Question and Answer sites have been around for quite some time now. But despite the its being useful, it is one online niche that has never really received too much attention. So, we can count only a handful of Q&A sites which have managed to live on. Here are five top Q&A [...]

For tech bloggers and writers, a good way of getting publicity for their articles is to have them indexed/featured by tech news aggregator Techmeme. However, compared to other news aggregator, Techmeme is very hard to infiltrate. If your blog doesn’t have that much traffic yet, you won’t get into the Techmeme cloud that easily even [...]

I’ve a tech writing for more than two years now. Although I’ve personally seen minor improvements in my writing, I still don’t see myself as a prolific writer. Hence, when I encountered the new Writer’s Pub I knew immediately I should not join this site. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great community [...]

For those who are already tired of the mindless and pointless updates that you get from your Twitter, Facebook, and other social networking sites’ friends and contacts, you may want to suggest Plinky to them. Or if you are guilty of such “crime”, you may want to try out Plinky yourself. Plinky is an inspired-content [...]

Twitter is good and nice, but what if  something better comes out? Will you abandon Twitter and start building your microblogging clout all over again? Well, you might as well try the new service first before even thinking of abandoning your Twitter followers. After it didn’t take you overnight to build your current hugh Twitter [...]

Libraries are so long gone with the advent of social media sites catering to books and reading. And that’s coming from a Library Science School graduate like me. Hopefully, my college friends and instructors will not chanced upon this post and crucify me for stating what most librarians refuse to admit. But how can [...]

With the many third-party Twitter applications/plug-ins that are coming out, maybe it’s time to have a Twitter Apps Store. Or at least an online directory of these applications would be more useful. Actually, there are already three that we know of, and the most recent of which to come out is Twitdom – the Twitter [...]

If you’re tired of seeing the same old interface of your Twitter account, you might want to try out Tweetree, a third-party Twitter service which provides you with a new way of reading and looking into updates of your Twitter contacts. Instead of straight-forward one-update per line, Tweetree gives you an alternative tree-like structure which [...]

I definitely love tech news aggregator Techmeme as it gives me my daily dose of the top new posts from my favorite tech news sites/blogs. But the thing is Techmeme does not cover all tech news sites and blogs, only the most popular ones, although it certainly is exerting effort to cover even those blog/sites [...]

Blog Search Engine Twingly has been around for quite some time now. According to Twingly, it currently serves around 25M plus search results per month through its API for the whole blogosphere. Twingly’s prime service, the Twingly Blogstream which is a moderated trackback service for large websites has provided measurably higher visitor engagement and bigger [...]

Call it a Twitter copy, a clone or an improvement but Twitblogs can very well steal some good amount of users once it comes out of beta stage. But that is assuming that you’re fed up with Twitter’s 140 character limit for microblogging purposes or you want to have the image tag or video embed [...]

If you are like me who always keeps the version of WordPress installation on my personal blogs always updated, you may have probably updated your site to WordPress 2.7, aka Coltrane which became available awhile ago. Honestly, I just took the plunge without having read the update features. So I was a bit shock when [...]