In the quest to develop my personal brand and portfolio, to and simply create a place where all of my writing efforts across the interweb can have a single home, I came across a neat little plugin for Windows Live Writer (which all bloggers should try using, if they don’t already) called xPollinate. xPollinate allows for easy cross-posting of blog entries created in Live Writer — including posts created in the past — to a multitude of services via Ping.fm. This makes the process of creating your personal online hub a lot easier. All you need is a Ping.FM account, Live Writer and the plugin, and a blog service that makes both posting and sharing your collected works easy and, if possible, fun. For my purposes, I chose Tumblr, the microblogging/blogging platform and network, and so far, things have been running smoothly. Hit the jump to find out how to set it up.
Month: December 2009 (page 3 of 3)
A week and a half ago, as part of a review of the first 6 month’s of 40Tech’s life, we took a look at the technical details of starting the site, including some lessons we learned along the way. Today, in Part 2, we look at some of the other factors that went into starting this site, and in determining what direction the site has taken so far. As with the last post, we hope that this will help those of you starting your own site, and that the experienced bloggers out there will be interested in glimpsing behind the scenes of another blog.
Thanks to everyone who requested a Wave invitation. Invitations have been submitted for everyone who requested one as of the time of this writing. As mentioned previously, you now need to wait for Google to act on the invitations. Keep an eye on your inbox and your spam box, and hopefully Google will send them out within the next couple of days. If you get yours, hop on over to the 40Tech Public Wave, and try out Wave.
Windows Mobile is not known for being either pretty or exceptionally user friendly, and the apps have been repeatedly put to shame by iPhone and Android software. WinMo users were waiting with baited breath for the launch of the Windows Mobile applications store (Skymarket), but initial offerings were largely disappointing and often grossly overpriced. Hope springs eternal, however, and TouchTwit, the newest Twitter app on the block for Windows Mobile, leaves you feeling all warm and fuzzy inside.
12/3/09 update: We’ve hit the 48 hour mark. We’ll get a post up tomorrow, but everyone from Ashish through Randall will be getting an invite. Thanks for posting!
We previously wrote about how to organize the Google Wave sidebar with tags, and we have at least a couple of additional Wave-related posts coming soon. These posts probably don’t interest you, though, if you’re not using Wave. Wave invitations were once very hard to get, but have become more common now. We’d like to do our part by offering 20 invitations. Read on for how to get one, so that you can get in on the fun.