http://nikolay.com Web Technology And Whatnot Sat, 20 Dec 2008 08:04:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Let me first promise that this is my last post with the annoying 'd in the title! ;-) Two days ago I spent about 15 minutes setting up Google Friend Connect on my blog -- I just wish it was more than a bunch of widgets and probably Google is already ... http://nikolay.com/2008/12/20/this-blog-is-now-connectd/ Minutes after the official announcement of WordPress 2.7 "Coltrane" availability my blog got powered by it! It took roughly 10 minutes to upgrade and I can say that it was worth the wait! The next step would be to tweak the Emptiness theme to support threaded comments. http://nikolay.com/2008/12/11/this-blog-has-been-coltraned/ Finally! Artiklz has passed a major milestone in its development -- it's been TechCrunch'd by the European techcruncher Robin Wauters, who we had the pleasure to meet in person at BLOG08 in Amsterdam! We are also happy to get a nice follow-up coverage by the #1 blogger in Eastern Europe -- ... http://nikolay.com/2008/11/24/artiklz-has-been-techcrunchd/ As many of us use now twitterfeed by Mario Menti or Twitter Tools by Alex King, I think it makes sense to start applying some standard hashtags based on the feed type to make searching and filtering easier. As I added my BackType feed to twitterfeed, I now get automatic ... http://nikolay.com/2008/10/11/hashtagging-twitter-feeds/ I couldn't wait to add my next trip with Artiklz on DOPPLR! John, Iris, and I will first attend Web 2.0 Expo Europe 2008 in Berlin, Germany (October 21-23, 2008) and then we will get on the cityhopper to attend BLOG08 in Amsterdam, Netherlands (October 24, 2008). I haven't been in ... http://nikolay.com/2008/10/10/euro-trip/ Thanks to being a principal of Artiklz, I have a profile on CrunchBase now. CrunchBase's structured wiki system worked really well. I need to find a creative way to do a mashup using their API... when I have time. http://nikolay.com/2008/10/08/ive-been-crunchbased/ I am proudly launching Blog 3.0. Yes, this is the third start from scratch of my blog within 3 years and interestingly each time it was on a different platform! I launched Blog 1.0 in January 2006. I chose Typo, but its first versions were not quite stable and often my ... http://nikolay.com/2008/10/04/hello-blogosphere/