Can StudentFace Hold Off Facebook Down Under?

October 31, 2006 | Filed Under General, Social Media | 1 Comment

Only time will tell, but it seems that Facebook is intent on cementing its position as the “classy” social network, although StudentFace probably hopes to capture that market before Mark Zuckerberg and friends conquer the hearts of Aussie land.

Social Networking For Obese People?

October 31, 2006 | Filed Under General, Social Media | 2 Comments

For those suffering from the “disease of obesity,” there is a social network geared towards helping members overcome their overweight issues, as well as seek out medical experts for advice.
(PR Web) “The entire profile system has been revamped to make it much easier to use and customize,” explained Loi Tran, ObesityHelp Inc. Chief Technology Officer. [...]

But Will Stephen Colbert Abandon YouTube?

October 31, 2006 | Filed Under New Media, News | Leave a Comment

With the recent takedown of the Colbert Report and Daily Show clips by YouTube at Viacom’s bidding, the good folks at PBS’s Media Shift sure hope he doesn’t.Â The flavour of the “open letter” to Stephen Colbert is a bit tongue in cheek, but the character’s steadfast support and use of new media isn’t.Â Â He’s [...]

Bot Expose

October 31, 2006 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

This month’s Wired magazine has a fascinating article one of those things you hear about, perhaps worried about, but never really understood.Â Hey, I’ve worried about my own PC’s being zombies in disguiseÂ (hey, its Halloween — got to throw in a goulish reference some how) — yes, its a great look at bots.Â Those [...]

Flipping Websites

October 31, 2006 | Filed Under Professional Blogging | Leave a Comment

Uncommon Business writes about flipping websites and shares some good advice on improving and reselling web properties:
Last August, Jones paid $1,000 to buy 411Hype.com, a website about all things hip-hop. He beefed it up–added some forums about fitness and health, for example–and managed to boost traffic by a couple thousand unique visitors, to 7,000 a [...]

Why I want you to pimp that Dashboard (and crash the Shuttle)

October 31, 2006 | Filed Under General | 3 Comments

Wordpress.com just got a new Dashboard and it looks nice. Itâ€™s a brushed up version of the original Dashboard that we all have learned to love, err, use at least. Nothing fancy, but an improvement which I like.
I also like Tiger Admin, a plugin for Wordpress that makes most of your admin interface look cleaner [...]

BBC joins the user contributed content gang

October 31, 2006 | Filed Under General, News | Leave a Comment

Pete Clifton, head of BBC News Interactive, has spoken on user contributed material coming for BBC in the future.
“It’s about having a place on the site where you can bring it all together, a ‘Your News’ place where we can really showcase the best of what we have.
Read more over at Journalism.co.uk.
This is, of course, [...]

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Ghost Bloggers Growing in Popularity?
July 18, 2008 | By Andrew G.R. | 2 Comments

Toronto’s Globe and Mail is asking the question that’s on everybody’s mind (sarcasm): Does rapper Kanye West have a “ghost blogger?”
While the concept of ghost writing is hardly new (celebs have been relying on professional writers to create content that is officially credited to them forever), it looks like ghost blogging is blipping onto [...]

PodPress Update in 10 Days
July 18, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 1 Comment

PodPress is probably the most used podcasting plugin for WordPress, and the one we’ve been using here at The Blog Herald. However, there have been issues with it since WordPress 2.5, and it doesn’t work with recently released 2.6. Among others that are frustrated are David Peralty, who’s written about the issue.
Luckily, the PodPress developer [...]

Twitter Outage Used to do Upgrades, New Design Being Tested
July 18, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Twitter experienced an unplanned outage, and is down and out for maintenance. They are using this outage to upgrade the affected database, according to a blog post. The service is still down, but hopefully we’ll be getting our microblogging cravings satisfied soon.
Speaking of Twitter, they have apparently tested a new design on select users. SheGeeks [...]

Unannounced Blogging Hiatus
July 17, 2008 | By Andrew G.R. | Leave a Comment

I’m back after a three-week bout of NoBloggingitis (be careful, it might be contagious). I never intended not to blog. Simply put, life just got in the way. The big event in my life was selling my place and moving into a new one. While I expected it to be stressful, [...]

Female Bloggers Want Out of Playboy Poll
July 17, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 3 Comments

Veronica Belmont and Sarah Austin wants out of the sexiest female bloggers poll on Playboy, according to a story on TechCrunch, but Playboy says no. It would, of course disrupt the poll. While I have no love for these kind of polls, and the Playboy one is no exception, I do think that if you’ve [...]

Pownce App Updates
July 17, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 1 Comment

Microblogging service Pownce have updated their Pownce Desktop app to 2.0, which means you’ll get embedded media, notification alerts, friend management, and more. Pownce Desktop 2.0 is in alpha, and free to download.
The Pownce developers have also made an iPhone and iPod touch version available from the iTunes App store. Free, of course.

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