Mixx Gets Serious About Community Building

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Digg competitor Mixx just launched an extension to its groups feature that founder Chris McGill describes as “Ning for social media”.
Users can now set up Mixx community sites on their own subdomains (see ours here). Administrators have the power to brand them visually, post editorial content, and even make some revenue off […]

MySpace Opens Up The Data Pipe With Full Launch Of Data Availability

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

MySpace was the first of the Big Three to announce tools for third party sites to integrate MySpace user data into their services (called, collectively, Data Availability). A day later Facebook announced Facebook Connect, then came Google Friend Connect three days after that.
Today MySpace is fully launching Data Availability (look […]

How to Translate PDF & Word Documents with Google Translation

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Say dad bought you a digital camera from Japan but the problem is that the PDF manual that came with the camera is also written in Japanese.
How do you quickly translate that PDF file into an English document ?
Solution: If the PDF document is not password protected, you can easily convert it […]

Custom domain for New Blogger (formerly Blogger Beta)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Custom domain is a fairly new feature available recently for bloggers using the New Blogger platform. Most bloggers using Google Blogger do not have their own domain. Instead, they have a sub-domain in the form of http://yourblog.blogspot.com.
Some people are not too happy to use a sub-domain for their blog, as the sub-domain does not belong […]