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I discovered the Traineo site which is the latest Web 2.0 offering aiming to fill a need in the online market place. I’m not sure whether I’ll file this with the other sites I sign up with but then lose interest in, but we’ll see. Anyway, the aim is to track your weight, diet and fitness […]

By the way, this post and the previous post were both written with the awesome new blogging tool released by the Windows Live team. It’s called (imaginatively) Windows Live Writer, and you can read more details and download it for free from here: http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!… I haven’t been able to fault it yet – it seems […]

I came across this link from the GigaOM site this morning with details on Yahoo’s new travel site. I’ve seen a couple of these sites before but as this integrates nicely with my Flickr account, I’m quite looking forward to making use of it on my upcoming trip to London and Amsterdam. So I’ve set […]

Photo sharing site, Zooomr, are apparently giving away Pro accounts to bloggers who display one or more of their Zooomr photos on their blog. I checked out the site this morning and it definitely has a lot going for it, but there are also a few things I didn’t like about it. I particularly didn’t […]

The news just in is Joanne Colan will be taking over from Amanda Congdon as the new presenter of Rocketboom. Joanne previously worked as a presenter for MTV Europe. I used to watch MTV Europe 8 years ago when I lived in South Africa, and If this is the same presenter that I’m thinking of, […]

Let the blog-mobs begin… The blogging community loves a controversy, especially if it involves ‘one of their own’. Amanda Congdon from RocketBoom, has left the show suddenly after some disagreements with her business partner and majority shareholder of RocketBoom, Andrew Baron. Depending on who’s blog you read first, you’ll probably get different sides of the […]

Interesting controversy stirring up at the moment is how eBay have banned their sellers from using Google Checkout. Their excuse is that it’s an untested and potentially unsafe product, but Google have a long history of making/receiving payments with their Adsense products and more recently their video portal. Populary opinon is that eBay is afraid […]

Part of my feed reading this morning lead me to sign up with Yahoo! Mail so that I could test out their new beta mail product. So I signed up with a Yahoo! NZ address of stuart.maxwell@yahoo.co.nz but this didn't allow me to switch over to the new beta. I changed my location to UK, […]

I’ve put in a couple of big updates to the Blogtown NZ site. I implemented the memcached cacheing daemon and enabled caching using the WordPress memcached plugin. I also updated to the latest nightly which fixes a lot of the bugs that have been lurking around. If you’re keen on setting up your Blogtown NZ […]

Several sites are reporting that a Microsoft France site was hacked and defaced. The site is currently down so it appears as though Microsoft have taken it offline to firefight. A mirror of the defaced site can be found here: zone-h.org.