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HootSuite Goes Freemium – Others to Follow?
Social Networking Yesterday, Web-based Twitter client Hootsuite announced that they are adopting a “freemium” model. The idea is that, though most of their clients will still use the free version of their product, they would offer paid-only features targeted at users with greater needs. Specifically, HootSuite offered a series of professional plans that offer features such as additional RSS feeds to automatically update via your social networks, team ...
Continue reading5 Lessons from Google Wave for the Rest of Us
Blogging Yesterday, Google announced that it was ending development of Google Wave, bring an abrupt, but not wholly unexpected, end to what was one of the most anticipated products in the tech community for some time. Despite a great deal of initial interest and hype, according to Google, user adoption has not been what they expected and Wave has never really gained traction. The innovative platform was supposed to replace email/IM and other methods of ...
Continue readingGet More Pageviews With LinkWithin
WordPress, WordPress Plugins If you’ve visited sites like Cracked, you’ve probably noticed the collection of recommended articles for when you are done reading the page you are on. Very likely, you’ve found these links to be extremely addictive, keeping you long on the site long after you’re done reading the article you came to the site for. While WordPress has a slew of related posts plugins, the most popular of which is YARPP, they aren’t for ...
Continue reading5 Blogging Scams to Watch Out For
Blogging Most of us, if we aren’t just now crawling out of our caves for the first time, understand that if a Nigerian prince needs your help to move a large sum of money out of the country, it is a scam. We know not to trust people who ask for our social security numbers or tax IDs, we know not to give out our banking information and we know not to download, buy or even look at suspicious things we get in email. The Internet has made us all a bit ...
Continue readingCreate Cheap Animated Videos With Xtranormal
Video Blogging Have you ever had an idea for a video but simply haven’t had the time or budge to actually shoot and produce it? You’re not alone though the Xtranormal hopes to make that problem a thing of the past. The idea behind Xtranormal is that you provide the service your script and it converts it into a movie using 3D animated characters, text-to-speech reading of your words in one of many different voices as well as animations and camera ...
Continue reading5 Easy but Great Post Ideas You Can Write Today
Blogging, Productivity It happens to nearly every blogger at some point. There’s not too much going on in your area of interest and you’ve run out of great ideas “in the bank”. It’s time to write a post, you’re staring at a blank screen and nothing is racing to mind. While it’s a great idea to find inspiration on the Web, for which our own Ben Spark has some great suggestions, sometimes you just need something now that will be ...
Continue reading5 Blogging Activities Perfect for Summer
Blogging For many blogs, summer is the slow season. People are on vacation, schools are out, dorms are empty and most sites see a noticeable drop in traffic until the cooler weather comes. So what is a blogger to do with this time? Even if one’s site isn’t outright dead or quiet, it’s often much less active and that can create a case of summer blues, where bloggers feel as if they’re putting in the hours but not seeing the results ...
Continue readingFeatured Image: WordPress’ Best Underused Feature
WordPress, WordPress Themes With recent releases WordPress has been moving more and more away from being a basic blogging platform and into being a full-fledged CMS. This is especially true with the recent release of 3.0 and the merging of the regular and Multi-User versions of the product. However, one feature, implemented in WordPress 2.9, has a lot of potential both for bloggers and for those wanting to use WordPress in a non-traditional way. That feature, Post ...
Continue readingWordPress 3.0 Released
WordPress, WordPress Plugins Just a short while ago Automattic, on their official WordPress blog, announced the release of WordPress 3.0, code named Thelonious. The release marks one of the biggest upgrades in the history of WordPress and the thirteenth major release to date. WordPress 3.0 was released after three release candidates and an extensive round of beta testing and is easily one of the most anticipated releases of WordPress so far. It is also one of the most ...
Continue readingGoogle Stops Web Alerts, Replaces with Everything
Search Engine Optimisation If you use Google Alerts, whether to track content on your site, follow mentions of your name or simply follow topics you are interested in, you may have gotten an email earlier this week informing you of some changes to the service. In short, Google has gotten rid of the “Web” alerts and replaced them with searches for “Everything”. Previously Web alerts focused on sites that were not in News, Discussions, Video or other ...
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