WordPress.com Passes 200 Million Blog Posts
The installable version of WordPress just reached version 3.0, but the hosted version –- WordPress.com — has its own milestone to report today: 200,000,000 blog posts on the platform since its inception. That total comes from 11.4 million blogs that are hosted on the site, and in all, WordPress reports the site is seeing more than 260 million people visit its blogs every month ...
Read MoreHow to Increase the Writing Space in WordPress
There are a lot of little settings that we don’t always pay much attention to in WordPress. We install it, get our theme going, figure out how to post and are then on our way until we need to do something like upgrade or have a problem with plugin compatibility. And sometimes one of these little settings can make using WordPress and writing our posts a lot easier. One of my favorites...
Read MoreSOCIAL NETWORKING GOD: 350+ Social Networking Sites
One of the main topics buzzing around is social networking. We got an extensive list from Mashable.com and posted them below. Enjoy. Feel free to add more apps in the comments. Books Americabookshelf.com – One of the largest book exchange clubs across the US. BooksConnect – A book sharing community site connecting readers, authors, publishers, librarians and...
Read MoreLeaked Video: Swyping Versus iPhone Typing. (Swype For Android Is Next).
A year ago, Swype launched a new way to type on a touchscreen phone at TechCrunch50. Swype was created by the inventor of the T9 predictive typing system used on most phones today because he felt that new text input methods for small touchscreens are sorely needed. Today, the startup announced the first phone to use the technology will be the Samsung Omnia II on Verizon. As you can see in the...
Read MoreLike it or not, social media is becoming a business necessity
Consider this: if Facebook were a country, it would be the eighth largest in the world by population, ahead of both Japan and Russia. When I talk to people about using social media to market their business, I usually get one of two responses. Either they love using Facebook and Twitter or they really don’t see what all the fuss is about. Unfortunately, both are missing the point. Social...
Read MoreGoogle Social Search Goes Live
Last week launched the social revolution for search. Microsoft’s Bing fired the first shot by announcing search deals with Twitter and Facebook and, at the Web 2.0 Summit, launching its Twitter integration. Google fired back almost immediately though, completing its own deal with Twitter and, perhaps more importantly, announcing a new feature: Social Search. Social search, demoed at the Web...
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