Your about me page is, statistically speaking, one of your top 10 pages on your site. It’s right up there with your home page, your most popular articles, and your “call to action” pages. We’ve put together 4 specific reasons…
WordPress.com Gets Refresh With New App and Features
Automattic announced the launch of a new version of WordPress.com, which it has built from the ground up to let you update pages and respond to comments from a desktop app, manage all blogs and sites from one spot on…
WordPress.com Gets New High-Speed Editor
WordPress.com announced that it now has a new editor that’s faster and cleaner. According to the people behind it, it’s fast, responsive, and lets you create posts and pages more quickly both on desktop and mobile. According to WordPress.com, the…
You Can Now Hide Your Tumblr Blog from the Web
Though many bloggers are looking for more eyes on their content, some might be looking for fewer, if they have a tendency to be the target of abusive trolls. Now, Tumblr is adding what it calls a “simple layer of…
WordPress.com Gets A New Action Bar
WordPress.com has a new action bar, which makes it easier for readers to follow blogs of interest and for bloggers to make changes to their own sites. If you’re a blog visitor, and you’re on a WordPress.com blog that you’re…
Facebook Looks to Be Updating Notes
Do you remember Facebook Notes? Believe it or not, you can still write notes on Facebook. A relic of the past, Facebook notes have pretty much fallen out of favor with the social networking crowd. This might be the first…
Julianne Hough Gives Back With Her Blog
Julianne Hough is giving back. Her career has been about stardom, fame, fortune, but now she is using her blog as a platform to share what works in her life with others. “Being in the world of entertainment, as selfish…
WordPress Has ‘Reinvented’ Its Video Feature
Automattic announced a big update to VideoPress, its service that powers videos on WordPress.com and Jetpack-connected self-hosted WordPress sites. It describes the new generation of VideoPress as “dynamic, responsive, and lightning fast”. “Out of the box, the new VideoPress is…
Gigaom Is Coming Back Under New Ownership
In March, the tech news industry was shocked by the news that one of its most prominent blogs, Gigaom, was shutting down after revealing it was unable to pay its creditors. On Tuesday, it was announced that the site will…
Gigaom Shuts Down, “Unable to Pay Its Creditors”
Prominent tech blog Gigaom is shutting down, after it revealed it “recently became unable to pay its creditors”. Here’s what Gigaom management had to say Monday evening: Gigaom recently became unable to pay its creditors in full at this time.…
Google Blog Search Goes Away (Kind Of)
Google Blog Search is no more – at least as a standalone offering from the search engine. Search Engine Land points out that if you go to its previous home – google.com/blogsearch – it simply redirects you to the Google…
Disqus Is Now Including Sponsored Comments
Disqus announced that it has been testing Sponsored Comments for the past month, and that it’s now expanding the new ad unit so that “it’ll be more likely that you come across” one. Here’s what one might look like: If…
Re/code (The New All Things D) Introduced For The New Year
Back in September, The Wall Street Journal and its tech site All Things D announced that they were parting ways, and now with the new year, we get to see both the new Wall Street Journal tech section and the…
Disqus Sponsored Comments Go Programmatic
Disqus, the blog commenting product that appears on sites all over the Internet (including this one), announced that it’s launching programmatic ad buying for its Sponsored Comments product. Disqus launched Sponsored Comments back in April after testing it for a…