Tag: Blog

Yahoo may remake its blogging and social networking service Yahoo 360, the company said Thursday.
"Yahoo 360 may be doing a 180 [degree turn]," said Bradley Horowitz, Yahoo's vice president of product strategy at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
Horowitz's statement followed a comment from an audience member, who questioned why Yahoo didn't have a better blogging authoring and hosting service.
Also in the same page, ValleyWag is reporting that Bill Demas (Senior VP) and Will Johnson (VP) are getting booted. The rumor also says...
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The Internet Society of China has recommended to the government that bloggers be required to use their real names when they register blogs, state media said on Monday, in the latest attempt to regulate free-wheeling Web content.
The society, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Information Industry, said no decision had been made but that a 'real name system' was inevitable.
"A real name system will be an unavoidable choice if China wants to standardize and develop its blog industry," the official Xinhua news agency quoted the...
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Several people noticed a wierd post on the Google blog that seemed to suggest Google was cancelling their click-to-call service.
The spelling mistakes kinda strips it of credibility. The post was at http://googleblog.blogs...lled.html, but it has been removed now.
Looks like Google blog got hacked. Well, if you go to the trouble of hacking the blog of the biggest search company if the world. You really should spell check your post first.
More on Google...
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Robert Scoble has had some fun “auditing” Microsoft’s Windows Live Spaces. In “Is Microsoft really the largest blog vendor?” Scoble challenges Microsoft’s assertions:
Microsofties take it on face value that they host the most blogs. They even love shoving it in your face… So, over the next few hours I’m gonna do some analysis and see if I can find out how much overcounting there’s going on.
In “The Elephant in the kitchen” Scoble discusses the results of his "audit":
What does Microsoft do when it says 'we have...
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Venture investors normally cite the strength of a company's management team as a key reason for investing in new technologies and ideas. But two new venture investments in widely read Web logs, or blogs, have taken this concept to a new level: investing directly in people for the content they produce.
Earlier this month, Softbank Capital of New York led a $5 million first round of funding for political group blog Huffington Post, the site operated by columnist and one-time California gubernatorial candidate Arianna Huffington.
A few...
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For carriers, phone vendors and for blogging service providers, camera phones are the biggest opportunity to make money.
Six Apart’s TypePad Mobile has a good shot at it. It is the rebranded version of SplashBlog, a product that came via the Splash Data acqusition back in March 2006. TypePad Mobile works on Palm Treo, Windows Mobile and Symbian Series 60 phones. Though it is not such a large selection, it is still covers a decent number of phones and works well with TypePad.

India's burgeoning blogging community is up in arms against a government directive that they say has led to the blocking of their web logs.
The country's 153 internet service providers (ISP) have blocked 17 websites since last week on federal government orders.
Some of these sites belong to Google's Blogspot, a leading international web log hosting service.
Indian bloggers say that the decision is an attack on freedom of speech.
A number of them have started filing petitions under the country's new landmark freedom of information...
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FeedBurner.com, which syndicates Web postings for 200,000 publishers, said it has acquired blog analytics company BlogBeat.net for undisclosed terms.
FeedBurner manages managing headline syndication services and operates a growing Web site advertising network. The deal will allow the company to provide publishers with tools to better understand what headline feeds blog site visitors are reading.
Chicago-based FeedBurner, founded three years ago, said it has acquired the assets of BlogBeat, based in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina....
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For those of you who just walked into the room, step 1 of Dvorak's self-proclaimed formula is, well, to whip bloggers into a frenzy. Step 2 is to "act flabbergasted." Now all that's left is step 3: reverse the position and apologize.
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