Technology Bites

Feedvis is a free service that allows you to track a selected list of blogs in any niche for hot topics. Feedvis currently allows up to 100 blogs to track at any time, you can supply the list of blogs to track in OPML format. Then it will generate an interactive tagcloud from those RSS [...]

Microsoft today released an early version of a Content Management System called Oxite aimed at developers who want to build blogs or CMS with ASP.NET MVC. Oxite supports essential features for blogs like pingbacks, trackbacks, anonymous or authenticated commenting (with optional moderation), gravatars support, RSS feeds at any page level, support for MetaWebLog API (possible [...]

Six Apart, the company behind Typepad and Movable Type launched a new ad network that will help bloggers. The new ad network will serve advertising for “Influential Bloggers” and “social media” sites. The advertising program is not limited to Six Apart bloggers but any one can take part in this. The backend technlogy for the [...]

Pirate Bay is offering a new service called BayWords for users, where any one can start a blog with out worrying about copyrights and stuff like that.
Why BayWords?, Accroding to torrentfreak the idea came when one of Pirate Bay founders friend blog was taken down at wordpress.com. Baywords appears to be using Wordpress mu, [...]

Twingly is a new blog search engine currently in private beta. What is unique about twingly over others like Technorati or Google Blog Search is that twingly claims they are 99.99% spam free. That sounds interesting, becoz both Technorati and Google Blog Search have the spam problem, particularly Technorati counts all the spam blogs.

I mentioned here last week that i am working on a popular blog aggregator, finally i finished adding a few categories and blogs to it. The site is now live at Indiblogr.com. Feel free to suggest some new blogs, categories or criticism anything you feel like.
What is this site about, think of it as [...]

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I am thinking to develop a site similar to popurls with Popular Indian Blogs from quite some time. After seeing Alltop i thought that type of site would be good. Let me tell you there is nothing great about these sites, but it is always fun to do something like this.

Today Techcrunch posted (here and here) launch of two startups aiming to make blog commenting better. These are Disqus and Intensedebate, both of these do the same or almost the similar thing. They add a comment thread at the end of a blog post just like a blog comment form but with options like rating, [...]

Blog.gears is an offline Blogger client which allows users to write posts offline. This is very useful feature if you don’t have net connection all the time.
In order to use this feature you need to install Google Gears first. If you have Google gears go to Blog.gears and click on the link login, it [...]

Blogonize is a new service for hosting blogs. It has a web 2.0ish interface with attractive colors.
It is pretty easy to create an account and updating blogs with blogonize. Once you are registered you can start writing your blog entries. It offers a WYSIWYG editor for writing the posts. Blogs are created as subdomains [...]

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 [...]