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Did Blog Buzz for “Hurt Locker” Predict Its Oscar Win?

from Mashable, March 08th, 10

The blogosphere was literally split down the middle in terms of online buzz around the 82nd Academy Awards Best Picture nominees. Both Avatar and The Hurt Locker each maxed out with three quarters of a percent (.75%) of blog post buzz across the web.The data in question comes from The Nielsen Company, who charted all blog posts since the start of February and found that The Hurt Locker's Best Picture and Director win mirrored the movie's rise in terms of ...

Online Video’s Rapid Growth Hits a Speed Bump [STATS]

from Mashable, March 08th, 10

comScore just posted its monthly report on online video viewership, and the total number of videos viewed in January slipped slightly as compared with December.In December, 179 million people watched 33.2 billion videos. In January, it was 173 million people and 32.4 billion videos. It's not a big decline, and we already saw in one of our monthly top webisode round-ups that special holiday content can boost viewership during December, so we know that this probably isn't indicative of a ...

15 Useful Premium Plugins for WordPress “In the past few...

March 07th, 10

15 Useful Premium Plugins for WordPress “In the past few years the growth of the premium/commercial WordPress theme market has grown exponentially. While there are also premium plugins available, they generally get far less attention than premium themes. The right plugin will allow you to improve your site through specific functionality that might otherwise take a lot of time and/or money to set up. “In this post we’ll feature 15 premium plugins that may be able to help you with ...

28 New Great Magazine/Newspaper Style WordPress Themes

from 1stwebdesigner, March 05th, 10

As a great cms platform WordPress has many examples for every work  like blogs, companies, portfolios, galleries etc. Magazine/Newspaper style themes are one of the most wanted WordPress themes and they are very useful for managing lots of posts on a page. This type of themes are mostly liked by small and medium-sized teams who can [...]

30 Powerful Wordpress Plugins For Blog Administrators

from 1stwebdesigner, March 04th, 10

To handle a blog these days can be quite difficult if you are not well-organized and you don't spend enough time managing it. That's why there are plugins for WordPress. They literally make your job lot easier and if you work well with them you can put them to work for you. Sounds cool I know, [...]

The Anti-Hype: Why Apple’s iPad Disappoints

from Mashable, January 27th, 10

The iPad is not the transformational device so many Apple enthusiasts were hoping for. It won't turn all the content industries upside down, it won't be your primary computing device, and it's not even a bigger, better iPhone.Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the iPad as a device to fill the gap between smartphones like the iPhone and high-end laptops like the MacBook and MacBook Pro. He said there needs to be a middle device, but it needs to be better ...

Google Brings Social Search to the Masses

from Mashable, January 27th, 10

Google has kept Social Search pretty much hidden from the general public, choosing to make it an opt-in Google Labs feature. Today, however, Google is pushing the feature to beta status and turning it on for all signed-in English Googlers.You may recall that Google Social Search is a standard search results page add-on that displays socially relevant content from people in your online social circle, as determined by your Google Profile.With the beta release, Google's also integrating social search into ...

15 Blogs for WordPress Designers and Developers to Follow

from Design M.ag, January 27th, 10

One of the major benefits of using WordPress is the large, active community of users. You can find just about anything you need by doing a search. Chances are, someone else has already provided answers to your question on a website, blog, or forum. In this post we'll feature 15 blogs that produce excellent content that is highly relevant to WordPress theme designers. If you do a lot of work with WordPress, either for your own site or for clients, ...

How to Do 500 Times Better than AdSense

from Copy Blogger, January 27th, 10

Right around a year ago now, I made my first cent online. It was literally a cent .01 and it showed up in my Google AdSense account after a certain number of people had viewed an ad for dog food or a shiatsu massager or whatever on my old humor blog. That first cent [...]

Do You Outsource Any Part of Your Blogging?

from ProBlogger, January 27th, 10

I'd like to run a quick poll in this post that examine the idea of outsourcing. You see more and more I'm talking to bloggers (big and small) and am hearing that they outsource at least some of their blogging activities. Perhaps the most common of these is hiring designers or writers but there are many [...]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. Do You Outsource Any Part of Your Blogging?