Archive for September, 2007

Microsoft and Facebook, Myspace Shows Muscle, Wordpress 2.3

This week, the LinkedIn.com service has said they plan to add the ability to add photos to your profile. LinkedIn is the business-oriented social networking site. It’s a cool site, but quite frankly it moves at a turtle’s compared to other networks. Besides, the other networks had photo capability a long time ago. But, hey, [...]

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Heading to BlogOrlando Today

This afternoon I am leaving for Orlando where I will be attending BlogOrlando tomorrow. This event is certainly a LOT easier to get to than Gnomedex. Instead of getting on a plane and flying 3,000 miles, I can get in my car and drive 80 miles. So, tonight I will be staying in a room [...]

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BlogRush - A Second Chance?

A few days ago, I ripped into BlogRush. I wasn’t alone. Darren Rowse at ProBlogger reported a very low click-through rate. Mashable asked the question on whether it was a traffic generator or a pyramid scheme. The general consensus was that the click-through rate sucked. So after running the widget for a couple days on [...]

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Snotting Up My Keyboard

Today is one of those days when sitting in front of the computer working just isn’t that enticing. But, I’m doing it. In recognition of the fact that I hadn’t posted anything here in a few days, I just thought I’d post something - even if it was not exactly internet related.
I have a bit [...]

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BlogRush or BlogBust - A Pyramid Scheme?

I made a quick mention of Blogrush a few days ago and have withheld major comment on it - until now. Leave it to John Reese to use his savvy marketing to create such a buzz about this product that bloggers have RUSHed to it in droves. I actually find the name ironic because it [...]

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Google Presents…

From Google’s official blog:
Starting today, presentations — whether imported from existing files or created using the new slide editor — are listed alongside documents and spreadsheets in the Google Docs document list. They can be edited, shared, and published using the familiar Google Docs interface, with several collaborators working on a slide deck simultaneously, in [...]

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Iran Bans Google

In yet another affront by the Iranian government on it’s people, they have banned access to Google and Gmail inside the nation of Iran. These kinds of stories always catch my eye. Freedom of information is always key to the freedom of people, and you can always tell the governments which are suppressive by how [...]

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Blog News, Google Moons NASA

Google is apparently on the verge of releasing their “Powerpoint killer“. This is going to be a presentation package which is added to the mix of Google online office applications. So, we will have Docs, Spreadsheets and soon “Presently” (the name for the new app). I think this will be a cool addition to Google’s [...]

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Getting Popular by Being Crap

As one that spends a lot of time online, and also pays attention (somewhat) to the national news, one pattern seems to stand out: If you are a pile of crap, people pay lots of attention.
Let me explain.
Have you seen the Chocolate Rain video on Youtube? If so, watch it. I should say, watch it [...]

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Has Google Penalized Your Site?

YoungEntrepreneur.com has posted a quick piece about Google penalizing your site. In it, they mention that Google has, last week, reinstituted the practice of emailing webmasters in the event that they are blacklisted. They were doing that originally, but they had stopped in favor of simply posting notices into Webmaster Tools. The problem is that [...]

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