451 Press dubs itself as the largest blog network

July 31, 2007 | Filed Under Blog Networks, News | 7 Comments

451 Press today dubbed itself as the largest blog network with 329 daily blogs published on a variety of entertainment and “edutainment” related topics. It also boasts of having 10 million visitors per month.
In order to give visitors a better sense of what blogs are being written and what topics they’re touching on, 451 has […]

WordCamp Summary: WordPress News

July 31, 2007 | Filed Under Features, WordPress | 1 Comment

Yesterday, I covered a lot of the lessons learned, myths debunked, and some of the fun of WordCamp 2007. Today, I want to give you some of the WordPress-related news and some of the interesting things we learned about how WordPress and the WordPress Community works.
There are always a lot of questions about the difference […]

Where Are the Women Bloggers? They WERE in Chicago!

July 31, 2007 | Filed Under Blog Relationships, Conference, Features | 9 Comments

Ever since I arrived in the blogosphere two years ago, I’ve been hearing, “Where are the women bloggers?” This past weekend we were in Chicago for the third annual BlogHer Conference held at Navy Pier. The event, sponsored by the organization of some 13,000 women, launched in 2005, offering a blogging conference that invited everyone, […]

Techrigy Announces “Web 2.0 Compliance” Software

July 31, 2007 | Filed Under Blog Software, Blogging, Corporate Blogging | Leave a Comment

Blogs and wikis can be great tools for companies and businesses. Blogs can be great marketing tools. Wikis, meanwhile, can be great for collaboration, especially among colleagues who are spread across the globe. However, there is a debate as to how manageable corporate blogs and wikis can be, especially in light of acceptable use policies, […]

WordCamp 2007 Summary

July 30, 2007 | Filed Under Features, WordPress | 8 Comments

As one of the more than 400 participants at the WordCamp 2007 on July 21-22 in San Francisco, a fantastic gathering of WordPress developers, hackers, bloggers, and fans, I’m still reeling with all the positive feedback and lessons learned during the jammed-packed weekend.
To sum it up, it was a weekend of the social and the […]

Plagiarism-Fighting Network Tooks: Part Two

July 30, 2007 | Filed Under Features, Guides and Tutorials, Legal, copyright | 3 Comments

In the first part of this series, we discussed whois and DNS/reverse DNS, the two most fundamental tools in tracking down and stopping a plagiarist or a site ripper.
Though they are powerful and important tools, they are not perfect. Definitively tracking down the host, the goal of almost any plagiarist/scraper hunt, often times requires delving […]

Twitter Gets Funding from Union Square Ventures

July 28, 2007 | Filed Under Microblogging, New Media, News | Leave a Comment

Microblogging service Twitter has recently announced that it has raised funding from Union Square Ventures. In the announcement, neither Twitter and Union Square disclosed the amount of the undertaking, nor any specific business model they are looking into. Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures stressed, though, that they are particularly interested with how Twittering […]

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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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