Windows Live Writer is a free tool from Microsoft that makes it easy to post entries to almost any blog service like Windows Live, WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, Posterous, and TypePad. The tool allows you to post content with photos and videos.

A not so well known fact is that Live Writer can do much more with the use of plugins. Live Writer supports third party plugins that extend the base functionality well beyond text and photos. You can download out of the box plugins from http://gallery.live.com/default.aspx?pl=8

There is no question that the fast evolution in mobile technology is working as a great catalyst for innovative experiments.

While the weather remains the number one app in smartphones, features such as using a smartphone camera as a barcode scanning device has enabled a fairly new technology known as mobile tagging. There are a number of flavors of this technology...

Ever found yourself going back to reference an article you bookmarked a year ago and come to find out it is no longer available? Worst yet, try to find it in the first place after you've changed the way you manage your bookmarking for the 21st time. Wouldn't it be nice if you had an article indexing system that allowed you to annotate, tag, and convert to something more permanent like PDF's?

Diigo.com, a powerful research tool, allows you...

The main driver behind thought leadership is content development. Generating engaging and useful content requires a lot of research, preparation, and writing skills. An excellent approach to organizing your ideas is to use mind maps.

A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid in writing — Wikipedia

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has imposed new guidelines for bloggers who offer opinion on products or services in their blog. Specifically, the FTC requires bloggers to disclose any "material connections" with endorsements of a product or service. The new rules took effect on December 1, 2009. cmp.ly is a site that provides you with an easy way to facilitate disclosure and provides a simple and easy method to disclose material connections in the content that you publish. Visit http://cmp.ly/ for...