One of the things I’ve been trying to do recently has been to combine my stats analysis with SEO. Stats analysis and SEO are both powerful marketing strategies so I thought combining them could definitely improve my blog.

Most bloggers just look at their visitor count but if you dig a little deeper in your stats program, you can find data to help you make good decisions about your blog. read more

For Fox News, its was time to take down News1News, a YouTube channel syndicating clips from Fox News – specifically segments that attact the Liberal Party.  Although not all YouTube Channels who are leaning to the left were closed down, shutting down News1News was enough to earn the ire of the left-leaning political bloggers. read more

With the increasing number of publishers creating hyper-local sites, it’s no surprise that services such as AdWire are springing up to allow them to add a new stream of relevant advertising and earn revenue.

AdWire, from Fwix, is a local news distribution system which allows web publishers to add widgets to their sites that will provide local news and ads.

AdWire serves up news based on particular categories that a publisher sets, but it also takes visitors’ geography into consideration when serving content, hopefully keeping stories relevant.

Ads are served in between main content. read more

Its been less than a month since the last upgrade, and WordPress is asking the faithful to upgrade yet again.

(WordPress Development) 2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges. If you have untrusted authors on your blog, upgrading to 2.8.6 is recommended.

The first problem is an XSS vulnerability in Press This discovered by Benjamin Flesch. The second problem, discovered by Dawid Golunski, is an issue with sanitizing uploaded file names that can be exploited in certain Apache configurations. Thanks to Benjamin and Dawid for finding and reporting these.

Since this is related to security issues, it is recommended that WP fans upgrade ASAP–unless they desire their blog to be haunted by hackers.

WordPress.com’s free blog hosting site has just rolled out geotagging of posts. This opt-in feature allows you to identify your location whenever you write a post.

Enabling this feature your blogs can be done either automatically by WordPress.com or you can set it manually yourself. read more

Microsoft has sealed new partnerships with 19 web properties which has been integrated to Windows Live.  This is an opt-in feature, so you can just select which web activity partners you would like to add on your Windows Live profile.

Interestingly, one of these parters happens to be – YouTube. What gives? read more

Facebook is near ubiquitous now. Gone are the days when you had to be sat at your desktop or notebook PC in order to access it. It’s now on mobile devices and gaming consoles too.

Microsoft recently added the ability to tweet and Facebook from the Xbox 360, and now it seems that the PlayStation 3 console will get the social network treatment, too.

There hasn’t been an official announcement from Sony, but this is based on a leaked screenshot of the latest firmware update.

Seems there’s nowhere you can go to get away from the Book.

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When you’re an up-and-coming free blog service like Posterous, with some big name users on your books, then you need to ensure your web hosting is up to scratch.

To that end, Posterous has chosen The Rackspace Cloud to handle its hosting requirements.

The move means that the multimedia files users send to the Posterous service, for publication and dissemination via a number of other online services, will be stored on Rackspace’s Cloud Files. read more

After initially pulling their iPhone app due to frequent crashes, TweetDeck’s iPhone app is now live on the App store!

While I was never a fan of their desktop app (as I loathe all things Adobe AIR), their iPhone app has features that put premium apps to shame by striking a balance between power and elegance.

TweetDeck has created a video highlighting its best features, although here is my take on the app thus far. read more

It’s not the first time that a news organisation has called for Google’s index to be purged of its stories, but Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of News Corporation, has a definite financial motive for his recently publicised stance.

Calling Google a “parasite”, and questioning whether its use of excerpts constitutes fair use, he said that when News Corporation had found a way of making money from its arsenal of news sites.

In his tirade against other established corporations, he said that they merely “stole” stories from newspapers and that News Corporation would be suing them for copyright.

I’m sure the BBC will be glad to hear that they’ll actually have to “spend a lot more money on a lot more reporters to cover the world” when in fact they already do. read more