Firefox 3 Plugin Roundup

July 3, 2008 | Filed Under General, News | Leave a Comment

Now that Firefox 3 has been out for more than a week - and has set a new Guinness World Record for the most downloads in a single day - several websites have begun recapping the plugin/addon situation for Firefox.
BSPCN outlines the 30 “Must Have” Firefox Extensions, including del.icio.us toolbar, Foxmarks, and Greasemonkey.
PC World looks [...]

Adobe Makes Flash Sites Visible To Google, Yahoo, But Not Microsoft?

July 1, 2008 | Filed Under General, SEO, Search Engines, Technology | Leave a Comment

It looks as if Adobe has given sight to blind search engines. Previously if web designers of blogs, web sites, etc. coded their site in flash, they would have to give up the ability to have their site indexed by the Google giant, and their whipping boy Yahoo!
Now bloggers, web developers and social networks will [...]

New On Google’s Blogger: Import-Export Blogs, Ratings And Embeded Comment Forms?

June 26, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Software, General, Google, Technology | 2 Comments

Users of Google’s Blogger (aka BlogSpot) platform will be excited to see three new features being tested on Google’s eternal beta site for Blogger (which can be accessed over at draft.blogger.com).
The first is the ability for BlogSpot users to Import/Export their blogs to/from another server, computer or another blog platform.
(Blogger in Draft) Today’s release brings [...]

What lesson or advice would you give to Shel Israel?

June 25, 2008 | Filed Under Features, General, Social Media | 2 Comments

I’ve written on this issue enough I think - as I sat here this morning with my morning coffee, I was trying to decide whether or not to even broach the subject of Shel Israel v. Loren Feldman again.. but then I decided that perhaps the best thing to do would be to ask the [...]

CrunchBase updated with Maps, Jobs, Advanced Search, and other features

June 23, 2008 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment

Michael Arrington’s site CrunchBase has been updated with several new features, including mapping, advanced search, job site integration, and company/corporate milestones:
Company and financial organization headquarters are now geocoded and locatable on an interactive map using the Google Maps API.
Say you’re checking out Yelp and want to see just where the company is located and what [...]

Future Chaos Or Commons Sense: Register Your Own .myfavname Domain Extension

June 22, 2008 | Filed Under General | 2 Comments

When it comes to selecting a blog (or even a web address), securing the “.com” is considered king. Unfortunately securing your .com (or even “.org”, “.net”, etc.) can be difficult with over 1.4 billion individuals using the world wide web.
Now it looks as if ICANN, the non-profit body responsible for regulating all of these “dots,” [...]

Has Your Blog Been Banned or Blocked?

June 7, 2008 | Filed Under Blogging, China, Editorial, Featured, Features, General, Legal, SEO, Stress, World Blogging | 2 Comments

I recently published How to Access Banned WordPress.com Blogs, and a friend asked me how would she know if her blog is banned by a country, government, Internet Provider, company, school, or otherwise. Good question.
On Monday, I’ll be publishing a feature article on how to find out if your blog is banned and offer some [...]

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ScribeFire 2.2.8 Released
July 4, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

ScribeFire is a popular desktop blogging application hosted in a Firefox extension. Version 2.2.8 includes fixes and some brush-ups. The extension is free to download from Mozilla Add-ons, and works with both Firefox 2 and 3.

Two New b5media Blogs Launched
July 4, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Another two b5media blogs launched recently. Marye Audet edits Simply Home Remedies, which is about just that. This from the launch post:
For the past 20 years or so my family has lived without the assistance of commercial medicines or doctors, except for things like broken arms and emergency surgeries on retro-pharyngeal abscesses. You know, the [...]

Hitting the Frontpage of Digg
July 3, 2008 | By Matt Craven | 1 Comment

Skelliewag takes a look at playing the odds and trying to “win” with Digg - a great article with some fantastic tips on how to promote your site using Digg.
Most bloggers would love their content to hit the front page of Digg. Unfortunately, most of those bloggers are never able to experience the huge spike [...]

Firefox 3 Plugin Roundup
July 3, 2008 | By Matt Craven | Leave a Comment

WordPress.com Enables Support for Google Gears
July 3, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 3 Comments

WordPress.com have added a Turbo button in the admin area. This is to enable Google Gears, if your browser supports it, and speed up things using it. For instance, Google Gears is used for offline access to web apps like Google Docs, but how can it benefit WordPress.com?
On WordPress.com it is used to store all [...]

Blogged.com Rebuilds
July 3, 2008 | By Andrew G.R. | Leave a Comment

Promising to help you ‘find better blogs’ is Blogged.com. The directory site has just launched some new features and improvements. Most notably, they do a better job of highlighting interesting blogs over several niches. The goal appears to aggregate news and information that is well-written, though not necessarily accessible through mainstream media.
Among [...]

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