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I just learned that Blogspot introduced RSS feed, just very recently. It seems odd seeing they already have ATOM feeds, why all of a sudden introducing RSS? Besides, RSS version are older than Atom, its going to be obsolete sooner than Atom. So why are they releasing RSS then?
Also, it appears that RSS list the last 25 updated items, which is different from their Atom feature because unlike their RSS, they only list the selected number of post you on the front page. Weird, why the disimiliarity.
Lucky for us, Blogdrive have long been supporting both RSS and ATOM. And Blogdrive displays a reasonable number of items (10).
However I do hope that Blogdrive will introduce some RSS features such as editing options (HTML) or whether we can publish full or partial feed... I've included this in the forum topic asking for more features.
This is good stuff. I would have said it myself but I'm too gutless to do it. What's worth nothing is this:
Anyone who doesn't mind their site being inaccessible for hours, or even days, with no advance notice. Anyone who has no desire to have more growth potential for image loading. Anyone who doesn't care if the tech support for a paid account is not "priority tech support." It's really non-existent tech support. Basically anyone who doesn't take what their doing seriously. It's great for practice.
Here is the entire post: Seige, I appreciate your efforts to help. I really do. Funny, no not media power. But, I am motivated to get a solution to this quagmire. I'm sure most of you would agree that the best way to tick someone off even more is to make them feel that their concerns are irrelevent and frivolous. So I appreciate those of you, and us, who assume someone has a bona fide reason for flying off the handle because there really is validity to many of the concerns raised here. The frustrating thing is that I never in a million years thought that I was embarking down a road with BD that was a virtual dead-end with no chance of expanding with growth. You can see what I'm describing at my site: http://www.carrienews.blogdrive.com I suppose I didn't know anything about what growth requirements there would be. Now I do. I'll see what I can come up with as far as alternatives. I may need some suggestions as far as how to migrate blog entries to a host that has growth potential with more reliable software and servers. My suggestion is for anyone reading this who plans on having growth potential, be careful of putting all your eggs in the BD basket. It will be an exercise in futility and a good lesson for anyone in the business world of how not to treat customers. I used to rave to people about how great BD is. But, I can't do that anymore. So sad. Here is who I would recommend BD to: Anyone who doesn't mind their site being inaccessible for hours, or even days, with no advance notice. Anyone who has no desire to have more growth potential for image loading. Anyone who doesn't care if the tech support for a paid account is not "priority tech support." It's really non-existent tech support. Basically anyone who doesn't take what their doing seriously. It's great for practice. What's sad is that many of us have been offering suggestions ad nauseum for months now. Oh, well. Life goes on. Thanks, Seige, for pretty much taking my concerns seriously. After all, unstable hosting, non-expandable bandwidth, and no tech support are pretty serious issues. IMHO. Those aren't great selling points, are they? Who's fault is it? Why do they do what they do? Is a mystery.
As everyone can tell, the downtime for our favourite blog host has just occured. Cause of downtime is of course unknown, it's top secret (Blogdrive will have to kill you(in secret) if you figure it out the secret, it's bad for publicity)
There has been a HUGE, I mean it HUGE voice of anger in the Blogdrive forum. And not a single response from Blogdrive themselves.
The frequency of downtime is occuring more and more frequent compared to a few years back. Here are some of the most popular reasons given by Blogdrive whenever there's a down time:
1) Hurricane, this is an annual event and it doesn't just occur once a year but several. Whenever lighting strike, when the storms are strong, one of the internet router will *boom* and so there goes the 30,000 other Blogdrive blogs. This is far worst than a woman's PMS.
2) Upgrading server (or software), I'm not sure what its updating really. Whenever it say upgrading server, I hardly ever see any new features that comes with it either. Well, maybe sometimes (like the comment spam protection) although the down time could be of entirely different reason.
3) DoS attacks. Oooh... I absolutely hate it when these hackers have nothing better to do and choose to launch an attack on Blogdrive. Come on, why would anybody want to harm Blogdrive, there's 30 thousand innocent souls at stake. Say no to War on Iraq!
4) Spammer steals bandwidth. Yeah, these dirty bastard who are trying to make a quick buck on pharmaceutical products and pornography "steal" bandwidth. How? Erm... I don't know... I just know that it caused down time here on Blogdrive. (oh, really?)
5) Seige's Fault. It's all my fault. I didn't meant it. I didn't want anybody to get hurt but because the toilet isn't working I had to find an alternative target to satisfy my "nature calls". All this downtime is caused by waiting for the server drying up and for the toilet pump to be fixed. Disaster eh?
(In case you haven't realise, number five is totally made up and I've never actually seen the server before. Accept for a sexy picture of it here.)
Oh, and don't ask me why on earth update.blogdrive.com wasn't updated with any news about the downtime. All I know is that if you found out why Blogdrive was down, you'd better watch out because you might be murdered in a tragic death where all your body parts are broken into pieces and thrown into the river with no trace at all.
What was I on again? Right, WHY wasn't update.blogdrive.com UPDATED?
Tags: blogdrive, server, forum, downtime,
Just discovered a new service called co.mments. It's a service that helps you to track responces to comments you have left on different blogs. It even alerts you if your commented page has been updated with new replies.
This sounded like a really cool idea to track all blog that I have commented on and if there are any replies from other blog readers or from the blog owner. If you are a regular commentor, you'll definitely love this service.
How it works?
Like all cool new web inventions (such as del.icio.us), it doesn't 100% automatically track all your comments. There is one extra step you have to do, just one. ONE STEP. You, of course, need to let it know what to track. And that's as much hassle as it can get. Not bad at all I think.
Basically, once you add a comment, you add the URL of your commented page to your track list on co.mments. And then co.mments will do all the hard work and track it for you.
Easy.
Does it work on Blogdrive?
I'm not sure, I've just signed up for it and currently it works well for blogspot. So, chances are it just might work with a bit of tweaking in the codes. I'll update in a couple of minutes, as soon as I find out more about this service.
*UPDATE 2: It's currently working with Blogdrive after speaking with the founders of co.mments.
*UPDATE: Currently it doesn't work on Blogdrive yet. I've sent them a couple of emails and they seemed pretty helpful. I hope that they are able to make it work on Blogdrive.
Tags: blogdrive, co.mments, comments, track,
Google Trends plots how popular a search term is over time. Basically, how many times people type into Google to look for such information. So, the previous entry shows you the search volume over the last two years and where those searches comes from.
Google Trends can also show you the comparison between two search terms. Such as: Blogdrive, Blogspot.
skype, msn messenger, google talk, icq, yahoo messenger
What about Love and hate?
What about sex, porn, nude, naked?
What about boys and girls?
What about Brad pitt, orlando bloom and johnny depp?
This google trend thing is really addictive.... it really is!
http://www.google.com/trends?q=blogdrive
Give very interesting results, here it shows clearly the trends in Blogdrive traffic. Where it comes from and what do they mean? Blogdrive is a Californian-based company but apparently most of it's customer ... are based in South East Asia? True or False.
Cities
| | Top results | | | | 1. | Kuala Lumpur Malaysia | | | | 2. | Petaling Jaya Malaysia | | | | 3. | Manila Philippines | | | | 4. | Makati Philippines | | | | 5. | Jakarta Indonesia | | | | 6. | Singapore Singapore | | | | 7. | Sydney Australia | | |
Regions
| Top results | | | | 1. | Malaysia | | | | 2. | Philippines | | | | 3. | Indonesia | | | | 4. | Singapore | | | | 5. | Australia | | | | 6. | Mexico | | | | 7. | India | | | | 8. | Canada | | | | 9. | United States | | | | 10. | United Kingdom | | |
Languages
| Top results | | | | 1. | Tagalog | | | | 2. | Indonesian | | | | 3. | English | | | | 4. | Portuguese | | | | 5. | Spanish | | |
Blogdrive WYSIWYG Entry Editor v. 3.57b
JFZ just put up a hilarious entry about one of Blogdrive's new and upcoming feature, except it's all fictional. Welcome to the future.
MONROVIA, CA -- Blogdrive's Executive Vice President of Emerging Global Technology Acquistions division announced the launch of the 3.57b entry editor on the video conferencing multiscreen to the cheers of thousands of swag-wearing Blogdrivers at the Malaysian BlogCon2012 conference this evening. BlogCon Malaysia attendance has surpassed the Tokyo Auto Show in recent years.
After the Blogdrive acquistion of the Tawian-based Neural Network start-up, Hudyang, many blog pundits forecast the emergence of neural editors. Blogdrive has shocked financial market pundits with the 3.57b because it is the first low cost and functional product to truly work in the long-awaited I-wear market.
The 3.57b has not only been crowned product zero in the I-wear market by EEEI, but also its software has been rumored to be up for multiple awards for idiot-proofing among social networking and marketing industry groups. Blogdrive's own logo serves as the 3-button comand interface.
When one of the 121.3 million Blogdrivers is using the the 3.57b editor, they can compose in the language of their choice, preview and verify their entry on the heads-up display, and then simply process that entry with one touch on the Blogdrive logo. Tapping the orange control means cancel, blue saves draft, and green publishes the entry.
Blogdrive's Emerging Global Technologies division is currently working on the automatic classification of blog entries using the Neural Emoticon System Generator, but the roll-out of the NESG Blogdrive feature has been hampered by the recent inclusion of the bi-polar algorythm.
Firefox appears to be one of the "better" browser with additional features and allows installation of Plugins. I love using it and it's my prefered browser for many reason, mainly due to it's tabs ability. Allowing me to open several window at the same time.
I don't use Opera much despite it's amazing ability in memory management. It lacks many basic feature a web-browser should have.
MSIE, the most commonly used browser, is still the BEST browser around. It's more stable and have better support for most website on the internet. I don't use it only because it doesn't support tabs.
So, that leaves Firefox. Although it's my most prefered web browser, I HATE It.
There's so many thing wrong with it, it can't find or search within textareas. It takes a long time to start up. It always have problem with memory management (crash easily). And it CRASH anytime it feels like it.
Worst of all, it always crash when I'm trying to load Blogdrive's WYSIWYG Entry Editor. WTF?
it's nothing wrong with Blogdrive's Editor, rather it's firefox not being able to support the complexity of Blogdrive' s editor.
Damn you FIREFOX! Would you for once, not crash at all?
Tags: Firefox, Blogdrive, WYSIWYG, browser,
It seems to be occuring more and more often, every time I make a new entry I would receive several email notifications. (Mind you, I'm one of the more narcistic fella who subscribes to his own blog just because I love myself so much)
Anyway, I think it's just a minor glitch and could be something to do with the system restarting the process over and over again when it couldn't send out emails. Or maybe something else.
I hope Blogdrive will fix this soon too, because it might cause my readers to unsubscribe from me because the email notifications clutter their inbox. Like spam.
Reference: Multiple notifications, Blogdrive sending several mails on entry updates?
Tags: Blogdrive, Email, Notifications, Subscriptions,
So, back from the beautiful land. The weather man was really kind over the weekend, plenty of SUN and no rain. It was a bit windy so it's cold.
We stayed in a korean house which served us with korean breakfast. One of a kind experience, they gave me something called "Kim Chi" which is vegetables with loads of chilli. It made me cry of spicyness, haha.
Accomplishment includes climbing up to the top of Salibury Craigs hill and we went to firth of forth. Oh, not to mention Haggis, a so-called Scottish favourite meal.
Apart from all the enjoyment, me and AG was arguing the whole time about non-existing problems. It's just really stupid.
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