Bloglines/Ask.com launches Blog Search

May 31, 2006 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment

The company that is Ask.com and Bloglines has launched a new Blog & Feed Search site based at blogsearch.ask.com.
This search engine is unique in that rather than crawling various blogs, ala Technorati and others, it searches the feeds being subscribed to by Bloglines subscribers.
Techcrunch has more…

Taking the fight to Technorati’s Door - Gnoos launches

May 31, 2006 | Filed Under Products | 6 Comments

The first serious competitor to Technorati that I’ve seen in quite some time appears to have launched. Australian site Gnoos has launched.
A quick runthrough of some various searches came up with a wide variety of international responses, without much blogspam showing up, and significantly faster than what I’ve seen Technorati do for a very […]

Monetization, Text Links, and when the heck do I put ads on a site?

May 31, 2006 | Filed Under General | 2 Comments

Over at Entrepreneur’s Journey, Yaro takes a look at how to sell text links with Adbrite:
Iâ€™ve recently become impressed with the potential for making money from a website by selling text link ads.
Yaro talks about using Adbrite as well as using Text Link Ads on his blogs.
I echo Yaro’s successes. While […]

A look at the Memediggers

May 31, 2006 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment

Some of the best reviews and in-depth reporting on the Web 2.0 world has been coming out of The Social Software Blog over at Weblogs, Inc..
Today is no exception, as Marshall Kirkpatrick digs into four Memediggers - Digg, Reddit, Meneame, and Hugg:
Call them memediggers, community moderated news sites, or digg clones. User submitted news moderated […]

How I Blog: Rich Ottum

May 31, 2006 | Filed Under How I Blog | Leave a Comment

This is the seventh post in our “How I Blog” series. To read the rest, visit the archives. Interested in participating? Drop us a note about ‘How I Blog’ along with a photo or yourself or your blogging space at tips [at] blogmedia [dot] biz.

Rich Ottum, Editor, Blogger.
Most of the subject matter […]

What’s really important? Or why O’Reilly’s trademark argument means nothing to me.

May 30, 2006 | Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

Tim O’Reilly returns from vacation and comments on the Web 2.0 trademark controversy.
Tim’s post is an indepth explanation of the issues involved - and communicates clearly what I’ve always personally held to be the integrity in which he carries himself and operates his business. I’ve no issue with the content of his post.
I do […]

Conflicts of Interest

May 30, 2006 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment

Over at Techcrunch, Michael Arrington takes on Jason Calacanis over his accusations of conflicts of interest. Arrington makes it clear that he does not accept money for reviews, and never will.
Later in the day, Calacanis responds, disclosing his own conflicts of interest.
Dave Winer and others comment on Techcrunch in the comments.
I think it’s important […]

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Google Closes Hello (What’s That Anyway?)
May 9, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

I’m reading that Google is closing Hello, which apparently was (and is, as I’m writing this), a photo sharing service that came with Picasa. I guess they feel it doesn’t fill a purpose anymore.
This from Hello.com:
We originally embarked on a mission to make photo sharing easier and more fun with Hello. We plan to keep […]

Colleen Coplick Talks PR over at BloggerTalks
May 9, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 1 Comment

I recently interviewed Colleen Coplick about taking over Buzz Networker, and there I said that an interview with her focusing on PR was due on BloggerTalks. Well, it is up now, and Colleen shares her views on paid reviews, PR agencies sending out samples, getting famous in the social sphere, how to write a great […]

MyBlogLog Adds More Stuff
May 9, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

MyBlogLog have added some new stuff, since the obviously get that we’re not monogamous when it comes to online apps and social networks.
Specifically, whenever you:

post a question to Yahoo Answers
share an item on Google Reader
post a video on Seesmic

MyBlogLog will post those events and make them part of your New with Me page.
All you […]

SOBCon08: A Conference Experienced in the Moments
May 8, 2008 | By Lorelle VanFossen | 2 Comments

We do not remember days; we remember moments.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Successful and Outstanding Bloggers Conference (SOBCon) in Chicago last weekend was a collection of moments I will remember for a long time.
Throughout the weekend, people kept asking what was different about this conference from all the other conferences they go to. It was clear […]

Blogger To Add Star Rating System To BlogSpot?
May 8, 2008 | By Darnell Clayton | Leave a Comment

It looks as Blog*spot users will soon be able to insert a ratings system in their Blogger blogs which will allow readers to rate an individual post from one star to five.
Unfortunately it seems as if they launched the feature prematurely, and the Google team has currently disabled the feature–at least for now.
(Blogger Status) Some […]

Perez Hilton to Release Clothing Line
May 8, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 1 Comment

Celeb gossip blogger Perez Hilton, aka Mario Lavendeira, is set to launch his own line of clothing, to be sold exclusively in the Hot Topic chain of stores, as well as online.
“2008 is all about expanding the Perez Brand,” the blogger explained. “I talk about clothes all the time on my website. I have a […]

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