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Media. Vc. Twingly. What's Twingly? Twingly is a ping service and blog search engine that connects traditional media to the blogosphere. We give news media the possibility to link back to blog posts linking to their articles. My posts don't seem to be indexed by Twingly! Wait ten minutes! How do I ping Twingly automatically? Just add to your blog tool's list of ping services. How do I ping manually? If you're using a blog tool that doesn't support automatic ping, you can still ping us using the ping box (above) at Twingly.com. Top 10 Free Desktop Blog Editors for Windows. Although many users have gotten used to updating their blogs directly on the web, desktop blog editors have certain advantages, and it would be a shame not to try them out.

We've gathered 10 free desktop blog editors for Windows; some are plugins, while others are full-featured standalone applications. Windows Live Writer Windows Live Writer comes from Microsoft and you will have that familiar feeling of working with an Office application while using this desktop blog editor. When it comes to features, Live Writer is the most complete desktop blog editor of the lot. It has everything that you would like to see in a blog editor - multiple blog accounts, compatibility with multiple blog platforms, rich text formatting, draft saving, post categorization, picture and tag insertion, spell checking, pinging search engines automatically, and synchronizing draft changes on the editor with the blog.

What takes Windows Live Writer a step ahead are features such as inserting maps and videos. Qumana. Your Daily Dosage of Technology, Internet, Gadgets, Softwares an. Metafilter | Community Weblog. Smashing Magazine. Loic Le Meur Blog. | Vanessa Fox. Nude. This past week at SXSW, Google’s Matt Cutts talked about an upcoming “over-optimization” algorithm launch aimed at those who abuse search engine optimization. Rob Snell transcribed the session, which included these comments from Matt (I’ve updated this article to include fuller comments from the transcript): “The idea is basically to try and level the playing ground a little bit. A lot of people have asked me what this means for those who include search engine optimization as part of their marketing mix.

Some are worried that Google will begin to penalize sites that have implemented search engine optimization techniques. My thoughts? I think that some site owners should worry. AS I’ve talked about and written about over and over (notably in my book and most recently in my article about Clay Johnson‘s talk about SEO killing America), SEO means lots of different things to lots of different people.

But the definition of SEO is a continuum. Matt talked about this later: » InsideGoogle » part of the Blog News Channel. Broadcast Yourself. B.L. Ochman's weblog: Internet marketing strategy, social m. Internet Stocks on Seeking Alpha. Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard. Fortuitous. Matt McAlister. I wrote this piece for the Guardian’s Media Network on the role that RSS could play now that the social platforms are becoming more difficult to work with.

GeoRSS, in particular, has a lot of potential given the mobile device explosion. I’m not suggesting necessarily that RSS is the answer, but it is something that a lot of people already understand and could help unify the discussion around sharing geotagged information feeds. This article titled “Mobilising the web of feeds” was written by Matt McAlister, for guardian.co.uk on Monday 10th September 2012 16.43 UTC While the news that Twitter will no longer support RSS was not really surprising, it was a bit annoying.

It served as yet another reminder that the Twitter-as-open-message-utility idea that many early adopters of the service loved was in fact going away. There are already several projects intending to disrupt Twitter, mostly focused on the idea of a distributed, federated messaging standard and/or platform. Hovedetpaabloggen.dk. Web 2.0 Guide | Web 2.0 How-To Spot-er. Updated on 07.02.2009 Since publishing my quick story How To Build Web 2.0 Site Using WordPress, which received close to 15k views (much appreciated) and quite a few email with requests for additional and perhaps more detailed information. So here we go … The every first step you will have to take is an obvious – get yourself a domain and a hosting account.

If you are an advanced user I highly recommend using separate services for this, for example I use NoMessDNS.com for all my domain name registration and host my sites on different hosts. Hosting Option: Hostgator.com is one I most recommend to anyone, no matter technical expertise and previous knowledge. Step 1: Install WordPress Blog Software Download and install latest version of WordPress (Version 2.8.1 at the time of writing). Step 2: Download and Install WordPress Theme That Is Web 2.0 Ready Right Sidebar – optional. You can find plenty of different themes at the official WordPress themes site. Here is my list: New Media Trends. Techcrunch.