There’s been a lot written about the upgrade to Pages that Facebook is rolling out. As with most things Facebook related, many people either love or hate the new layout. However, to me that’s not the interesting thing, though there is some interest there. No, the interesting thing is the ability to “use Facebook as…
With the success of Facebook and Twitter, it’s not unusual for some to wonder if there’s any need to have your own blog or website when it comes to personal networking. Isn’t it easy enough to have a profile on the leading social networks, and interact on those? Last week, however, saw an example of…
A couple of fellow Friends in Tech members, and the hosts of Technorama, Chuck Tomasi and Kreg Steppe, informed me the other day that the new version of their book about learning WordPress, Sams Teach Yourself WordPress 3 in 10 Minutes is now available. For those of you looking to get started with WordPress, or…
I saw this post about backing up your WordPress blog to Dropbox earlier this month, but when it came time to update this site to the latest WP release, that was the first time I decided to take it for a ride. Sure enough, I installed the wpTimeMachine plugin, and within a few minutes, I…
I found this plugin the other day, and decided to try it out over the holiday weekend. My fear is that I’ll annoy the heck out of followers while I try and figure out the best configuration to have some older, but still recent, posts sent out to Twitter, without becoming a pain with constant…
Apparently, Ask.com got Merchant Circle to agree to take over the operations of Bloglines. Maybe they will actually invest in it and create a god Google Reader alternative. Then again, I have no idea how Bloglines fits with what Merchant Circle does now, so we’ll see if this is a good thing for Bloglines users…