By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Zemanta is a company that will help you to blog faster, and as they say, “Smarter.”

Here at Tech Startups we use it and find it indispensable. After using Zemanta with WordPress for a few weeks it becomes…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

If you wanted to set your own blog up today, it would take you less than 10 minutes and would cost about $20. I wanted to set up a personal blog about genetics that I’ve been talking about for weeks.…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

It seems strange that I wrote about OpenCalais yesterday and am now doing it again 24 hours later.

There is good reason to be doing it again, a revamped OpenCalais has been released…

By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)

My current favorite Twitter client (and Facebook, LinkedIn, Ping.FM) has just received some major updates today.

For starters, you can now post to your Read the full story »

Tags: Facebook , Hootsuite , LinkedIn , Ping.FM , Posting to Multiple Twitter Accounts , Twitter Clients , WordPress , wordpress.com

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

I’m trying out both! I’ve been using Wordpress for about two years now. And this blog runs on Wordpress.  It’s familiar to me. However, I had nothing to do with the redesign. That was all of Kris Smith’s brilliant…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Let me say, first off, that I am a huge fan of the elegant WPTouch plugin for WordPress by Brave New Code. This is one of those…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

WordPress 2.9 is now street legal and straight outta beta for the masses.

You’ve probably read about the full release already and that is a good thing. You might have even readRead the full story »

Tags: contextual menu , contextual navigation , open source , WordPress , wordpress 2.9 , wordpress 3.0

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

I’ve been a bit harsh on WordPress the last few weeks and need to give them some credit. Credit for being able to grown a large business from open source software and in…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Linking words together online is an hobby. Creating context from those words is an art. Making them work in harmony is a gift. The team at Thomson Reuters have done this for some time with their Calais project…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

WordPress release a beta version of its blogging software earlier this week and I thought that I would give it a go. I installed it on my server having read about new features…

By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)

I’m a big believer in the Fremium model for internet businesses. There’s no better way to get people to trial your product or service than to give them a feature-limited version for free. That said, the premium features (stereotypically…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Artisteer is a product from Exensoft. A company that codes by the 3M tagline – “We didn’t bring you Blogger, we made it prettier.”

Artisteer has been on the market for some time to help non-design and…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Blogs.mu has been around for a while but I’d bet you haven’t heard of it. I’d also bet that if you have heard of it that you forgot all about it. If you fall into this latter category then consider this…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Today we’d like to announce the inclusion of the WPTouch: WordPress on iPhone, iPod & Android plugin to our arsenal. It’s been making Tech Startups look great on your iPhone or…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Happy Monday morning! This post came to me after thinking about the easiest way to ’stream’ a content library to nearly every audio piece of software available. The M3U file type is one of most widely supported across platforms as well.…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

The semantic web is well on its way and one of the startups that has taken an early lead is Zemanta. They have taken a unique approach to linked data and the science that powers their ability to create…

by Senior Staff Writer – Jason Bean

Ning is a powerful social network tool that allows people to setup custom websites with most of the same functionality that’s available in other larger social network websites. There are a variety of different options involving both functionality and promotion. For those…

by Senior Staff Writer – Jason Bean

I’ve got a serious question to ask. It may come across as whining or at the very least just being ungrateful for what technology exists out there for the masses. I’ve been blogging for a few years and have owned a cell phone…