CategoryBlogging Tools and Services

I’m told that the Performaning Metrics blog statistics package that I reviewed earlier in the week will be going into a public beta test in the coming hours. Press Releases are circulating on the web and the invitation to officially give it a go is imminent from what I’m told. ...more

Just stumbled upon this interesting service called Gabbly that allows you to add a chat room to any page. I’m going to hang out in one for ProBlogger for the next little while. Come chat with me at http://gabbly.com/problogger.net update: having used it now for a few hours my initial ...more

There’s news over at the Site Meter blog today that the free website statistics package has added tracking of outbound links to it’s offering. The free version of their service will now track the last 100 URLs that your readers leave your blog to visit if you have the javascript ...more

There’s a couple of posts over at cre8d which caught my attention today. Firstly Rachel writes about Subscriber count buttons and ask if they are the ‘new hit counter?’ She writes: “On the other hand, some may find that displaying subscriber counts may come across as an ego badge, just ...more

100 bloggers usually ranked in the 400’s at Technorati’s rankings must be feeling pretty nice tonight as they’ve been elevated to the top 100 in what seems to be a glitch in the Technorati’s top 100 blogs list. I have to say – it’s kind of nice to see some ...more

I just watched this very amusing video on Social Networking (particularly MySpace). Found via Small Business Trends

As I mentioned earlier today, I’ve been one of the alpha testers of Performancing’s new Metrics tool. We’ve been using it on a number of b5media blogs over the past couple of weeks (including ProBlogger) since Nick approached us with the opportunity. I’d actually heard of the package previously in ...more

Nick Wilson over at Performancing has just announced the coming of a new ‘metrics’ tool which they have been alpha testing over the past few months. I’ve been lucky enough to be one of the alpha testers of it and while I don’t think I’m allowed to say too much ...more

Adriaan Tijsseling, the guy behind the critically acclaimed ecto (the Apple version of the blog publishing tool) has today announced his latest product – a news aggregator for Mac users called endo. I’ve just downloaded it to try it for the 21 day trial period and so far I’m really ...more