Toni’s Garage

Following my tradition of being a late gadget adopter, I’m about to purchase my first GPS device (for our cross country drive this summer). I’m thinking of getting a Dash Express. It’s getting the thumbs up from Raanan and the Dash people have a WP blog - two big pluses.

Nice to have Marcus back in the fold

It’s so good to see Ethan and Shawn back in action with their new venture Bandcamp. We worked together at Oddpost, and I’m excited to help out at Bandcamp via True Ventures. Here’s more on the Bandcamp team.

Update: Om writes about the partial Oddpost reunion

We launched an interesting new feature yesterday that shows related content below blog posts on WordPress.com. It’s powered by Sphere and offers additional navigation options to blog readers and free content promotion across our network of 3 million blogs to WordPress.com bloggers. Josh from Sphere describes it well:

This is really cool for WordPress because it’s one of the first examples of a network of their size and scope leveraging the power of their community to circulate content between blogs. It’s also great for individual bloggers, because it gives them the opportunity to highlight and syndicate their content, both internally on their own sites and across the broader WordPress platform.

I got a noticeable increase of “Twitter followers” in the last few weeks. This is amusing (I have a single tweet from over a year ago on my Twitter account, not much to follow there) and it also made me wonder what’s changed. It could be due to recent improvements that make it easier to find people on their network. Or are there other new promotional features that could be the cause of this? There’s also been a corresponding bump in traffic that started a few weeks ago.