If you’re a new blog, you’re going to start with a small network of readers and limited topics. Help boost traffic to your blog by bringing in relevant content usingPressTags, a network forWordPressbloggers designed to help you discover relevant posts written by other WordPress bloggers. It works similarly to Twitter’s trending topics such that the most relevant topics of different WordPress blogs are indexed. Do a quick search and you’ll see some of the most popular blog entries about the topic and a recent activities graph that shows how popular the topic is over time....

We were impressed byPressJackwhen we took afirst lookat it last month. Now the service, which lets you create Web-based digital magazines, has opened fully for business and added some useful new customisation tools and has moved beyond purely RSS feed-based content. It’s now possible to change the navigation and the look of the pages of your magazine. While previously you were stuck with a default cover image, you can now upload your own logo and background image....

While plenty of people are busy working on products that transform online content into magazine-style offerings, most of the action is currently taking place around the iPad.PressJackis a US startup working on an interesting way of recreating the experience within a browser. The company offers a piece of desktop software, available for Windows and Mac, that allows you to transform multiple RSS feeds into a single magazine that you can upload to the Web and view full screen....

The pressure on Google in Europe is growing as the company today faces a powerful new voice in the European Commission’sinvestigationinto anticompetitive behaviour in the European market – Microsoft. What’s particularly interesting here is that Microsoft has come out all guns blazing for the first time against its biggest competitor in the search market. It’s not the company’s first involvement in the Commission’s investigation though; its own Ciao service was one of the original complainants in the case back in November 2010....

The most dangerous people on skis, bikes and on foot are those who are trying too hard to prevent accidents. You know when you’re walking on the sidewalk and someone comes up to you looking unsure as to whether to pass you on the left or right? You look at them, start to doubt the whole thing yourself, and you almost bump into each other. That never happens to people who know where they are going and just go for it....