Wow! I’ts been some time since I checked this g-metrics report on podcasting. The bottom line? On 14-Oct-2004, Google returned less than 50.000 results for “podcasting”, on 27-Dec-2005 (a bit more than a year later) 2,210,000!!!
A couple of months ago I was featured as the example of how spamphobia cripples webmasters and their sites. My friend, Giannis Stoilis was right: all my mailboxes would receive hundreds of spam mails per day, so I did my best to keep my “active” email address secret (the rest of them were so full of spam that I no longer used them).
Then came GMail. At first I just said “wow, it works!” but I did not realize until lately that after a couple of months (I redirected all my mail to my GMail account), I became to trust Google’s spam filtering so much that I felt free again to make my email address public again. My spam folder has more than 8500 mails in it but who cares?
And it’s not just GMail. At work we use SpheriQ that is very quite effective. Even though I don’t use their email services, I guess that Yahoo! and MSN spam filters have improved too.
The bottom line is that I no longer care about spam. I have the feeling that we are winning this war.
(At least against email spam. ‘Cause now we have link-spam and content spam…)
According to this, Yahoo! Small Business, Yahoo! now offers WP hosting. Their prices look nice.
I was just wondering, could someone who is already using the service tell me how much freedom you get? I mean, can I add my plugins, what version of PHP they are using, etc.
Please, if you have more info, leave a comment!
del.icio.us is down for some hours (or maybe more?) now. It is so annoying when you have become to depend on a service and it is down… I will pospone today’s browing until del.icio.us is up again.
Here are my favorite Open Source apps for OS X, the ones I would install imediately after a fresh OS X installation:
- iTerm terminal emulator.
- Chicken of the VNC, VNC client
- Seashore, GIMP-based OS X app for image manipulation.
- D-Subtitler (extract subtitles from DVD), D-Vision (GUI for mencoder/mplayer) and D-Volution (encode .mov and .dv files in Divx/Xvid or h264) from ObjectifMac
- NeoOffice, a port of OpenOffice.org to the OS X
- Firefox
- Fire an IM client supporting ICQ, MSN, Y!IM, etc..
- MPlayer OS X
- BitTorrent
- Cyberduck a nice ftp/sftp client.
Of course, if you are into UNIX/Linux you will feel much more at home by installing Darwin Ports…