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If you’re like me a big fan of the TV series Heroes, you’re probably also tired off waiting for the next volume to be aired.
Here in Belgium, every Monday a new episode of Heroes Volume Two is shown, but I’ve seen those episodes almost 4 months back, thx to Sci-Fi Channel. So at the moment it’s very painful to see the re-runs (at least for me) once again.

*Spoiler Warning, If you still haven’t watched Volume Two completely, skip the following lines*

Seeing these episodes once again makes me want to see the next chapters even more
Especially if you’ve seen the last episode of volume two, where Sylar injects himself with Mohinders blood and is able to use his telekinetic powers once again.

*Spoiler end*

In the 2nd season, the best improvement they made was the introduction of Adam Monroe, played by David Anders. He’s able to live forever, partly thx to Hiro who time-travelled back to ancient Japan to find his idol Kensei or Adam.
I’m wondering how they’re going to make the storyline continue with the twisting plots like they had until now.
If it wasn’t for the big Hollywood writers strike, they had aired it already, but last thing I’ve heard is that they’re going to air the next volume somewhere in September 2008.

Anyway I can’t wait, can you?

Today’s 5th stumble took me to UAddit’s Web 2.0 workplaces.

In this post he shows some pictures of the workplaces or offices that are behind the most common web 2.0 sites.
He starts with the offices from Twitter, that’s really gaining popularity the last month among bloggers. If you want to follow my tweets, you can select follow in my profile, by this link or by the large T in the right sidebar of my site.
Further in his post he shows the office’s of Facebook, Digg, Craiglist, Mozilla, Joost, flickr, Last.fm, Jaiku, LinkedIn, netvibes and Reddit.

Also for every Web 2.0 site he has added some info about how the site started, who founded it and so more. Especially Flickr is interesting, started in 2004 and sold to Yahoo only 1 year later for $35 Million. Talk about fast money

Anyway, sure worth a visit.

Last week’s stumbling Friday received 2 comments. And as a reward, I’m going to search trough the sites of those 2 commentators to stumble 1 post each.

If you’re looking for some cool signs to use at work, at home or whatever, check out buildasign.com. Here you can create yourself some fancy signs, like banners for advertisement, Magnetic Signs to use on cars or so, custom flags for your company, …
Even road, safety and traffic sign are in buildasign.com’s portfolio. So definitely worth a look.

I’m thinking about some custom streetname signs for the bedroom doors here at my house.

A couple of months back I’ve made a list about which advertisement programs I would like to test out in the future. Well today it’s time to take TNX.net for a spin.

Before I continue, there are a few requirements your site needs to have. Without it it’s very unlikely to get approved.

• Preferable to have at least a PageRank 1
• Preferred are second level domains (.com, .net, ..) with paid hosting
• Site must be at least 6 months old
• Site must contain minimum 30 pages
• presence in a major catalogue, DMOZ preferred
• PHP is a MUST

Just earlier today I’ve created myself a login, password and I’ve added this site to their listings so they can review it and approved it.

After this there’s a bit of code you’ll have to insert into your site. Remember that this code requires PHP to be executed.
There’re 2 possibilities, either Static Code or Static code that’s cached on your server side.

When this is done, you’ll have to wait a bit so your pages will be indexed by TNX. After this you’re ready to sell links on your site.

How does this work?
If the system code is placed on your website, all the links that are purchased by advertisers will be automatically displayed on all pages that have the code included. If a link is sold to one of their advertisers, you will get paid for it. So the more pages you’ll have on your site, the more links you could sell. The price of the link is based on the page’s search ngine rating. Links are sold automatically, so you don’t have to do anything.
If you sell some links, you’ll earn some TNX points.
With these points, you can use them to buy advertisement yourself, or you can sell them to another TNX member that is willing to pay for it.

So far the webmasters part of TNX. Now we’re going to take a look at the Advertisers part.

As talked about above, you’ll get some TNX points for every link that’s sold on your page. In the advertisers area you can use these points to buy links to your site from other sites.
Simply create a campaign by giving it a name, choose appropriate categories where you want your link to appear. You can also geo-target your links to a few specific languages, of course English, but also Spanish, French, Italian and a few other. Another thing you can specify is the sites where you will be publishing on. You can choose to only advertise on sites with more than 5000 backlinks from Yahoo, or a combination.

Also the ‘quality’ of the advertisement links can be specified. You can exclude sites that for example have a PageRank less than 2.

The next step is to create your link, and set the importance.
In the last step you can specify exactly how much backlinks you would like to get from sites with the pagerank you’ve selected earlier.

It’s that easy. The last thing I would like to talk about is their referral program.
If you got excepted into TNX, you can also earn some extra with affiliates. Whenever you refer another webmaster, you’ll get 13,3% off all TNX points that are generated by your referral. And in addition you’ll receive 5% of all payments made by a referred advertiser.

On the following link you’ll find some ways to get yourself some free linksthanks to their special offer.

Anyone of you already uses TNX? What’s your experience with it? I love to here them.

This Friday stumble, brought me to webdistortion.com’s website checklist, 20 things to check before going live.

Ending up on this page after my 5th stumble of the day, this surely can come in to use if I’m going live with the redesign of my other site that I’m still working on. I know, it’s taking a while, but due to lack of time etc…

Anyway, reading trough the post, you can find some useful SEO tips as well.
Tip 1, 2 and 3 are very good examples of some easy SEO implementations you can make to your page. Especially the Title tag is easily forgotten on many blogs.
Tip 6 regarding the footer year copyright, is also something that everyone tends to forget. In the example shown, he’s using javascript, but you can also use some simple php

<?php echo date('Y');?>

to achieve the same.

As for tip 17, I didn’t even know it existed. Surely have to do this one.
So far this Friday’s Stumble, hope you’ll have a good read!

Last week’s Friday Stumble received 2 comments. Thx Beverly and Franca Richard. I’m currently snooping through your site’s to see if there’s a very interesting post I can stumble for you.

Ah I also have an update on my previous post, ‘Entrecard banned me’. Well actually they didn’t ban me. A few hours after I’ve received the banned message, I could login again. At morning the day after, I still could login, so everything ok. Once at work I’ve tried to login again because I received a message to approve an advertiser, but again I received the banned message.
This made me think that instead of banning me or my account, they are banning the IP-range I’m on.
At home I’ve tested if I could logon and yes I could, so I’ve contacted an admin and explained it and yes they were banning the IP range I’m on. So that’s basically it, I’m not evil at all