Monthly Archives: March 2008

“WhoLinked” – web services that come and go

By Dan | Published: 03/31/2008
I was writing a post almost at the beginning of this month about what a great service “WhoLinked” provided. It seemed a great, easy-to-use script generator that could help you to show the last 5 websites that linked to you. That way you were providing a link back to them and practically saying “thank you”. I [...]
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WordPress 2.5 is finally out !

By Dan | Published: 03/29/2008
Finally WordPress 2.5 is out. This post is just a heads up so i won’t bore you with details and other stuff you can read on the official page. Also WordPress.org has suffered a new theme-based facelift. Download WordPress 2.5
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WordPress Plugins Set no.1

By Dan | Published: 03/29/2008
A short list of 5 relatively interesting plugins for WordPress. WP-o-Matic for automated RSS-based blogging, AdRotator for random displayed ads, WordPress Reports for aggregating Google Analytics and Feedburner stats in one place, Gregarious for displaying social bookmarking buttons and Download Monitor to help you upload files and keep an eye on download hits.
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Songbird 0.5 has launched !

By Dan | Published: 03/27/2008
Here i posted an article regarding Songbird. Now, with a bunch of bug-fixes and some interesting new features, Songbird 0.5 is out. An interesting new feature is the MTP Device Support. This is actually a new extension. Now you can basically plug in your portable media (or even your mobile phone) and listen to music. Now it [...]
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Is Akismet too automated ?

By Dan | Published: 03/26/2008
The lack of human interaction within the Akismet system seems to affect different platforms. Of course, one of them is WordPress which has a native Akismet plugin, by default. Why is Akismet a danger for bloggers ? Here’s a basic example: If a blogger posts an article and a few persons decide to post comments to [...]
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