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, 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 [...]
LiveJournal still under attack
LiveJournal has reported that they are still facing cyber attacks which crippled Twitter last week.
The attacks also resulted in slowdowns on Facebook social network.
Facebook and Twitter have both recovered from the attacks.
LiveJournal has reported that they have successfully managed to counter the attacks which are continuing.
A company representative [...]
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 [...]
Google Blog Converters platform launched
Search engine giant Google has launched a new innovative platform named Google Blog Converters.
This service is hosted on the Google Code platform.
It is designed to enable the user to move his blog from one blogging platform to another.
The service supports the popular blogging platforms including LiveJournal, MovableType, WordPress, [...]
LiveJournal and WordPress.com faces network based attacks
LiveJournal and WordPress.com users have faced some downtime on the service as they were facing online attacks.
LiveJournal confirmed in a statement: “We can confirm that LJ experienced two episodes of downtime due to network-based attacks.”
it is not confirmed whether attacks on both the blogging networks were similar in nature. [...]
Livejournal said to be blocked in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan web users are reporting that they can no longer access the popular blogging service Livejournal.
The ISPs in the country have responded by claiming that they have no applied any kind of block on this web based service.
Livejournal too has confirmed that they are not locking out any [...]
Ping.fm for all you social networking fans!
Ping.fm is an exciting new service (currently need invites) designed for the fans of various social networking services.
It works with a variety of networks including:
Bebo, Blogger, Facebook, hi5, Jaiku, LinkedIn, LiveJournal, Mashable, MySpace, Plurk, Pownce, Tumblr, Twitter and Xanga
Updates can be made using a variety of ways and [...]
YeahReader provides all basic RSS reader functionality such as a convenient feed update system, proxy support and pop-up update notification. Besides this, YeahReader has such features as built-in blog client that will allow you to quickly write messages to your LiveJournal, Blogger, WordPress or Delicious blog, OPML support, ability to export data into HTML, [...]
