Posted by Michael Perlman on April 8th, 2008 in Internet, Reviews, Web 2.0
All of the buzz in the social communication world these days goes to Twitter. From MacWorld to SXSWI, people have been tweeting about anything and everything going on in their lives. The main goal of Twitter is to have people share their current action or thought in a 140 character message (the specific limit is […]
Posted by Michael Perlman on December 9th, 2007 in Internet, Web 2.0
Now that 2007 is slowly rumbling to an end, I’ve glanced back at all of the amazing breakthroughs that have been made over the course of the year. Microsoft released Windows Vista; Apple released the iPhone, new iMac and new iPods; and many other new products and services have emerged.
Web Worker Daily would like to […]
Posted by Michael Perlman on May 20th, 2007 in Internet, Web 2.0
So far we have the Mint stat-tracking software, the MintPages.net designers’ community, and now the Mint finance tracking service. Although it is an invitation-only service, it looks promising. Want to help me get Minted faster? Click below:
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Posted by Michael Perlman on May 7th, 2007 in Reviews, Web 2.0
Starting at registration, IMified is the easiest Web 2.0 service to use. Not many sites that cross the Educated borders are talked about like this, with good reason.
From second one, I realized that IMified is truly simplistic. In fact, the registration process is as simple as this: send an instant message to one of the […]
Posted by Michael Perlman on March 18th, 2007 in Annoyances, Internet, My life, Web 2.0
People do make stupid mistakes. That doesn’t mean they aren’t stupid. It means that they either don’t pay attention before they perform the mistake, or ignore the after-effects. I chose the former, by deleting my Technorati claim on Educated.
I thought I was deleting the claim on (one of) my other, totally untouched blogs. But at […]
Posted by Michael Perlman on February 24th, 2007 in Articles, Blogging, Web 2.0, Web Site Tools, WordPress
Trackbacks are one of those blogging features that some beginners just don’t get (I was there - trackbacks have only made sense to me recently). The truth is that they are very simple to understand.
Think of trackbacks as comments that are posted by your blogging tool, rather than your own self-determination. To use a rather […]
Posted by Michael Perlman on February 12th, 2007 in Internet, Reviews, Web 2.0, Web Site Tools
A few days ago, I gained interest in Gravatar, which I had come across before in my early blogging career. At first I didn’t really understand what it was all about, and to this day, some of its features are still unclear to me. I understood the basic concept - showing a single avatar next […]
Posted by Michael Perlman on February 11th, 2007 in Articles, Internet, My Sites, SEO, Web 2.0, Web Development, Web Site Tools
My experimenting with my site(s) has brought thousands of changes to it (them). I’ve played with templates and themes, modules, and hundreds of other features and tweaks. But there is one thing I’ve learned (not the hard way, yet): Leave URLs alone. Search engines need URLs to work with your site. If they all suddenly […]