Archive for February, 2008

As part of their Theme Club’s 20,000 accounts giveaway, WPDesigner.com has decided to sponsor a contest on The Knight Knetwork!

The rules:

Install the Beta version of the TipJoy TipThis plugin on your Wordpress blog (you’ll need to sign up to earn tips with TipJoy)
Post a link to your site along with some feedback (bugs, what you [...]

With a great deal of code stolen from the Devlounge plugin guide (I tipped them), I’m pleased to announce a beta version of the TipJoy TipThis Wordpress plugin! The plugin is up and running here with the options in the screen grab:
(click for a screen grab)
Features include:

Adding your TipJoy UserID to your header [...]

Worth1000 has launched the beta for it’s new and impressive online photo editing suite, Aviary. I have 4 invites that I’d be happy to trade, either for other interesting betas or just promise me that you’ll save one of your Aviary invites for a commenter of my choosing (hold for 10 days only).  We’ll [...]

In technology, change is a way of life. Feature stagnation will lead to a competitor jumping ahead of you and an abandonment of your product. At the same time, changes in your product can cause a backlash from users who aren’t happy with the results. A thread on Hacker News is what [...]

TipJoy is a new startup coming out of Y Combinator that aims to help bloggers earn tips from grateful readers and at the same uses the tip data to rank popular sites and articles. I really like the idea and the execution and hope to see these guys succeed, in fact I liked [...]

TipJoy is a new service that allows users to leave small tips for content that they love. Once you have signed up for TipJoy you can leave a $0.10 tip with a single click and never leave the site!
To learn more about TipJoy make sure to read our interview with the CEO.
If you have [...]

I’ve ditched my paypal buttons and am going with TipJoy! More on TipJoy in a later post. I’m sure someone will build a TipJoy plugin for this soon (UPDATE - ok it looks like it will be me), but until then here’s my setup for a self hosted Wordpress site, I’m not an expert [...]