide

Packt Publishing released the book “OpenX Ad Server: Beginner’s Guide” last week. 0202 MockupCover Beginnersguide 121x150 OpenX Ad Server: Beginners Guide

I`m very lucky to give you guys (and girls) with a review on my blog (this site, doh!) this month!
I`ve been using OpenX since 2006 to structure and organise online advertisement campaigns.

The books covers the following items:

  • Learn the essentials of online advertising from the advertiser and publisher points of view
  • Install and utilize OpenX Ad Server effectively to make your business run faster
  • Get to know the usage of all the campaign and banner types
  • Manage ad campaigns and banners on multiple web sites from a centralized platform
  • Display ads according to their importance and alter the under-performing ads easily and swiftly
  • Learn the most effective way to work with web site ad zones
  • Maximize your profits by selling your ad space on your blogs and web sites effectively
  • Take full advantage of GeoTargeting for generating maximum revenue by showing ads according to visitor origin
  • Utilize the channels to show relevant ads based on the content of web sites
  • Integrate Google AdSense and Amazon ads with your web sites using OpenX
  • Convert OpenX Ad Server into a multi-user ad management platform for advertisers, publishers, and ad agencies
  • Track the success of any ad campaign, banner or web site zone using detailed statistics, and reports

More information about the book can be found at www.packtpub.com/openx-ad-server-beginners-guide/book

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More reading material

Last week I brought several books. (link). One of them (Professional Web 2.0 Programming) was a mistake. I intended to buy Professional Web APIs with PHP, which I did now. I already sold the Web 2.0 programming book in a couple of minutes.

I added: “Professional Web APIs with PHP: eBay, Google, Paypal, Amazon, FedEx plus Web Feeds” to my collection. And ofcourse some other books, but those are top secret Wink

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Adobe Flex development

I`ve decided to get started with PHP Web 2.0 programming myself. For this reason I`ve brought the following book:

This book is an addition to my bookcase because it goes in detail with subjects like SVG, REST, JSON, XQuery and mashups.

To get my Adobe Air and Flex skill up I`ve also grabbed 2 books about it;

The first book gives is a detailled guide to making your own Flex and Air skins with tools like Photoshop, Flash and Fireworks.

The second book tells me how to use Flickr, Amazon, Google, Twitter, and Last.fm in Adobe Flex/Air situations to make my own programs and mashups.

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Mobile office in action

I`ve been playing with my mobile phone for a couple of days now.

I`ve installed the following software:

  • Windows Live Professional (Dutch)
  • Skype
  • Facebook
  • Google Maps (instead of TomTom)

And on my PC Microsoft Windows Mobile Device Center for ActiveSync synchronisation.

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