Friedbeef’s Tech

We’ve been through a lot this past year…

This blog first started on December 31st 2005 as an outlet to tell some of my friends about interesting items on the web, and over time it has evolved into so much more!

I guess more than anything, I want to thank YOU, the readers and subscribers of this tech blog. All of this would not have been possible if not for your readership, comments, ideas, help and participation.

Here’s to another good year in 2007!

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New isn’t always better. I recently reformatted my hard drive and had to reinstall all the software. In certain cases I found that official web sites only had the latest version of the software up for download, and my licenses were only compatible with older versions.

If you ever find yourself in a similar situation, or simply preferring an old version of software, you can try OldVersion.com or OldApps.com. Both these sites offer up a healthy selection of previous releases ranging from drivers to system utilities

A word to the wise - Some services may only work well with the latest versions. Older versions may have bugs, security flaws, or may no longer be supported by the manufacturer.

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Trying to get your fresh site content crawled quickly can be quite a mean feat. With the sheer number of blog aggregators and search engines around, it can place a significant burden of time on a blogger who wants to ping as many of these services as possible to get maximum exposure.

AutoPinger.com is a free web service which tries to get around this issue by helping you manage all your pings and aggregators in a single location. With 6100+ blogs and counting having signed up, it looks well on it’s way to becoming a success. I recently managed to catch up with it’s founder Vinson Wang, and managed to talk about this fascinating niche he’s carved out on the web.

Tell us a bit about AutoPinger and why your service would be better, or at least different from existing services, say - Pingshot or Pingoat?

When comparing to Pingoat, I would say that the main difference lies in the approach Autopinger takes. Autopinger takes an automated and disconnected model of pinging. This would mean that users no longer need to manually ping their blogs or sites whenever they update the contents but instead Autopinger will check their site for updates and in turn ping their sites for them. All these are done automatically. As for Pingoat, it still relies on the traditional manual ping process

Pingshot, is a late addition to Feedburner’s range of services but it only cover a few search engines and aggregators whereas Autopinger’s core service is to help you get your blog updates across as many search engines as possible. In addition to that, Autopinger provides another convenient way by providing one-click-ping-all button where you can click and ping all by just embedding it into your site/blog and click it to ping all whenever you update, this relieves you of the manual process. Anyone who wishes to get the maximum exposure would certainly like Autopinger services.

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