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 director/producer who created a documentary about the woman's troubled life, had thousands of visitors each day. Th ... [read more >>]
	14 July 2008, 04:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 successor of Windows Vista is right on the verge of getting its own online outlet, namely the Windows 7 blog. It appears that ... [read more >>]
	27 June 2008, 11:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 now and, having in mind that ... [read more >>]
	03 June 2008, 04:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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. clearly, Picasa users who are using the Hello service might have not expected this. For those among you how don&# ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 03:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 universal profile that Yahoo is working on, Matt Warburton, Yahoo Community Manager, explained that 360plus is only a Vie ... [read more >>]
	07 May 2008, 04:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 consumers from different corners of the world, allowing them to share the things they like/dislike or communicate ju ... [read more >>]
	16 April 2008, 16:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 that were urgent and did not make it in time. The problem was addressed to by the Community Manager appointed by Yahoo! ... [read more >>]
	05 March 2008, 03:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 research focused mostly on teenagers. As difficult to admit as it is, it looks like young females are actually mor ... [read more >>]
	22 February 2008, 07:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 new thread created addressing the issue. "How are these people's blogs showing up in my reader that I ... [read more >>]
	21 February 2008, 09:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 functions by yesterday afternoon. Logging into accounts and posting was only the tip of the DoS (denial of service) att ... [read more >>]
	20 February 2008, 10:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 clip from Chrissy, and we need it now. OK, I was joking – I really was – the world really doesn't want or even remot ... [read more >>]
	17 January 2008, 04:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 the team surrounding him gives him to learn as a speech addressing the people. The truth and the facts are like all the lega ... [read more >>]
	09 January 2008, 14:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 explicit content published on the blogs by releasing guidelines supposed to help the bloggers control their materi ... [read more >>]
	28 December 2007, 06:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 been taken out with some of the updates and that were actually some of the crowd’s favorites have been brought ... [read more >>]
	21 December 2007, 06:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 other people who would sacrifice their peace and quiet for it. That’s called having employees or hiring somebody else to do all the s ... [read more >>]
	19 December 2007, 10:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 YouTube in areas it wouldn’t go to because of its user-oriented policy. What I meant by that is that while the 1.65 billion [AD ... [read more >>]
	17 December 2007, 05:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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, thus, brought Google Notebook featuring Google Bookmarks last month. Time for something new, so this month they s ... [read more >>]
	17 December 2007, 04:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo! Shortcuts Does WordPress Bloggers’ Job
	Blogging is what people do when they have nothing to do but they have an idea, they put it down in an as-creative-as-can be manner on their page. It could be some news or reviewing a service or just plain writing off the top of their heads something that they’d thought in the lunch break or had dreamt during the night. Many times it’s difficult to best express what you want with only words, so as a picture is said to be worth ... [read more >>]
	13 December 2007, 10:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Another Blogging Site that Fails to Pay Its Users
	I’m thinking it must be something about human nature in general that makes us kind of greedy when it comes to getting paid. The more money we receive for a lesser amount of work, the better and I’m not saying that thinking about that is wrong, I’m just saying that it’s not something that’s likely to happen any time soon, or if it does, the queue will start behind me. Blogging for money has always been one of the dreams and da ... [read more >>]
	12 December 2007, 04:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Earth, Meet Orwell’s Oceania - This Is What You’ll Morph into
	Politics is a tricky and slippery slope to go down on, tempers inflame and fists are being raised all the time. I know it, you know it, hell, even the infants that have passed through the room during a live debate know it. There’s nothing new under the sun. It’s just that sensation of fists being pushed down people’s throats that seems to be trolling around on the Internet, lighting the spark of fighting here and there, and patiently await ... [read more >>]
	05 December 2007, 05:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google: “Mwahaha, puppets, I own you and your puny means of making ends meet”
	Two weeks ago, Google decided on a whim to kill the page rank of bloggers that have been using IZEA (PayPerPost’s new name) and to effectively remove them from the Internet, because it wasn’t really ethical to have been doing that, or at least that’s what Google bosses thought. I agree with them, but the ways they went regarding this matter are much too harsh, in my opinion. At the moment, IZEA is in the process of launching R ... [read more >>]
	30 November 2007, 05:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hacker Attacks Apple Fan Blogs
	Apple is one of the companies which were often avoided by hacks and viruses because most of the infections were focused on Microsoft's Windows and not on Mac OS X or Apple technologies. But the Cupertino company is now affected by a series of hacks targeting the Apple fan blogs that are accused of "fanboyism" as the attacker said in the messages posted on the affected websites. "This website has been flagged f ... [read more >>]
	28 November 2007, 08:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Al Gore Website Hacked!
	Do you want to buy some medicines? Maybe a pill of Viagra at the lowest price on the market? Or maybe some Valium? All you need to do is to visit Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" film blog and you might find some unexpected goodies (not!). Robert McMillan of IDG News Service reported that the blog was hacked a few days ago, the attackers publishing tons of links to other websites selling Viagra, Xanax, Valium and ... [read more >>]
	27 November 2007, 06:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Improve Speed and Overall Performance for Your Wordpress Blog
	Wordpress application is a content management system widely used at this moment for blogging or other purposes. It can be extended through plugins which are available for free download. When your website has a heavy web traffic, the MySQL database will support multiple queries which at a given moment will determine the loss of web pages downloading speed on visitors' web browsers. In order to prevent this situation, ... [read more >>]
	20 November 2007, 13:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Egyptian Authorities Out for Blogger Blood
	How would it feel if you heard that anything you wrote on your blog could send you to jail? Imagine how Abdel Karim Suleiman felt when he was charged with insulting Islam and President Hosni Mubarak in eight of his blog articles written since 2004. He was also the first blogger to stand trial in Egypt for Internet writings and was condemned to four years behind bars. Back in February, the verdict was widely condemned by the hu ... [read more >>]
	20 November 2007, 08:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Official Stand on Freedom of Speech
	The past few days have boiled Google down to the point where an official statement was inevitable on the freedom of speech problem it’s been confronting. It looks more like a civic lesson, punctuated with reasons why Google did this and that throughout its almost 9 years of existence. But civic lessons are not bad. The main point of Rachel Whetstone’s, Director of Global Communications and Public Affairs, EMEA blog is that Goo ... [read more >>]
	15 November 2007, 03:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Lending Helping Hand to Senate
	What’s the solution if you have a specific inquiry about some government information that is supposed to be publicly available? You type in the exact URL of the site the information is on? Not likely, I doubt that government sites are the first thing on your mind every morning when you get out of bed, and if they are… why? I can’t find a reasonable explanation for that. Here’s the most obvious solution: you’re going to use a search engi ... [read more >>]
	14 November 2007, 03:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Reader – Blogger Friendly
	Google employees are allowed that 20% of the time they spend at work be spent towards personal projects that might prove to be useful to Google in the future. Creativity is as such encouraged and the feature implemented today is a result of this particular program that the Mountain View giant started. The two engineers that came up with the idea explained it on the official Google Reader Blog: "As a blogger I like to incl ... [read more >>]
	08 November 2007, 09:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Halo DS WAS Real!
	This is not the first time we've heard about a Halo port and not just any port, but one for the famous Nintendo DS console. It all started when Matt Casamassina from IGN started describing his experience while playing the title, in its unfinished version. ... [read more >>]
	03 October 2007, 05:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Monitor Your Favorite Google Services Using Email Alerts
	In case you've ever wanted to monitor a certain story, a blog or to find out the latest news concerning your favorite celebrity as it happens, Google Alerts is the perfect solution for you. This new beta service was especially designed for those looking for a simple product which would be able to keep them up to date with the latest changes for certain Google search queries. There are no difficult configuration steps because ... [read more >>]
	26 September 2007, 14:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Optimize Your Blog
	Why should you optimize your blog? Optimizing it will increase the blog’s rankings on regular search engines and on search engines for blogs and RSS. It will also increase traffic from more locations such as social networks and social bookmarking sites. If you want to optimize your blog for search engines, you should fill the URL structure with words and try to avoid numbers and extraneous characters. You should keep the URL simp ... [read more >>]
	19 September 2007, 10:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Install Wordpress
	If you want to post your journal online, you can choose one of the several free services provided by Google(Blogpot), Wordpress, Blog.com etc, or you can install a blog script on your webserver. If you don’t know how to install a blog on your webserver, I’ll explain you how to do it. For starters, let’s chose a blog script. I recommend you to use Wordpress because it’s simply the best in my humble opinion. Why you should use it? Wordpress’ ... [read more >>]
	17 September 2007, 11:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Introduction to Blogs
	Nowadays everybody talks about blogs. Everybody wants to have a blog. But what is it? ‘Blog’ is the short form of weblog. A blog is an online journal or diary, where everybody makes public their thoughts, comments, and philosophies, updated frequently and normally reflecting the views of the blog's creator. On Wikipedia, the blogs are sorted according to different criteria, which establish the way content is showed: - by ... [read more >>]
	17 September 2007, 10:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Now You Can: Upload Clips on Your Blog
	Google's blogging service Blogger was updated with a new feature that allows you to upload your personal clips straight on your blog without having to publish them on YouTube or any other video sharing platform and embed them into your articles. Using this feature, any blog owner is able to upload a certain clip from his computer and publish it on the website in a matter of minutes. Of course, it depends on the size of the m ... [read more >>]
	27 August 2007, 14:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft and Yahoo Partner for A Better Blogging System
	Microsoft, Yahoo and several other companies agreed to require the Chinese bloggers to reveal their real names in order to create a better blogging system in the country. Although it might sound a little bit like censorship, the local authorities aim to force all the Chinese bloggers to reveal their identity in order to be easier to be located and who knows, maybe punished. If you didn't know, the Chinese Alibaba.com is owne ... [read more >>]
	24 August 2007, 16:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Happy Birthday Google!
	Google's blogging solution celebrated the 8th anniversary yesterday as it was released on August 23, 1999. If you didn't know, Blogger was first launched by Pyra Labs in 1999 and was then acquired by the Mountain View company in 2003. The two firms didn't mention any financial term but one of the Pyra Labs co-founders left the search giant after only one year. At this time, Blogger is one of the top solutions when ... [read more >>]
	24 August 2007, 02:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Beware! Google Gets Involved In The Facebook Stolen Code Distribution!
	A few days ago, the leaked Facebook code which was published on the Internet, appeared on a huge number of websites. Although most of them were shut down, others remained up and gathered a lot of traffic and became popular. For example, there were numerous blogs hosted by Google's Blogger which published the stolen code, but the Mountain View company already started a powerful move to block all of them. TechCrunch informs th ... [read more >>]
	16 August 2007, 05:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Hacks Itself and Proudly Admits It!
	A few days ago, a weird blog appeared on the Google Custom Search Blog that showed several misspellings and grammar errors. "Google Custom Search, is the wonderful product from Google which many webmasters have been looking and dream for. It allows webmasters to create their own custom search engines to search only the sites he/she wants. Also Google Custom Search is integrated with Ad-sense, which means make money while kee ... [read more >>]
	10 August 2007, 16:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Looking For Sex? Here You Go!
	Let's say you are a blog reader and you want to find additional blogs with same topics as your own. How can you search for them beside going to Google and typing the desired keyword? Well, the Mountain View company Google found the perfect solution and implemented a special feature into the famous blogging service Blogger to allow you to do that. Basically, you can check someone's profile to view his main interests and, ... [read more >>]
	09 August 2007, 03:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Is This the End of the Blogosphere?
	A new dispute was started in Malaysia where Muhammad Muhammad Taib, the information chief of United Malays National Organization, sent a complaint to the authorities, claiming that Malaysia Today infringed the country's laws and insulted the local king. It seems like the entire trouble was started by several comments posted to some of the articles that were described as beinginsulting for Malaysia's king. "Some of ... [read more >>]
	24 July 2007, 05:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Earth Saturation – Even More Content for the Mapping Tool!
	Google Earth was quite popular lately as the parent company Google updated it periodically with lots of new features and goodies. Today, the search giant does the same thing again using a brand new SketchUp blog that indirectly promotes the mapping software solution. As you probably know, Google SketchUp is a 3D modeling product that can enhance the content included in Google Earth using some simple interoperability functions. Th ... [read more >>]
	24 July 2007, 02:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Courtney Jealous, Still Illiterate
	This is not the first time that Courtney Love puts her thoughts on paper, as the saying goes, the only difference being that she can barely formulate the one and has opted to replace the other with the wonder that is the Internet. What this means is that we have yet another deeply meaningful blog post from the rocker, with the exception that it's neither meaningful nor quite a blog, since it resembles more the ramblings of a crazy per ... [read more >>]
	20 July 2007, 10:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google's Answers Is Dead! Or Not! Or Yes!
	Google announced the closure of its questions and answers technology a long time ago when it considered that this kind of service is not useful anymore for the company's consumers. However, it seems like the Russian side of the search giant is now preparing a similar solution that might become globally available very soon. What's most interesting is that Google tries to communicate with its customers using several methods such[AD ... [read more >>]
	18 July 2007, 03:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Want a Google Search? Here's One!
	It's been a while since the Mountain View company rolled out Google Custom Search, a special technology that allows the users to build their own search engine and place it on their website. Every once in a while, it updates the product in order to make it even more powerful and efficient for the consumers' needs. Today, a new important function of the service appears, enabling all blog owners to build a search engine in ... [read more >>]
	13 July 2007, 03:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Create an Online Poll in Seconds
	Some time ago, the Mountain View company Google introduced a new feature for Blogger in draft, the testing platform of the blog service that tries all the new functions meant to be implemented into the final product. The Poll feature enables users to create a poll for their blog in a matter of seconds using a simple interface introduced in Blogger's settings menu. "The Polls page element is one of the new features we’ve added ... [read more >>]
	12 July 2007, 04:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Keep In Touch With Your Favorite (G)Mail Solution!
	Gmail has fans in every corner of the world and many of them are trying to find out the latest information about their favorite service by reading news like this one. However, most of the consumers are looking for a simple way to get information straight from an official source so it was almost a must to create a Gmail blog to interact with the users. Today, this new page is officially available to all the Internet consumers, all ... [read more >>]
	04 July 2007, 04:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Slowly But Surely, Google Steps in Our Lives
	Google likes to stay in touch with its customers and this is explained especially by the impressive amount of blogs that are meant to communicate with the fans of the company. This week was quite a busy one because the search giant rolled out several new blogs for the solutions that didn't have one. It all started with Google Maps and Google Earth, the two mapping tools that received their own blog for talking with fans. Fo ... [read more >>]
	22 June 2007, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Likes Money Too
	Google was quite reticent in the recent period when it came to financial services although it's well known the fact that the search giant wants to offer a large variety of solutions. However, Google Finance was apparently abandoned by its father Google since the latest improvement was announced. If you remember, Google implemented financial information into the news headlines straight on the main page of the service. Meanwhi ... [read more >>]
	21 June 2007, 04:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google: Bonjour, Mes Amis!
	Google's advertising platform evolves and is now reaching a new level as the parent company released Inside AdSense, the AdSense blog, for the French users. Basically, the new page provides valuable information about the advertising platform in French, helping the advertisers improve their AdSense results. Until now, there are numerous versions of the AdSense blogs because the Mountain View company wants to improve it period ... [read more >>]
	19 June 2007, 11:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google to Microsoft: Our Health System Is On Its Way!
	Some time ago, it was rumored that Google might prepare a health search engine that can bring useful information for all the interested Internet users. The Mountain View company didn't comment on the speculations, refusing to admit or to deny them. Today, a new sign of a health system prepared by the search giant Google is officially released by the company after it rolled out the Health Advertising Blog. Basically, this new ... [read more >>]
	15 June 2007, 14:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia