Tag Archives: technology

Facebook In Polish – Renovated By Cowboys

By Andy Beard | Published: June 11, 2008

For a number of months every time I log into Facebook (or at least it seemed that way) Facebook would add a call for help with translation into my news feed. I think most of my readers are aware that I live in Poland, though those details are not directly available to Facebook, unless they look at my phone number. Thus they are most likely targeting me with the message using some kind of IP delivery - looking at which country or region my IP address originates in, and as I use a Polish ISP, they sometimes give me information in Polish.

Posted in Google, web 2.0 | Also tagged facebook, Google, google_translate, localization, machine_translation, polish, social network, web2.0 | Comments closed

How To Find FriendFeed Rooms With Google

By Andy Beard | Published: May 25, 2008

I noticed within the new Problogger room on FriendFeed, Darren mentioned the following:-

â€œfeel free to invite others to this room - as long as they are bloggers and/or are interested in the ProBlogger type topic I'm happy for anyone and everyone to join. I've invited all my contacts on FF. Pity there's no list of public groups for people to join.â€

Whilst there isn't a public list, in many ways Google with a site search query these days provides a very real alternative.

Posted in blogging tips, web 2.0 | Also tagged friendfeed, friendfeed rooms, Google, lifestreaming, search, tech, web2.0 | Comments closed

Open Web Awards – Call for Nominations

By Andy Beard | Published: November 28, 2007

The Open Web Awards are now open for nominations until the 6th December, and this stage of the proceeding is quite open plan. The current 28 blogging partners (increasing daily) have been provided with a list of categories to accept nominations for, and it is down to each blog to decide how to proceed with collecting nominations, whether to make individual posts for each category, or to handle things from a single post. Voting will take place in a much more refined manner.

Mainstream and Large Scale Networks
Applications and Widgets
Social News and Social Bookmarking
Social Search
Sports and Fitness
Photo Sharing
Video Sharing
Start Pages
Places and Events
Music
Social Shopping
Mobile
Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks

As I loosely focus on niche marketing, with an emphasis on Wordpress, Blogging and SEO I am hoping that we can get some nominations for some of the more niche players.

Posted in web 2.0 | Also tagged mashable, open_web_awards, social networks, tech, web2.0, widgets | Comments closed

Technorati Topics Announced & Bugs

By Andy Beard | Published: September 11, 2007

Technorati have added a new "topics" feature to their front page and menus.

It updates live, in a similar way to Truemors.com and various widgets such as the one for Netscape.com

Topics are split between Entertainment, Technology, Politics, Sports, Business, and Life and apparently blogs have been selected based upon Technorati Authority, frequency of posting, use of relevant tags, links to related subject matter and general topicality.

In theory some of my content might appear within both the Technology and Business sections, but that remains to be seen.

Is Technorati Topics Useful?

In theory it is spam free but it is also elitist

Posted in blogging tips, web 2.0 | Also tagged blog_search, opml, tech, technorati, technorati_favorites, Technorati_polular, technorati_topics | Comments closed

Technorati Can’t Cope With Twitter, coComment, Blog Networks, and Blog Rolls

By Andy Beard | Published: March 12, 2007

Technorati simply can’t cope with new forms of blogging and RSS feed generation. I am not talking about splogs, which seem to still be rampant, and reblogs, likewise, but totally legitimate alternative unique content sources that are effectively blogs.

Posted in blogging tips, stats, web 2.0 | Also tagged 2000 bloggers, blog, blogging, cocomment, geek, rss, syndication, tech, technorati, technorati_links, technorati_ranking, twitter | Comments closed

How to Get Better Technology Search Results and News

By Andy Beard | Published: January 22, 2007

Carefully Selected News Source

What would be better than Robert Scoble’s OPML file?

The Best Search Technology

Google Custom Search Engine gives great search results, and quite often gives better results than the main index.

Posted in Google, marketing, web 2.0 | Also tagged geek, gooble_toolbar_button, Google, google_cse, google_toolbar, megite, meme, robert_scoble, scobleizer, search, search_engine, tech, web 2.0 | Comments closed

Web 2.0 Marketing | Convergence

By Andy Beard | Published: January 13, 2007

I love being the catalyst that encourages some level of convergence between different web 2.0 platforms. Actually this is the first time it has happened with web 2.0, but it has happened for me in other topic areas.

Posted in web 2.0 | Also tagged convergence, megite, mybloglog, tech, web 2.0 | Comments closed

Alexa stats now lagging by 6 days

By Andy Beard | Published: November 29, 2006

Lots of people snub Alexa for providing statistics that are easily gamed, or lack relevance for the global market. As an example Jason Calacanis was recently proposing to test different ways Alexa can be gamed..

Posted in SEO Blog, marketing, web 2.0 | Also tagged alexa, google_analytics, statistics, tech, tracking, traffic | Comments closed