By pete -

We at FTPlanet have some preferred means of getting the info we need. RSS is clearly a big one, and how to manage those RSS feeds? We use Google Reader. Like many Google products, this one is FANTASTIC – and always improving. Today, even more features have been released to turn this into a beast of a social networking tool. You can now “like” items, and sharing is how busted wide open to anyone. Wonder if Facebook is starting to sweat? Check out the updates from Google Reader’s blog..

When we first started improving our sharing features, our goal was to make sharing as simple and flexible as the rest of Reader. Today, we’re pleased to announce that we’ve made four improvements to give you more sharing control and help you easily find other people’s publicly shared items within Reader.

Find and follow other people

Instead of sharing your items with others and hoping they reciprocate, you can now find people with public shared items and subscribe to their shared items with one click. Use our new people search feature (powered by Google profiles) to look for people who have public shared items. You can browse by name, location, or topic, and start following new people — all from inside Reader… continued at Official Google Reader Blog: Following, liking and people searching.

By pete -

When the new FileTransferPlanet.com launched, we had a big dilemma – that being, to port in all of the old forum material that we had or not to. Literally years and years of information – most of which, unfortunately, was too dated to keep without major revising. We made a decision to start fresh – a very daunting task in this new age of social media. An empty forum is never a good sign to a new visitor. Fortunately, some early adopters have jumped in immediately – which is great! Many thanks to PaulBeugeling, Mike, “chester”, and the others who are making it such a helpful place to chat.

The forums have some new features that we are really pleased with. They are built on BBPress, on a really nice open source platform – and happens to work quite nicely with WordPress, which powers this blog. There are of course some anti-spam measures in the background, but on the front end we’ve chosen for a “human test” to help make sure its not a dirty robot dropping junk into a post.  We did not want to lock it down too much, however, so creating an account is not necessary – guest posts are more than welcome! Other cool features – if you drop a URL to a Youtube video into a post, the site is smart enough to embed the video (here’s an.. umm, example.. from one of our members) .

A “support forum” is also in placed – if you have a question you really want answered, drop it in there, and you have control over it being marked as “resolved” or not – to keep our experts on the case as long as you need.

Other stuff we have.. RSS is all over the place – subscribe to as much, or as little, as you want.. or even go old school with Email subscriptions to particular threads.

That’s just the start – so head on over! Oh and – once you create an account, it works for both forums and blog comments! Yeah, its that easy. Got ideas? Concerns? Please let us know – either comment here – or heck, even better, start a thread in the forums .

By admin -

The new File Transfer Planet is now on Facebook. Please Fan us!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/FileTransferPlanet/91737797315

By Hugh Garber -

Three people told me this past week that their New Year’s Resolution was to finally learn how to create a simple website.
There are lots of great tools that make creating a website pretty simple. Here’s a good overview of some of the “how-to’s” of website creation.
The article does a good job of suggesting tools and software to get you started. And it’s nice to see my personal favorite secure file transfer software is recommended: “Use a file transfer program (FTP) such as Ipswitch WS_FTP to upload and download your website creation and any updated pages between your computer and web site host computer.

By Erik Small -

How many FTP users out there are using Twitter?
Reply back with comments on this question:
Are you using it for business or personal communication?