Bloglines, my favorite, easy-to-use news reader will be performing routine maintenance today. If this is your reader, you may want to prepare for outtages.
Bloglines is the most popular reader on the web. I’m just not sure why they have chosen the busiest web-reading and news-making day to do scheduled, routine maintenance.
This is [...]
Friday, rumors contend that the AOL/Google deal was still very much, an unsure thing. In fact, some sites suggest the decision, at the AOL offices in NY, was made while AOL folks shuffled between Steve Balmer (Microsoft) and Sergey Brin (Google) in offices separated by only a few walls.
Whatever the case, one thing is [...]
Comment spam is almost out-of-control. Bloggers are spending an hour or more per work day clearing out their comment spam and it simply has to be stopped. If you add to that, the hour or so of email spam deletion many of us deal with everyday, that’s a sizeable chunk of spam-delays for bloggers.
Darren at [...]
Performancing.com, a company that aims to help bloggers make money using their blog, has just launched their forums. These forums will be active, considering the already high traffic Performancing is bringing. Of course, much of that is due to the powerhouse of talent behind the blog
The forums will be a great place for a new [...]
Blogging is a communications tool. And, like all communications tools, it naturally takes a hit when a company hits "crisis mode".
Whether you’ve hit a snag with a supplier or your building has burned to the ground, the tendency when things go south (ie: anywhere from "wrong" to "oh my God we’re going to die" kind [...]
If you’ve ever been concerned about sending text messages securely, StealthText might be of interest to you.
StealthText allows you to send a text message safely knowing that it will delete itself from the recipient’s mobile phone as soon as the person has read it!
StealthText is launched by Staellium UK Ltd. Once you send an SMS [...]
With Webster’s deciding to make Podcast it’s word of the year, a few weeks back, we can see the world is waking up to the reality of podcasting’s impact.
Now, for the next several weeks, we’ll start to see traditional media (or MSM-mainstream media as it’s known in the blogosphere) citing podcasting’s growth as if they [...]