March 11, 2008
Technology BlogSquidoo gives you the power to write simple web pages on any subject of your choosing. It’s free – and you can even earn money from it for yourself or for charity.
Why would you want to do this? Well, increasing your online presence is generally good for business. You can add links back to your [...]
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February 22, 2007
Technology BlogI’ve just added a LinkedInABox widget to this blog and it prompts a thought about personal profiles. I don’t know how many you have, but I have several that I can think of off the top of my head:
On this very site
On LinkedIn, of course
Ecademy
My wacky Livejournal
My odd books site
MyBlogLog
To some extent these all serve [...]
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February 13, 2007
Technology BlogFrom techdirt:
Stuffy Economist Magazine Experiments With Social Media
One of the mistakes many companies make when trying to embrace social networking or social media is to think that they should just build their own version of MySpace, or clone of some other popular site. For various reasons, these attempts almost always end up as failures. Jane [...]
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January 30, 2007
Technology BlogAt last! No need to agonize any more over what to put in your blog! Instead use this simple formula to generate fabulous attention-getting content:
Qbw = (5Nqob + 2Nol + 7Nofbo)2 / Qbjli
where Qbw is the Bloq Wondrousness Quotient, as calculated from Nqob (the number of Quotes from Other Bloggers), Nol (the number of Outgoing [...]
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January 17, 2007
Technology BlogI’ve previously posted on this journal about the accessibility of forum software and indicated that I was working on an adaptation of Phorum to make it more accessible.
Since some other open source packages suffer from the same problems I thought it would be worthwhile creating an umbrella project for similar endeavours, which I’ve called XReach.
From [...]
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January 9, 2007
Technology BlogFrom Techcrunch:
Yahoo Buys MyBlogLog. No, They Didn’t. Wait, Yes.
Ok so it’s official and confirmed from Yahoo: They bought MyBlogLog. This was first rumored to be happening in November, but was never confirmed and we updated our post to reflect that. This morning the news broke again but was pulled immediately afterwards. Now it’s popped up [...]
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January 7, 2007
Technology Blog Garett Rogers writes:
Use your own domain with new Blogger feature
A brand new feature in the “New Blogger” lets you associate your own domain with an account without worrying about FTP settings or being stuck with a “blogspot.com” address. My first blog about Google was Google Addiction hosted on Blogger — but it would have [...]
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January 1, 2007
Technology BlogI posted previously (27 November 2006 and 12 December 2006) about my efforts to find an open source message board product that was suitable for creating an accessible forum. I’ve finally reached some conclusions, which I’ll summarise here.
The products I checked out are as follows:
phpBB
PunBB
MiniBB
bbPress
Vanilla
Phorum
Evaluation criteria
I was looking for a package that would meet the [...]
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