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Have you joined Pinterest yet? I have to admit – I’ve been pretty obsessed with it in the last few weeks as I started pinning things and exploring the community. And some pinners are using this new network in really cool ways. For those who’ve not yet familiar with Pinterest, the concept is pretty simple. … [Read more]
A new WordPress plugin authored by GoDaddy has been released. The P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) “creates a profile of your WordPress site’s plugins’ performance by measuring their impact on your site’s load time.” Many plugins can cause major issues with WordPress sites, but this plugin helps profile and report performance issues. If you have ever had … [Read more]
During the 12 New Media Days of Christmas, we’re counting down the days until Santa comes by featuring some of the best blog posts of 2011 from awesome writers within the BlogWorld community! Skip to the end to read more posts in this holiday series and don’t forget to leave a comment if you’ve written … [Read more]
The hullabaloo about Klout has been deafening in recent weeks. Some people are staying. Some people are going. Some people are ranting that no one cares if you’re staying or going. The debate over the value of Klout is raging. I tend to think that people are looking at this tool the wrong way. Klout’s … [Read more]
Klout has never not been controversial, but recently, users got their unmentionables in a twist over algorithm changes that caused just about every score to drop, some more significantly than others. Some people were upset about the changes, but I saw even more people upset that others care about the changes. In the past few … [Read more]
In addition to my own sites and the work I do here at BlogWorld, I also help other clients with their blogs. Recently, I was tasked with helping a client with his mailing list, and although my main job was to write some auto-responders, I also made a few simple suggestions regarding the mailing list … [Read more]
I’m not sure if this test really shows anything we didn’t already suspect, but nevertheless, a new test shows that Amazon’s browser “Silk” is slower than the iPad’s browser “Safari”. The new Kindle Fire runs off the Silk browser and some are saying it’s slower loading than they had hoped or expected. Google employee and … [Read more]
Back in October, WordPress.com and Federated Media announced a partnership to help bloggers make money from advertising revenue on their blog. They’re ready to open up the doors and announced today their service called WordAds. It’s taken WordPress quite awhile to make something like this available and they say it’s because what they had seen … [Read more]
Google says “‘Tis the season for Chromebooks!”. Just in time for the upcoming Holiday season, Google announced a new lower price on their Chromebook, as well as a new streamlined interface. First, let’s start with the Chromebooks from both Acer and Samsung that will be available starting at $299. Google says, “We’ve also been working closely … [Read more]
Amazon’s Kindle Fire was officially released yesterday (November 15th) and pre-orders started shipping out on the 14th. I was tempted to buy one, but decided to wait and see what people’s initial thoughts of it were. When it was first announced, some were saying it was definitely going to be a competitor for the iPad because of … [Read more]
This past week, many of my friends were in Las Vegas for CES...or, at …
The BlogWorld community is growing by leaps and bounds. Every …
Right now, the Internet is buzzing with CES news as bloggers check out the …
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