If you’re a Flickr user and have been wanting a better understanding of who is viewing your pictures, you’ll be happy with today’s launch of Flickr stats for pro members: No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you — we’ve launched another of our most often requested features. Yay! In order to get started, you’ll need to first login to Flickr, then visit the stats activation page. That page will tell you to wait a bit for the stats data to appear. The FAQ says it may take up to 24 hours, but mine were ready in about 10 minutes. (But then,…
The open source version of the Movable Type publishing/blogging platform is launching today. See the announcement for more details (a podcast is also available): As of today, and forever forward, Movable Type is open source. This means you can freely modify, redistribute, and use Movable Type for any purpose you choose. It looks like the open source version (MTOS) has all the features and functionality of standard Movable Type 4 edition (MT4), but also includes other improvements and bug fixes. It sounds like the code was forked, “open-sourced”, and now released. The current MT4 product, along with the enterprise addon…
Chris over on Copyblogger has a great post titled Are You Someone’s User-Generated Content?, commenting on bloggers who have been abandoning their personal blogs in favor of social sites like Facebook and Twitter. Here’s a key quote from Chris: …people who abandon blogging have gone from developing a digital asset of their own that could have real value, to becoming someone else’s user-generated content. The phrase “user generated content” is kicked around a lot (perhaps too much), but in this https://cialischeapprice.com/ context I think Chris makes a great point. I’ve seen many blogs where the person is now doing updates…
In the midst of the privacy concerns and backlash over Facebook’s Beacon service, I thought of a great idea for a Facebook application: the Amazon “Share the Love” friend referral program. (Amazon created the Share the Love program in 2002. Whenever you placed an order, Amazon offered to email your friends with a discount offer of 10% for the same items you just bought. If any of your friends used the discount, your account would also be credited with that same amount for a future purchase. You had full control over whom would receive the emails, and which products would…
My 4-year old project to keep an updated list of useful mobile websites continues to draw a decent amount of traffic (somewhere between 1000 and 2000 page views per day). I’ve also managed to reach the top search result for “mobile websites” on both Google and Live.com. (Yahoo and Ask are not keeping up…come on guys!) This week I’m migrating the list from its current home on “www.cantoni.org/palm” to a new domain “cantoni.mobi”. Tonight I have the new domain up and running and tomorrow I’ll start redirecting the old traffic. Hopefully I’ll be able to follow the standard advice for…