Aug | 18 | 2009

Get Ready to Ride the (Google) Wave

Posted by Jimmy as Blogging News, Blogging Tools, Software and Widgets Google Wave has not hit the market yet but, from what I’ve seen in the developer preview, once it does you’d better be ready for one huge ride. Dubbed as the “email as it would be had it been invented today instead of forty years ago”, Google Wave is out to revolutionize the way we communicate/collaborate online. A “wave” is both a conversation and a document in one. It’s your email, chat box, online document, developer API, and more all at the same time. Google Wave is so powerful that until it is out (right now it’s still in beta ...

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Jun | 25 | 2009

FTC To Go After Bloggers?

Posted by Jimmy as Blogging News, Monetization Okay, bloggers, listen up! You just might have to be more careful in the future. The news is that the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) is turning its eye on bloggers. CNET recently reported that the FTC may crack down on bloggers who review or promote products and get freebies or money as payment. Caroline McCarthy of CNET writes: New guidelines, expected to be approved late this summer with possible modifications, would clarify that the agency can go after bloggers--as well as the companies that compensate them--for any false claims or failure to disclose conflicts of interest. Naturally, many bloggers ...

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Feb | 26 | 2008

A Friend In Need

Posted by Jaren as Blog Reviews, Blogging News I'm helping out my friends from the UA&P - IShareHappiness Blog Team. Whenever you feel pessimistic, angry, troubled, frustrated, and depressed – what have you – you need someone to talk to. Someone who could help you be more optimistic and help make you feel that there is hope. Sometimes it’s hard to talk to someone you know. We know of a trustworthy and empathetic person who can help you readers out there. IShareHappiness is there to help you. So come Visit the Site... And Share the Happiness. IShareHappiness is having a contest and will be giving away an IPOD TOUCH... WIN ...

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Sep | 27 | 2007

Google’s Birthday

Posted by Guru as Blogging News In case anyone forgot...it's Google's birthday today! 9 years and counting. Hail to the SEARCH ENGINE! Google’s 9th Birthday

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Sep | 27 | 2007

Blog Rush

Posted by Guru as Blogging News, Marketing and Search Optimization, Plugins, Promotion, Software and Widgets, Syndication Unless you've been really out of touch in the blogging world then you have probably heard about BlogRush by now. BlogRush was launched only very recently (Sept 15th) but has been making headlines, and more importantly, has been getting a real rush of bloggers signing up and putting up their widget on their blogs. But what is Blog Rush really? And what will it do for your blog? Blog rush is simply a blog syndication network. With all the blog syndication networks peppering the internet what makes Blog Rush standout? Well, first of all, its claim of giving you an instant ...

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Jul | 24 | 2007

Google OKs Underscores as Word Separators in URLs and More SEO Tips

Posted by Sophia as Blogging News, Linking, SEO Features, Tips Still wondering if you should use dashes or underscores in your permalinks? Worry no more; Google considers both as legitimate word separators. This was announced by Google geek Matt Cutts at WordCamp 2007 yesterday among several other pearls of SEO wisdom he dished out to the WordPress crowd.

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Jul | 10 | 2007

The CAPTCHA has been pwnd!

Posted by Jeff as Blogging News, Blogging Tools, Spam So, you think CAPTCHAs would cut your spam comments in half? Well, think again. Just a little over a year after Google let loose audio CAPTCHAs (the most common implementation of which is an accessibility icon next to visual, or image CAPTCHA, that play a recording of a series of numbers and/or letters, dumbed down by some background noise) to the brewing security-conscious public, it appears that this, too, has been defeated. Security company BitDefender reports identifying a new Trojan, dubbed Trojan.Spammer.HotLan.A, taking over and zombify-ing machines, using unsuspecting users' computers to generate Yahoo! and Hotmail ...

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Jun | 14 | 2007

Live blogging, or boot-legging?

Posted by Jeff as Blogging News, Opinion From Digg: Courier-Journal field reporter Brian Bennett was kicked out of the stadium in the middle of an NCAA baseball super-regional (the fifth inning, to be exact) for live blogging last Sunday (GMT-4? I'm bad at time zones. Use this instead and look for "America/Louisville") the high-energy match between University of Lousville and Oklahoma State, KY. To their defense, the University of Louisville says a note was sent out condemning any "live representation of the game", under which live blogging the university insists falls under, yet Bennett and his colleagues pushed with it anyway. Bennett's press treatment therefore ...

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Jun | 12 | 2007

Template Designers Get Ready: Safari 3 for Windows is coming

Posted by Jeff as Blogging News, Design Talk about getting your head in the game. As if testing on two browsers is not enough (or three, for Opera, so stop writing that email now! I get flamed enough already, thank you), Apple sets loose its flagship browser onto Windows machines in WWDC07 in an effort to what can be interpreted as a move to increase awareness of the Apple experience. Or, in El Jobso's own words, "giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell". In case you lost track already, here's a quick review at what we have now: the Gecko engine (utilized by ...

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Jun | 07 | 2007

MovableType 4 Beta Released and Goes Open Source!

Posted by Sophia as Blogging News, Blogging Tools, Software Features

SixApart has just announced the release of MovableType 4 Beta. Many have known MT as the definitive blogging software that has forever changed the way people blog. Beyond WordPress Those who are well-versed with the history of blogging will know that the boom did not start with WordPress. The first wave came with MovableType. Few blog software were as easy to customize, and this attracted a large following.

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