Category Archives: Weblog platforms

Google Base blog import instructions

Google Base launched last Tuesday as a new repository of information for distribution across Google’s network of sites including Google search, Froogle, and Google Local. You can add your existing content to the Google Base for broad distribution with only a few easy steps. I’ll show you how. You need a Google account associated with Google Base to submit items. Sign-in to Google Base to get started. Complete your extended profile. Market yourself with your full name or the name of your site, a description up to 400 characters in length, your URL, location and contact information. Create a…

Movable Type developers event tonight

Six Apart is hosting the San Francisco Perl Users Group tonight at 8 p.m. for a behind-the-scenes look at Movable Type. Byrne Reese will discuss the underpinning of Movable Type’s architecture and design decisions. The meeting is free and open to all attendees. Topics Template tags Text fliters Callbacks Alternate templates MT::Plugin MT::Object MT:App Tags: movabletype, perl…

Verizon launches Blogging category in mobile portal

Verizon Wireless added a blogging category to its Get It Now wireless internet portal last night. The blogging category currently features links to moblogging sites Rabble and Upoc. Rabble was previously available under the Fun & Games>Entertainment category last spring. Want to check out the blogging links on your own Verizon phone? The links are currently available on the following handsets according to Verizon PR: LG VX6000 LG VX4600 LG VX4500 LG VX8000 LG VX7000 LG VX4700 LG VX6100 LG VX8100 LG VX4650 Samsung SCH-a650 Samsung SCH-a790 Samsung SCH-N330 Samsung SCH-a890 Samsung SCH-a670 Samsung SCH-a570 Motorola a840 Motorola V260 Motorola…

WordPress Germany and Google Maps

The team over at Deutche WordPress just added the ability to browse WordPress blogs in Germany using Google Maps. Deutche WordPress maintains a searchable directory of WordPress-powered blogs in Germany and each directory level contains a new map overlay of locations. Check out WordPress blogs in Germany focused on soccer for example. Google Maps currently provides no map coverage of Germany so the site is using only the country outline at the moment. Tags: googlemaps, mapsmashup…

Matt Mullenweg on VeriSign’s move into the blog space

Matt Mullenweg recently posted his views on VeriSign moving into the blog space with its acquisition of Weblogs.com. Matt is a lead developer of WordPress, an open source blogging tool, and one of the developers of Ping-o-Matic, a ping relay service that currently forwards a blog update ping to over 20 destinations. Matt has some first-hand experience with the team at VeriSign. We should have been better prepared for this. Earlier in the year Verisign had the Boston Consulting Group calling people in the space trying to pick their brains, while at the same time refusing to reveal who they…

Blogger adds inbound links to posts

Blogger blogs can now easily add a listing of inbound links to any blog entry. The new feature utilizes Google Blog Search’s URL search feature to display the a list of links on the individual post page. Each view of the individual post page results in a dynamic JavaScript call to generate an array containing a link URL, title, excerpt, author, and time. Each link uses the “nofollow” attribute value. Users without JavaScript see a link to Google Blog Search for the post URL. Blog authors can enable the inbound links display across their entire blog and alter the…

OPML listing of my weblog entries

Dave Winer and Robert Scoble would like more blog outputs as OPML. I just put together a Movable Type template to output all of my entries in OPML format complete with top-level categories. I output the resulting file as my index.opml. Check out my OPML template if you would like to create a OPML output of your Movable Type install. I have not validated the OPML is perfect and valid (but I did e-mail Dave Winer), and I really should have full subcategory traversal. It’s a start. Update: Dave Winer verified the output is correct and works with his browser….

More TypePad 2.0 details

Six Apart just unveiled “Project Comet” a codename for a new approach to weblogs throughout Six Apart blogging tools as an online activity hub incorporating multiple media types, multiple authors, multiple readerships, and a lower technical and psychological barrier to entry. The new technologies will be available in early 2006 as a free upgrade. Mena describes the new approach as a result of observing the variety of users across Six Apart properties and thinking of ways to increase the user base across all tools. We’ve taken the stuff we’ve learned from the community features of LiveJournal and mixed them with…

TypePad 2.0 and new pricing announced

Six Apart demonstrated TypePad 2.0 at the DEMOfall conference yesterday and announced new discounted pricing. Mena Trott’s mom won the coveted DEMOgod award for showing that TypePad 2.0 is so easy even your mother can do it. TypePad 2.0 is a “significant re-engineering” of TypePad. You can now apply multiple group privacy settings to a single blog to allow various visitors to see only the posts intended for their group. TypePad is also supposed to have increased media abilities, but I have not seen the product or any detailed reviews. TypePad also lowered its yearly subscription prices across all three…