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8 Google AdSense Plugins for WordPress 2.5 and AboveSeptember 11th, 2008 at 11:30 amSource:Mashable! Company Name 20-Word Description UberSpat is a new online debate community where evidence presented and rated by users allows the best debates to float to the top. CEO’s Pitch UberSpat is an online debating site that allows users to input a debate of their choosing. What separates UberSpat from its competitors is that users can add evidence to support or oppose a debate. The evidence can then be rated by other users. All of this information then becomes extremely beneficial to people who want to know more about both sides of the debate. They simply read all of the best articles from either side. This focus on evidence makes UberSpat a research tool as well as a debating site. That’s what makes this an amazing site. It is something of a cross between Digg, Wiki, and Google. Mashable’s Take Nearly two months young and launched out of Richardson, Texas, near the cities of Dallas-Fort Worth, UberSpat is a startup intended to provide a forum for debaters of all stripes to challenge one another on a myriad of issues, from politics to science to sex to sports to comedy to conspiracies. We recently offered up a group of several online debate services and resources, all of which prove valuable in their own way. There is also the name-brand Debate.com domain, whose owners too promise to deliver a platform on which users may spar against one another. It is somewhat incomplete in its design, but it’s there all the same. What UberSpat manages to offer to its users, however, is both an efficient and well-detailed design. This means that while it presents a Digg-like ease of use and an intuitive framework, as its creators suggest above, it is very accommodating of discussion - and lots of it. Granted, at the moment, submissions for topics listed aren’t flowing in fast. Given the site’s age, the place is moving at a decent clip, but still has long to go before it really hits its stride. Yet it still makes for an interesting visit. Some of the traffic it receives is banal and does little but flatline. Other items catch the eye. And those which do manage to grab a good bit of attention are enhanced by UberSpat’s hybridization of commentary so-called supporting evidence. The user’s ability to attribute articles to a discussion on one side or the other exceeds the usual he-says-she-says structure common in online debate. Furthermore, the ability for users to not only comment and vote on subjects posited by members, but also to rate comments as well allows the community the option to act as a collective moderator to the space. This gives UberSpat the ability to maintain a sort of civility. As much as such a service with user management features can allow, anyway. (Naturally, the political stage is home to the most vehement chatter at present.) Of course its name, admittedly, isn’t the choicest one to emerge from the niche it inhabits. UberSpat. It might suit you, it might not. And there are a few strange quirks in the sign-up process that will puzzle some registrants. It is required that you submit a birthday and marital status, for example. But my sense is that these points aren’t particularly important. Deal breakers they are not. The substantive impression the site itself can make on the visitor is key, and the way in which UberSpat operates is engaging and provoking, and ensures that the service stands among the top of its class. Editor’s Note: This post is part of an ongoing series at Mashable - The Startup Review, Sponsored by Sun Microsystems Startup Essentials. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Sponsored By: Sun Startup Essentials
Google AdSense is one of the easiest ways to monetize your blog, but adding it to WordPress isn’t always the easiest thing to do. Many people don’t know where to put the code or how to keep track of it. Luckily there are lots of plugins that can simplify the process as well as provide more flexibility. Here are eight Google AdSense plugins for WordPress 2.5 and above. As always, don’t install all of these unless you want to decrease your blog’s response time. Ad Integration - While it is more a tool to add advertisements you like to your posts, the clearest choice is Google AdSense. This will allow you to change ads on your site without having to constantly edit your templates. AdSense Manager - Allows you to manage the codes of many different online advertising networks with a focus on Google’s AdSense. AdSense Revenue Sharing - If you run a multi-author blog, this is the perfect solution for revenue sharing. It will let you easily create multiple authors and allow each of them to have their own AdSense set up so they can earn the revenue from their posts. All in One Adsense and YPN - Allows you to insert AdSense and Yahoo Publisher Network ads in all of your posts, opt to skip some, randomize where they are inserted to lower ad blindness, and many more options. Googmonify - Allows you to set it up so you can add AdSense to all of your posts by just using simple tags to insert the ad units as you like. Ozh’ Who Sees Ads - Allows you to set several options for when an add gets displayed. Some of the most interesting ones are if the reader comes from a search engine, was published between certain dates, is older than X number of days and more. Random / Rotating Ads - By using text files and widgets, you’re able to add rotating ads to the same spot on your blog. You can even alternate between Google AdSense, affiliate links and more. Smart Ads - Gives you numerous options for auto inserting AdSense into your site, such as setting a minimum word count, categories to exclude and more. —Related Articles at Mashable - All That’s New on the Web:Wordpress Plugins Directory - Thanks, Wordpress!Best of Mashable: WordPress17 Wordpress Plugins For AdSenseApple’s iWeb Gets Google AdSense and Maps IntegrationGoogle To Launch AdSense for GamesGoogle AdSense on Your Mobile WebsitesNew Google App Provides Free Ad Management
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