Monthly Archives: September 2009

Written on September 30, 2009 at 10:40 pm by Chase Sagum

My New Free Ebook: WordPress Insider Tricks

Blogging, CMS, Web Development 4 comments

After some blood sweat and tears I have finally released my first free ebook. It’s titled WordPress Insider Tricks – Specific Steps For Making Your WordPress Blog Better. It’s completely free to download. More details here. After developing over 300 blogs during the past couple of years, I have decided to share everything I know [...]

Written on at 10:48 am by Chase Sagum

Open Source Business Model #1 – The Affiliate

Affiliate Marketing, Business, Open Source no comments

This is where affiliate marketing and open source meet. In talking about Open Source Business Models or how to make money with an open source application. The first one that I want to discuss is what I call the “Affiliate Model”. This model is pretty simple. After creating a demand with an application,  a community [...]

Written on September 29, 2009 at 9:26 am by Chase Sagum

Build Your Own TinyURL or URL Shortener

Open Source, Social Media, Tools no comments

You’ve all probably heard of 3rd party URL Shortener services like TinyURL. These have become especially popular because of the increase of microblogging done through Twitter. The basic idea is to take a long URL and have it shortened in order to fit more characters into your microblog post or “tweet”. Why do we have [...]

Written on September 28, 2009 at 9:25 am by Chase Sagum

Open Source Music Server & Platform

Media, Open Source no comments

Do you remember Muxtape? Muxtape before it was shut down, was a cool web 2.0 service where you could create your own “Mixtape” of your favorite songs and share that profile like you would a social media profile. You could see why it was shutdown, when you have thousands of profiles streaming music. But what [...]

Written on September 23, 2009 at 11:07 am by Chase Sagum

Feedburner + Pubsubhubbub + WordPress = Real-Time Blogging

Blogging, Information, Social Media no comments

Like the equation? Yesterday I wrote about RSS Cloud and the benefits it will have as it grows on the blogosphere. If you missed it you will want to read it first before reading this. I wrote about WordPress plan to launch RSS Cloud to provide real-time RSS updates to all of it’s WordPress.com bloggers. [...]

Written on September 22, 2009 at 10:52 am by Chase Sagum

10 Things You Need To Know About RSS Cloud

Blogging, Information, Social Media 3 comments

What is RSS Cloud? With the new mention of RSS Cloud by Matt Mullenweg and WordPress, everybody is buzzing about the new term RSS Cloud and what it means to the blogosphere. But what really is RSS Cloud and what does it mean to the everyday web guy/girl like you and me? What is RSS [...]

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