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WordPress Plugin: Shared Items Post

Google Reader is a nice little blogging tool that is an essential item in my arsenal. Aside from the obvious RSS aggregating capabilities of Google Reader, I also use Google Reader as a bookmark manager of sorts for my followed feeds. And I can choose to star some entries for reviewing, by myself, at a [...]

nextMEDIA - Where to Look Next? Trends for 2009

As always, if you want to see everything I am writing about nextMEDIA, please check out BrandingDavid.com where Ive placed an index for all of the posts I am doing around the Splashpress Media network Starting with an amazing slide of all of the trends and words that companies will need to know going forward, Lori’s [...]

The BlogStudio offers $1000 discount

The BlogStudio will automatically give a $1000 discount on all new design projects signed by November 30, 2008. Those looking to save some money without sacrificing quality for blog design can definitely check them out. The reason they’re doing it, simply, is to challenge themselves. Founder Peter Flaschner says: Why on earth are we doing this, you [...]
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Are You Getting Spammed Too?

The other day I opened up my blogs and I saw that they had this huge influx of comments. As this was rather unusual, I checked the moderation queue and to my surprise, I found a huge number of comment spam. Weirdly though, the spam contained none of the usual links, and instead found a [...]

IntenseDebate out of private beta, offers new Wordpress plugin.

A little less than two months ago, IntenseDebate was acquired by WordPress’s parent company Automattic. They spent the time in beta to scale Intense Debate’s infrastructure to handle the additional traffic that is likely to come when WordPress starts to include Intense Debate features by default. The purchase promised new features for the upcoming WordPress [...]

Is Your Blog Dial-Up Friendly?

While most people nowadays have broadband connections from home or office (or even mobile phones), there are still some who are connected via dial-up services. Performancing’s Jeff Chandler recently posted an analysis of a Pingdom.com report on the Technorati top 100. And in gist, the average size of the front pages of these blogs is [...]
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Landing Sites 1.4.1

One typical blog visitor would be someone searching for a keyword using a search engine (google, yahoo or whatever). If they find that keyword in your blog they’d naturally click to you and have a quick browse around on what you have written in relation to their search keyword. It would be great if you [...]

A call for icon designers

WordPress is currently looking for people who can help them design new sets of icons for the WordPress 2.7 version. The 2.6.x versions are using icons from the Crystal Project, excellent because they are released under the LGPL agreement, but unforunately does not fit the general design requirements of version 2.7. Sooooo… If you’re an experienced icon [...]
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