Yahoo Nabs Safari Plugin Inquisitor

May 16, 2008 | Filed Under News, Search | Leave a Comment

Inquisitor is a cool plugin for Safari, and now Yahoo owns it. The developer, David Watanabe, won’t be joining Yahoo, but will continue the development.
I look forward to assisting Yahoo! in refining and extending the Inquisitor user experience beyond where it is today. I truly believe that Inquisitor and its users can only benefit, both […]

Minnebar: Social Search in the Corporate Environment

May 10, 2008 | Filed Under Features, General, Minnebar, News, Search, Social Software, conferences | Leave a Comment

Now in the 10am session on Social Search in the Corporate Environment here at Minnebar.
Presenter is Rich from Honeywell Labs - he built the first websites for Honeywell back before the graphical website days when most folks were browsing using Lynx and other text online web browsers.
Original blogging platform at Honeywell was Movable Type under […]

Twingly: “The future of media is conversation”

April 8, 2008 | Filed Under Features, General, Interviews, Publishing, Search, Spam | Leave a Comment

Last weekend at The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam I spoke with Anton Johansson and CEO Martin Källström from the new blog search engine Twingly. They present themselves as a new spam-free blog search engine with a strong focus on the conversational nature of the blogosphere.
Lorelle VanFossen recently addressed the issue of spam in […]

Internet Ad Profiling Coming To a Wallet Near You

February 15, 2008 | Filed Under Advertising, Blog Marketing and Monetization, Blog News, Blogging, Blogging Demographics, Ethics, SEO, Search | Leave a Comment

According to a Wall Street Journal article, “The Coming Ad Revolution”, get ready for your web host and Internet Service Provider (ISP) to start bringing ads your way:

Blog Writing with Keyword Map Searches

February 14, 2008 | Filed Under Blogging, Guides and Tutorials, Search, research | Leave a Comment

Earlier this week, I introduced you to the Clusty search engine, with tips on how it can be used to brainstorm and research blog content. Today, I want to showcase the KWMap, a visual keyword map search engine.
KWMap is different as it graphically charts out relationships to your search term or phrase. It’s invaluable for […]

Using Clusty For Blog Content and Research

February 12, 2008 | Filed Under Blogging, Featured, Features, Guides and Tutorials, Search, research | 8 Comments

Google is not the end all and be all of search engines. There are actually some better and more efficient search engines out there, and there are different types of search engines worthy of your attention. Especially when it comes to researching and writing blog content.
Clusty is a cluster search engine. Carnegie Mellon computer science […]

The Blogosphere is Defined By Technology

January 21, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Software, Features, Search, Syndication | 3 Comments

Chris Garrett wrote in ‘Why Blogging is Not About Technology‘ that instead of focusing on technology we should focus on people. Kevin added in the comments that blogging is about sharing information and Lorelle VanFossen added that blogging is about (reader) interaction. An important blogging technology that enables us to share our information is the […]

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Do You Tag Yourself?
May 16, 2008 | By Lorelle VanFossen | 2 Comments

Do you tag yourself? Honestly? No, this is not a game.
With everyone back on the tag versus categories versus tags bandwagon, have you checked to make sure you are tagging yourself?
Inside of Lorelle on WordPress is the tag attribute that turns “Lorelle on WordPress” into a tag.
<a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Lorelle on WordPress" rel="tag">Lorelle on WordPress</a>
When […]

A BIG Reason to Read a Pet’s Blog
May 16, 2008 | By Andrew G.R. | Leave a Comment

I’ve often taken a snarky approach when it comes to people who set up blogs for their pets. I barely want to read about humans’ mundane lives, let alone issues with litter and pooper scoopers. However, there might be a new reason to subscribe to Lucky, Fido or Buddy’s blog.
Animals’ ability to prognosticate […]

Yahoo Nabs Safari Plugin Inquisitor
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

YouTube Gives You Insight
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 1 Comment

Now you can get some more statistics for your YouTube videos, with the recently launched Insight tool, available in your YouTube account (under Manage my Videos, which is probably temporary). The new stats feature is described like this by Tracy Chan, YouTube product manager:
For example, uploaders can see how often their videos are viewed in […]

Google the New Number 1 in the US
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

I thought they were already, but obviously not so. Google has been the leading search engine, but overall Yahoo is the most popular web site according to ComScore’s rankings. No more though, according to an AP report:
According to comScore, Google’s unique U.S. audience in April was 141.1 million, an 18 percent increase from the same […]

Blogging from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Stephanie Stockman is a NASA contractor working at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which is cool by itself. What’s even cooler is that she’s blogging it, talking about rocketships in voice and text, as well as posting photos, something every space nerd should follow for sure. Her blog is Geosteph, which incidentally is her Twitter […]

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