Archive for August, 2008

Game On: Yahoo Buzz Opens To Public

by trigatch4 on August 19th, 2008

Yahoo Buzz has been an interesting concept as a mainstream rival to digg. Digg started as a niche social bookmarking site for tech geeks and as it got more popular it also started catching more heat. Why? The gamers.
Because hitting the front page of Digg sends SOOOO much traffic to any 1 given website, acheiving [...]

FeedBurner RSS Subscriptions Plummet

by trigatch4 on August 16th, 2008

I’m not sure if anyone else has had this issue but I just wanted to report that my FeedBurner statistics for SEVERAL websites has absolutely plummeted. I lost 66% of my readers on one site and 50% on another… arguably my two most important sites.
I’m relatively new in the world of driving RSS Subscriptions but [...]

Wordpress 2.6.1 Launched

by trigatch4 on August 16th, 2008

Well… the loss of all my categories taught me that perhaps I should upgrade Wordpress a bit more regularly. I haven’t in the past because its a real pain. Not only that, but upgrading often breaks things like plugins, themes, etc… that aren’t worth the effort.
But, a lot of folks take a “wait and see” [...]

WP Review Site Plugin: Tutorial & Review

by trigatch4 on August 13th, 2008

Ever think about incorporating product/service reviews into your website? Or how about building an entire site around product/service reviews? Chances are you have… and so have I.
Dan Grossman recently launched a Wordpress Plugin called WP Review Site that will allow you to do exactly that – create a review feature, or an entire review site, [...]

20% Off phpBay Pro!

by trigatch4 on August 13th, 2008

The phpBay Tutorial I wrote awhile back was so popular that the script’s owner, Wade Wells, is allowing me to offer Eureka Diary readers 20% Off phpBay Pro! All you have to do is buy through this link and use coupon code 8C57FDB165.
My experience with phpBay Pro might just lure me back into blogging here [...]

Digg Firefox 3 Plugin Launches

by trigatch4 on August 7th, 2008

Social Media Marketers will be happy to know that Digg just launched a Firefox 3 plugin. You can download it here.
And the video of Kevin Rose talking about the launch:

I haven’t really tried it out yet. I installed it, but as usual I have about 23452523 Firefox tabs open waiting to be attended to, and [...]