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Archive for June, 2008

Readburner chicklets for WordPress.com blogs

Posted in Code, tagged , , , , , on June 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »

This is not a how to blog, but, as it is still under construction, I will blog about all the little tricks I apply here, that might have some use for the rest of the wordpress.com folks. Here is a little nice one. Problem: Readburner is a service that aggregates all blogposts shared in NewsGator [...]

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An explanation of the blog name

Posted in Personal on June 28, 2008 |

etymology, blog name, webtropic

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WordPress.com: get more juice out of it

Posted in HowTo, Social media, tagged , , on June 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Let me start by stating that I love wordpress. I love it as an open source project, as a blogging platform, as a business model (.com, that is) and as a community, in general. I started working with WordPress in September 2006. By the February of 2007, I already wanted to migrate to my own [...]

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Soundsnap: a free-sounds repository

Posted in Startups, tagged , , , on June 25, 2008 |

A twitter friend pointed me yesterday to Soundsnap, a new site that offers tons of free sounds. Never before have I  bothered to check the existence of this type of sites, so I don’t know whether this is a novelty or not. But, being a  podcaster, I run to check whether the material is available [...]

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Mobile phone wars are raging but geeks seem wary

Posted in Tech News, tagged , , , on June 24, 2008 |

While the big news today is the announcement of the Symbian acquisition by Nokia, what has caught my attention is an indirectly related, little conversation in Friendfeed. Asks Steve Rubel : Is anyone planning to wait on line July 11 for the new iPhone? Just curious. Yes, I am curious too. More because I will [...]

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Matt Mullenweg’s Presentation at GBC08

Posted in Events, People, tagged , , on June 23, 2008 |

I repost here the video with Matt Mullenweg‘s presentation in  the Greek Blogger Camp which took place at Ios island at the end of May. Matt was with the Greek Bloggers for a second time and he gave a speach mostly about the future plans of WordPress. Some of the information revealed there, were first [...]

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Webtropic

Posted in Personal, tagged on June 23, 2008 | 17 Comments »

Going to the hot lands of the web, the abuzz  and idea plenty, where all the novelties spring or sprout. Where all the new ventures take form and  their newborn ecosystems shape. In the jungle of the world wild web. That is what this blog is (or, rather, will be) about: technlogies, startups, events and [...]

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