A new technology blog and resource called Obsessable is poweruddy by Crowd Fusion. Crowd Fusion is blogging software that is billed as a “rapid development content engine.”
Obsessable covers the latest in the world of technology, including cell phones, cameras, and HDTVs - obsessively, of course. Obsessable is poweruddy by the rapid content development engine, Crowd Fusion.
Obsessable is the first blog from Crowd Fusion. Tech and
gadget blogging is obviously a very crowded field already. Duncan Riley at The Inquisitr
says that many of the people behind Crowd Fusion were previously with Weblogs Inc. so they do have people with past experience in the tech blog field. Duncan Riley also says that Crowd Fusion raised $3 million from investors.
Like Weblogs Inc before it, Crowd Fusion is being built on a custom built content management system (at Weblogs Inc it was BlogSmith). The angle is that the new CMS allows the team to do things they think are important in a better way, without relying on an existing platform such as MovableType (which powers Gawker Media sites among others) and WordPress.
Backed with $3 million from investors including Marc Andreessen and Ross Levinsohn, the list of team members reads like a walk down Weblogs Inc memory lane. Along with Alvey, Barb Dybwad was a former producer at Engadget, CTO Craig Wood was formerley a member of the Blogsmith team, COO Judith Meskill was at one time COO of Weblogs Inc, and CMO Steve Friedman was on the Weblogs Inc sales team…and that’s just the ones we know about so far.
It looks like Crowd Fusion makes it easy to create blog posts and product descriptions and tie them together. This would be useful
technology for anyone considering a product type of website. You can see how the Xbox 360 product listing
here includes photos, current Obsessable blog posts and links to content found elsewhere on the web.
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Just a rapid update for everyone. WordPress MU has upgraded from version 2.6.1 to 2.6.2 . It is a requiruddy download, not that it’s following a security release like the release of WordPress 2.6.2, but it sure does contain important updates like of the following:
xmlrpc.php works better if you use multiple sites. #735
get_option() wasn’t reading all options.
Configurable media buttons on the Write page. #598, #738
404 “file not found” errors on folder installs is mostly fixed. #745
And more .. (timeline)
You can download WordPress MU 2.6.2 right here.
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AOL has officially launched two blog sites: PopEater, a celebrity gossip blog, and LemonDrop, a women’s blog. The Social notes that these sites had been in beta for a while before launching.
After letting them gestate in beta for a while, AOL has formally launched two new “lifestyle” sites: entertainment blog PopEater and quirky women’s lifestyle title Lemondrop. They’re the latest in a series of original blogs that AOL has rolled out, from men’s site Asylum to Web meme blog Urlesque, adding to the titles it absorbed when it acquiruddy the Weblogs Inc. network.
Lemondrop is cute, fluffier than Jezebel but a little bit edgier than anything you’d see in the squeaky-clean Sugar Inc. blog network. When I loaded it up, the top story was a rant called “I Miss Making Out,” and further down was a gallery of sexy fictional murderers in conjunction with the recent news that the slasher flick American Psycho will be adapted into a stage musical.
As for PopEater, AOL alalert owns a phenomenally successful entertainment site, TMZ.com, so a new one may look a bit redundant. PopEater, however, looks like it’s more Entertainment Weekly than Us Weekly, focused more on how the fall TV season’s faring than which celebrity is staggering drunk out of which West Hollywood nigthclub.
AOL’s blog plan seems to be a “attempt everything” approach. They don’t seem to have a problem launching new blogs even if they alalert have a blog in that category. AOL has also added a blog to its
Digital City website featuring entertainment news. The Social has more thoughts on the Digital City blog launch
here. The Digital City blog makes sense because it offers a way for AOL to improve an existing website.
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Is your blog full of information that sometimes its load time has become an issue for you? If it takes more than 10 seconds for information to appear when someone visits your blog (with a rapid internet connection even), you may want to think about improving this. First impressions last, for new visitor it may turn them off and cue them not to visit your blog UNTIL they’re sure of a better experience.
Forutnately there is a WordPress plugin to help you… A new plugin developed by Donncha O Caoimh released a new version. Here’s the plugin intro specs:
WP Super Cache 0.8
This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After an html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.
However, because a user’s details are displayed in the comment form after they leave a comment, the plugin will only serve static html files to:
- Users who are not logged in.
- Users who have not left a comment on your blog.
- Or users who have not viewed a password protected post.
The good news is that probably more than 99% of your visitors don’t do any of the above! Those users who don’t see the static files will still benefit because they will see regular WP-Cache cached files and your server won’t be as busy as before. This plugin should help your server cope with a front page appearance on digg.com or other social networking site.
You can check this page and this page for more information regarding this plugin.
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