Monthly Archives: November 2009

3 brilliant tech sites you need to check out!

Here are a few technology related sites / blogs I highly recommend you check out.

TWiT – This week in tech

Crave – From CNET

The BBC website technology pages

Here’s why I recommend them.

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Tech news providers on Twitter

If you read this blog, you are obviously interested in technology news. That’s why I would like to share my Tech News Providers Twitter List with you.

Here’s the list…

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The Tech News Blog moves to Headway

As regular readers will notice, the Tech News Blog has changed a lot this week.

Originally, the blog was on the Thesis theme; which is one of the cleanest looking Wordpress themes on the planet. However, I found Thesis way too hard to adapt and modify myself.

For a few months, I tried using a glossy looking theme, but it looked way too glossy; like a technology website (CNET / ZDNET) – rather than a tech news blog (Scobleizer / LouisGray.Com)

Whilst I wanted the clean simplicity of Thesis, I needed a theme that gave me 100% freedom to design, tweak and modify the blog myself – without having to learn HTML/CSS or hire a expert. So, I decided to use Headway (I’m now an affiliate) instead.

Here’s why!

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Twitter.com about to get stickier!

I was reading this post on mashable earlier, from one of my favourite tech bloggers, Jennifer Van Grove. It’s about a new ‘tweet notification’ feature that Twitter are planning to add, for people who use the Twitter website to tweet.

Twitter business model to include advertising?

This got me thinking. In recent weeks, Twitter has made a number of significant improvements to the functionality of the main Twitter website. Most recently we saw the addition of the superb Twitter Lists feature, but Twitter are ALSO working on a new retweet feature too. These improvements have one thing in common; they render web-based apps like Tweetdeck and (my favourite) Seesmic Desktop less and less essential.

Here’s why this matters…

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