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March 12th, 2010 — Weblog Services
I just encountered “The Prestigious Weblogs Award.”
Awards presented by weblogsaward.com are intended to recognize and encourage excellence in weblog originality, and to help keep the world-wide-web itself a fun, pleasant, helpful and informative community.
Nothing to speak of about the who is confering the award, who the past winners may have been. Beats me.
Originally posted 2003-12-15 14:04:15. Republished by Old Post Promoter
March 8th, 2010 — Weblog Services
Not sure what to think of the site.
“Simplicity in Blog Search”
Search the blog Search Engine for blogs on any subject
Originally posted 2003-09-17 16:11:25. Republished by Old Post Promoter
March 5th, 2010 — Weblog Services
I can’t think of a way to summarize MemeStreams myself so here’s a few snippets from the about page.
MemeStreams is a new way to build communities out of weblogs. [...] Web logs often consist of entries which reference and respond to other web logs, and so on. Unfortunately, these discussions are spread out on different sites and there is no index into them. MemeStreams can present a threaded view of all of the discussion that links back to a URL. [...]Recommendations flow through MemeStreams like rumors passing word of mouth through social circles.
Originally posted 2003-03-15 13:29:15. Republished by Old Post Promoter
February 16th, 2010 — Weblog Services
Blog Search Engine is testing a new service:
A free service where “bots” send you simple text e-mails when your favorite blogs are updated.
Originally posted 2003-10-22 10:29:46. Republished by Old Post Promoter
February 3rd, 2010 — Weblog Services
I think Blogger Talk Forums is the second (first) bulletin board site I’ve seen devoted to weblogging in general. I’m not sure what to think of it: their FAQ is blank. And I’m too lazy to dig through their dozen or so forums.
They appear to be connected to Blogging Network whose “Up to $40,000* Available To Writers” does sound like a dubious come-on. And Blog Search Engine appears to be part of the same self-reinforcing mix.
Originally posted 2003-09-17 18:02:45. Republished by Old Post Promoter
January 17th, 2010 — Weblog Services
After years of using IE almost exclusively I’ve been playing with Mozilla and Phoenix for the past couple of weeks. Today I discovered Junkie:
Junkie is a chrome (eg. priveledged) sidebar that matches weblogs.com/changes.xml to your history and bookmarks.
I’ve never bothered with setting up a blogroll. When I want to read weblogs on a particular theme I usually find someone with a good blogroll and use it. Now I’ll use Junkie as well.
Originally posted 2003-03-18 11:23:31. Republished by Old Post Promoter
November 27th, 2009 — Weblog Services
Damn, I just added my Technorati Profile.
Feedster, to date, has been an anonymous system. We haven’t tried to host user data and that’s worked well for us. Its also been severely limiting. So now we’re ready to take that next plunge — user accounts and personalization or what we call “Your Feedster Identity”. What a Feedster Identity does is give you a login and password and then a triad of “Feedster Keys”
Feature #7: Identity, Identity, Identity
Originally posted 2003-09-17 18:48:00. Republished by Old Post Promoter
November 25th, 2009 — Weblog Services
Having mentioned popularity I’d feel remiss if I didn’t note my discovery of Feedster’s Top 100.
Ever wonder what feeds are popular with other Feedster-ites? Ever want an easy way to check out some of the feeds that other people swear by? Well we took an anonymous look at the users of myFeedster, our web based aggregator, and calculated the “Feedster Top 100″, the most popular feeds based on the number of subscribers. Here it is along with the RSS feed and an OPML file containing the collection:
Originally posted 2004-01-21 16:15:29. Republished by Old Post Promoter
November 21st, 2009 — Weblog Services
After several months of helping friends out with their blogs (including blog designs, blog setups, scripts for their blogs, etc) I decided to make it official by coming up with a silly name and offering these services to anyone else who might want or need them.
My rates are ridiculously reasonable and I’ve yet to have an unsatisfied customer.
Originally posted 2003-10-07 18:10:55. Republished by Old Post Promoter
November 2nd, 2009 — Weblog Services
Been awhile since I visited Technorati. David is now offering weblog owner profiles:
A new feature you may have noticed at Technorati is Member Profiles. They’re an easy way to find out more information about the people behind the weblogs. Anyone can become a Technorati member simply by signing up.
Originally posted 2003-08-24 11:10:37. Republished by Old Post Promoter