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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 th...

13 December 2007
10:45 GMT

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 l...

12 December 2007
04:45 GMT

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 dow...

5 December 2007
05:24 GMT

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 t...

30 November 2007
05:50 GMT

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...

28 November 2007
08:35 GMT

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 ...

27 November 2007
06:11 GMT

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 ...

20 November 2007
13:56 GMT

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 wr...

20 November 2007
08:42 GMT

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 b...

15 November 2007
03:56 GMT

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 the...

14 November 2007
03:59 GMT

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 engineer...

8 November 2007
09:09 GMT

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. No one believed him, since the man couldn't provid...

3 October 2007
05:09 GMT

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...

26 September 2007
14:31 GMT

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 s...

19 September 2007
10:27 GMT

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'...

17 September 2007
11:03 GMT

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 cre...

17 September 2007
10:11 GMT

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...

27 August 2007
14:16 GMT

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...

24 August 2007
16:31 GMT

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 ...

24 August 2007
02:49 GMT

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 sto...

16 August 2007
05:40 GMT

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 t...

10 August 2007
16:41 GMT

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 servi...

9 August 2007
03:17 GMT

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 com...

24 July 2007
05:41 GMT

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 mode...

24 July 2007
02:42 GMT

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...

20 July 2007
10:24 GMT

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...

18 July 2007
03:15 GMT

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' ...

13 July 2007
03:19 GMT

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 ...

12 July 2007
04:14 GMT

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 Gma...

4 July 2007
04:55 GMT

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 start...

22 June 2007
15:06 GMT

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,...

21 June 2007
04:20 GMT

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...

19 June 2007
11:06 GMT

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 gian...

15 June 2007
14:51 GMT

Yahoo Invests Money in a Better Blog Service

Yahoo plans a major update for its recently acquired MyBlogLog service, the company aiming to introduce even a change of brand. It seems that MyBlogLog's name will be changed soon but it's not quite clear if the giant portal wants to rename the product as YahooBlogLog or even MyYahooLog. In a post published...

14 May 2007
05:47 GMT

Google Earth - The Program of The Day

Google Earth is surely the main subject of the day because the application is promoted by the parent company through several ways. For example, the search giant released today a special blog for the downloadable application and for Google Maps that will keep the interested customers up-to-date with the latest changes...

10 May 2007
08:14 GMT

Australia - Wealthy Land for Google

Australia is probably one of the largest countries that were by-passed in the Google expansion, but this land will become an important part of the company soon. Some time ago, the search giant started the Australian conquest with Google Maps and Google Earth by adding several high-quality photos with Sydney and other...

1 May 2007
03:50 GMT

Fresh Blood for Windows Vista

Microsoft has debuted a new pet project around Windows Vista breathing new life into the user experience dimension of the operating system. And as far as user experience and Windows Vista go, this project brings essential new blood into the mix as Microsoft managed to part ways with some of the main designers involve...

30 April 2007
09:06 GMT

80 Percent of the Blogs Are Dangerous

The online blogs tend to become somehow mandatory because almost every Internet user owns a blog or is looking for a powerful service to host one. However, the blogs are not always useful and efficient because they might represents an easy way to exploit several vulnerabilities on the visitors' computers. Accord...

24 April 2007
17:06 GMT

Sheryl Crow Wants Us to Wipe Our As*es with Our Fingers

It's amazing when big stars get involved in environmental-friendly actions! It's great to see that, once they have reached the status of millionaires who could afford the most absurd piece of crap if they fancied it, they are thinking of giving back! Really now, I'm not being sarcastic: it really is wo...

24 April 2007
11:16 GMT

Google Attacked by Hackers!

Once in a while, Google is affected by some security flaws that allow attackers to exploit them and harm some of the company's services. This time, the product affected by the vulnerability was the Official Google Mac Blog that was successfully exploited by a user to post a message, although his access was block...

23 April 2007
04:08 GMT

Courtney Is Pissed at the World. In Very Bad English.

Courtney Love has been looking slimmer these days than she has in years. After apparently shedding so many pounds over such a short period of time and then being photographed in her bathing suit on the beach in Hawaii, rumors started to circulate about how, desperate to get back in shape, Love had a few surgical inte...

14 April 2007
06:39 GMT

Money Making on Mobile Phones

With the recent technological improvement, mobile communication consumers have become more interested in the services provided by mobile communication industry.Directly from the mobile phone, they prefer paying, reading, or watching live streaming videos more than exploring the social pattern of communication. So, ma...

13 April 2007
09:49 GMT

"Ik houd van u" Blogger!

Blogger represents the main blog service on the Internet, allowing users to build their own blog in just a few minutes. Since the search giant started to promote the product, Blogger was improved several times receiving even a new version containing new features, new interface and improved functionality. Today, the p...

12 April 2007
02:56 GMT

Google: Korea, Here We Come!

In the past, Google had a lot of attempts to conquer the Asian market but every time, the company encountered important rivals that blocked its evolution. Today, the search giant makes another step for the Asian expansion by releasing Inside AdSense in Korean, a new blog able to bring the latest information and headl...

3 April 2007
04:31 GMT

Blogger Improved with Attractive Widgets

Some time ago, the search giant introduced multiple Ajax utilities to be added on the websites designed by Google's users and allow them to offer useful functions to the visitors. Two of them, the news and the video bar, are now compatible with Blogger, allowing webmasters to add the tools to the website and pre...

2 April 2007
03:07 GMT

Fake Blog Scam Hits Google's Blogger

Google's Blogger is surely the most popular blog service on the Internet because it is powered by the search giant and provides numerous powerful features. It seems like Blogger is no longer a safe place because it is now the target of several spam attempts launched by hackers from every corner of the world. The...

28 March 2007
10:47 GMT

Jaxtr Brings Voice to Social Networks and Blogs

Jaxtr announced the launch of the public beta of a new service that brings voice to social networks and blogs. Users around the world can now sign up for a free Jaxtr account that links their mobile or landline phones with their online network. Jaxtr is easy to use, users simply add their Jaxtr widget to their online...

20 March 2007
07:32 GMT

One More Google Bar for Your Page

Today, Google revealed one more interactive bar meant to be added on the users' pages, displaying useful information about other related websites. The Blog Bar represents a simple add-on for your site able to show the latest posts published on a certain type of blogs selected by your need. Although it might look...

16 March 2007
04:10 GMT

Google Improves Their German Supply

Google is one of the companies that attract the largest category of Internet users in numerous countries such as US, UK and a lot of other states. Because of this, the search giant is continuously looking to develop new solutions meant to enhance the performance of the regional products by adding language options. To...

15 March 2007
03:15 GMT

Yahoo Updates The Search Blog

Both Internet giants, Google and Yahoo, consider it is very important to communicate with their customers and keep them up to date with the latest news and improvements on their products. Some time ago, Google released numerous ways to chat with the customers, allowing them to contact the company using Google Groups,...

13 March 2007
06:20 GMT


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