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I’m Not Using Posterous to Blog on WordPress as It Creating Duplicate Content

October 17th, 2009

I was exited when i figured out that i could use email to post blog on my WP blog using posterous. Though i could have used email to post on WP from it’s own setting but i noticed that it was too complicated and there weren’t all features available like a rich text editor could provide. As an example, you can’t use inline image and you always have to use plain text if you post via email from WP’s email settings. That sucks! But why i was so interested to use email instead of WP’s own editor? Well, i just don’t like that editor and i feel more comfortable to use email or a desktop blog editor client. If i was a windows user i could use “Windows Live Writer” for sure. But linux doesn’t have that much good desktop blog editor client. Anyways, let’s come to the point….

So, why i’m not gonna use Posterous to post on WP blog anymore? First i thought maybe it just posts on my WP blog when i use it like #junalontherun@posterous.com but no, i was wrong. It posted on my posterous blog as well. I searched their help forum to get rid of this duplicate content but didn’t find any solution. So, i emailed to their help center and they replied immediately saying that posterous will always post the blog or whatever on it’s own site and i can’t remove it. What the hell? 
Why i’m worried about this duplicate content? Well, i don’t want to destroy my own blog page rank for using a cool service. I searched google web master forums and tried to understand how Google Crowler actually handles duplicate contents. Interesting thing is, i found 100s posts related to duplicate content …seems like webmasters are really worried about it? But this post says ”There’s no such thing as a “duplicate content penalty. There are some penalties that are related to the idea of having the same content as another site—for example, if you’re scraping content from other sites and republishing it, or if you republish content without adding any additional value. These tactics are clearly outlined (and discouraged) in our webmaster guide“
So this is something discouraged by Google eh. and well, don’t forget duplicate content can make your readers confused specially when you are posting exact thing in 2 different locations. I just wanted to find an alternative of posterous email service and found this cool tool called “Thingamablog“,  I haven’t tried it yet but i believe it will meet lots of fetures that Windows Live Writer provides. But for me i found another solution
What is that?
Good docs! Screenshot is kinda self explanatory but still if you want to know more about it then have a look here 

Now what, i can use all the features of Google Docs? Or you think i have better solution? Then tell me :)  

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Posted in Blog Editor, Blogroll, CEO, General, Google, Technology, Web, Wordpress

Redesigned Homepage

August 29th, 2009

So, as I said, I would redesign my homepage and I would let you guys know my thoughts on this changes, here we go…

I can’t remember when the last time I read Google Reader, like Ttechcrunch i think RSS is dead. So there wasn’t any point to keep a big ass RSS button in the home page, rather now im keeping a small one which takes less space like its less important now.

Email subscriptions? Wait, people who come here in my blog, they come from Twitter, FriendFeed or search engine. I have noticed only few people who get notified by email.So there is no point of having a big box on the home page for email input.


Old Home

Old Home

Search is important to find a topic or any specific thing from the blog, So I kept it as it was…

Archive, categories or recent post? I got them at the bottom as I think they are not that important to put at the top of the page.

And well, i’m giving Twitter and FriendFeed more focus. Getting their live updates on my homepage. Hope it makes more scenes now. I like Google friend connect but never used it before. Trying it for the first time….let’s see how it works.

DISQUS commenting system is my most favorite commenting system. So kept it as it was.

Above all these are my thoughts behind this new design. Don’t forget to criticize me and i will be really happy if you suggest me what else i can put in my homepage. or anything i can take off?

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Posted in Blogroll, Design, For me, Wordpress

A Comparative Study on Elgg, Drupal and WordPress!

November 22nd, 2008

Elgg is known for a social networking application, Drupal is known as a Content Management System and WordPress is known for blogging. But with all these three applications you can develop a huge community based application.

Purpose of this comparative study was to find out a better application to develop a community based application. To do that, I considered few simple things as follows.

  • How easy to create a plug-in/widget/module

  • Number of available built-in plug-ins

  • Documentation and

  • Themes

and followings are the results that I have got after installing them, playing with them and studying on them..

Elgg:

Creating a plug-in : As usual, nothing too complicated.

Available plug-ins: There around 200 plug-ins found and most common plug-ins are there.

Documentation : They have good documentations on their core developments. But its not vastly described

Themes : There are only few themes found. This is bad side of these applications that it doesn’t have too many built-in themes.

Summary : A social networking application. Installation is very easy, same for widget and plug-in. mainly focused on social networking to connect friends and make a common place for all friends. It has got all plug-ins and widgets that required creating a social application. Problem is there are not too much options or built-in features and customizations will be required in most of the cases. Although creating plug-ins and widgets will not be a big deal. It has very good drag drop options and easy installations system. Community is not that big in fact! And main problem they got only few built-in themes!

Drupal:

Creating a plug-in : Ain’t that easy as they don’t inspire you to code. What we can do is…we can install the related module and we can customize it! Or creating a module will be a little bit complected.

Available plug-ins: A lot! Saw almost all needed features which they called MODULE.

Documentation : They have PDF version of the document. And its really cool.

Themes : There are sufficient Themes available in Drupal official site and in third party site but developing a Drupal will be a little be tricky. It has to go through some enabling/disabling stuff and it has to go through some API calls as well.

Summary : Mainly a CMS but they also call it CMF. So this Content management Framework supposed to allow to customize the code and make it on our own way. It has some problem on installations. Like php.ini has default memory limit 8M but Drupar required 16M. And they also have some other complication over installations. But, after all it can be a nice choice for community based application.

WordPress:

Creating a plug-in : Not a big deal at all! In fact, this is one of the easiest among others.

Available plug-ins: Thousands by hundreds of developers!

Documentation : WordPress got best documentations among all these names I mentioned.

Themes : Really easy!

Summary : WordPress is popular for its huge community and the flexibility. Their documentation is simply awesome. Creating plug-ins and theme are easier than any other one I’m comparing here. It has got all the necessary plug-ins and widgets they any kind of community based application needs.

In My Humble Opinion : WordPress is the winner :)

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Posted in Drupal, Elgg, PHP, Technology, Wordpress

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