Entries Tagged as 'Blogging'

Liven up Your Blog’s Commenting System using Disqus

The essence of a blog is not only the rich ideas and content it publishes but on how blog readers react to the blog posts. Hence, all blogs have the commenting feature. Blog comments are sometimes hard to manage and control and most often than not, blog comments are plain and simple boxed of textual [...]

Poodz – Rich Media Microblogging Platform

I will not try to find better words how to describe Poodz because Sid Yadav from Rev2 already did it – Twitter for the Other Media. I think for most of you the general idea is clear now. Let’s take very easy-to-use platform, give rich media support to it and we have very cool [...]

BlogCatalog Widget Lifestreams Your Online Activity

Blog Catalog, the rapidly growing social blog directory that lets you find new blogs or promote your own, has just announced the release of a social network activity widget.
As the number of online communities continues to expand, it’s becoming increasing difficult to follow your friends and favorite bloggers. The BlogCatalog social network aggregator changes all [...]

Blog Link Exchange Program BlogUpp! Launches

Most bloggers and Website owners share the same goal: build an enormous amount of traffic.  Link exchanges, around since the Web’s inception, have helped foster this goal.  And recent programs like BlogRush and Entrecard allow you to receive targeted traffic will no effort.  With a higher link exchange ration, BlogUpp! joins the party, promising bloggers [...]

19 Microblogging Platforms that Let You Blog Anywhere, Anytime

With the growing popularity of Twitter, and Pownce catching up, microblogging is making it big among bloggers and tech personalities. Microblogging allows users to write brief text updates and publish them in microblogging platforms. These text updates gets viewed by their network of friends in the same platform. Updates can be done via text messaging, [...]

Forward-Thinkers Get Community – Future Blogger

What do you think the future holds? Will global warming do us all in? Will Tom Cruise make Scientology the religion of the world?
None of us have the answer. And that’s what makes Future Blogger so much darn fun.

New Skyrock Features – Personalize Blog Skins and Create Photo Slideshows

Skyrock, which is extremely popular social network in Europa, is working to add more profile/blog customization options to give more freedom to the users. Couple new features was introduced lately: Blog skin personalization and photo slideshows for profile pages.

Schedule Blog Posts With Blogger – Finally!

It’s a Thursday night.  You just wrote an SEO-friendly blog post about the show LOST and you know if you launch it right as the show ends, you’ll get a flurry of visitors.  The problem is you have plans to go out for drinks…and you use Google’s Blogger.  That means you sit home, alone, waiting [...]

TipJoy: The Easy-to-Use Virtual Tip Jar

I’ve always been very outspoken about my disdain for bloggers and podcasters who tout a “virtual tip jar.” With all of the problems plaguing the world the least of my concern are your growing bandwidth expenses.

RotrBlog Redesign Dedicated To BarCamp Baltics

New, better design for RotorBlog is up and running.

Last time I redesigned this blog in 1st May last year when blog turned one year old. It was also important because I participated in 1st may reboot event and we, together with other Latvian bloggers, had pretty interesting and notable local event/party. After that I decided [...]

How to Hype Your Blog

The power of hype cannot be overstated.
As I sat waiting for a table at a Williamsburg hot spot this past weekend, I started to wonder how much of the restaurant’s success was a result of hype. Not surprisingly, I quickly received my answer once we were escorted to our table. A scan of [...]

Add Blog Affiliates and Content With One Click

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could add place media and ads on your Web site without having to embed code, FTP software or mess around with HTML?