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Archive for June, 2006

International Shipping for Foreign Buyers

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

Previously, it was difficult to know if an Amazon Marketplace seller ships internationally. We just didn’t have that information to tell you at TicTap.

That has changed.

From today, we make clear which sellers ship internationally. If you don’t see the ‘Ships internationally’ phrase for a seller’s description, that means it doesn’t.

Expedited shipping information is […]

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Updated - WordPress Plugin for TicTap Contextual Ads

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

With version 2.2 of the WordPress Plugin for TicTap Contextual Ads, you can now preview your ads in the Configurations page.

Every time you update your configurations, the plugin will show you the products that will appear in your blog.

It also helps with troubleshooting. If you can see product previews, then you know TCA is […]

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Amazon’s Self-Optimising Links Violates Adsense TOS

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

Amazon UK has a new beta tool for its Associates called Self-Optimising Links.

According to the site, “Self-Optimising Links feature products chosen automatically based on the content of your site. To create Self-Optimising Links simply modify the template and appearance elements and copy the resulting code on to your site. With Self-Optimising Links, you do not […]

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WordPress Plugin Fix for Plugin Hooks

Sunday, June 18th, 2006

We’ve just release version 2.1 of the WordPress Plugin for TicTap Contextual Ads.

It contains code to check if wp_footer() and wp_head() were declared in the WordPress templates, and alerts you if it cannot find them.

In the previous post, we mentioned this problem of plugin hooks that theme creators leave out.

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Missing Plugin Hooks in WordPress Themes

Sunday, June 18th, 2006

One of the really nice things about WordPress is that anyone can create WordPress themes.

But be careful, because you could break WordPress plugins if you miss out on a couple of important things.

One of them is missing template plugin hooks.

Many plugins depend on wp_head(), wp_footer(), wp_meta() and comment_form() being called in the templates. If […]

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A Less Confusing TicTap.com

Friday, June 16th, 2006

We’ve received many emails from people who use the various shopping services at TicTap. One common complaint is that the website is confusing.

Damon and I have decided to clean some things up, to make it more obvious to people what TicTap offers.

The idea behind TicTap was to allow people a way to find online […]

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New Name for TicTap Contextual Ads Beta Site

Saturday, June 10th, 2006

Damon and I felt that since TCA had to come out of beta some time in the future, it didn’t make sense to keep calling that page TCA Beta.

So after hours of brainstorming, we’ve decide to change it to the much more obvious and understandable TicTap Contextual Ads Labs.

Ta-da!!!

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Tictap Contextual Ads - Latest Features

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

Run over to our TCA beta test site, which is our laboratory to check out the newest features:

Set the width of product images.
Enable preview popovers for existing Amazon links in your web page. You can even style the links with CSS.

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