Archive for the ‘blogging’ Category

Putting WordPress on a USB stick

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

Put because you might want to take a fully working install into several places to demonstrate the program or because you want to work on your blog theme while at the office or any other reason you may have.

1) Webserver On a Stick is apachewebserver with PHP and MySQ.

2) XAMPP Lite is a very reduced version of XAMPP (Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl) with Apache 2.2.3 + PHP 5.1.6 (without PEAR) + MySQL 5.0.24a + phpMyAdmin 2.9.0.1 + Openssl 0.9.8d + SQLite 2.8.15.

Putting WordPress on a USB stick

AdSense Revenue Sharing

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

AdSense Sharing Revenue and Earnings System is a which allows you to view your and share your adsense impressions with your friends and co-authors.

How can this help me?

1. You own a website(blog) in specific area and you have many authors
2. They write articles
3. These articles are useful and you are using them together with Google AdSense
4. You have many visitors reading these articles and clicking on the AdSense Ads.
5. You are getting money, (50:50* ratio – your ads and their ads) and your authors are getting money.

Audioblogger Discontinued

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

Hello,

As of November 1, 2006, Audioblogger will no longer accept phone calls. MP3s made with the service will continue to be hosted and served but you will no longer be able to use Audioblogger to post new audio.

Audioblogger is an independent product, run by Odeo, Inc., a small startup company in San Francisco, CA. We are not affiliated with Google or Blogger except that we operate and provide the Audioblogger service.

Given our limited resources, we have to make tough decisions about what projects to focus on. And we’ve come to the difficult decision that Audioblogger demands too many resources, time, and money for us to continue its operation.

However, there are several other services that offer similar functionality. Odeo is not affiliated with any of these services, we only suggest them only in hopes that one or the other will be a good alternative for you.

Gabcast.com is a free service for recording by phone
Hipcast.com has a seven day free trial and lots of features
Gcast.com is another free service for phone recording

All of the listed above are compatible with Odeo in that they produce , which can be imported to Odeo. Any audio file at Odeo can be posted on a blog by copying and pasting some embed code.

Odeo would like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who has tried Audioblogger. If you are interested in keeping up with our other blog-friendly projects, please have a look at Twitter.com and our .

Thanks,
The Odeo Team

Links:
Odeo Importing – http://www.odeo.com/create/addfeed
Players – http://odeo.com/channel/102054/embedded_player

Strong Angel III 2006

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

What is III 2006?

Several hundred people from a variety of fields — academic, nonprofit, corporate, military and more — are gathering for the week to experiment with how we can do a better job responding to disasters (natural or human-caused). Our goal is to find ways to communicate efficiently and get services to the people who need them. San Diego is the test-bed for this week’s scenario.

If possible, we need a bottom-up news flow that will be useful both to the responders and the people in the community. And it would be incredibly cool if we could get bloggers in San Diego to join this experiment in the following way:

1. Once or twice a day starting Monday morning, do a posting — with or without photos — from your neighborhood on something happening there. Obviously there’s no disaster going on, and we don’t want people to make things up. So they should post something that is a real occurrence or scene.

2. Tag each post with this Technorati tag: <a href=”http://technorati.com/tag/” rel=”tag”>strongangel3<a>
(stands for Strong Angel III 2006)

3. Make the posting title the street address closest to where this is happening.

We are going to try to pull the results into a map that gets automatically updated and annotated during the week with neighborhood-level information.

Here’s a site with a more detailed description:

http://www.strongangel3.net

WordPress 2: Visual QuickStart Guide

Monday, August 7th, 2006

Quickstart Guide WordPress

WordPress 2: Visual QuickStart Guide is a useful book to have next to you while you work on your blog.

This easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide shows you how to install, use, and customize WordPress to get the most from the software. Includes tips that explain why certain techniques are better than others, how to watch for potential problems, and where readers can find more information.

: is more oriented towards beginners, but has some useful information for intermediate users. Advanced users should look elsewhere.

Flickr Tools

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

Flickr Services
Flickr has an open Application Programming Interface (API for short). This means that anyone can write their own program to present public Flickr data (like photos, tags, profiles or groups) in new and different ways. There’s a long list of API methods available to you to work with.

Third Party Flickr Apps List
Flickr Hacks
you’ll learn how to:

Post photos to your blog directly from your cameraphone
Mash up your own photos or others’ public pictures into custom mosaics, collages, sliding puzzles, slideshows, or ransom notes
Back up your Flickr library to your desktop, and save the comments too
Set random desktop backgrounds and build your own Flickr screensaver
Geotag your photos and map your contacts
Download a list of photos and make a contact sheet
Make your own Flickr-style tag cloud to visualize the frequency of common tags
Build a color picker with a dynamic color wheel of Flickr photos
Feed photos to your web site and subscribe to custom Flickr feeds using RSS
Talk to the Flickr API using your web browser, Perl, or PHP; authenticate yourself and other users; and build custom API applications

Kubrickr
is a tool that lets you replace that giant blue blob at the top of your WordPress 1.5 blog with a nice photo from Flickr.
FAlbum – WordPress Flickr Plugin
is a Wordpress plugin that allows you to display your Flickr photos and photosets on your site.
FlickrRSS plugin for WordPress
is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to display Flickr photos on your weblog. The plugin supports user, public and group photostreams. It’s easy to setup and configure via an options panel. It also has image cache support.

fd’s Flickr Toys

The Great Collection

Ask Search Blogs – Best for Now

Friday, June 9th, 2006

Ask Search Blogs is cool.

Ask owns Bloglines, my primary . Bloglines is currently indexing over 1.5 billion archived posts – searching for what people subscribe to. So instead of using net crawlers to discover links, the Bloglines subscriber indexing efforts should eventually generate more useful results than other blog/feed search sites.

The results page allows you to subscribe to the feed or post to sites like digg and del.icio.us.

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