Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg announced today that Automattic, the company behind wordpress.com has acquired Gravatar. Gravatar stands for “Globally Recognized Avatar” provides 80×80 pixel avatars that follows you from blog to blog and shows up beside your name wherever you comment.
Matt says that Gravatar servers have been transferred to Automattic and the service is now [...]

If you are bored of seeing those default wallpapers in your desktop, its time for you to change the wallpaper. I am looking at the Flickr Wallpapers Pool and there are some beautiful wallpapers available for all. You can find a wide variety of wallpapers. This pool has more than 21,000 wallpapers and it’s a [...]

Haris tagged me a few days back for the “What’s On Your Desktop” meme. Here i am posting my desktop screenshot, probably the messy desktop you have ever seen. I save lot of files on my desktop, apart from these you will also see some freeware installers, php scripts.

Blogrush, the much hyped widget is not driving any traffic. I installed it a few days back to check whether it really sends any traffic or not. Today i removed it from my sidebar because it is not of any use.
If we look at the last 7 days stats of my blog i got [...]

North x East has a list of 50 most influential bloggers, its worth to check all the blogs on the list. The article is quite nicely written with good information on why the blogger is influential.
Nick Denton founder of Gawker Media and editor of Valleywag is on top followed by Kevin Rose of Digg [...]

Technorati today announced a new feature called ‘Topics‘. This section replaces the recently designed homepage of technorati.
Topics is a new feature showing a stream news style blog posts from authoritative blogs. Topics include Entertainment, Technology, Politics, Sports, Business, and Life. The topics pages gives 10 blog posts in a continuous stream, you can interrupt [...]

Text Link Ads is sending emails that they have changed their URL structure and all the affiliates had to change to the new URl, they are suing tiny URL. I guess this move is because of the Google’s move on penalizing sites selling text links.
Whatever may be the reason, if you have posted these [...]

These are some of the interesting discussions around the blogosphere. Hope you will enjoy reading these posts.

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