Now that the Blog Expo is over, it looks like the blogosphere is back to normal. There was a bunch of stuff I really enjoyed this week, that I figured I would share. Hope you enjoy it as well!

  • Jason of JD’s Blog has posted 100 ways to promote a startup. While this is written with the idea of starting a business, I think a lot of this applies to promoting your blog. I also ran across a post entitled 99 Ways To Promote Your Blog. This post is more geared towards blogger tips, so you may find some useful stuff here as well.
  • Web Worker Daily has posted a bunch of great gift ideas for geeks. I’m hoping for either the high-tech backpack or the USB beverage chiller.
  • Mitch Keeler has collected a bunch of Greasemonkey Scripts for Gmail 2.0. Its good to see Folders4Gmail on the list of scripts that has been updated for Gmail 2.0.
  • Gizmodo has written a complete guide to Microsoft Zune 2’s software and firmware. Is anyone planning on getting one of these? The Zune 2 doesn’t look to bad, but the iPod Touch kind of sealed my allegiance to Apple in this area.
  • Digital Inspiration covers 5 unexpected benefits of using Gmail with Microsoft Outlook. Now that Gmail offers IMAP, there are all sorts of possibilities, and Amit covers some of them in this post.
  • The New York Times talks about Inbox 2.0. The idea is that Google and Yahoo will be turning their popular homepages and e-mail services into a social network of sorts to try to compete with Facebook. Most Facebook users also have either a Yahoo or Google account, so it will be interesting to see which services win out.
  • Techie-Buzz and Shankri-La cover a new service called Montastic. This is a free service that monitors your websites/blogs for downtime. Keith’s post goes into a lot of great detail as to why a service like this is so valuable to bloggers.
  • Technology Bites explains how to easily create round corner CSS boxes.  This is a nice option for those without any programming knowledge.