CategoryBlogging Tools and Services

Google have launched another new product – Google Base – a place for submitting content. I’m still trying to get my head around so here’s how they describe it themselves: ‘Google Base is a place where you can easily submit all types of online and offline content that we’ll host ...more

After 48 hours – my Google Analytics stats look like they are finally coming to life with some actual information. It might be time for me to go do some Analysis…

Six Apart took the step of offering active TypePad users affected by recent problems compensation today. Rather than compensating everyone the same they actually left the level of compensation somewhat up to the bloggers themselves and gave them the following options: – While the performance issues caused me some inconvenience ...more

I turned on my computer this morning looking forward to checking out my first statistics with Google Analytics (which apparently takes up to 12 hours to see it’s first stats come in). Unfortunately they seem to be having some ‘issues’ – probably due to the number of people signing up ...more

Steve at Micro Persuasion has a very useful post with Ten Technorati Hacks for anyone wanting to get more out of Technorati – which for a first time user can be a bit overwhelming yet is one of the most useful tools on the web for bloggers.

PubSub is starting to categorize bloggers into PubSub Lists. So far they only have four categories – Law, Fashion, PR and Librarians. What lists would you like to see added? Feel free to add your suggestions in comments below – but perhaps more productive is to let them know – ...more

Blogarithm is a tool that you can add to your blog to give your readers the option to subscribe to it via email. It’s a good system for those readers who have yet to discover or adopt RSS and news aggregators. I’m probably not going to use it because I ...more

TechCrunch has a review of the soon to be launched (in beta) Sphere Blog Search Engine: ‘Relevance in blog search is very difficult. Google-type PageRank analysis, which looks at incoming links to a piece of content, simply doesn’t work because new content doesn’t have much in the way of links. ...more

Macworld reports that Apple have called another press conference for 19 October: ‘Apple doesn’t say exactly what the press conference will be about, but the invitation sent to MacCentral asks to join them as “we unveil Apple’s latest pro innovations.”’ Sounds promising for a PowerUpgrade – I Can’t Wait!