Pew Internet released a report yesterday called Social Media and Young Adults that shows teen blogging down by 50% over the past four years, even as blogging increased among those over 30 years old. The report also shows that teens are not very likely to be Twitter users (only 8% of internet users between the [...]
Since the FTC is now requiring bloggers and advertisers to clearly disclose in a conspicuous fashion when an author has received a payment for writing a post, bloggers have chosen to tackle the issue in various ways. Some sites (like Download Squad) are able to post a blanket policy because they don’t accept any kind [...]
It’s not quite the App Store frenzy by any stretch, however Palm’s webOS App Catalog has hit an important milestone with 1,000 applications now available for the Palm Pre and Pixi devices. We’re going to be covering some of these 1,000 in the coming days here at Download Squad, however we’d be remiss to not [...]
PubSubHubbub, the quickly-growing service that pushes out real-time updates to RSS feeds, continued its march toward ubiquity this week when uber-popular blogging platform WordPress started offering PubSub support. PubSub had already hit Tumblr, Posterous, Google’s Blogger and more, but I think this is the move that finally takes it mainstream. (Well, as mainstream as anything [...]
The super-simply blog platform Posterous has just released a new feature on its post.ly domain, which was previously used only as a URL shortener. For those that are not familiar, Posterous is a blogging platform that makes posting dead simple. You just send an email to post@posterous.com, and if you don’t already have a blog [...]
Proper writing — you know, novels and stuff — shares a few common traits with blogging. The most common is ‘writers’ block’ or THE WALL. You simply run out of things to write. It can either creep up on you slowly, or just suddenly emerge before you like a big… brick thing… but either way, [...]
We often get comments from readers who would like to be able to subscribe to specific feeds here on Download Squad — Windows, Google, Firefox — you get the picture. As it happens, you’ve always been able to do that. Here’s how! The easiest method is to check out our Feeds Page. You’ll find direct [...]
Some nerd (seriously, it takes a nerd to uncover this kind of thing) has just discovered that WordPress now hosts an android.wordpress.org subdomain. It’s currently a protected blog with nothing to see, but… I never thought I’d be the type to report website subdomain rumors (what next, trawling trademark repositories?) but this is one of [...]
Plenty of free blog services come with a selection of templates, but Google has decided to take the next step with Blogger. The popular blogging site now allows you to dress up its templates with colors and images of your choice by using a simple graphical editor. Blogger Template Designer includes fifteen templates, with one, [...]
[Update - As noted in the comments, it appears that themes.posterous.com is not an official directory of themes as the title of this post suggests, but rather is a 3rd-party theme directory that cleverly grabbed the "themes" subdomain at posterous.com.] The super-simple blogging platform Posterous has released a theme directory, offering up eight new themes [...]
