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Putting your blog under construction, for everyone but you

This is somewhat of a follow-up to a post back in May, How to work on your blog without anyone having the slightest clue. In that post, I provided a plugin that enables you to preview a theme you’re working on without anyone else seeing it, and the steps to do so.

Today, I’ll share another plugin that allows you to create a window of time for your new theme’s launch and work out the bugs, all behind the curtain.

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This is why the iPhone sucks

I got to tinker with an iPhone over the weekend. It’s fantastic. It really is going to change the mobile landscape. I have no major gripes about the iPhone’s features, functionality, design, or price. But this is what I do have a problem with…

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Entreprenews of the Week

10 Sales and Marketing Tips I learned from Strippers
There are plenty of numbered how-to lists about marketing, monetization, and just about everything else you can think of. But how many are there that involve strippers?

Carlos Ulloa’s Portofolio
One of the most interestingly simple interactive executions I’ve seen in a while. Use your …

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Pownce Invites… Get’em & Share Here.

What is it?
Pownce is a way to send messages, files, links, and events to your friends. You’ll create a network of the people you know and then you can share stuff with all of them, just a few of them, or even just one other person really fast.

Leave your email in a …

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For all the Guitar Hero fans

This is one of the best adaptations of a console game I’ve seen in a while. Simplified to the point where anyone can play, and as equally addictive as the infamous Guitar Hero.

It’s called Up Beat, and will consume a good portion of your pre-long weekend energy. …

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How many of you Joost invitees are actually still using it?

Nearly two months ago, we offered Joost invites to anyone that wanted one. Nearly 200 comments were posted and well over 100 invites were sent out.

My initial experience with Joost was interesting, and I was taken back by the hype. But I haven’t used it since then and …

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We love Retail Me Not

All too often, usually right before we hit the “pay now” button, we find ourselves ransacking search engines hoping to find a coupon code saving us a few bones on that Threadless T, order of biz cards, domain name, or Text Link Ad. It’s usually hit and …

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How often do you shave your yak? (if you know what I mean)

I think quite a few young go getters would admit to having a bit of ADD to some degree. But how many of you would admit to being Yak Shavers?

From Wikipedia:

“Yak shaving is a neologism which describes the act of performing seemingly unrelated and often annoying tasks which …

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Life’s a bitch…for some people

“Some people” doesn’t include Larry Page. Let me tell ya, if I had a helicopter, you’d be hard pressed to find it at a nerdcamp helipad :)

“Larry Page: Transport modes of the rich and famous”

(Via Valleywag.)

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You know you’ve made it when someone wants a clone of your clone

As some of you may know, one of the other websites I own is The Ad Feed. I’ve been working my ass off when I can, building the new version of the site and resurrecting it.

I had to collect some data a moment ago to get an idea of where I stand, and …

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