How Come I Have No Readers? Part 2 – Search Engines

In the first installment of this series (How Come I Have No Readers? Part 1 – Feeds) I described how to provide your readers a way to subscribe to your blog. Now that you have that all set up correctly it is time to help people find your blog. Great, you told your family and [...]

Twitter Gets New Features

One feature users created on their own is to respond to each other by starting their post with @username. The folks at Twitter have added a Reply tab to help users manage these replies – The Replies Tab will display an archive of @replies- @Repliesare followed by an ‘in reply to’ link for context- @usernameautomatically [...]

Gears at the Google Developers Conference

More on Google Gears from the 2007 Google Developers Conference in San Jose, California. AP Video: Technorati tags: Google, Gears, API

Take Google Reader Off-Line

Yesterday I mentioned Google released its Gears tool for taking web apps off line. Today Lifehacker posted a how-to for taking Google Reader off-line. I may have to give this a try. I went back to Greatnews a couple months ago because I liked the portability and off line access via my USB thumb drive. Lifehacker: [...]

links for 2007-05-31

Apple Releases iTunes 7.2, Launches iTunes Plus (DRM Free) (tags: apple itunes drm)

MS Surface: Coffee Table of the Future

The new technology, called Surface, is a touch-screen computer mounted to a tabletop. http://www.Microsoft.com/surface/ CBS Video:   Technorati tags: Surface, Microsoft

Google Gears

CNet: Google engineers have enabled what Internet surfers for years have yearned for–Web applications that work offline. Google Gears is meant to be a standardized way of adding offline capability to web apps.   Technorati tags: Google, Gears, Web2

links for 2007-05-29

Will ISPs spoil the online video party? | last100 There’s a dirty little secret in the broadband industry: Internet Service Providers (ISPs) don’t have the capacity to deliver the bandwidth that they claim to offer. (tags: video web internet)

How Come I Have No Readers? Part 1 – Feeds

I hear it from time to time. People complain that they blog but they have no readers. Is there anything that can be done about it? Now seems like a nice time to have a look at this topic. First take a step back and get over your bad self. No one owes you their [...]

links for 2007-05-28

BBC NEWS | Technology | Wi-fi and RFID used for tracking Wireless tracking systems could be used to protect patients in hospitals and students on campuses, backers of the technology said. (tags: rfid wifi wireless) BBC NEWS | Technology | Facing up to Facebook fears Internet law professor Michael Geist says attempts to block social [...]