Hello and welcome to the 170th edition of the Weekend Roundup. It’s been a very hectic week for me but I’m glad that I was still able to publish this week’s edition on schedule. Hope you folks like the news and articles that I’ve collected from my daily reads and other sources. Enjoy!
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Blogging
- How Posting a Humble ‘Selfie’ Grew Traffic, Shares and Comments on a New Blog
- 11 Common Blogging Mistakes That Are Wasting Your Audience’s Time
- Managing Your Blogging Time When Family and Friends Don’t Understand
- Why Bloggers Should Always Run A Mailing List
WordPress
- How To Add Flexibility To WordPress Comments Options
- How to Disable Automatic Updates in WordPress
- How To Create a Yearly Archive for a Category with Custom Fields in WordPress
- How to Change Author Slug in WordPress and Use Custom Author Slug
SEO
- Why Content is the Beating Heart of Search
- Hummingbird Unleashed
- The Value of Referrer Data in Link Building
- The Curious Case Of Bing Search Results In Google Search Results
Social Media
- How to Get Employees to Embrace Social Media
- 5 Reasons Why Social Media Managers Shouldn’t Live Without Analytics
- Presence Is Something You Could Build Now
- This So-Called Digital Life: Re-Evaluating the Value of Social Media
Technology
- Connecting To Unsecured Bluetooth Car Systems To Monitor Traffic Flow
- A Live Map of Ongoing DDoS Attacks
- Company To Balloon Tourists To the Edge of Space For $75,000
- Call Yourself a Hacker, Lose Your 4th Amendment Rights
Gadgets
- HP Chromebook 11 Review
- LG Announces G Flex, the ‘World’s First ‘Real’ Curved Smartphone’
- Livescribe 3 Smartpen
- Jony Ive Designs One-of-a-Kind Red Mac Pro for Product (RED) Charity Auction
Pinoy Blogs
- Hello Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1!
- Nokia Lumia 1020 Review
- Adidas Unveils miCoach Smart Run Android Smart Watch
- Get A Grip On Your iPad Mini with the Gripster Wrap by Native Union
JaypeeOnline Weekly Recap
- Sponsors for Upcoming Giveaway
- ServInt Doubles RAM for VPS Customers
- WordPress 3.7 “Basie” Now Available
- PushBullet — Send Files, Links, Notes & Other Stuff from Web Browser to Any Android Device
- WebDesy SEO Crash Course for WordPress Users Review & Giveaway
- Was iOS 7 Created in Microsoft Word?
If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, or would want to share your article or any interesting story that you found on the Internet and have it featured in the next Weekend Roundup, feel free to leave a comment or send me a message via the contact page.