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Automatically Post Your Tweets to Google+ with TwooglePlus
Reviews, Social Media TwooglePlus is a simple service that cross posts your tweets (from one or more Twitter accounts) to your Google+ account. On the homepage it states that the service is “currently” free, giving the idea that it may not be free in the future. So, now is the best time to sign up. Using the service is easy. Let’s take a look. Getting Started There are 4 steps to getting started with TwooglePlus. Login With Twitter The first step is ...
Continue readingKeep Up with Google+ Hangouts using Hangout Canopy
Reviews, Social Media Have you had the change to use Google+ Hangouts yet? If not, is it because you can never catch anyone in a hangout? Hangout Canopy solves this problem by keeping you in the loop and letting you know about new public Hangouts around the clock. No longer do you have to wait for an invite or hope to find a cool Hangout going on from someone in your Google+ circles. All you have to do is keep an eye on the Hangout Canopy browser button and it will ...
Continue readingFor Bloggers, Now May Be the Time to Start Tweeting
Search Engine Optimisation, Social Networking To tweet or not to tweet has been a question bloggers have had to ask themselves pretty much since the dawn of Twitter. The main question is whether or not the time, effort and energy spent on creating and nurturing a Twitter profile is justified by the benefit one gets out of it. It’s always been a tough question and one where the answer heavily depends on the blogger, their niche and their audience. Howver, with an update to ...
Continue readingSecurity Update: WordPress and Google Both Launch Improvements
Blogging News, WordPress It’s been a busy week for security buffs as both WordPress and Google Accounts are both receiving major security improvements that their users should definitely scoop up as quickly as possible. For WordPress users, they need to see about upgrading their installation to version 3.0.5, which fixes several security bugs that are most dangerous to those who have authors with limited permissions on their blog. Google, on the other hand, is ...
Continue readingSearch for Current Trends on NowRelevant
Blogging, Internet News, Making Money, Reviews When it comes to search engines, you have no shortage of options. Even so, most people that I know turn to Google to find just about anything on the Internet. However, even Google is flawed, depending on what exactly you want to find. As an alternative or supplemental search engine, you might want to consider giving NowRelevant a try. This is an off-shoot from the Internet Time Machine project that you may have already read about. Well, the ...
Continue reading8 Google Products I use Daily
Blogging As privacy is becoming an even bigger concern, the centralization of our information is an issue almost no one can afford to ignore. As such, there is a lot of talk and debate about whether we are giving up too much of our information to Google and, if so, can we trust them with that information. This spurred a conversation with a friend of mine some time ago on the topic and we both began to think about the Google services we use on a daily ...
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 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 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 ...
Continue readingOfficial Google Blogs and Blogger are full of Validation Errors
Blogger, Blogging Google and Blogger do not seem very inclined in following web standards. The official Google blogs have hundreds of validation errors (see snapshot below) which is because the Blogger template produces invalid XHTML (also read this discussion on the Blogger help group dated 2006). Those of us who are still with Blogger or plan to shift to Blogger(or Blogspot) will find the following snapshots enlightening and amusing. The first snapshot is of ...
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