Today with blog pitching for link building and awareness you just cant say straight what you are actually up to: a link back to your site. Even if you are approaching bloggers with an awesome unique ....... Read more 1 day ago
Nominate Us For the Weblog Awards! [Announcements]
Like Gizmodo? Go and nominate us for the 2008 weblog awards. Our suggestion is to stick us in any category you think we belong, such as Best Technology blog, Best blog, Best Online Community (if you l ....... Read more 17 hours ago
2nd Annual Open Web Awards: VOTE NOW!
Mashable is proud to announce that voting has begun in the 2nd Annual Open Web Awards, a unique opportunity for the most accomplished websites and services to receive international recognition for th ....... Read more 1 day ago
Qik into Wordpress, first attempt.
I love the immediacy of Qik for recording short videos and yet I don't want my Qik videos to reside separately from my blog.
In my initial attempt, I decided to integrate the two by putting a video ....... Read more 2 days ago
Who killed the blogosphere?
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/11/who_killed_the.php Link: Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's blog: Who killed the blogosphere?. blogging seems to have entered its midlife crisis, with much exi ....... Read more 3 days ago
What?s Your Favorite Website?
If you have one, you need to let us know today.
With less than 12 hours to go in the nominations round, this is your last reminder: we need your nominations for the Open Web Awards, our yearly hunt f ....... Read more 3 days ago
Learn front-end performance from the Web Scaling blog
I wanted to make readers who are web designers aware of a new resource for learning about raw performance (page load time and render time). This is the Web Scaling blog, a blog my employer started a w ....... Read more 8 days ago
Man Writes Software, blogs About it, Makes $100k in 5 Months
We love this story. Back in July we wrote about the inspiring experience of Peldi Guilizzoni, a lone software developer who'd built a web design mock-up tool called Balsamiq and who was opening up his ....... Read more 6 days ago
100+ Open Web Awards blog Partners - Nominations End Sunday
Were pleased to announce that the 2nd Annual Open Web Awards is now powered by over 100 International blog Partners. Our blog Partners represent 24 countries and 9 languages to bring the Open Web Aw ....... Read more 5 days ago
blog Carnivals and Group Writing Projects for Link Building and Networking
A blog is an awesome networking tool. Beside multiple obvious benefits (interacting with your audience, content link building, etc), there are a few more creative ways to build links with your blog.
B ....... Read more 6 days ago
Open Web Awards: 25,000+ Nominations
Were pleased to announce that the 2nd Annual Open Web Awards, our yearly search for the best social websites and services, surpassed 25,000 nominations this morning, making it our most successful Aw ....... Read more 7 days ago
Doug Heil on Blackhat SEO
Doug Heil of IHelpYou.com will be participating at the upcoming Search Engine Strategies Chicago Black Hat/White Hat SEO panel. Doug is currently working as a search engine optimization consultant ....... Read more 8 days ago
Google Reader Can Now Auto-Translate Posts
If you would like to subscribe to a blog or other feed in a language youre not speaking, Google Reader now offers an auto-translate feature for you. Just subscribe to a specific feed, say, the Germa ....... Read more 9 days ago
A new look for 2009
Lest you jump to conclusions from the title, no, I haven't had botox. My beloved blog, however, did just get a facelift (she's a little sore but recovering nicely!)
It's time to say hello to a new it ....... Read more 9 days ago
Look Out Google Site Search, Lijit Says It's Right On Your Heels
Innovative search startup Lijit has done study of search widgets on pages around the web and says its widget is very close to becoming as popular as Google's own "site search". We think Lijit is quite ....... Read more 9 days ago
Memetracker: Tracking News Phrases over the Web
Based on the stacked bar graph data visualization technique introduced by ThemeRiver (PDF) and StreamGraph, MemeTracker [memetracker.org] represents the daily news cycle of around 900,000 news storie ....... Read more 9 days ago
Teach Make!
On a cold night in January of 2005 I set out to find a magazine stand. One of my students, Michael McKinley, now a Mechanical and Industrial Engineering senior at UMass Amherst, had shown me an an ....... Read more 14 days ago