Wappalyzer: Check which apps are powering a particular site
Wappalyzer is a useful add-on for Mozilla Firefox web browser that can be used to check the tools used by a particular website.
It can report on the CMS being used to power the website. You can also get information on the various third party plug-ins being [...]
Google Blogger goes down for around 90 minutes
Google powered web services continue to remain in news for uptime related problems.
The latest to suffer is Blogger.
Google Blogger went down for some of their users who were unable to access it for around 90 minutes.
Google confirmed the problems in the help forum.
The [...]
Google launches Data Liberation Front
Google has announced the launch of a Data Liberation Front.
It is essentially a group of Google engineers who are now going to work on opening up their services to enable users to move their data with them if they are switching to a rival service.
The company said that they [...]
Squarespace provides a new comprehensive blog importer
Squarespace has announced the launch of a new updated blog import tool that would make it easier for anyone to switch their blogging service to their platform.
The company has made sure that the switch is as easy as possible. It handles:
Text content
Images
Tags
Authors
Comments
And even the original URLs!
Squarespace [...]
Rosemary Port to sue Google for revealing her identity
Rosemary Port was recently revealed as the blogger behind the Skanks in NYC blog which made news after Google was forced by the courts to release the detail of the person operating it.
Port has now announced her decision to sue the search engine giant. Manhattan Supreme [...]
Google Blogger to turn 10 years old on August 23
Blogging is older than you think it is. Most of us have been blogging or reading blogs since the last couple of years. But the service that made it popular Blogger is now close to 10 years old.
Blogger is now owned by Google and it [...]
Google, CYXYMU and digital refugees
Google Public Privacy Blog has an interesting post connected to the most popular blogger in news today CYXYMU.
CYXYMU has been the center of controversies between the cyber war going on since the last couple of days.
The attacks on social networks being used by Georgian protestors have faced major DDoS [...]
Google Reader gets more social features
Google has been working hard on enhancing their Google Reader web application to make it more useful to fans of RSS feeds.
Google has added a couple of new features which makes Google Reader more social.
Here are some of the new features:
Send To: This feature enables you to share [...]
Search Box now on Google Blogger
Google Blogger has finally enabled the search box functionality for all the bloggers on their Blogger.com service.
This feature was earlier available to users who were using Blogger in Draft mode.
This new functionality now enables the Blogger users to insert a blog search feature on their blogs.
It is available through [...]
Pingdom claims Typepad is the most reliable blog service
Website monitoring service Pingdom has revealed that as per their own research, Typepad is one of the most reliable blogging services around.
They monitored some of the most popular blogging services for a period of four months.
Typepad turned out to be more reliable compared to other [...]
