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Wozu ich herzlich gratuliere! 2 Milliarden angesehene Videos PRO TAG sind wirklich nicht ohne!

Gespannt bin ich ja ob Google TV bzw. Youtube einmal Apple den Rang ablaufen werden. Deren Apple TV ist ja mehr ein Spielzeug und unterstützt nicht einmal Blue-Ray geschweige denn Aufnahmen auf Disk….

Was mich dabei aber doch schockt ist die folgende Aussage:

Der typische US- Fernsehzuschauer sitzt über fünf Stunden vor dem TV-Gerät. (Quelle)

Sport wäre glaube ich sinnvoller…

Recently Blogger announced that they are going to shut down their FTP publishing service. On one side I think this is not a very smart move as they’ll loose a lot of customers, but on the other hand I fully understand why they are doing this. FTP is really old, causing them a lot of troubles and prevents Google from implementing cool stuff (i.e. a mobile view for the blog).

So, what to do with my (this) blog? Initially I migrated over to a custom domain (still with Blogger), which required me to setup some redirects (mbaierl.com/blog -> blog.mbaierl.com). Not a big deal, no need to wait for the FTP migration tool, worked great and smoothly. But suddenly I had to display the Blogger Bar on top of my blog. Drawback 1. And I did not see statistics within my known Webalizer interface. Drawback 2. And: I want control!

So I started to look for alternatives – and as I manage 3 blogs in total I stumbled across WordPress MU and started the migration:

1. Installing WordPress is super-simple, I’m really impressed! Just needed to make sure it is secure by setting a few file permissions correctly.
2. WordPress can import all data (posts, comments) from Blogger – and it really works! Only Youtube videos don’t come through, so I had to re-add them manually (check out the “Smart Youtube” plugin!)
3. Luckily I did not post a lot while being on the Blogger custom domain as this required a migration of the image files.
4. Migrating the template was the hardest part – yes, there are tons of themes available, but I wanted to keep my own for this blog… but the documentation is really good and it was just a matter of hours to get a working template that integrates into my site.
5. There are tons of useful plugins – i.e. Akismet for Spam protection or WordPress Mobile Edition. That’s great and gives me way more flexibility and freedom than Blogger did! There is even an iPhone App!

Right now I’m very satisfied with the features and the performance and highly recommend having a look at WordPress if you need to migrate away from Blogger because of their FTP shutdown or for any other reason….

Now that Google is 10 years old they offer to search within an index from 2001 (on a total of 1,326,920,000 pages). Try it on your own, have you been in their index back in 2001?

(via Heise)

Pretty interesting and a slightly different approach that Google is taking with their G1 phone… the next year is going to be interesting!

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