CategoryBlogging Tools and Services

TechCrunch has news of a new service that Skype will offer – Skypecasts which will be a free service that allows ‘live, moderated Skype conversations of up to 100 people. The host may controls mute, eject and “microphone pass”. Skypecasts may be prescheduled and promoted via html snippets’. I can ...more

Drupal (a blogging platform) users will be excited today to see Drupal 4.7.0 has been released. New features include: Multiple Block Regions: Were you feeling constrained by only two choices for block placement? You can now dynamically specify as many block placement locations as you want. ‘Offline for Maintenance’ Configuration: ...more

I’m seeing a bit of buzz around today about BlogBurst TechCrunch advises that BlogBurst officially launches today. BlogBurst is a service that syndicates blogger’s content to mainstream media. The publishers using the content pay a CPM based fee to BlogBurst for the content and the blogger gets free exposure and ...more

Just a quick note to say that I’ve added another 12 tools to the Blog Tools list. We’re up to 67 tools now. I’ve had to be a little selective with some of the suggestions people have made. Just a note – I’m not listing hosting services and am not ...more

The last couple of months have seen a load of new blog tools on the market to help bloggers send out their RSS feed via email and today I heard about another one – Yutter · RSS/Blog Subscription Service. Their site doesn’t give you a load of information without signing ...more

The list of Blog Tools that have been submitted by ProBlogger readers continues to grow. I just updated it with another 10 or so tools bringing the list to a total of 55 so far. It’s a little difficult to define what is a ‘tool’ and what is just a ...more

This post has been submitted by regular contributor – Aaron Brazell Late last year, Automattic, the company behind WordPress, launched a brash new anti-spam product for blogs called Akismet.  Of course, at the time of launch, I took the product to task but quickly changed my tune as I understood ...more

Do you Want to Improve Your Blog? Subscribe to ProBlogger Today for Free. A couple of months ago I asked readers to share which blog tools they use the most in some of the following areas. The suggestions were a nice start but I’d like to see the list expand ...more

Earlier today Six Apart announced Widgets for TypePad and today Automattic announced WordPress Widgets. They are a plugin for WP 2.0 (if you have a widget ready theme) which was previously just available on WordPress.com but now is ready to be used by WP.org bloggers. Via LifeHacker