WordPress (the most advanced, easy to use and flexible free php-and-mysql powered blogging platform / content management script out there…) reached version 2. But it’s still in a beta phase. Anyway you can check out the official WordPress 2 Topic at the support forums and eventually grab your copy from there. I’ve installed it on [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2005
Google Analytics - Formerly Urchin
November 16, 2005 – 2:56 am
The new “you should have seen it coming” tool from Google is out: Google Analytics
I’ve signed up for it and I’ve implemented it on my site. The signup process really took only a couple of minutes, I could use my “google account” (which basically is my gmail account) and in seconds I modified the header [...]
Why do you have to backup!
November 16, 2005 – 2:06 am
I recently went through a nightmare. And I mean a TRUE nightmare. And when I say “true” I mean I lived it… not only dreamed about it. Wassup then? I deleted the whole Wordpress database. Yes dudes. As soon as I finished clicking the “delete” link on my cpanel page, I discovered I was deleting [...]
blummy - bookmarklets in ajax salsa
November 13, 2005 – 11:30 pm
aaahhh… the power of Bookmarklets. If you don’t know what the hell a bookmarklet is, here it is the definition from the Wikipedia:
A bookmarklet is a small JavaScript program that can be stored as a URL within a bookmark in most popular web browsers, or within hyperlinks on a web page. Because Internet Explorer uses [...]
Netvibes adds Flickr to YOUR page
November 8, 2005 – 11:38 pm
I read it today on the netvibes’s blog (placed their feeds right in my Netvibes home page).
Flickr Module for NV is out! Yeeeeppaaaaa… I knew this day would come… it’s way cooler now ;)
…just enter a photostream feed url (RSS or ATOM) or a tag like “flower”, select the layout “Slides” or “Thumbnails”, choose how [...]
SuprGlu - Piecing Your Web Together
November 7, 2005 – 8:53 pm
There’s a new service out there that promises to glue your internet life’s pieces together. It’s called SuprGlu… and it’s cool.
It’s a feed aggregator. Yes dudes but wait… it’s more than that: you can aggregate feeds from other sites you’re subscribed to… like del.icio.us, flickr, blogger and any other service that has feeds. And you [...]
Amazon’s Artificial Artificial Intelligence - Mechanical Turk
November 5, 2005 – 5:04 pm
I just finished reading an interesting news about Amazon’s new “Artificial Artificial Intelligence” - Mechanical Turk. Though TechCrunch says this is a sort of ” Matrix we are all plugged into a machine” event, I find it quite interesting :)
People are paid to do stuff. And developers can control such human-operated-tasks by using an API. [...]