Google Alerts now available in RSS

Google Alerts is now available through an RSS feed instead of having to come through email. If you’re not already using Google Alerts to keep track of news for your sites, now may be a good time to start.

YouTube looks to offering full length TV shows

YouTube will start offering full length TV shows with ads as Google is trying to get more revenue out of the video sharing site. Full story at NYTimes.com

Google at 10

About a week ago Google celebrated it’s 10th birthday. It’s amazing in a world where websites come and go on a seemingly weekly basis to see one that’s around that long. Screenshot of Google from 1997 They have put up a page that allows you to search their index from 2001 so you can play [...]

How to embed a Google Video in SMF

About a year ago I wrote a post on how to embed a YouTube video in a Simple Machines Forum post. Well, as it works out today I needed to embed a Google Video in a post so I went through and did almost the same process to get it to work.

How important is design to the success of a forum?

How important do you think design is to the success of a forum?  It’s an extremely popular topic on web design forums.  Content or design?  Which has the bigger effect on the success of a forum? I don’t think anyone would argue that a forum can succeed without good content, but how big of a [...]