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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]
If you’re a new blogger, you might want to check out the entire Beginner’s Guide series we’ve been doing here at the BlogWorld blog, which, to date, includes guides to Twitter Basics, SEO Basics, Podcasting Basics, and Blog Monetization Basics. Today, I wanted to cover another common challenge for new bloggers: using WordPress. WordPress is … [Read more]
The internet was in full force yesterday honoring the life of Steve Jobs. From his best quotes and his 2005 Stanford commencement speech, to the way he changed technology forever. It was inspiring to see the different ways people chose to highlight his life, his legacy and keep the memory of him alive. Boing Boing … [Read more]
Friday Findings is a weekly series where I show some link love and bring you interesting stories from around the web. From social media news and viral videos, to news on technology and more. What Facebook/Skype Video Chat Might Look Like [MOCKUP] – With the latest breaking news about Facebook launching a video chat product … [Read more]
We all have our go-to plugins when launching WordPress … you know, the ones that make your life immensely easier – and your blog easier to use. For me (in random order) they are: Akismet Google XML Sitemaps Genesis Simple Edits & Hooks All in One SEO Pack Contact Form 7 Digg Digg Easy Twitter … [Read more]
Brilliant Bloggers is a weekly series here at BlogWorld where we look at the best posts from around the web all surrounding a specific topic. Every week, we’ll feature three of the most brilliant bloggers out there, along with a huge link of more resources where you can learn about the topic. You can see … [Read more]
As Brad McCarty at TNW noted, the battle is officially over. Chris Pearson, who creased the Thesis Theme has decided to change the licensing to his product, so that it is now split under a partial GPL license. WordPress’ Matt Mullenweg seems to be happy with this compromise, as it allows the theme to be … [Read more]
In any industry, large companies have a responsibility to use their influence responsibly. There’s a lot of gray area here, of course, but I do feel like some entities throw around their clout to pressure partners, clients, customers, and so forth into making certain decisions. When a large company is pressuring a “little guy” to … [Read more]
Now this is a feature I’m not so sure I’d ever use, mostly because I can’t stand the sound of my voice, but you can now enable “Post by Voice” in WordPress and record an audio blog post straight from your phone. By enabling the feature, you will receive a phone number and a unique … [Read more]
For a long time all of us have been worried about our page rank and how we fair in the eyes of Google. Yes, I have always said it, “We Live In A Google World.” Google holds all the search cards, or at least about 60% of it last time I checked, and they make … [Read more]
This past week, many of my friends were in Las Vegas for CES...or, at …
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Right now, the Internet is buzzing with CES news as bloggers check out the …
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