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Script of the Day: Nibbleblog

Nibbleblog is an open-source blogging platform for all the passionate bloggers out there. Unlike WordPress, Habari or Movable Type, Nibbleblog uses a complicated XML system to store data without the need of a database. This allows Nibbleblog to be installed in places where the aforementioned systems will never run....

27 March 2012
12:01 GMT

Tony Blair Commits to Huffington Post UK as Unpaid Blogger

Former United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair has agreed to write for the new UK branch of famous online newspaper Huffington Post.Launched today July 6th 2011, Huffington Post UK is the newest branch in the Huffington Post network, which span over the US and Canada until now.Besides Tony Blair, Huffington Post UK ...

6 July 2011
12:17 GMT

YouTube Officially Rolls Out 'As Seen On' Pages

YouTube has officially rolled out a feature spotted by some users last week, the "As Seen On" YouTube pages - dedicated pages which list all of the YouTube videos embedded by a blog or site. These pages can give users a great perspective of the type of video content they'd find on a site, as long as it comes fro...

13 June 2011
09:41 GMT

Blogger Finally Gets Thorough Revamp, Slick New Interface and Editor (Pics)

Blogger may be the biggest blogging platform in the world, but it's certainly not the trendiest. While plenty of people still use it and there has been a steady stream of updates and new features, it is in dire need of a revamp and, luckily, that's exactly what's coming, some time this year. Blogger i...

14 March 2011
13:24 GMT

The CrApple Store Is Back

Welcome to the CrApple Store, a blog claiming to show the “real” truth behind Apple’s Retail organization, has risen from the dead, after its author announced its shutting down just two weeks ago."Welcome to the CrApple Store" is a blog described by its author as “a place for fed up employees ...

14 December 2010
09:48 GMT

WordPress Debuts HTML5 Theme

HTML5 is all the rage on the web right now, despite the standard and the technologies associated with it not being fully baked yet. But it's getting better, most browser offer support for HTML5 and web developers are taking advantage of the new possibilities. Not to be left behind, WordPress is now introducing a...

13 December 2010
08:50 GMT

CrApple Store Blog Promoting Apple Hate Shuts Down

"Welcome to the CrApple Store", a blog described by its author as “a place for fed up employees to read the sufferings of another fed up employee, and laugh about all the little things that begin to tick you off whilst working at Apple,” has been shut down before things get “out of hand,” acco...

29 November 2010
13:26 GMT

Blogger Is Asking for New Feature Suggestions

Blogger is now asking users for suggestions and ideas on how to make the service better, after the first such campaign proved quite successful. Google is not lacking in people with great visions for products, but that doesn't mean that it can't use some help from the users, the ones that are bound to know t...

8 October 2010
09:42 GMT

1% of the 30 Million Live Spaces 'Customers' Are Active, Leaked Email Reveals

There have been some very interesting developments around Microsoft's decision to shut down Live Spaces and offer its users the option to move to a WordPress.com-hosted blog. At the time, Microsoft claimed that it had 30 million active Live Spaces users, which seemed suspiciously high, considering that WordPress...

30 September 2010
11:39 GMT

Download WordPress 2.6 for iOS with Video, Autosave Support

WordPress for iOS allows users to create or edit posts and pages, moderate comments, add images and videos etc. The only requirement is a WordPress.com blog or a self-hosted WordPress.org site running 2.9.2 or higher and, of course, an Apple device. WordPress 2.6 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad brings video support, ...

30 September 2010
09:19 GMT

Blogger Adds Popular Posts and Blog's Stats Gadgets

Blogger has just added a couple of new gadgets which have been in Draft so far. Both gadgets, Popular Posts and Blog's Stats, leverage the new stats feature introduced a few months ago which has recently been made available to everyone. "Last month we released two new stats gadgets to the Blogger in Draft testin...

30 September 2010
06:25 GMT

AOL Acquires TechCrunch to Bolster Its Blog Network

As rumored, AOL has announced that it bought TechCrunch, the company behind the eponymous tech blog and a number of related blogs. No financial details have been discussed. The blog and AOL insist that the acquisition will have no effect on the editorial content of TechCrunch. AOL already owns a number of popular tec...

29 September 2010
04:40 GMT

AOL Said to Be in Talks to Buy TechCrunch

AOL is said to be interested in TechCrunch, possibly the world's largest tech blog. AOL has been looking to become a media company and already owns several successful, independent blogs. The details of the deal are scarce and, although it is said to be in the late stages, may still fall apart. TechCrunch could s...

28 September 2010
03:38 GMT

Google New, Google's Newest Products Showcased

Google has just launched a new product, Google New. With new products coming out of Mountain View at an alarming pace, it's hard to keep up. The latest launch aims to help with that, Google New will showcase all new products and announcements, from all corners of Google's interests. "If it seems to you like...

23 September 2010
10:32 GMT

DIY Super Simple Blogger Template

One of the nice things about Blogger is the amount of freedom you get to customize your blog. You can upload, or write if you have the skillz, your own CSS to create a completely unique look for your blog. But if your coding skills leave to be desired or you don't have the patience to roll up your sleeves and ed...

18 September 2010
05:30 GMT

WordPress Adds Simple Subscriptions

WordPress has introduced a new social feature for those that like to keep things simple. WordPress.com now has a subscription feature which enables users to keep up with their favorite WordPress.com blogs but also other sites from the home screen. "Do you have trouble keeping track of all the blogs you read each morn...

13 September 2010
10:52 GMT

Now You Can Search for Specific Blogs by Topic on Google

Blogging isn't exactly the hottest trend right now, but that may very well be a good thing, it means that those maintaining a blog may actually have something to say.With the ones keeping a blog full of updates of interest only to them moving to Facebook and Twitter, many blogs now are highly specialized and ser...

1 September 2010
06:19 GMT

Blogger's Real-Time Stats Feature Live for Everyone

Blogger has now launched the Stats feature, available in beta so far, for everyone. The feature should now show up in the Dashboard for every Blogger user."Just in time for our eleventh birthday, we are excited to introduce Stats for Blogger," Noah Fiedel and Wiktor Gworek, Software Engineers at Blogger, announced."F...

31 August 2010
06:38 GMT

Kate Gosselin Asks for Help Raising Her 8 Kids

As she prepares for the premiere for her latest reality show, “Kate Plus 8,” on June 6, which will see her try her hand at being a single mother of 8, Kate Gosselin is taking to her blog to complain about the challenges of raising her kids, Us Magazine informs. After comparing herself to a referee instead...

15 May 2010
06:46 GMT

A Small Tweak Saves Blogger 114 Years of Page Load Time per Week

Google's obsession with speed is well documented and there isn't one Google service or product that doesn't put performance at the top of its priorities. This is also true for products Google has acquired along the years, like YouTube, which is getting a major revamp very soon, but it's also true ...

31 March 2010
12:41 GMT

Design Presentations and Blogs with Ease

Do you have a hobby and want to start a blog on a particular theme, in order to offer your friends a place where they can see your works or where they can simply get in touch with people sharing the same passion? Or you are so proud of your new born baby that you feel the need of sharing thousands of photos with your...

27 January 2010
11:51 GMT

RapidWeaver 4.3.1 Adds Full Snow Leopard Support

Earlier this year (in July, to be precise), developer Realmac Software announced plans to offer Snow Leopard compatibility across its entire lineup of applications, including programs like RapidWeaver and LittleSnapper. The former, now at version 4.3.1, has finally added full support for Snow Leopard, as well as many...

8 December 2009
10:35 GMT

WordPress Declares 2.0.X Editions as Deprecated

In a blog post from WordPress, blog users have been informed that the 2.0.X branch has been declared deprecated and no more security updates will be available from now on. Even if WordPress officially committed to sustaining security improvements and porting many modern features in the 2.0.X editions, the monumental...

1 August 2009
06:16 GMT

Real-Life Recommendations Still Preferred to Online Ones

Most people rely on the advice or recommendation of others when purchasing a product or a service. A friend's opinion has always been valued and despite our increased dependency on the Internet a study in the US from Mintel shows that most people still rely on real-life referrals rather than on online ones.Of th...

3 June 2009
08:32 GMT

RapidWeaver Crowned Best OS X Website Creation App, Version 4.2.3 Available

Realmac has updated RapidWeaver, its website creation tool and flagship app for Mac OS X. Version 4.2.3 is a maintenance update adding numerous fixes for linking to blog posts and assets, fixes for MobileMe publishing, refinements in memory usage, and more. “Whilst we've been hard at work on RapidWeaver 4...

14 May 2009
08:25 GMT

Office 2010 Gets Its Own Blog

Windows 7 is not the only upcoming Microsoft product that gets its own special nook in the blogosphere. The Redmond company is now ready to provide a similar level of attention to both its main cash cows. In this regard, the upcoming version of the Office System also got a blog in the TechNet network. The Microsoft O...

11 May 2009
03:03 GMT

RapidWeaver 4.2.2 Fixes Safari 4 Display Issues

Realmac Software has updated RapidWeaver, its website creation tool and flagship app for Mac OS X. Version 4.2.2 adds a completely re-written contact form with support for multiple attachments, JS-Kit commenting for blogs.Founded in November 2002, Realmac Software is focused on developing useful, easy-to-use programs...

6 April 2009
04:18 GMT

Playboy Doesn’t Pay Much, Holly Madison Says

For four years, Holly Madison was Hugh Hefner’s number one live-in girlfriend, while also a constant presence at the Playboy headquarters and on the pages of said magazine. After word got out in the media yesterday that she has quit her job as editor, the model herself has took to her official blog to explain t...

6 February 2009
09:08 GMT

$100,000 as Salary for Doing Nothing at All

Getting paid 150,000 Australian dollars (roughly $100,000) to hang around beautiful beaches all day long doesn't seem such a bad thing. That's exactly what the tourism department in the Australian state of Queensland thinks, so it pushed forward a position of island caretaker, which will be paid with the af...

13 January 2009
13:01 GMT

NASA's Administrator vs. the Transition Team

A recently-written blog on the website of the Orlando Sentinel on the relation between Michael Griffin, NASA's administrator, and president-elect Barack Obama's new NASA transition team sparked a dangerous fire. Reactions to the article indicated that such attempts pose a large threat to the credibility of ...

12 December 2008
18:01 GMT

Facebook Hits 100 Million Users

Facebook has unofficially announced, via its blog, that the social network has reached 100 million users. “We hit a big milestone today -- 100 million people around the world are now using Facebook. This is a really gratifying moment for us because it means a lot that you have decided that Facebook is a good, t...

27 August 2008
17:20 GMT

Olympic Athletes Blog in Beijing

The athletes who are attending this year's summer Olympic Games in Beijing are the first people to be allowed to write about their experiences while competing. The Olympic Games in China are a premiere, as the International Olympic Committee agreed to give the athletes the possibility to post on their dedicated ...

28 July 2008
11:08 GMT

World's Oldest Blogger Passed Away

It's never too late to get in touch with technology. The best example of this was a 108-year-old woman who, one year ago, started her blog, or, as she called it, "blob." Two days ago, the Australian passed away in the nursing house that had lodged her for the past week. Her blog, initiated by Mike Rubbo, a direc...

14 July 2008
04:37 GMT

Get Ready for the Official Windows 7 Blog

Get ready for a unique source of information focused exclusively on the next iteration of the Windows client. Microsoft might be mute on Windows 7 now, under the new transparency policy imposed by Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, but the situation will not last. The ...

27 June 2008
11:40 GMT

Dreamfall Chapters Isn't Funcom's Highest Priority

Yeah, probably all the people who are really enjoying the recently released Age of Conan understand why the long-time-ago announced title is not Funcom's priority but, honestly, a lot of people don't. It was like one of the most impressive, appreciated and life changing adventure experiences for many gamers...

3 June 2008
04:39 GMT

Google Says Goodbye to "Hello"

This might come as sad news for some of you: Google will be shutting down Hello, Picasa's application used for sharing photos over the web. The Hello webpage will not be accessible starting with May15, this year. Hello has been part of the Picasa application ever since Google acquired the latter, back in 2004. c...

9 May 2008
03:58 GMT

Yahoo Debuts 360plus, New Blogging Platform

Yahoo has announced the release of Yahoo 360plus, a special version of its popular blogging platform designed for Vietnamese users. The new blogging application is said to integrate multiple advanced features, many of them being already introduced into the classic version of 360. Although everybody expects the univer...

7 May 2008
04:11 GMT

Blogging from Social Networks Enhanced by Six Apart

Blogs and social networks are two of the most popular technologies nowadays, having an impressive yet continuously growing number of users. People like blogging because they're usually free and because they are able to write their own articles without too much effort. On the other hand, social networks connect c...

16 April 2008
16:46 GMT

Change Yahoo! Mail Communicating

In the past weeks, Yahoo! Mail has experienced some SMTP issues that had messages being delivered late, starting from minutes and up to days. It was a big problem that nobody was aware of unless they specifically checked with the intended receiver. A bigger mess couldn't be possible, especially with messages tha...

5 March 2008
03:48 GMT

Girls Rule the Web

Contrary to popular belief that has geeky looking guys standing in front of the monitor for hours and doing stuff that matters, a Pew Internet & American Life Project study has showed that it's actually girls that get most involved with the web and all that it stands for. And I did say girls, not women, as the r...

22 February 2008
07:06 GMT

Google Reader Hacked?

Google has long fought spam and for a while it managed to fend it off with elegance and class, but it looks like spam has finally breached one of the last spam-free products on the web, Google Reader. The Google Groups forum, a place for users to complain about things falling apart or demand new features, now hosts a...

21 February 2008
09:24 GMT

WordPres Blogs DoS Attack

Blogs were inaccessible for about 5 to 15 minutes in the 4 days that have passed since Saturday, when the attack started. Automattic, the company that maintains WordPress.com, was knee deep in the work laid before them by hackers all throughout this period and managed to restore most of the service's original fu...

20 February 2008
10:53 GMT

Leave Jessica Simpson's Boobs Alone!!!

I tell you, where is Chrissy Crocker when you need... um, him? Someone, quick, give me the number of this champion, this brave (fe)male defender of all celebrities in distress! We need an intervention! This is an emergency, y'all - and we don't have the time to make fun of such serious issues. We need a new...

17 January 2008
04:40 GMT

Government Blogging Team, Thinks Hillary Clinton

What do all the politicians do? Get it together, poll it amidst themselves and, after that, come up with the only possible answer. Yes, they misinform to say it in a polite manner. The real message is usually lost somewhere between the few ideas that the candidate really stands by and the rest of the yada - yada that...

9 January 2008
14:41 GMT

Online Sexually Explicit Content Not Accepted Anymore

Vietnam is that kind of country that struggles to regulate the content appearing on the residents' blogs, although we all know it's pretty difficult to do such a thing. But according to AFP, the Deputy Information and Communications Minister, Do Quy Doan, aims to reduce the amount of subversive and sexually...

28 December 2007
06:01 GMT

Google Listens to Its Users

In a continuous attempt to make its users happy, Google decided to step up its support response to those in dire need of assistance and began taking every service at a time to solve the most outstanding problems reported.Today, it is the Official Blogger Buzz from Blogger reporting that some of the features that had ...

21 December 2007
06:07 GMT

No Time for Reports? Google Saves Them for Later

It's everybody's dream to enjoy some peaceful and quiet time with their family for the Holidays and not have to deal with the stress of waiting for somebody else or facing deadlines. It's more of an urban myth, really, that of relaxing during this period, nobody ever gets to do it unless they have othe...

19 December 2007
10:34 GMT

Google Videos - a Twist in Its Approach of Video

To be honest, I thought that with buying YouTube, Google would put an end to its Video section and service, because they were basically two similar services battling over what is arguably the same market share. With this latest update, I'm thinking about something more in the terms of Google Video complementing ...

17 December 2007
05:52 GMT

Google Notebook Now Blogs and Annotates

Google Notebook, for its users, is the tool (capital T) for collecting, organizing and sharing information on the Internet. What does it have over the bookmarks, which basically do the same things? In order to solve this few-pieced puzzle for us, the team responsible for the project decided to combine the two and, t...

17 December 2007
04:21 GMT


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