URL:

http://www.technorati.com

What is Technorati?

Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google and Yahoo. As of June 2008, Technorati indexes 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media. The name Technorati is a portmanteau, pointing to the technological version of literati, or intellectuals. (read more at Wikipedia)

What you may not know about Technorati

Technorati is a great tool for bloggers to get the competitive advantage.  Using Technorati you can learn what other bloggers are writing about a topic that you maybe writing about and you can see what the reaction is by the readers.  Find out what is working best on other blogs in your niche and do the same on yours.

Here’s a quick video on Technorati:

URL:

http://www.webmd.com

What is WebMD?

WebMD, part of HLTH Corporation, is an American provider of health information services. It is primarily known for its public Internet site, which has information regarding health and health care, including a symptom checklist, pharmacy information, blogs of physicians with specific topics and a place to store personal medical information (read more at Wikipedia).

What you may not know about WebMD

WebMD has a great tool for managing what you eat and your fitness schedule.  Using their Food and Fitness planning you can keep track of everything you eat and how often you work out.  Using the planner you can search for foods and it will automatically look up the nutrional facts for you and add them to your daily diet.  In return you can also track your physical activity such as taking a jog in the morning.  They say the best way to help lose weight is to write down everything you eat, well now you can with WebMD’s Food and Fitness planner.

Here’s a quick video on WebMD:

http://www.wordpress.org

What is Wordpress?

Wordpress is an open source blogging platform that allows you to build websites/blogs in the matter of minutes.  Wordpress has a strong community of developers which puts Wordpress on the forefront of simple, professional website building.  It couldn’t be any easier to build a website, than with Wordpress.  The community has collections of thousand of themes (change the look and feel of your site) free for download.  The community also has thousands of plugins (adds additional functionalality, such as shopping carts, advertisement, contact forms, and more) free for download.  All of this can be found on Wordpress.org.  To find the themes and plugins, check out http://www.wordpress.org/extend.

What you may not know about Wordpress

Literally anyone can build a Wordpress site in one sitting.  It’s so easy I put this quick video together for you below, starting with the very basics.  I walk you step by step, from the beginning on how you can get a website up with Wordpress.  You can build any type of website with Wordpress, whether it be a e-commerce (sell products), membership, blog, download, forum, or any other site you can think of, Wordpress can do.  It’s time to start thinking of Wordpress outside of it’s blogging roots.  (I plan in the future to create a post, outlining further details on how you can create Wordpress for a whole plethora of different type of sites, stay tuned).  For now, here’s a video of me installing Wordpress…