Before, they were using another URL shortener to shorten long links, specially for Twitter, up until they changed it to their own URL shortener. I did not really bother.

Today, I found out that the Onlywire links are not redirecting to my blog posts. Instead, it is redirecting to their main page! Onlywire, YOU ARE A TRAFFIC THIEF!

And with that, I will be deleting all my tweets using TwitWipe and I will stop using Onlywire for now.

Screw you, Onlywire!

Here is the part of the mail:

Dear MyBlogLog Customer,

You have been identified as a customer of Yahoo! MyBlogLog. We will officially discontinue Yahoo! MyBlogLog effective May 24, 2011. Your agreement with Yahoo!, to the extent that it applies to the Yahoo! MyBlogLog, will terminate on May 24, 2011.

After May 24, 2011 your credit card will no longer be charged for premium services on MyBlogLog. We will refund you the unused portion of your subscription, if any. The refund will appear as a credit via the billing method we have on file for you. To make sure that your billing information is correct and up to date, visit https://billing.yahoo.com.

Questions?
If you have questions about these changes, please visit the Yahoo! MyBlogLog help pages.

We thank you for being a customer on Yahoo! MyBlogLog.

Sincerely,

The Yahoo! My BlogLog Team

Was MyBlogLog helpful to you? Will the closure really matter?

For those who haven’t implemented the update, here are 3 key changes to expect from this revamp:

1. New recent photo dock: In your wall posts page, right below your name, you will find 5 of your most recent photos. These photos are taken either from your recent uploads or tags. As always, you’re in control of which photos you want your friends to see. You can remove photos from the dock by clicking X on the upper right corner of each picture.

2. Highlight relationships: The new FB profile page allows you to highlight family members and other important people in your life, like your best friends, ex-lovers, current sweetheart or coworkers — straight from your profile.

3. New Friendship Page: On the upper right corner of a friend’s revamped FB profile page, you will see a small section containing your tagged photos and mutual friends;?

The biggest question. How do you  Switch/Change to the New Facebook Profile Page?

EASY! Get your NEW Facebook Profile Page via this link. Just click on the green button at the upper right corner of the page.

Blogger.com may have read my mind as they have recently updated and improved their Photo Uploader. Before, you will not be able to view your photo uploads if in case you want to reuse it (at least I did not know how to do it if it was possible). Uploading multiple photos is also a pain as you may not be able to see other photos on that batch if in any case you closed the uploader to check the preview of your posts. Also, you will not be able add multiple photos at once. You have to do it one by one.

Then the update! Blogger.com now has the option to click multiple photos and add those photos at once.  Second, you now have the option to add/view past photo uploads so that you can use it o your post. You also have the option so use uploaded pictures from Picassa Web Albums.

Good job Blogger.com! Now, there is one more thing that you left out which we badly need (or at least I need). Please update your sizing/resizing options. We don’t want to restricted to having sized Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large and Original size. We want to have the sizing/resizing bar on the images so that we can freely resize our pictures to whatever we like.

Hopefully it happens sooner.

Blogger.com user, you do want that too right?

Upon visiting Myspace recently, Myspace just got a facelift and I think it looks really pretty. Upon logging in, the layout did change but there is quite a slight delay on posting replies to friend’s status but it is acceptable.

Will keep Myspace in watch for now.

I have created multiple Facebook Fan Pages for my websites and did not have any trouble up until I created a Facebook Fan Page for the business I just started. I was too confident writing the business name as the Fan Page name. Weeks past and more fans and likes came until a fan asked if the name of the business is really “123SMAYL Phobooth!”. The name should have been 123SMAYL PHOTOBOOTH! I couldn’t believed I misspelled the Facebook Fan Page Name of my business but I did not panic as I know, knowing Facebook, that there should be a way to change the Facebook Fan Page name.

And I searched the Facebook panel, searched, searched and searched. Used every known Search Engine for ways on how to change facebook fan page name and to my dismay, up until now, changing a facebook fan page name is still not possible!

From the Facebook FAQs page:

• It’s not currently possible to edit the name of a Page. If you would like to change your Page name, you will need to delete your Page and recreate it. The Facebook team isn’t able to change Page names for you.

DELETE THE PAGE AND RECREATE IT?! That is not too clever Facebook team!  Facebook has done a lot of innovations for the Online Community and you can give us the feature of “changing a facebook fan page name“. That is not what I have expected.

For now, deleting the page is not an option so I will keep my current misspelled Facebook Fan Page and wait for Facebook to hear thousands of users who had the same misfortune as I did! Oh Gods of Facebook, please hear our prayers!

So I clicked on the email and visited the new Digg, but I did not really see anything new, maybe a slight redesign of the site was done. It would have been nice if the Digg Team gave an introduction of the new Digg features.

Digg Team?

Anyhow, in the course of the last 5 months, a lot has happened in the webosphere and the blogosphere. One of the latest buzz is the introduction of The New Twitter!

Yes, the popular micro-blogging community, Twitter.com has reintroduced a new design with new features. If you are a big Twitter Vampire, you should have noticed the new look or have heard the news. The changes that is introduced to The New Twitter will slowly be integrated in the progression of the coming weeks so that hardcore Twitter fans like you (yes you!) will have time to grow accustomed to the way things work.

Here are the highlights of The New Twitter
* New design. The site has a cleaner timeline and a rich details pane that instantly adds more impact to individual Tweets while still maintaining the simplicity of the timeline. And, experience infinite scroll — you no longer have to click “more” to view additional Tweets.

* Media. Now, it’s easy to see embedded photos and videos directly on Twitter, thanks to partnerships with DailyBooth, deviantART, Etsy, Flickr, Justin.TV, Kickstarter, Kiva, Photozou, Plixi, Twitgoo, TwitPic, TwitVid, USTREAM, Vimeo, yfrog, and YouTube.

* Related content. When you click a Tweet, the details pane shows additional information related to the author or subject. Depending on the Tweet’s content, you may see: replies, other Tweets by that user, a map of where a geotagged Tweet was sent from, and more.

* Mini profiles. Click a username to see a mini profile without navigating from the page, which provides quick access to account information, including bio and recent Tweets.

Have I seen The New Twitter? Honestly, no not yet. Why? Because I use Twitterfox to manage tweets. Anyway, I am checking it out as of the moment. What do you think of The New Twitter design and features?

It was a pain in the arse to configure your blogger/blogspot theme to make it look like it has static pages. With this, adding  a stand-alone page is now easier on Blogger/Blogspot compared to what it was before.

Steps in Adding Pages in Blogspot/Blogger:

You create a page similar to how you write a blog post. From Blogger, click Posting | Edit Pages tab, then click New Page. (Note: you can create up to 10 pages)

Once your page is published, you can link to it from the new Pages widget. The Pages widget lets you add links to your pages as tabs at the top of your blog, or as links in your blog’s sidebar. (Note: existing third party templates may not support pages as tabs, but pages can still be added as links in your blog’s sidebar)

In the Pages widget, you can decide which pages will have links, and in what order they will appear. You can also choose whether or not you want links automatically created for pages when you create them by checking or unchecking the box to the left of Add New Pages by Default.

For information on how to add a gadget to your blog, you can visit Adding a Gadget

Making Custom Templates Compatible With Pages Tabs

If you are familiar with HTML and want Pages as tabs, follow these steps carefully (caution – this is not for the faint of heart!):

1. Make sure the Pages Widget hasn’t already been added, if so, remove the widget
2. Go to the Layout | Edit HTML tab for your blog
3. Download a backup of your template by clicking Download Full Template
4. Click the checkbox next to Expand Widget Templates
5. Look for the following three lines of HTML. If this HTML exists, change showaddelement=’no’ to showaddelement=’yes’

<div id='crosscol-wrapper' style='text-align:center'>
         <b:section class='crosscol' id='crosscol' showaddelement='no'/>
   </div>

6. If this HTML does not exist, paste the following lines of HTML where you want the tabs to appear (for instance, after <div id=’content-wrapper’>)

<div id='crosscol-wrapper' style='text-align:center'>
         <b:section class='crosscol' id='crosscol' showaddelement='yes'/>
       </div>

7. Confirm tabs are correctly added, click Save Template
8. Go to Layout | Page Elements and look for the new horizontal Gadget area and add the Pages gadget there.

I have gained PageRank on sites I have been wanting to gain PR for, lost a PageRank on a site and not regained PageRank on 2 sites.

Here is a list of the sites:

Pagerank winners:
These are my sites that have gained Pageranks.

1. Armed And Loaded has gained Pagerank 2. The site was started January of 2009 and I have long wished for it to gain a Pagerank but to no avail. At last, it has gained a PR 2 after more than 1 year of waiting.

Current Pagerank: 2/10

2. The Wandering Couple has gained a PageRank 1. It has a gained a Pagerank based on just sole original content and a number of forum links. I am very happy for this blog as this was just started November 2009. Not bad for a site who relies solely on original content. I am prepping this baby to contend for the Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs of 2010 and hopefully for the Top 10 Best Cebu Blogs of 2010 by the end of this year.

Current Pagerank: 1/10

Pagerank Neutrals:
These are the sites that has not gained or lost a Pagerank.

1. Fight Fiesta – I was expecting this not to gain a Pagerank yet as I lost momentum building traffic and content for it. Content building stalled as I needed to pay more attention on my other blogs/sites.

Current Pagerank: n/a

2. Kinakusgan.com – I should consider this a neutral though it should be considered a loser. This was a Pagerank 3 but has dropped to Pagerank 2 on the former updates and have never regained back the Pagerank 3. This is a neutral since the site is unupdated and was done for more than 3 months due to hosting problem. I should consider this Pagerank as a gift from Google.

Current Pagerank: 2/10

Pagerank Losers:
These are the sites that have either been left our or Google just hates these sites ( for no apparent reason).

1. The King Lebron James – this site has had a PageRank 3, then down to Pagerank 2 and now it is down to Pagerank 1. I have updated this baby every now and then with Lebron James news and anything about Lebron James. Maybe I will need to update this more and I need to as the NBA Playoffs 2010 drawing near and it’s time to document another MVP season for King Lebron James.

Current Pagerank: 1/10

2. SimplyBlackAndWhite – yes this blog is a Pagerank loser! This blog was a Pagerank 2 and have lost Pagerank and have never regained it for almost 2 years now. For what reason? The only viable reason is Paid posts which is not that many on this blog. It could be the IP address of my host, however, Armed and Loaded just regained Pagerank2 and that

Current Pagerank: 0/10

3. d’MusicBox (TambayanBox) - the biggest loser! This blog/site is my money maker and I do the money making without any Pagerank also for almost 2 years now. This site has has tough luck on regaining the Pagerank 3 it once had. Same as SimplyBlackAndWhite, the only thing I am seeing that caused the PageRank problems is paid posts which I have stopped centuries ago to see if I can regain PageRank to no avail. It also started with I blatantly sold links on the Smorty’s forum. If to regain Google PageRank I need to have original content and backlinks, I have both intact. Anyway, I am still generating income on this blog, my main money maker, and I am a part of the Top 10 Best Cebu blogs of 2009 but it would be a bigger gift to get the Pagerank this site deserves, a PR 3 or PR 4.

Current Pagerank: 0/10

More Google PageRank updates to come!