Blogging platform WordPress just announced a major upgrade to its long-beleaguered app for the iPhone and iPad. The new version is awesome.
The company says it’s now solved most of the major problems, squashed the bugs that caused 75% of the apps crashes and now it’s time to add new features. New features added in the version now available in the App Store include: a “Quick Photo” feature that lets you snap and post a photo very fast, a mobile stats display, localization in 10 langues and more. This new version is the first one I’ve downloaded for awhile and I was thrilled to see how easy it was to add a self-hosted WordPress.org blog to the app now, too! …
When it comes to launching blogs and Websites, small businesses often go with Wordpress, and for great reasons: it’s customizable, widely-used and – best of all – free. In addition to the core product, there are tons of free plugins and themes available that make building out the ultimate site a cinch.
Sure, we all love free stuff. But just because there are hundreds of free options within reach doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be willing to spend a few dollars …
I have this terrible (or awesome, I suppose) tendency to create new blogs. In fact, just today I bought a new domain (another terribly awesome tendency) and will soon begin the process of setting up “just another WordPress blog.”
That means searching for a new WordPress theme. And those who’ve done this before know how difficult it can be to find a good theme in what is arguably the underbelly of the SEO beast: the search string “WordPress themes.”
As if finding a good WordPress theme isn’t challenging enough, Siobhan Ambrose points out the dangers and security issues when you’re searching for – or rather, installing, “free WordPress themes.” …
Blogetery, a Wordpress platform, has seen its entire community shut down by its host, BurstNET. Subsequent statements by BurstNET indicated that the service was suspended at the request of an unidentified law enforcement agency …
Not a week after competitor Tumblr releases a similar feature, Posterous steps up to the plate with Posterous for mobile devices.
As with all things Posterous, it’s designed with simplicity and minimalism in mind. The release also features a few nice touches for the iPhone, specifically “users can swipe left and right to go back and forth between pages. On a blog list page, swiping goes to the next and previous list of blog entries. On a blog post page, swiping goes to the next and previous blog post.” …
While haven’t been able to confirm this yet, it looks like Google Reader now consumes PubSubHubbub feeds in real time. Until now, it often took half an hour or longer before new posts from popular blogs and news sites would appear in Google Reader. Now, however, posts from PubSubHubbub-enabled feeds have started to appear in Google Reader almost immediately after they are published, which leads us to believe that Google has turned on the consumption side of the PubSubHubbub protocol for Google Reader …
Writing your own ebook has become very popular because every blogger wants to stand out from the rest.Here is 5 different ways you can develop content for your ebook with a blog.
1. Visit other blogs in your niche and comment on them.By participating actively in the blogosphere you will build your own blogs readership.What are other bloggers in your niche writing about? Are there any major challenges that no one has written about yet? The easiest way to find blogs in your field is to use Google´s blogsearch (http://blogsearch.google.com).If you have competition, check out their sites.You will most likely get ideas and inspiration for your own ebook.Many blogs offer a free newsletter you can sign up for.This is a great way of getting tips for your ebook …
Entrepreneur Eric Ries, who previously co-founded the 3D avatar-based chat client IMVU, is also widely credited with coining the phrase “lean startup” in 2008. Ries recently gathered as many resources as he could muster for lean startups and shared them on his blog, Lessons Learned.
A lean startup is one that takes advantage of open-source technologies and other products to push a product to market at a “low burn,” while at the same producing continual revisions to its product based on customer feedback. Ries provides a wide consortium of links to wikis, mailing lists, meetups, and bloggers all focusing on the lean startup initiative – a collection of great value to any startup that wants to lower costs while feverishly iterating their product …
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ArticleAlley provides a good squidoo and hub page writing service and these pages have great performance at the search engines and this would guarantee add a lot of popularity to the site. One of the most popular content networking website is ‘Squidoo’ and it has dominated the internet last year and hence promoting website using Squidoo has become an important these days …
When researching freelance related careers, a common literature concept is that of work and family balance. It is never an easy thing to do. You may be able to balance it according to your working hours. But things are not always that simple and your schedule and work requirements will always change. In the short term at last, you don’t even have fixed hours. As a result, you will be required to adjust the balance again and again in the future.
Being a freelance web designer in London is not easy. You need to do more in order to compete with others. Assuming you do full web design work, from coding to graphic design, and all the things in between, you will sometimes wish there was more than 24 hours in a day. You will always find yourself needing more time for both. But there are things you can do, to be more efficient, and gain a few extra hours with your family.
Over time, as you gain more experience and become more resourceful with your time, things should improve. Your spouse and family must understand that this a short term sacrifice you have to make for a long term career improvement. One way where you can overlap the two, is to set up your work desk at or near the family living room. Although this may be prove distracting at times-web design sometimes requires as much focus and quiet environment as possible-, it is an easy solution for being able to be with your family and do work at the same time.
Your home will be your office and vise versa. In other words, you will work at the same place where you and your family live. In such a setting, it is so easy to get distracted and busy with the family and forget about your work. Be sure to have some safeguards against this potential slacking.
