As mentioned on AppScout and TechCrunch, Yappd is a Twitter like service which gives users the additional privilege of posting an image along with their Yappd message. Lets take a tour of this service to see if it’s the new Twitter.
Synopses:
Yappd is a brand new company founded by three individuals, Brendan Lim, Brent Collier, and [...]
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Yappd Reviewed - Non Twitter Killer
Turn WordPress Into Personal Hub
Sean Aune from Mashable.com has put together a useful list of 30+Tools that help turn your WordPress blog, into a personal hub of information. Using your blog as a central hub, allows you to keep in touch on multiple networks using one site.
I’m not sure which of these tools I might install onto this WordPress [...]
Web 2.0 Startup Movie Comparisons
Ali J from everybodygoto.com has published a humorous blog post which compares a few different web 2.0 startups to Hollywood movies. Some of the comparisons include:
The YouTube Project – Blair Witch Project
The MySpace – The Matrix
The Facebook – The Graduate
Flickr – One Hour Photo
The Digg – The Godfather
What movies can you think of that would [...]
August 1st, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
Don’t Blog As Administrator
Donncha has posted a WordPress blogging tip which in my opinion, should be common sense by now. Don’t blog as administrator or at least don’t let your display name show up on your blog as administrator. Not only does it send a red flag to potential hackers but it also looks pretty unprofessional too see [...]
July 26th, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
SEO At Word Camp
Word Camp is over with for 2007 but during the conference, one of the talking points of discussion revolved around SEO. Some of the tips that were highlighted during this meeting include:
Don’t put blog at root of domain
What if you want something besides a blog?
People link to a main pageand a main blog page so [...]
Look At All That Spam
The Akismet blog has posted some statistics involving the amount of spam being blocked. The figures are as follows:
From 0 to 1,000,000: 70 days
From 1,000,000 to 100,000,000: 190 days
100,000,000 to 1,000,000,000: 257 days
1 billion to 2 billion: 108 days
Notice the last stat compared with the previous stat. Indeed, spam is growing. Akismet has put together [...]
July 11th, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
Feed Your Blog To Twits
If you are familiar with Jaiku, Twitters competing micro blogging service, then you’ll know that you can add content into your Jaiku account from RSS feeds across the web. For now, you can’t accomplish this with Twitter but Twitterfeed at least allows you to feed your blog and other RSS feeds to Twitter.
Twitterfeeds site design [...]
New Fan Of Tumblr
After listening to the Net@Nite podcast with Leo Laporte where Leo interviews the founders of Jaiku and Tumblr, I have decided to take the plunge and give the Tumblr service a try. I must say that I am very impressed with how easy it is to publish content. Using the bookmarklet feature that you can [...]
June 4th, 2007 | Jeffro | 5 comments | Continued