Recently, someone stopped by the contact form and sent in this question:
Why aren’t you using shifter on your site? It seems from the questions and the remarks in your posts on the forums you stand by it.. But why not use it here? Do you really think its as powerful as they say? I don’t [...]
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Why I Don’t Use Shifter Anymore
Using Text Widgets In WordPress
I was recently contacted by a reader of this blog who needed help with installing the MyBlogLog widget that displays on this site, into his own blog. So, I decided to write it up as a blog post to explain to him and anyone else that might be wondering.
The first thing on our agenda are [...]
Open Web Awards Nominations Open
Nominations for the Open Web Awards have opened up today. The Open Web Awards is the first ever online, open collaborative awards event, to recognize the best online communities representing web 2.0. Today’s nominations center around Widgets and Applications.
To nominate a widget or application, leave a comment with the word “NOMINATE” in it. Nominations [...]
AddToAny Bookmarking Widget
Looks like the WordPress Plugin called ShareThis has some competition in the form of a widget. AddToAny is a service that you can use to make it easy for your visitors to subscribe to your content. Creating a button for your site is easy. There are two types of buttons you can make. One for [...]
November 15th, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
Visual Mashup Maker MashupMania Reviewed
Not a code monkey? MashupMania tries to make it as easy as pie to create a mashup using visual elements that are more like puzzle pieces. No coding required. I’ll come right out and say that the first time I tried to load this site, FireFox almost vomited all over itself. Thankfully, it didn’t crash.
The [...]
Amung.Us Is Back Online Intros Heatmaps
If you were wondering why your Amung.Us widget was not working yesterday, you weren’t the only one. It turns out that the datacenter which houses the Whos.Amung.Us servers ACCIDENTALLY pulled the plug on one of their servers. After some time, they were able to fix the problem and now their site and widget are fully [...]
October 3rd, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
Kontactr Adds Pop Up Feature
Kontactr, the service that gives users an very easy way to provide a contact form on your site for readers to contact you and in which I covered here, Easy To Use Contact Forms Via Kontactr has added a new feature called Kontactr Pop Up or KPU. KPU trys to make it easier for your [...]
September 25th, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
Is The BlogRush Over With?
When I initially became aware of BlogRush and it’s associated claims of rushing traffic to blogs, I became extremely interested. As a blogger myself, I’m always looking into new ways to generate traffic. As we now know, BlogRush has itself experienced a rush, a rush that I believe is bigger than any smalltime blogger currently [...]
September 22nd, 2007 | Jeffro | 3 comments | Continued
Texty Rolls Out Anticipated Updates
The easy content creation service known as Texty which I reviewed here, Simple Content Creation Using Texty, has rolled out some anticipated updates. One of those updates fixed the Google SEO problem so many users mentioned.
In each Texty edit object under “Advanced Secret Options” you can now input the URL where you plan to post [...]
BlogRush What Is This New BuzzWord
Theres a new buzzword in town that is sweeping across the blogosphere like wildfire, but what is it? That word is, BlogRush. A new way of generating traffic to your site or blog.
As I was monitoring my RSS feeds on a very early Saturday morning, I read a post that discussed BlogRush and what it [...]
