Author Archive for Minic Rivera

Think Secret settles lawsuit with Apple by shutting down

December 20, 2007 | Filed Under Bloggers, Blogging, News | Leave a Comment

Apple and Think Secret have settled their lawsuit, reaching an agreement that results in a positive solution for both sides. As part of the confidential settlement, no sources were revealed and Think Secret will no longer be published.
“I’m pleased to have reached this amicable settlement, and will now be able to move forward with my […]

Movable Type now open source

December 12, 2007 | Filed Under Blog Software, Bloggers, Blogging, News, WordPress | 5 Comments

Movable Type Open Source (MTOS), Six Apart’s open source play, is now out in the open. Licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2, the blogging community then is allowed to freely modify, redistribute, and use Movable Type for anything they want. This is going to be all good for the blogging […]

Corporate bloggers launch the Blog Council

December 7, 2007 | Filed Under Bloggers, Blogging, News | 3 Comments

The Blog Council, a professional community of top global brands dedicated to promoting best practices in corporate blogging, officially launched with members from diverse range of business sectors. The companies included: AccuQuote, Cisco Systems, The Coca-Cola Company, Dell, Gemstar-TV Guide, General Motors, Kaiser Permanente, Microsoft, Nokia, SAP, and Wells Fargo.
The Blog Council serves as forum […]

Fliqz tool allows Movable Type 4 video posting a snap

December 5, 2007 | Filed Under Bloggers, Blogging, News | 2 Comments

Fliqz today introduced the first video plugin to be available on the Movable Type 4 publishing platform.
Combining the Movable Type 4 platform for building robust blogs and social media sites, with Fliqz’ easy to use unique video plugin makes video uploading a snap. Rather than waste precious time uploading a video from a third […]

EFF defends anonymous blogger

December 4, 2007 | Filed Under Bloggers, Blogging, News | 2 Comments

FreeRepublic.com reports that the Electronic Frontier Foundation has asked the New Jersey Supreme Court to preserve the free speech rights of “daTruthSquad,” an anonymous blogger who is facing a lawsuit from the township of Manalapan.
The EFF asked the court to block Manalapan’s move to uncover the identity of “daTruthSquad.” Google’s Blogspot has been subpoenaed […]

New School of Orlando sues mom blogger

December 3, 2007 | Filed Under Bloggers, News | 4 Comments

Sending your child to a private school can cost tons of money. So, if you are unhappy with your kid’s private school, what do you do? Do you pull him or her out of the school? For one mom, Sonjia McSween, the solution is to create a blog that would warn other parents. The blog’s […]

KickApps releases Single Sign-On plugin for Wordpress

November 19, 2007 | Filed Under News, WordPress | 1 Comment

WordPress Bloggers Go Social with KickApps
KickApps, an on-demand social media platform, today released the Single Sign-On (SSO) plugin that enables a seamless member login experience between WordPress blogs and KickApps hosted social media sites. WordPress bloggers can now easily integrate social media experiences, such as social networking, user-generated content, programmable video players and Widgets […]

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Do You Tag Yourself?
May 16, 2008 | By Lorelle VanFossen | 2 Comments

Do you tag yourself? Honestly? No, this is not a game.
With everyone back on the tag versus categories versus tags bandwagon, have you checked to make sure you are tagging yourself?
Inside of Lorelle on WordPress is the tag attribute that turns “Lorelle on WordPress” into a tag.
<a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Lorelle on WordPress" rel="tag">Lorelle on WordPress</a>
When […]

A BIG Reason to Read a Pet’s Blog
May 16, 2008 | By Andrew G.R. | Leave a Comment

I’ve often taken a snarky approach when it comes to people who set up blogs for their pets. I barely want to read about humans’ mundane lives, let alone issues with litter and pooper scoopers. However, there might be a new reason to subscribe to Lucky, Fido or Buddy’s blog.
Animals’ ability to prognosticate […]

Yahoo Nabs Safari Plugin Inquisitor
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Inquisitor is a cool plugin for Safari, and now Yahoo owns it. The developer, David Watanabe, won’t be joining Yahoo, but will continue the development.
I look forward to assisting Yahoo! in refining and extending the Inquisitor user experience beyond where it is today. I truly believe that Inquisitor and its users can only benefit, both […]

YouTube Gives You Insight
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 1 Comment

Now you can get some more statistics for your YouTube videos, with the recently launched Insight tool, available in your YouTube account (under Manage my Videos, which is probably temporary). The new stats feature is described like this by Tracy Chan, YouTube product manager:
For example, uploaders can see how often their videos are viewed in […]

Google the New Number 1 in the US
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

I thought they were already, but obviously not so. Google has been the leading search engine, but overall Yahoo is the most popular web site according to ComScore’s rankings. No more though, according to an AP report:
According to comScore, Google’s unique U.S. audience in April was 141.1 million, an 18 percent increase from the same […]

Blogging from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Stephanie Stockman is a NASA contractor working at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which is cool by itself. What’s even cooler is that she’s blogging it, talking about rocketships in voice and text, as well as posting photos, something every space nerd should follow for sure. Her blog is Geosteph, which incidentally is her Twitter […]

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