Blogging Tips: don’t over complicate things

BloggingTips has some great info for folks new to blogging or looking to started. In a post titled The Best Blogging Tip no one will ever mention there is some great advice on content:

Angela had a good point yesterday when she mentioned how new Bloggers are more concerned with things like how their Blogs template looks rather than having any content. If you worry about each and every detail before you start writing content, your going to burn yourself out around your 10th post. The best advice I can give any new blogger is, don’t over complicate things. Its really that simple. You are creating something for other people to read and enjoy. Its not a fashion show or a contest. Its something that should be enjoyable for both you and your readers.

Get that blog started – craft something simple to begin with then start writing posts and getting your content out there. BONUS: Check out the rest of the post mentioned above for more detail on these tips to start blogging:

1. Pick your Topic

2. Buy your domain

3. Buy Hosting

4. Install your Blog Platform

5. Start writing – You are now a blogger.

Technorati Tags: Blogging, How To Blog, Blogging Tips, Successful Blog, Start A Blog, Successful blogging

Can Open Source Help the SaaS company?

Some interesting info over at CNet News How open source can help the SaaS company:

Sometimes we think that the reasons for Software as a Service and open-source success are mutually exclusive. According to David Heinemeier, founder and developer of the various 37Signals’ projects and products, however, open source is integral to 37Signals’ success.

Read more here: http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9813474-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

Tags: Web 2.0, SaaS, S+S, Software as a Service, Open Source, Software On Demand

Google’s OpenSocial API and true Social Networking Site Interoperability

Some more great thoughts on interoperability and social networking sites: If Social Networking Sites *Really* Wanted to Interoperate

One hoary truth of computing technology is that most of the pressing problems today have solutions discovered or developed, at least in part, twenty years ago. (This nicely avoids the patent problem.)

Google’s announcement of the OpenSocial API brought up yet again the persistent problem of walled gardens on the Internet, as myriad social networking sites spring up, offer to invite all of your friends if you divulge your address books, and then slowly wither as you realize that visiting half-a-dozen sites every day to read messages from your fragmented social groups is busy work.

Wouldn’t it be nice if all of these disparate messaging systems could interoperate?

Read more here: http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/11/if_social_networking_sites_rea.html

Tags: Social Networks, Social Networking, Google, OpenSocial, Open SocialOpen Messaging