After briefly speaking to fellow blogger Paul Stamatiou about startups, I decided to look into a product he is putting a lot of effort into - Skribit. Everytime I’m on his website I glance right past that little widget in his sidebar and go straight for the content. Today, I decided to take a look at what he and the team of developers working on Skribit have to offer.
So what is Skribit?
Skribit is a tool that lets you guys, the readers, of any content producing website to make suggestions on what to write about. It then allows other readers to vote on these suggestions so the writer can have a list of ideas organized by demand. You can also visit the main Skribit homepage to a see the most popular suggestions people have made on different blogs and rate them yourself, or find out if authors are actually publishing what their readers suggest.
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So I ended up lying about the Blogger Profiles. I couldn’t do them every Saturday, as the week following the profile on TimothySykes.com was insanely busy with work on UNCForum.com, another project I am involved with. I know it’s Thursday but I think it’s necessary to start this series back up - I think a lot of people benefited from that introductory post and review about Tim’s site. I’ll try to keep posting a new profile every week from now on, however when things get hectic it might be pushed back some.
Anyways, back to the profile! This week we take a look at UpstartBlogger.com - a popular blog that claims to be a “quickstart guide to creating, launching, maintaining, promoting, and profiting from a successful blog.” So, how does it stand up to the test? Let’s take a look at what this site has to offer:
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I’ve decided to add to the list of things I have tried to make money online. I am going to attempt to start a small-time, online publishing operation running on a string of culturally driven sites. I will try to enter a market that lacks serious online informational presence and hopefully capitalize on the fact that this will be essentially an industry first.
Currently I’m still in the developmental stage for 2 of the 3 sites, however one of them is nearly ready. I have collected 16 or so of the 21 needed articles for the inaugural issue. Hopefully I can get this thing up by the end of October, although it’s going to take some serious work.
The first publication, entitled EverydayDesi, is an online magazine targeted towards South Asians in the United States and UK. Like I mentioned, we’re still in need of a few articles for the first issue, so if you are interested in contributing, please contact contribute [at] everydaydesi [dot] com. I’ve had tremendous fun so far creating a magazine-style layout and readying the backend, however getting contributors has been a little more tedious.
If you have any experience at all with creating an online publication using content from multiple authors, I’d love to hear your input on the subject.
I know, there are a ton of ‘top 10 WordPress plugins’ lists all over the internet. After seeing several blogs that were down as a result of spikes in traffic, however, I felt inclined to make this list for those of you on shared hosting aiming to make it big on Digg, Reddit or StumbleUpon.
This is a list of plugins that will help you speed up your blog, protect it from spammers and make content easily findable for your readers. So without further adieu, I give you…
The Top 10 WordPress Plugins that will save your blog from a spike in traffic:
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I’ve spent the last few hours testing out Google Chrome and I can now say that it will be my new default browser. While the feature set of Google Chrome is limited and lacking compared to Mozilla’s Firefox, it is the speed and efficiency that Chrome provides that has made me switch over (at least for now).
I’m not talking about a split-second difference here — my tests show that pages were loading 2-3x faster and my overall browsing experience has been amazing.
Why Google Chrome is better than Firefox:
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