Eyepinch, Inc. BlogEyepinch, Inc. BlogPerformancing's ScribeFire Blogging Plugin- December 29, 2006 As many of you know, PayPerPost recently aquired most of Performancing&39;s assets earlier this week. This aquisition got a lot of people asking about the future of the popular Performancing blogging plugin, which wasn’t acquired. Well, it&39;s still available; however, it has been rebranded as ScribeFire. The site currently has a landing page up and will be launching shortly. In the meantime, the old plugin can still be downloaded on the Mozilla site.ScribeFire reports that 400,000..http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=56 Digg Raises Series B Round Funding- December 29, 2006 It has been reported by Red Herring and VentureBeat that Digg has just closed an $8.5 million Series B round of financing from previous investors Greylock Partners and the Omidyar Network, bringing the the total of capital they’ve raised to just over $10 million. They previously raised $2.8 million in October of 2005 from Greylock, Omidyar and several angel investors. It has also been reported that they are not yet cash flow positive but should be in the near future, and currently have 18.http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=55 WebTrafficDaily.com Dot Coms That Verify- December 28, 2006 Looking for news about internet technology and related products and services Well, check out www.webtrafficdaily.com. This site hosts up a wealth of information about the information technology industry. You can learn about what products and services on the web that are getting new hype and buzz and how they are doing so. This site, like others, all fall back to Viral Marketing. This type of marketing is what is leading the internet revolution. Providing..http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=54 Hey!Watch Online Video Converter- December 28, 2006 There are several sites on the web that allow you to convert your audio and video files into different formats. But Marseille, France-based Hey!Watch appears to be a much more robust product than anything I&39;ve seen previously, and they’ve added developer tools to help build their functionality directly into other web services. The service is in private beta, but there is some information on the home page for you to read and you can request an invitation to join. With Hey!Watch, users...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=53 Google Maps: Speech-Friendly Textual Directions- December 27, 2006 Google Maps and its associated local search is a quick and easy means of locating businesses and obtaining directions. Most people who use it already seem to enjoy the graphical interface with its extremely reactive GUI. But when using spoken output, this visual richness can get in the way of quickly listening to the results of a maps query. As an alternative, Google Maps also provides a simple to use a textual interface that serves up directions very efficiently when working with a...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=52 John Chow Dot Com Mogul- December 26, 2006 Have you heard about JohnChow.com If you haven&39;t, you&39;re sure to hear about him soon enough. Let me go ahead and kick things off. John Chow is the founder of TheTechZone and The TTZ Media Network. John shares a lot of interesting tips and advice about blogging, the Internet, and technology that have made him successful in this industry. The posts he has made on his blog site, www.johnchow.com, have helped me and many others..http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=51 Adobe To Release CS3- December 24, 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) will introduce a beta version of Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 software, the next release of the world standard in digital imaging, on Friday, December 15th. Adobe is delivering a widely available Photoshop CS3 beta to enable customers to more easily transition to the latest hardware platforms, particularly Apple’s new Intel-based systems. The beta is available as a Universal Binary for the Macintosh platform, as well as for Microsoft®...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=49 Effective Domain Name Selection & SEO- December 24, 2006 If you think the selection process and the name you have chosen for that shiny new domain name won’t make any difference in the search rankings of your new or existing website, think again. Today more than ever, all search engines do carry a lot of weight to the keywords or key phrases that are present in your domain name. Ask any SEO professional firm that has been in this business for at least three or four years and they will tell you that the careful research and the final selection...http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=50 LicketyShip Delivering The Goods- December 23, 2006 New startup LicketyShip, the Kozmo-like ecommerce service that delivers goods within a couple of hours of ordering, is counting on this holiday season to make a name for itself. The company, which we first noticed back in January, launched in September, but they’ve recently gotten a lot of mainstream press attention and are offering $9.99 delivery up through Christmas Eve. So while the big ecommerce sites can no longer get stuff to you by the big day, Lickety Ship is still running strong..http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=48 Wengo Introduces Video Chat for Bloggers- December 22, 2006 Wengo a subsidiary of 9 Telecom, France’s second largest telecom, has a well designed chat widget for bloggers. It’s called Wengo Visio and is like MeeboMe but with video chat. Visio runs in Flash through a bit of embedded JavaScript and CSS, with SIP as the communications protocol. Check here for some bloggers that have it implemented. When you have your widget installed, you can make yourself available to chat by logging in through an admin menu. While online, readers can solicit..http://www.eyepinch.com/news-blogs.asp?id=47 |