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smrtr: Learn Smarter Not Harder

This site has been sat quiet for a long time, hosting howtos and information on my wordpress plugins. But that doesn’t mean that I’ve been sitting here doing nothing. For the past few months I’ve been working on a new project: smrtr.

smrtr is collaborative learning, quiz and study tool. Take quizzes, track progress and receive recommended study aids to build your knowledge. Ideal for students, professionals or general-knowledge know-it-alls alike - focus your learning where it’s needed most!

All this, and it’s community generated too. Following the example of wikipedia, the site allows everyone to contribute their own questions, build their own exams and form their own groups on topics of their choosing.

Take a look at the site and leave feedback here. It’s early days, but this could change the way you learn forever!

Look forward to hearing what you think!

WidgetBucks CPM Location Filtering

The new widget advertising network from WidgetBucks has been getting popular recently for the higher click through rate and potential earnings. To maintain the amounts advertisers were willing to pay, they recently switched CPM ads for international traffic. Unfortunately this means that non-US & Canada visitors get lower earning non-targeted ads.

Until WidgetBucks targets non-US/Canada traffic better or provides Google-style “alternate ads”, it would be useful to be able to show something else to non-US/CA users in an attempt to maintain relevance.
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Apache vs. the Slashdot Effect

Increasing traffic is the measure of success for a website. More visitors equals more exposure which in turns generates more income. However, if you have hosted your site on a low-end package you could get hit by excess use charges just as your start celebrating your success.

Here at mutube.com the combination of 4,625 visitors (8,531 hits) a month and popular free downloads quickly helped trip our 1Gb bandwidth limit.

In this article I’ll look at how I’ve used the combined power of Apache Server and Coral Cache to distribute all kinds of requests away from your server transparently.
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