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What Can Translation Services Do For Your Blog?

Google Translate, and several other online service, are getting really good at breaking down the language barrier online. You can direct translate web pages, or just words and phrases. As they get better, those Translate buttons on blog posts will be ...

From THORD DANIEL HEDENGREN, The Blog Herald,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.

WordPress 2.8.5: A Hardening Release

Anyway, version 2.8.5 of popular blogging platform WordPress is available and it features code cleanup and addresses some potential issues. You should upgrade as always, either from within your WordPress install, or by downloading from ...

From THORD DANIEL HEDENGREN, The Blog Herald,  21 Oct 2009

WordPress.com Goes Mobile

Blog host have added mobile themes to their list of features. The excellent WPtouch is used for iPhone and iPod touch visitors on your blog, whereas will be used for other mobile devices. More in the announcement post. You can visit the Author Archive ...

From THORD DANIEL HEDENGREN, The Blog Herald,  21 Oct 2009

Pingdom Adds Twitter Support, Web Hosts Beware

Uptime monitoring service Pingdom now supports alerts via Twitter, which means that you could get tweets when your site goes down. This is great since it offers realtime public information about downtime, and puts more pressure on the web hosts. After ...

From THORD DANIEL HEDENGREN, The Blog Herald,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc

Envato Launches ActiveDen – Oh Wait, That’s Not New After All!

Envato’s Flash marketplace used to be known as FlashDen, but has now changed its name to ActiveDen. Why? Well, Adobe doesn’t want the good folks at Envato to use their trademark, being “Flash” obviously, in this fashion. Collis Ta’eed emailed the ...

From THORD DANIEL HEDENGREN, The Blog Herald,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

China Continues to Build The Great Firewall

The Lost Laowai blog has updated its list of blocked website in China. New additions include Friendfeed, Vimeo and URL shorteners Bit.ly and Post.ly, to just name a few. These sites and services join Twitter, YouTube, WordPress.com and TypePad blogs, ...

From THORD DANIEL HEDENGREN, The Blog Herald,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: FriendFeed,  Vimeo,  Twitter Inc,  TypePad,  Facebook Inc.

110 Million Indians Get Twitter

Twitter continues to find new mobile carriers to partner with across the globe. The latest addition is Bharti Airtel, which operates in India and reaches 110 million people. This from the Twitter blog post: Our partnership with Bharti Airtel, the ...

From THORD DANIEL HEDENGREN, The Blog Herald,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Airtel

Drew Carey Wants 1 Million Followers, Will Pay For Them

Drew Carey, or @DrewFromTV on Twitter, wants more followers. He also wants to donate money to Lance Armstrong’s charity organization Livestrong. So why not do both at the same time? If Drew Carey gets 1 million followers by December 31st this year, ...

From THORD DANIEL HEDENGREN, The Blog Herald,  12 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Drew Carey,  Lance Armstrong,  Twitter Inc

Tipjoy Shuts Down, Readers Didn’t Want to Share Their Money

Tipjoy is shutting down, the micropayment service that wanted to let your readers send you a little something for your efforts have chosen not to pursue additional funding. This from their blog post: When we evaluate why there’s been so much hype about ...

From THORD DANIEL HEDENGREN, The Blog Herald,  21 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Facebook Inc.

Gravatar.com Site Gets Updated, Video Released

The Automattic owned avatar service Gravatar.com got a much needed site refresh just recently, and an introductionary video for you to show off to your visitors, or anyone not really getting the global recognizable avatar concept. Since Gravatar.com is ...

From THORD DANIEL HEDENGREN, The Blog Herald,  21 Aug 2009

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