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Facebook to Expose your Profile to Google

Facebook is changing. I’ve been pretty resistant to be active in Facebook (oh no, another network to maintain?), but after all the pokes and invites, I recently gave in and started using Facebook more regularly. There are social networks consisting mainly of...

The New WordPress: Superior Group Blogging

Last week, we discussed the new WordPress Beta version. WordPress announced that it will release an updated beta today, along with weekly updates until the September 24th go live date. If you are a beta tester, you should definitely install this update, as several bug...

The Secret Features of StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon, a popular social media site, is a fantastic way to “channel surf” through the web. The StumbleUpon folks were intelligent to set up the system the way that did. Ebay thought so too, having recently purchased them for $75 million. So,...

LinkedIn: Social Networking for All

Many of us have come across LinkedIn at some point or another. You may have heard about it through a friend of colleague, added a contact or 2, and then let your account lay dormant. If you ever hope to promote yourself and/or your blog, you have to get up and get...

WordPress New Beta Version

After 3 months of work, the folks at WordPress have released WordPress 2.3 to Public Beta. According to Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress: (photo source: Wikipedia) Some of the features of 2.3 include plugin and core update notification, built-in tags...

Google Sky Released

For those of you that are big fans of Google Earth, this should be a big treat for you. Google has released a Beta version of Google Sky yesterday, giving users the ability to look around space in the same familiar Google Earth interface. To use Google Sky in Google...

How do you Find the Time to Blog?

With the life and work demands all around us, the question is how to find the time to blog. Like anything, time management for blogging is a must. Here is my quick list on how I spend my time blogging: research and revise. I’m always working on different posts...

Skype: What Really Happened

Now for the moment that we’ve all been waiting for. Many of us have speculated about the different reasons that Skype went down last week. Some said that it was caused by Russian Hackers, but Skype came out to deny this. Skype needed to answer the world, though....