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There are quite a few services out there offering alternatives to our existing blog editors. Some you can do offline by using a desktop application and some you can do online through web services and browser plugins. I found two great blog editor alternatives that you can use for easier blogging and post management. Here’s the first one.... Read More

Wordpress.com is a great free blog platform, the reason why most bloggers still prefer to use Blogspot as their free blog platform is mainly because of its monetization capabilities. The free Wordpress.com blog prohibits the placement of ads. You have to acquire the hosted version from Wordpress.org if you want to maximize the profits and fully customize your blog (Highly Recommended). The new blogging service that I’m going to introduce to you lets you use a free Wordpress platform and make some money from Google ads.... Read More

You may have noticed the flashing black thing every time you visit Orangeinks. It’s a plugin called PodiPodi. In case you missed our review on PodiPodi, it’s a website enhancement tool that lets you upgrade your website and packs it with multimedia viewing features, Google searches and lots of other cool stuff. PodiPodi is embedded in a page as a java-script gadget, but thanks to its unobtrusive architecture it doesn’t change the page layout.... Read More

BlogBurst is a web service owned by Pluck that takes content from blog sites and provides it to online news sites for republication. You can apply your blog to BlogBurst and when approved, your blog posts will be included in their list for submission to popular news sites like Reuters, Fox-News, USA Today and Internet Broadcasting.... Read More

Scoutle is a social networking site which targets website owners, bloggers and other social networking site users. One might ask what this particular social networking site has to offer. There are already numerous social sites out there aimed to connect bloggers together not including niche social sites where other bloggers use to promote their websites on. With so many out there the only thing missing is a social networking site for social networks.... Read More

Wordpress just released another update since a major one last month (ver 2.5). The new version 2.5.1, includes over seventy bug fixes including security fixes. Check out the full list of fixes made in 2.5.1 here.... Read More

Encyclopedia Britannica has been around for centuries. It has been the leading resource of cataloged information until the internet came along and Wikipedia was born.... Read More

Wordpress just released its latest stable version (2.5) and it is looking great. The new version is equipped with a new interface which I think Wordpress users will enjoy. It takes a little getting used to with the with the new look, but you’ll get used to it in no time. What caught my attention is the ability to change and edit your pemalink for a certain post (see images). This will make your post URL more search engine friendly and you can edit it to what you think is the best for SEO. The add media function is also new where you can easily add images, videos, audios, and other media in your posts. All plugins that I have been using seems to work fine.... Read More

Zemanta is a new web app (still in alpha version) that lets you get suggestions for your content while blogging. As of now, they index around 300 top media sources and numerous blogs of their users. They also provide image suggestions for your content. The suggested images are based on the contextual comparison of your text and image description, title and the articles or posts they were used in originally. They currently get their suggested images from Wikimedia Commons, Flickr and various stock photo providers like Shutterstock and Fotolia. Link suggestions are also provided and even tags for your post.

Zemanta Blogger integration from zemanta on Vimeo.
The suggestion engine will start working after you have typed in 300 characters in your blog. It will analyze your post through their proprietary natural language processing and semantic algorithms, and then the engine will statistically compare its context framework to their preindexed database of other content.How to Use:... Read More